can someone explain this game

[BooQueefius]

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[NimrodAbsolution⁧⁧98]

Here's some helpful explainations
Googe.com
Youtube.com
http://store.steampowered.com/app/427520

You're welcome :^)

[onebit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ksf5QHlQWg

[MrButtermancer]

The world is a big field. There are basic resources like coal, iron ore, stone, copper, wood, and oil. It's a crafting game, but the interesting take that factorio has is that making everything by hand takes an *impossibly long time.* In minecraft for instance, you mine all of your own coal, forge all of your own torches, and place everything.

Factorio is about *automation.* The game starts you out with a "burner" and a stone furnace. The burner consumes coal to mine whatever resource it's placed on. So maybe you decide to be a wiseguy and place it on coal. Now you have enough coal to run the burner plus a little extra. You mine iron ore and stone by hand and build another burner. You place this one on iron ore. Now you're feeding coal from your coal burner to your iron ore burner and processing the iron ore into iron in your furnace. Gosh, it's not fun running all this coal around everywhere.

So you build conveyor belts to carry the coal, and inserters to put the coal in your burners. Hah. *Now* we're beginning to really get some iron.

That's factorio in a microcosm. You want iron, so instead of the typical crafting approach where you go mine iron and craft it yourself, you build a factory to do this for you. Eventually, you'll connect that iron factory into a larger more sophisticated factory making increasingly complex resources. Because once you have iron, wow, armor piercing rounds will make those biters (factorio monsters) easier to manage... but I'll need steel. So now I have to make my factory produce steel.

The progress of the game is actually quite good; you start off doing lots of things by hand and as your factory becomes increasingly advanced, you get access to all kinds of tools to help you build bigger, faster, easier, and more efficiently. Basically everything can be automated and a mature factory can do many things an early build couldn't dream of. It's quite satisfying and clever. It's like Space Chem but you create your own puzzles emergently.

[impetus_maximus]

download the free demo. it's feature rich and gives you a good feel for the game.
after your hooked buy it @ factorio.com (you get a steam key)

[Roxor128]

Factorio is all about finding new things to craft, then finding ways to automate crafting them.

[Lawlzer]

Originally posted by Overlord Taco:

Here's some helpful explainations
Googe.com
Youtube.com
http://store.steampowered.com/app/427520

You're welcome :^)

Lmfao.

[Zaphod]

Ok, you've crashed on an alien world, ( its a bit in the future, by the by ) the natives are hostile, real hostile and no one knows that you are here, maybe some illegal operation, we dont know. You gotta survive, launch a rocket into orbit, i'm assuming to get satellite communications running, and call for help, but you gotta make alot of ♥♥♥♥ for this rocket, luckily for you, humans, or what ever it is you play as, are masters of automation... If you are into building machines that build other machines, collecting resources that you actually have to mine, defending yourself from hordes of native, giant bugs that evolve from the pollution that you create all the while designing a "factory" to build that which you need, researching and learning that just because two species are different, that doesnt mean that you dont have anything in common... i lied 'bout that last part, they will always hate and try to kill you... then this game is for you.

[Ruldra]

How lazy can OP be, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Watch the two trailers on the store page, that's enough to know what the game is about.

[NimrodAbsolution⁧⁧98]

Originally posted by Lupus Inculta:

Originally posted by Overlord Taco:

Here's some helpful explainations
Googe.com
Youtube.com
http://store.steampowered.com/app/427520

You're welcome :^)

Is this answer supposed to be funny or cool?

Yes

[Lawlzer]

Originally posted by Overlord Taco:

Originally posted by Lupus Inculta:

Is this answer supposed to be funny or cool?

Yes

We're too kewl for schewl

[Rio]

Its rimworld without colony management, biomes with unique animals, crops, drugs, hunger or survival elements, rewarding enemy drops, good enemy AI, interesting end game.

Same goal of getting a rocket ship into space. Both have a grindy tech progression system too.

But factorio has automation, multi player, and won't screw you over with RNG.

[Cametokur]

I was just about to consider asking a similar question, I am trying to convince a few friends to play and I want to buy it for them. They've all watched reviews, plays, etc. 4 of them, with their own individual and different gaming tastes, can't really give me much more than "maybe".

They've all gone rounds with various strategy, city building, sandbox games, from CIV to Advance Wars, to Starcraft, Terraria, etc... They aren't the demo type either, and want to have a game we can all play together. Trying to convince them that an arena/hero shooter or a moba is a PITA. For some reason I just can't explain it "right". I know for a fact that two of these guys, if they gave it a chance, would probably put just as much time into Factorio as I have, if not more- we played Phantasy Star Online as a group for over 10 years. They keep talking about giving in to Titanfall, Overwatch, or even Elite Dangerous FFS.

So, while OP might have been on the low-effort side of their post, this is a question that's been itching at me for the last couple months. I'd wager that Factorio actually deserves it's own designation- the most common genres that it attracts just don't fit, if that makes any sense. Add to that the early access side of things, the potential for major changes later on that could either shorten or lengthen it's distance to those popular tags, and even I, someone who can turn a basic paragraph into a wall of word-vomit, don't really know how to "sell" the game based on anything it could be compared to. I'd also bet that anyone who plays this game regularly has their own wildly different comparisons, so getting a consensus that way might be troublesome.

So far all I've been able to come up with that has gotten me to the point of almost being ready to buy it for two of these dudes is that it's a mix of strategy, resource management, "city building" (which is basically a lie), with the sandbox strategy encompassing everything from the very smallest of details and expanding all the way up into extremely complex and enormous "machines"- and you decide when and where things are automated. Man, never sign me up for marketing!

[johntarmac]

Originally posted by camux:

They aren't the demo type either,

If they are on steam they can join your game to watch how the game plays. I do it with my friends to get a better idea before we buy.

[Acarin]

This is THE game for lazy people!! The whole ethos of the game is to stop the grind & not have to manually craft stuff - automate everything! Start it off with a few scattered furnaces, then build conveyor belts and inserters to move stuff around automatically. Build furnace arrays and shift the output over to automated assemblers which build better stuff. BE Donald Trump and build a wall to keep out the illegal aliens. Then find that they can eat through the walls, so build turrets (gun, laser and/or flamethrower) to 'take care' of the problem. Build trains and a rail network to move stuff further and faster. And eventually build a rocket silo to launch a satellite into space.

Use the circuit network for mundane things, such as controlling aspects of your production chain, or go way out and creative to make in-game video screens
https://youtu.be/Kry8lbrHjeY - SHOW THIS!!!

It's a wide-open sandbox of a game, and very easy to set your own targets for replayability. Plus, once you have played through the vanilla game a few times, there are dozens of mods to improve quality-of-life in the game or, indeed, to completely revise the way you play (Bob's Mods, Angel's Ores, Factorissimo).

If nothing else convinces people, consider that Factorio has the highest positive game rating ever (AFAIK) on Steam, with over 98% of reviews loving the game. There are plenty of people (including me) with over 1000 hours played, which is a personal record for any non-MMO in my case. Oh, or you could also try picking one or two reviews to read (eg http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197965435788/recommended/427520/ )

Try all that :-)

[Luzilyo]

what exactly do you want to be explained? game mechanics? background story? controls? next update? something else?