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Dan Hardcastle —- "This is a game that lets you automate Minecraft . [...] It just feels like someone looked at Minecraft and thought, 'Oh, this is wrong, let's do this properly!"

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Factorio is a crowdfunded top-down two-dimensional construction and management game, with RTS elements planned for later updates. The game has had impressive financial and critical success, winning two of the four categories at the 2015 Czech Game Of The Year awards, and on Steam sits in the top 10 based on user reviews. It officially left Early Access with version 1.0 on August 14, 2020.

The framing narrative is explained in the tutorial, but is largely irrelevant in the primary Freeplay mode. The plot goes like this: You are a survivor of a spaceship that has crashed on an alien world, only to find that the planet is populated by a number of enormous and highly aggressive insectoid species that become agitated by noise and air pollution. Utilizing local materials and your own knowledge, you start building vast factories and transport networks, establishing the industrial infrastructure necessary to launch a rocket and regain spaceflight capability.

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The game has both singleplayer and Co-Op Multiplayer modes. A demo is available on the Factorio website , with the full game available on the website, and from Steam , GOG and the Humble Store for 30/$30. Don't wait for a sale, the developers have a policy of never discounting the game.

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