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Factorio

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

2020 Casual Indie Simulation Strategy ★ Overwhelmingly Positive
Factorio

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Guides

Guides

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Factorio Defense & Pollution Guide|Biters, Evolution, and Turrets

Defense in Factorio comes down to three things — cut pollution to lower attack pressure, understand how the evolution factor rises, and combine walls and turrets into a layered line. Biters are drawn to your factory's pollution, and as evolution climbs they scale up to medium, big, and behemoth. This guide covers pollution and evolution mechanics, how to pick turrets, and how to build a practical defensive line — no sugar-coating.

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Factorio Beginner Guide|Early-Game Roadmap and Common Pitfalls

The Factorio early game is about one thing — automating the things you've been doing by hand. Build the ore → smelt → parts → assemblers pipeline in stages, and set up power and research in parallel. Don't aim for perfection. Get something running first, then improve it. This guide walks you through a no-stuck early game.

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Factorio Main Bus Design|The Central Highway for a Scalable Factory

A main bus is the standard factory pattern — run key materials down the middle in parallel belts and split off assemblers on one side. By centralizing iron plates, copper plates, green circuits, and other staples, you get a factory that is both readable and easy to scale. This guide covers the basic structure, how to decide belt counts, and the operational habits that keep a bus working.

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Factorio Progression Guide|The Path to the Rocket Launch

Factorio's vanilla campaign is a march through seven science pack colors, culminating in a rocket launch. The order — red, green, gray, blue, yellow, purple, white — defines what tech opens up next. Knowing what you need to build at each tier removes the guesswork. This guide lays out the full progression path.

Overview

What's the Game?

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Full automation

Belts, assemblers, and inserters carry items from mining to finished products with zero clicks.

Tech tree progression

Red, green, blue, military, utility, production, and white science packs gate new technology.

Circuit logic

Signal circuits enable complex control like inventory-driven production.

Rocket launch milestone

Scale your factory until a satellite rocket can launch — the base game capstone.

Space Age expansion

The official paid expansion sends you to multiple planets for vast new content.

Massive mod community

Diverse mods reshape rules and difficulty endlessly.

Trailer

Trailer

Teaser 2020 Watch on Steam

Screenshots

Screenshots

Languages

Supported Languages

Language Interface Audio Subtitles
日本語
Deutsch
English
Español
Français
Italiano
한국어
Português (Brasil)
Русский
简体中文
繁體中文

Spec

System Requirements

Windows

Minimum

Minimum: OS: Windows 11, 10 Processor: Quad core 3Ghz+ Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 11 capable GPU with 1GB VRAM - GeForce GTX 750 Ti, Radeon R7 360 or Intel UHD Graphics 730 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 5 GB available space Additional Notes: Normal sprite resolution, Low quality compression, 1080p resolution

Recommended

Recommended: OS: Windows 11, 10 Processor: Quad core 4Ghz+ from 2020 or newer Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 11 capable GPU with 4 GB VRAM - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, Radeon RX 570, Intel Arc DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 10 GB available space Additional Notes: High sprite resolution, High quality compression

macOS

Minimum

Minimum: OS: OS X 10.10 Yosemite Processor: 2016 Mac Memory: 8 GB RAM Storage: 5 GB available space Additional Notes: Normal sprite resolution, Low quality compression, 1080p resolution

Recommended

Recommended: Processor: 2020 Apple Silicon Memory: 16 GB RAM Storage: 10 GB available space Additional Notes: High sprite resolution, High quality compression

Linux

Minimum

Minimum: OS: Linux (tarball installation) Processor: Dual core 3Ghz+ Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 11 capable GPU with 1GB VRAM - GeForce GTX 750 Ti, Radeon R7 360 or Intel UHD Graphics 730 Storage: 5 GB available space Sound Card: PulseAudio Additional Notes: Normal sprite resolution, Low quality compression, 1080p resolution

Recommended

Recommended: OS: Linux (tarball installation) Processor: Quad core 3GHz+ Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 11 capable GPU with 4 GB VRAM - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, Radeon RX 570, Intel Arc Storage: 10 GB available space Sound Card: PulseAudio Additional Notes: High sprite resolution, High quality compression

Achievements

Achievement Highlights

Automated cleanup Automated cleanup
Automated construction Automated construction
Circuit veteran 1 Circuit veteran 1
Circuit veteran 2 Circuit veteran 2
Circuit veteran 3 Circuit veteran 3
Computer age 1 Computer age 1
Computer age 2 Computer age 2
Computer age 3 Computer age 3
Delivery service Delivery service
You've got a package You've got a package

FAQ

FAQ

Yes. UI and tutorials are localized in both English and Japanese.
A factory builder on a procedurally generated 2D planet. Automate production, scale up, and eventually launch a rocket to escape. Combining belts, assemblers, and circuits into efficient lines is wildly addictive.
No — buy-to-play (around 35 USD on Steam). Major updates ship for free; the Space Age expansion adds significant new content for purchase.
Do not chase perfection at first. Get something working, then scale. Learn the iron to plates to gears to green circuit chain, expand belts and assemblers, and remember the main bus can always be rebuilt later.
A highway running through your factory, typically 4-belt strips of plates, copper, green circuits, etc., with branches feeding sub-factories. Start with 2 to 4 belts and scale up as production grows.

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