Release date: August 14, 2020
Genre: Construction and management simulator, Real-time strategy
Developer and publisher: Wube Software
Platform: PC (Windows)
Interface and subtitle languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish (Spain / Latin America), Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Finnish, Swedish, Czech, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified / Traditional), Turkish, Greek, Dutch, Norwegian, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Thai, Belarusian, Catalan, Kazakh, Georgian, Danish, Arabic, Bulgarian
Multiplayer: online or LAN co-op, cross-play with macOS and Linux supported
Edition: Complete (base game plus Space Age expansion)
Version: 2.0.73 (January 23, 2026)
About this game
Factorio is a construction and management simulator where you build and automate a vast factory on an alien planet. You will mine resources, research new technologies, create infrastructure, set up production, and defend against enemies. Starting with basic tools and a few machines, you gradually turn a small workshop into a giant industrial complex filled with conveyor belts, production halls, and robots.
You can expand your empire almost endlessly. The map is an infinite 2D world so there is plenty of room for new mines and plants. The game captivates with its focus on automation and fine process optimization and offers a special experience for fans of engineering challenges and economic strategy.
- Production automation. Almost every task can be mechanized. Build mining drills to extract ore, set up conveyor lines, use assembling machines and drones so items of any complexity are created without your direct involvement.
- Endless world. Maps are procedurally generated and have no borders so your factory can grow indefinitely across an infinite map. New resource deposits and space for workshops can always be found if you explore distant regions.
- Technology progression. Research dozens of technologies to unlock advanced machines and upgrades for your base. Over time primitive engines give way to large solar farms and oil refineries. You will build a fleet of logistic drones and configure a supply network for your production needs. Technological growth in Factorio lets you keep improving factory efficiency.
- Hostile environment. Rapid industrialization creates pollution which angers local fauna. Native alien creatures will attack your base so defenses matter. Build strong walls, place automated turrets, lay mines, and prepare military equipment from flamethrowers to tanks to repel assaults.
- Cooperative play. Develop the factory with friends in co-op. The game supports online multiplayer where you can split tasks, trade resources, and construct colossal plants together. Teamwork makes managing a huge enterprise easier and opens new tactical options.
- Mod support. Factorio is actively expanded by the community. Thousands of mods exist created by enthusiasts in Lua. Mods add new content from additional machinery and resources to entirely different scenarios and game modes which greatly extends replayability.
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Story setup and progression. The protagonist is a spaceship pilot who crash lands on an uninhabited planet rich in minerals. At first you have almost nothing and must chop trees, mine ore, and craft basic items by hand. It quickly becomes clear that you cannot keep up manually because production scales fast and automation is essential. Step by step you build your first drills, set up furnaces to smelt metals, lay out conveyor belts, and start assembly lines.
Base expansion and hazards. As the factory grows you need to plan its layout and production balance carefully. Resource deposits are not infinite. Mines will run dry so you need new sources of raw materials. You must explore remote areas, claim new zones, and build mining outposts. A branching railway network transports resources back to the main base. Trains link distant mines to your plant and deliver ore and materials without interruption.
Over time you can construct tanks and artillery to destroy enemy nests from afar. The main goal of the base game is to build and launch a rocket giving the hero a chance to leave the planet. Factorio does not hard stop after the rocket. The game continues and you can keep scaling production and research the so-called infinite technologies to improve the factory further.
Space Age expansion
Factorio includes the large official Space Age expansion which continues the game at a new stage of development. If the base game ends with reaching space, Space Age lets you go even farther. The expansion adds four new planets that you can reach with space platforms. Each planet has unique resources, conditions, and gameplay challenges.
The developers greatly expanded the tech tree and added lots of new content. Space Age features dozens of new devices, resources, weapons, and achievements along with eight hours of original music. Instead of a single rocket the ultimate goal is now to build a space platform capable of reaching the outskirts of the star system which becomes a new challenge for the most ambitious engineers.
All Space Age additions significantly diversify and deepen Factorio’s gameplay and give veterans a reason to build a new dream factory on an interplanetary scale.
You can download the game for PC through 7Launcher. Install Factorio and begin your path from a simple engineer to the manager of an intergalactic factory.
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 10 or 11
- Processor: quad-core 3 GHz or better (Intel Core i5-2500K or AMD A10-5800K APU)
- Memory: 8 GB
- Graphics: DirectX 11 compatible with 1 GB VRAM such as GeForce GTX 750 Ti or Radeon R7 360 or Intel UHD Graphics 730
- Storage: 5 GB
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 11
- Processor: quad-core 4 GHz or better (models from 2020 or newer)
- Memory: 16 GB
- Graphics: DirectX 11 compatible with 4 GB VRAM such as GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or Radeon RX 570 or Intel Arc
- Storage: 10 GB
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Reviews
I first picked up this thinking it was a neat factory game, played about twenty hours, then set it aside. Months later I came back for another hundred, and after discovering mods the obsession began. The factory must grow.
I tried to quit with popular MMOs, FPS games, RPGs, and roguelikes, but nothing worked. Space Exploration pulled me even deeper. Years later and over 3,000 hours in, I leave this as a warning. Do not start your first factory if you value your time. Once it grows it will demand more, taking a little of you each time, until only the call remains. THE FACTORY MUST GROW.
I hit 3000 hours and I guess its time to write my review. This game is the GOAT. There isn’t even a close second. The fact that I can come back after this many hours and find a completely new challenge is unparalleled. The modding community is great, but that is only possible due to how well they implemented the addition of mods to the game, not relying on a 3rd party tool to be developed. Instead they make their own that automatically can sync between saves and a website that actually works. Contrast that with the jank that you need to grind through on Nexus mods or Feed the Beast. I am hyped for the expansion to continue to infuse life into the game for decades to come.
A true dopamine simulator. You’ll fire the game up at 10am, click some stuff then it’s 4AM the next day, you haven’t eaten, your bladder absorbed itself from lack of liquids, your body is going into starvation mode, but you noticed there’s a bottle neck in copper plates but you already filled the area with as many smelters as it can fit, so you relocate the entire forge area to a new location and recouple every conveyer belt, but then you notice you’re not getting enough green circuits, so you look for more copper ore nodes since the one you’re mining is already covered with drills, so you go explore the map and find a monstrous copper vein, but you also see a uranium vein, and you really want a nuclear reactor, so you go to that instead, but you’ll totally get that copper also in a few minutes.
10/10. You’ll die playing this game and not even care about the organ failure.
The highest quality game I have ever played. Multiplayer works very well. High performance even with hundreds of players connected. Players can host headless dedicated servers. Memory injection cheaters that plague other coop games are completely thwarted without using any security nightmare “anticheat” rootkits as the game is fully deterministic. The gui is clean and well thought out for keyboard/mouse. Native linux support. Very good modding support. No DRM so the game, multiplayer, and mods will continue working even if the company behind it goes out of business. The attention to detail is staggering compared to $70 “triple-a” bug infested shovelware that is mainstream these days. I paid 0.016 bitcoin for it back in 2017 worth over $400 now. 100% worth it.
Thank you kovarex and the rest of the team at wube.
