Factorio

Factorio
Developer(s)Wube Software
Publisher(s)Wube Software
Director(s)
  • Michal Kovařík
  • Tomáš Kozelek
  • Albert Bertolín
Designer(s)Michal Kovařík
Artist(s)
  • Albert Bertolin
  • Václav Benč
Composer(s)Daniel James Taylor
Petr Wajsar (Space Age expansion)
Platform(s)
Release
  • Linux, macOS, Windows
  • 14 August 2020
  • Switch
  • 28 October 2022
Genre(s)Construction and management simulation, real-time strategy
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Factorio is a construction and management simulation game developed and published by Czech studio Wube Software. 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. The game was released on Nintendo Switch on 28 October 2022.[1]

The game follows an engineer who crash-lands on an alien planet and must harvest resources and create automated industry to build a rocket; however, as it is a sandbox game, players can continue the game past the end of the storyline. There are both single-player and multiplayer modes as well as eight additional game scenarios.

On 21 October 2024, a major paid expansion called Space Age was released, adding 4 new planets explorable after the base game's end goal of launching a rocket.[2]

  1. ^ "Friday Facts #370 - The journey to Nintendo Switch". Factorio. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Factorio: Space Age is here!". Factorio. Retrieved 21 October 2024.