

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. The game features 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 by the Czech studio Wube Software.
