Factorio Review - an Indie Masterpiece

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Factorio is a magic game where you trade your time for expansion.

1500 hours in factorio personally, and I still have cases where I'm like "Okay so what if you take these belts inserters a few splitters and HOLY SHIT WHERE DID THOSE 10 HOURS OF MY LIFE GO!!"

The fact that there is a free demo which actually teaches you how to play the game before you pay for it is the kind of thing that every game used to do but no one does anymore. Games used to focus on the player's experience, factorio is one of those games.

The first time i booted this game 20 min went by in my head. But in reality 4hrs passed. Thats all you need to know about this game 😄

I have 800 hours in factorio, I started playing 3 years ago, and I didn't know you could click and drag power poles until 3 weeks ago.

Great review! I only missed a section on scaling, where you go from handcrafting, automation, train network, bots, blueprints, rocket, and then into megabase. I especially like the transition to an automated mall, and the transition to bots with blueprints.

Factorio has taught me not to be lazy in the short term so to eventually be ultimately lazy big time later on. Some people call that "being efficient". It's a great life skill.

Trains are a surprisingly meaty part of the game that I didn't quite understand and therefore sparsely used in my first playthrough (where I used mostly belts and drones). Once you understand rail signals it's a whole new game where you can spend 20 hours iterating over rail intersection blueprints. There's some people out there with smelting operations that require multiple 40 wagon trains on constant loop just for the iron ore I highly recommend the LTN mod to add another dimension to the trains system

3:28 "So called circuit network" I've seen people build 8-bit computers from what are basically the simplest of transistors to control their factories.... really. Just last week I used it to build a scrolling sign that reads "Happy New Year!" as Auld Lang Syne played... all from circuits.

Ok after dis, imma try to beat the train tutorial part

every single factorio review ever made starts with the trailer theme and i love it oh yeah i have 800+ hours in this game and have watched basically every single review on youtube

Let me also add a very important note: controls and UI are a masterpiece in this game, I can't stress it enough. Everything has hotkeys, you can copy\paste stuff, every menu (even options) has a fuzzy-search bar. You grab\put stuff by 1, 5, 50% or everything with just hotkeys

Nice job, I think this video does a great job at explaining to "normal" people how and why to play. I know loading a months old save is sometimes a bit disorienting (and i built it!) so of course seeing an endgame base built by someone else is going to be intimidating!

0:48 I love how portal 2 in first because ppl playing factorio are most likely to play Portal 2 aswell since its a puzzle/logic game aswell

I just completed Riftbreaker the other day and was blown away by how innovate it felt. After finding Factorio, I feel like I just watched Ozark and then realized that Breaking Bad existed.

Looking forward.

Thank for breaking this down. I would love multiplayer in a PvP mode, where there are multiple people on each side, each having separate responsibilities over warfare, research and industry.

This game is literally the "Play it YOUR way" kind of style I love. Want a challenge? Crank up enemy spawns! Make Items more expansive! Spread resources further apart! Make the world only a few tiles tall but infinite in a single direction! Mod the heck out of it! The documentation is the *Chefs Kiss* perfect example of well documentated features of stuff in the game. There's even content in the game that isn't actually used, but is their for modders to take advantage of. This is the type of game that the developers take into consideration the community. They have gone out of their way to fix BUGS for MODDERS! And the weekly blog posts that go into extreme intricate detail about the game and what challenges they faced trying to solve an issue, whether it was gameplay, a bug, performance, or even stuff both in and out of the game. My favorite is the fact the Expansion is being worked on with of the folks being the creator of the large Space Exploration mod, so you get on the blogs perspective of what it was like on the Community Modding API side and the actual codebase side and how they had to tackle problems with how they wanted to solve with the expansion and the lessons learned from their modding experience. The blogs are a fantastic read, like it's a nice thing to sit down and read and just be amazed at what problems and solutions they experienced before during and after developement.

This is a great clear and concise explanation of this deeply technical game. I went and checked out the demo and ended up buying the game thanks to this video. Fantastic job! You will have many more subscribers soon. Keep it up!