Factorio

About the game

Factorio is about building factories and keeping them running. You start out on an alien planet chopping trees, mining ore and hand-crafting your first transport belts and mechanical arms. From there you research new technology, lay out infrastructure and automate production step by step, until you are running solar fields, oil refining and cracking, and fleets of construction and logistic robots that feed the whole operation. The planet's natives do not take kindly to having their planet stripped of resources, so the factory also needs defences against their attacks. You can build alone or with friends in cooperative multiplayer, splitting up tasks across one shared base. The main mode is the freeplay scenario, with extra challenges in the Scenario pack, and there is a Map Editor for placing terrain, enemies and entities and adding your own scripts. Mod support goes from small helper tweaks to full overhauls.