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After 8.5 years and countless delays for "refinement" Factorio has finally released today.
Factorio is a very successful indie game. (A few months back, it hit 2 million sales.) It is a base builder. The premise is that your spaceship crash lands on an alien planet, you are left with next to nothing and from there you build a gigantic factory so that you can build a new spaceship and get off the planet. You start off gathering basic materials and researching the basics until you rise to the level of advanced materials and spaceship construction. Your factory will continue to grow as you advance and as it grows it will create pollution. The pollution will cause the local alien life to stir and eventually attack your base; so you will need to set up defenses while advancing.
It is very addictive. Probably the most addictive thing for me is that often you need to do multiple things, and must prioritize. As your base grows, you will need to expand your power production, at the same time you need to explore and find a source of oil so that you can unlock the next level of research, at the same time, aliens are attacking the other side of the base and need to be killed... then you need to rebuild... add defenses... clear alien hives that are too close... add more ammo production... add even more power... expand your resource harvesting before the current iron patch is completely mined... and so on. and so on...
I personally have played Factorio for 1500 hours over the last 4 years... Over that time it has gone through some major changes such as the addition of Nuclear Power, Massive Network games (over 100 people have played coop in a single game,) high definition graphic overhaul, and regular performance tuning. While the 1.0 release is here, the devs have promised continued bug fixes and already annouced that 1.1 will be coming.
Factorio supports Linux, Mac, and that microsoft os.
Related Links:
Factorio Home Page
Factorio Steam Page (though you can buy directly from their home page to give the devs a few cents more.)
Submitter's Steam Review (shameless self-promotion that provides no actual value.)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by stretch611 on Saturday August 15 2020, @08:16AM (1 child)
Last I checked, I was not a bot. I think therefore I am.
As for the appropriateness here... Many people use there PCs for games when they are not working... you may not be one of those, but for you to assume that no one here would care about a game is quite a bit harder to justify than me thinking that some people would care to hear about it.
This is a technology related site, computer games are more technological than the politic stories that we get here.
We get the occasional Fortnite story, despite having a reader base that I would assume is quite a few years past the average Fortnite player.
And one pretty big base of enthusiasts of factorio is programmers and engineers... both of which seem to be quite common on this website.
If you don't like it, ignore the story and go on to the next... but don't make it so that others do not have a choice.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday August 21 2020, @03:01PM
And reviewing or promoting decent games that run on Linux -- hard to get that kind of information elsewhere, where they usually don't mention the required OS at all.
-- hendrik