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Difficulty
🔲 Walk in the Park
🔲 Mild Challenge
✅ Demanding
🔲 Serious Skills Required
🔲 Prepare to Rage Quit
Visuals
Clear, elegant sprites perfect for a top-down 2D game. Despite sprites not being very high-res, it’s mostly unnoticable, and graphics and art style remain pleasing.
🔲 Atari
🔲 Mediocre
🔲 Passable
✅ Pleasant
🔲 Stunning
🔲 Artistic Masterpiece
Audio
Pleasing ambient sounds and distinct gadget noises, despite occasional repetitiveness. Solid but not revolutionary.
🔲 Unbearable
🔲 Mediocre
✅ Serviceable
🔲 Pleasing
🔲 Immersive
🔲 Eargasmic
Gameplay
Superbly engaging and captivating gameplay that hooks you in; perfect for automation and management enthusiasts.
🔲 Dreadful
🔲 Mediocre
🔲 Average
🔲 Engaging
🔲 Exceptionally Fun
✅ League of Its Own
Mods
Vibrant modding community offering a wide variety of enhancements, from quality-of-life tweaks to comprehensive overhauls.
🔲 None
🔲 Nothing to Write Home About
🔲 Quite a Few
🔲 Lots to Choose From
✅ Superb Modding Community
Target Demographic
A game anyone can get into, albeit with complexity and mild violence making it more suitable for ages 12+.
🔲 Kids Only
✅ Pre-teens and Up
🔲 Teens and Up
🔲 Mature
🔲 Universal Appeal
Story
✅ Non-existent
🔲 Weak
🔲 Average
🔲 Compelling
🔲 Emotionally Gripping
🔲 A Story for the Ages
Cost
🔲 Free
🔲 Bargain
✅ Fair Price
🔲 Slightly Overpriced
🔲 Pricey
🔲 Prepare to Sell a Lung
Grind
Moderate level of grind, balanced between progression and effort. Never feels frustrating – but rather compelling.
🔲 Non-existent
🔲 Minimal
✅ Moderate
🔲 Heavy Grinding Required
🔲 Korean MMO
Length
The main mode, freeplay, has no end and can be played forever.
🔲 Quick Play (0–4 hours)
🔲 Short Adventure (4–10 hours)
🔲 Reasonably Long Trek (10–30 hours)
🔲 Long Haul (30–50 hours)
🔲 Epic Quest (50–100+ hours)
✅ Endless Entertainment
Replay Value
The vast amount of different ways to play, as well as the large supply of mods, offers endless replay value.
🔲 Single Run and Done
🔲 Achievement Hunter's Dream
🔲 Refreshing After a Break
✅ Countless Replays
System Requirements
While multiple (4–12 or higher) CPU cores are helpful during intense late-game scenarios with many activities, Factorio is amongst the less resource-intensive games.
🔲 Potato-friendly
✅ Moderate
🔲 High-End
🔲 Cutting-Edge
🔲 Call Your Local Tech Guru
Polish
Factorio shines with high polish, smooth efficiency, and abundant quality-of-life features that avert frustration.
🔲 Amateur Hour
🔲 Could Use More Fine-Tuning
🔲 Decent Level of Polish
🔲 Smooth and Ample
✅ High Attention to Detail
🔲 Masterfully Crafted
Performance
Factorio operates surprisingly smoothly, even amidst large-scale factory activities.
✅ Outstandingly Optimized
🔲 Smooth Gameplay
🔲 Occasional Performance Issues
🔲 Frequent Frame Drops
🔲 Outrageously Bad
Bugginess
Sparse minor bugs – but none that significantly disrupt gameplay.
🔲 Clean as a Whistle
✅ Rare Hiccups
🔲 Occasional Minor Issues
🔲 Frequent Problems
🔲 Game-breaking Bugs
Addictiveness
Offers highly compelling gameplay with a wealth of engaging unlocks and possibilities that keep you coming back.
🔲 Easy to Put Down
🔲 Can Get Hooked
🔲 Highly Addictive
✅ Life-Consuming
Bang For Your Buck
🔲 Not Worth It
🔲 Wait for Discount
✅ Purchase at Full Price (Factorio is never on sale)

Factorio offers endless entertainment with its deep strategy and immersive gameplay. This is a game that’ll take control over your life! It’s by far the most addictive game I’ve played. Factorio seems highly complex when you first look at screenshots or videos of others’ bases, but it’s not difficult to get into.
It offers an in-game tutorial system with tips about most of the different items, hotkeys, and techniques in the game – as well as a playable tutorial campaign that’s extremely well-made. The tutorial campaign is 10–15 hours of content, and it’s fun and engaging to play, feeling more like a game on its own rather than a tutorial. It’s available for free in the demo, which I recommend playing to see if Factorio is the game for you. Some aspects of the game, such as train mechanics, also offer playable tutorial segments that offer in-depth guidance on that part of the game.
Factorio was inspired by modded Minecraft, particularly the BuildCraft and IndustrialCraft mods. It feels like what a Tekkit modpack for Minecraft would be if it were a game built from the ground-up. The game is extremely polished, with very few bugs and lots of nifty quality-of-life features, as well as a huge modding community offering an endless amount of content, changes, and improvements. However, I recommend playing the game without mods until you’ve reached a point where you feel like you’ve ‘finished’ your first playthrough, except for a few quality of life mods that you may add at any time (although I still recommend playing the game without mods for a while regardless).
The graphics are quite nice for this type of 2D, top-down-view game. The performance

Conclusion

Factorio offers an enticing gameplay loop where you build machinery and logistics apparatus, upgrade those devices, and optimize your factory. It’s a game all about automation and optimization, where you constantly strive to produce everything as quickly and efficiently as possible. The game offers an enticing research paths with unlocks and bonuses that constantly leaves you excited for what’s next. This is a game that’s hard to put down! While the game is never on sale, it’s hard to deny that the game is undoubtedly worth the 32 €/$35. This is one of those games that you’ll get hundreds upon hundreds of hours out of – if not thousands!