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Recommended
14.5 hrs last two weeks / 5,180.2 hrs on record (653.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: 24 Jul, 2018 @ 3:16pm
Updated: 7 Nov, 2021 @ 11:39pm

Early Access Review
If you like endless gameplay and huge battles/autonomous stuff going on with smooth fps GET THIS GAME! If you like trains GET THIS GAME! If you like factorios or cities skylines GET THIS GAME! You like minecraft? GET THIS GAME! Like fancy graphics? Welp, you might have to adapt on this one and realise why its a 2D game, it runs better because of it! Like mods? Well you have so much choice that this game is pretty much endless fun! Like chemistry and want to learn alot about real life chemical processing and refining? Get this game! Thanks bob for making me pass my chemisty class :)

Honestly, I have played more hours of this game than steam says because ive had it way before the steam release. Just to give you an idea how good this game is I have only a few things I would like to be added to it: Buildings scenary for scenarios, Copy and paste of sections of the map for the scenario editor and a 3rd party tool to easily make isometric sprites for in-game entities would be nice but everything other than that copy and paste is optional honestly!

You can build cities and the game will still run smoothly (yes, I am working on a abandoned settlement scenario with a city with tons of streets and watnot, still no lag). You can build train tracks that can take litterally hours to get from one point to another. You can play multiplayer. You can build bases so large even myself will get lost and forget sections of it!

Want to learn how to program in C++ or LUA in a fun way? This game is perfect for that! You can mod almost every single aspect of the game which would actually make sense. You won't have access to the source code sadly but it really doesn't matter considering the focus is to build huge factories. Ive spent hundreds of hours on the same save at 3 different occasions and my largest base became so large I decided to fill in the HUGE lake I built a train track around and fill it up to build a city on top! That was 2 years ago and lost that save to version 0.13 due to mods not updated but I just came back to see the game being alot better than before so I can't wait to be done on this scenario I am working on!

TD;LR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBMVBkJLxik

[insert sponge bob narrator voice]A FEW MONTHS LATER[insert sponge bob narrator voice]: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-308

Welp, guess it payed off!
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Charlotte 7 Oct, 2024 @ 10:27pm 
Just wanna say, your review rocks! It's so full of insights and cool stuff. You really nailed it