Factorio: Space Age

...but that would require leaving the factory, and THE FACTORY MUST GROW

The planets this adds are fantastic (except Gleba) and varied. They're all different and have different playstyles and challenges, and for the most part the challenges are fun to overcome. Vulcanus, Fulgora, and Aquilo are great. Each one has its own strengths and weaknesses, but all planets (except Aquilo) are fully capable of supplying everything the other planets can (and some resources are either infinite or basically infinite). Though it can be a bit of a headache to get it set up sometimes, it's always worth it and rewarding. The only planet that sucks is Gleba. Spoilage sucks and is super unforgiving. Nutrients/Science spoiling sucks and is super unforgiving. Eggs "spoiling" and being so damn hard to find sucks and is super unforgiving. Finding out which tiles are even growable because yellow tiles around the argi tower doesn't necessarily mean you can even grow on it with gowing foundations sucks. The whole planet is awful and it's why they lose 1 star.

There are a few things I could gripe about. But I finished it after about a month of intense play, ~200 hours, and then started again. What more can you ask for? Yeah, some parts don't quite have the same level of polish that the base game does, but that's to be expected since they didn't have 10 years to polish it. In short, even if it's a little rougher, it's more Factorio. If you love Factorio, what are you waiting for?

space age added all the things i never knew i needed. originally i thought the space ships looked (visually) kinda lame but they turned out to be amazing. the additional planets all represent their own challenge that can be solved in a vacuum (with some exceptions) or by setting up interstellar logistics. quality of items makes for some interesting choices and challenges but the feature can also be turned off completely AFAIK so i see it as a win either way. amazing expansion and i truly hope it won't be the only one!