

The fauna will still spawn, but will only attack the player and factory in retaliation from direct physical damage on themselves or a neighboring unit. Players may also elect to set the planet's fauna to "peaceful," during the start of the game. As the game progresses, enemies evolve and become harder to defeat. The player can utilize defensive turrets, tanks, and other weapons to eliminate enemies. The player is tasked with defending themselves and their factory from the planet's indigenous fauna, known as 'Biters', 'Spitters', and 'Worms', who become increasingly hostile as pollutant emissions created by the player's factory increase, necessitating consideration of the balance between the player's production and the enemy's aggressiveness. Constructing a rocket requires a massive amount of resources, motivating the player to set up a sizeable, effective factory in order to achieve this goal. The game is formally "won" by launching a rocket, although choosing to ignore this goal and instead continue building a factory is possible, as Factorio is an open world game. The blueprints consist of a baseline for construction, allowing for the copying of factory systems or entire factories, and subsequent construction. The game features a blueprint system, which allows for players to create reusable blueprints for factory parts. Players research advanced technologies that allow them to create new structures, items, and upgrades, starting with basic automation and eventually leading to oil refining, robots, and powered exoskeletons. The game progresses as the player continues to build and manage their automated factory-style system, which automates the mining, transportation, processing, and assembly of resources and products. The player survives by locating and harvesting resources to craft various tools and machines, which in turn create more advanced materials that allow for the progression to more sophisticated technologies and machines. There are both single-player and multiplayer modes.įactorio is a construction and management simulation game focused on resource-gathering with real-time strategy and survival elements and influences from the BuildCraft and IndustrialCraft mods for the video game Minecraft. The game follows an engineer who crash-lands on an alien planet and must harvest resources and create industry to build a rocket however, as a sandbox game, players can continue the game past the end of the storyline.

The game was released on Nintendo Switch on 28 October 2022. The game was announced via an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign in 2013 and released for Windows, macOS, and Linux on 14 August 2020 following a four-year long early access phase to positive reviews. Factorio is a construction and management simulation game developed and published by Czech studio Wube Software.
