{"id":13746,"date":"2021-04-08T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/factorio-review\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:55:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:55:20","slug":"factorio-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/factorio-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Factorio Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Factorio
Wube Software LTD.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Factorio, developed by Wube Software LTD., is a factory building game, with an emphasis on automation. In a reductive sense, the gameplay revolves around gathering resources and utilizing them to expand your factory base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ve just crash-landed on an alien planet and your goal is to ultimately build a rocket to launch off into space and get back home. However, you don\u2019t start with anything, just the knowledge of how to mine and smelt ore and build all sorts of highly inventive machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things begin at a slower pace as you learn the basics. The more you build out your burgeoning factory base, the more complex things will become and the more pollution you\u2019ll generate. The more you pollute the planet, the more aggressive the local wildlife will become agitated with you and want to shut you down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Factorio is played from a top-down, real-time strategy perspective. The game is remarkably well optimized\u2014so much so that you can have a gigantic factory base with thousands of individual moving parts, and PC performance still won\u2019t suffer (unless you have a total potato).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The art style is pleasant to behold in a minimalistic way. It\u2019s easy to see how your factory base stands out from the natural environment. This, in turn, goes along with the narrative that you, as the alien, don\u2019t mesh well with the planet you\u2019ve landed on. The locals certainly don\u2019t think so. Factorio never gets into any preachy moral discussions about climate change nor any finger-wagging about pollution in general, but the game\u2019s visuals let you know that you are actually the villain of this new world, rather than the hero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also really enjoy Factorio\u2019s sound design with regards to how it scales. When your factory is relatively small, you can hear much more of the ambient sounds of the environment. But once you get things really cranking and your factory is a sprawling labyrinth of machinery, you\u2019ll mostly hear lots of loud machinery. The background music isn\u2019t bad but isn\u2019t particularly memorable either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Factorio is also very mod-friendly with a large modding community that has sprung up around it over the game\u2019s lifetime. These mods range from basic ones that merely expand on the already established formula, to hyper-complex ones that make it extremely challenging (and time-consuming) to build a decently-sized factory base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Factorio is a highly polished factory-building game that has a really great premise and execution, nice visuals, and great sound design. It\u2019s basically a must-have for any fans of building games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RATING: 8.4\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Factorio has some great graphics so you’ll need a pretty beefy gaming PC or gaming laptop in order to play it at a decent framerate. Therefore, you may just want to invest in a superior gaming rig:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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