FOUNDRY

FOUNDRY

Early access since May 2024

Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

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In early access, still in active development
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Evaluation

FOUNDRY entered Steam Early Access on May 2, 2024 and has maintained a steady cadence of substantial updates throughout. The developer has shipped the following major named updates: Update 1 (August 2024), Update 2 (May 2025), Update 2.1 (July 2025), Update 2.2 (September 29, 2025), Update 3 'Xeno-Tech' (January 21, 2026), and Update 4.0 'Rails & Reactors' (April 28, 2026). This establishes a consistent pattern of major content roughly every 2–4 months. Following Update 4's launch, the team has continued publishing regular developer blogs every two weeks. As of August 7, 2026 — just eight days before today — the developer posted DevBlog #109 showing work-in-progress on a full blueprint system, one of the most-requested features for the game, with videos demonstrating copy/paste, rotation, and advanced selection capabilities. DevBlog #108 (July 24, 2026) previewed small conveyor lifts in early design and confirmed active blueprint work has begun. DevBlog #107 (July 10, 2026) showed a redesigned loader system in progress. DevBlog #105 (June 12, 2026) announced experimentation with Small Assembly Lines and deeper commerce improvements. The developer has not announced a 1.0 release date or any content completion milestone. The game remains in Early Access with the team clearly in active development on multiple fronts.
Evidence
DevBlog #109 shows extensive work-in-progress on a blueprint system, including copy/paste, rotation, robot support, and train support. Developer notes they are 'pretty early in the development process' and invites community feedback on design direction.
news post · Aug 7, 2026 source development ongoing
high
DevBlog #108 previews small conveyor lifts in the early design phase and confirms active blueprint development has begun, with a WIP screenshot shared.
news post · Jul 24, 2026 source development ongoing
high

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Publisher
Paradox Interactive
Achievements
81
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op

About this game

FOUNDRY is a first-person (first-robot?) factory builder with complete creative freedom set in a procedurally generated and infinite voxel world.

Land on an unexplored planet and design a giant automated robot production facility under the watchful direction of your AI friend, Carl. Navigate the complexities of interstellar trade and sell your products through interplanetary trade networks to reach your final goal: galactic industrial domination.

  • Progress from manual resource extraction to a fully automated and perfectly optimized factory.

  • Construct towering machinery and snaking networks of conveyor belts and pipes with no limits on where you build.

  • Explore a vibrant voxel world and sculpt the landscape block by block.

  • Research new, more advanced technologies to meet the demands of your ever-growing production lines.

  • Personalize your creation by unlocking decorative items and new color options.

  • Maintain a complex power system to keep your factory running at top speed.

  • Work solo or recruit outside contractors in online or LAN co-op multiplayer.

  • Create an enormous factory complex stretching from deep underground to the planet’s surface and the skies above.

Build Anything, Anywhere

Create a mechanically magnificent factory and a work of industrial art integrating your creation into the environment around you. Set up your machines far below the surface, high in the sky and everywhere in between. Grid-based construction gives you precise control over where and what you build. 

Land on an unexplored planet and explore a procedurally generated sandbox. Journey through dense jungles, gigantic mountain ranges, and great plains stretching into the horizon, with even more to discover beneath the surface.

Automate Everything

Design intricate systems of conveyor belts, long-distance transport networks, pipes and elevators from deep underground to automate your research. Unlock more advanced, complex and faster technology to optimize your factory and maximize production.

You’ll start by crafting items and harvesting resources manually but will soon find yourself setting up assembly lines piece by piece to devise a system that flows perfectly. Combine form, fit and function to create a smooth setup that effortlessly transforms raw materials into galaxy-grade robot products without you lifting a metallic finger.

Optimize to Perfection

Bottlenecks are your enemies. Remember to maintain a delicate balance between inputs and outputs so that productivity reaches its maximum potential, enabling you to progress through an extensive research tree.

Ensure that manufacturing runs at full speed. Keep your power supply well-fed and, as your factory expands, unlock upgraded machinery, advanced power generators and new customization options that will add efficiency and a splash of color to your production lines.

Work solo or collaborate in co-op and engineer creative solutions to complex logistical challenges in a vast voxel world.

Last evaluated Aug 15, 2026
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