PC Critic Reviews

Factorio is really about continuously improving your factory, and each improvements makes it a bit easier for yourself. Instead of using a god-perspective, the player is personified creating a more tense gaming experience. As technology progresses, hard tasks become trivial, but planning is getting more and more important.

Building an automated factory has never been more fun. Create complex production lines, fight off bugs, and cooperate with friends in this well-paced sandbox adventure. Hundreds of hours of creative entertainment guaranteed. [Issue#306]

This is a jewel. An unbelievably clever, thought-out, detailed, balanced, fun, brilliantly designed masterpiece that really doesn’t have any drawbacks at all. If you like to build and optimize, you simply have to play Factorio.

If you enjoy crafting and management, Factorio is unbelievably addictive. It’s also bursting at the seams with content, offers an editor, and a multiplayer, so whether you’re looking for a game to get you through a pandemic lockdown, or a title to spend years with on a desert island, Factorio is one of the best ideas. [11/2020, p.37]

Buy Factorio. Build Factorio. Become Factorio.

Quotation forthcoming.

Exciting construction and management sim with great gameplay flow. It does require a lot of imagination and thought. Caution: addictive!

Factorio is dauntingly complex, but offers almost endlessly enjoyable depth for optimizers and survival fans if you take the time to learn its systems.