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Factorio

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Developer
Wube Software LTD.
Publisher
Wube Software LTD.
Franchise
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Release date
Aug 14, 2020
Store page updated
Aug 21, 2026
Price
$35.00 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

90.3/ 100

Based on 408 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 98% of 1,166
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 98% of 234,736
“addictive, cannot stop playing despite neglecting life”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+2.88
Strategy +4.72
“countless synergies and build combinations to discover” (46)

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Story & World
+1.66

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

World +3.53

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Content Volume
+3.91
Volume +4.51
“700 hours played over six years, worth the price” (18)
[h1]Мой обзор спустя 700 часов в игре[/h1] Всем здорова. Я играю в факторку на протяжении уже практически шести лет и ни о чем не жалею. Когда игра стоила 550 рублей я долго ломался и ждал скидок. Скидок на игру нет и не будет, просто смиритесь. На сегодняшний день она стоит 1200 рублей, как и пока единственное DLC к ней. Пусть эта цена вас не пугает. Оно того точно стоит. Особенно в том случае, если вы фан хардкорных логистико-экономических тайкунов. Оптимизирована до той степени, что можно играть на электро-градуснике. Эмоционально отбивается за первые 100 часов. Куча модов, которые я бы сов

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Visuals & Sound
+2.53

Not enough data — only 8% of reviews mention this.

Visuals +1.65

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Multiplayer
+3.31
Playing together +3.04

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Fairness
-0.90

Not enough data — only 9% of reviews mention this.

Monetization +0.94

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Tech & Ops
+1.76
Performance +3.50

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
50%60%70%80%90%100%
Feb 2016Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 1,134 reviews, peak 53/day
050100
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 408 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English35%
  • Russian18%
  • Spanish10%
  • Portuguese8%
  • Chinese8%
  • Japanese5%
  • Other16%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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