Factorio dev didn't kneel and won
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looks like im finally coughing up the cash to buy the game
I absolutely love factorio, I've played several hundred hours it's fantastic.
Would be my pick of favorite singleplayer game of the decade
It's great, but it wasn't for me. I just couldn't ever engage with the steampunk mechanics like transferring items one at a time from a conveyor belt with a claw. It just never clicked with me.
Satisfactory scratches my itch for an automation game.
I played satisfactory recently and really liked it for a bit, but it gets too tedious to expand low tier item production near the endgame. You have to place every single splitter, belt, floor, wall, smelter, etc etc, over and over by hand just to make a few more iron plates than you were previously.
In Factorio you eventually get bots to do the tedious labor of placing everything down and you can copy and paste your existing structures (say for example iron smelting) and the bots lay it down, instantly doubling your output of a low tier resources, and now you can move on and focus on a bigger, more interesting project.
I also like the challenge of fighting off the bugs. It keeps you on your toes when you are new. Can't spend too long making things perfect, the bugs are getting stronger. 'Good enough' will have to do for now!
I downloaded the free demo yesterday and after about 30 minutes I realized the game just isn't for me. But I can see that it's well done and I understand why it appeals to so many people.
I played it for a couple of hours...but it eventually began to feel like a chore. I also got tired of Minecraft and most recently Valheim before long. It's a shame because people seem to have so much fun playing, but everyone is different.
Kudos to the developers all the same and I hope they have continued success. Trying to break into the gaming industry is HARD, and for every mega-blockbuster there are thousands of milquetoast titles; including amazingly fun ones that just never caught on.
It starts out as a chore but it eventually turns into an interesting almost puzzle like game IMO. I have to use a 'headstart' mod (start with some resources and buildings to quickly get basic production going) if a start a new game because the beginning is just kinda tedious.