Posted on: July 22, 2021
shopt
Verified ownerGames: 312 Reviews: 5
Factorio, more like Cracktorio
This game is great. It's not perfect, but no game is. You start by mining stuff by hand and feeding it into furnaces by hand. Factorio is a game about automation though, so you progress to using automated miners, conveyor belts, robot arms and assembly machines to make your stuff and move it around. You build intricate logic circuits to control bits of your factory (this part is optional). There is always something to do in your factory: optimise something, automate something, expand, implement a production line to produce whatever you just researched, solve whatever your current bottleneck is, shore up your defenses against the "biters", clear out some "biter" spawners. And it's addictive. When you think you have the pattern worked out, the tech tree gives you a new system which breaks the pattern. Mid game you get the ability to copy-paste bits of your factory. You start with belts, but during the game you add trains and flying robots to help you move things around. The devs actually care about fixing bugs and optimising performance rather than just adding marketing bullet points. They are fairly transparent and communicate well with the community. The game is extremely modable, there is a mod-manager built into the game, though vanilla is very playable, no "must-have" mods. Having said that, there are some great looking mods I can't wait to try after some more vanilla games done. As I said it's not perfect. I think bots become OP in the end-game and trivialise belts, exchanging an interesting belt system the game had for a fairly brainless "build more bots" exercise. The ability to export/import blueprints gives the temptation to build a "base I got off the internet" if you aren't disciplined. There isn't a lot of point to exploration beyond finding more ore patches. And the storytelling is practically non-existent if you are into that sort of thing. Lost my job, forgot how to sleep, and will now never get a girlfriend, 5/5.
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