How long does a playthrough generally last?

[rickkeman]

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[Luxo]

How long really depends on your playstyle.

Are you an completionist? min/max'er?
Like it to be estetical or Just functional?
Spaghetti bilder?
Speed runner?
Get me to the finish as fast as possible player or anything in between?

Hard to say. I have 127 hours or something and I have "completed" (if there is such thing) the game only once!

[jhughes]

That totally depends on when you stop and how focused you are on the goals. Search youtube for Factorio Speed Run. (that is launching a rocket in the unmoded game).

If you play with that as a goal, and you do nothing except moving towards the launch.. You can easily do it in 2 to 3 hours.

It takes me much longer to do a playrhrough.. 50 to 75 hours or so. But I am doing much more than just trying to launch a rocket (like unlock every tech.. Automate every product, etc).

I'm sure many people can do it much faster than 50 hours.

[Owl]

friend and i are at about 60 hours; i think we could push to a rocket launch if we felt the need but we dont really see that as a need.

[Mvelon]

Enjoying the game my own way. least 90hours into same map atm and still going. However you can play as you see fit and even shorten the time. Perhaps go for the achievement of a 8hour playthrough ? ;)

[Overeagerdragon]

I think the current speedrun record is just over 1hr or sumthing whack....
My last game in vanilla was 75hrs with a lot of doodling and dawdling....My game before that was over 300hrs.

[guts2501]

If I had to generalize it would be between 20 and 30 hours, assuming launching the rocket is a play through. I often start a new map wanting to do something different. Be it mods or map settings. This game is almost impossible to go stale though since it's all about what you do with it.

[Spetsnaz]

First rocket took me around 70 hours... I can do it now a lot faster but it also depends on the game settings you pick.

[GoofyZ (NL)]

600 hours plus, and i launched in 3 maps rockets. Now i'm building a base that can launch a rocket every minute (at least i hope LoLz not sure about the calculations)

[rickkeman]

Thanks yall for the reactions, I got this game a couple years back but never really got into it, only got like 12 hours. I will probably get into it more soon so thanks.

[mpderksen]

Originally posted by rickkeman:

Thanks yall for the reactions, I got this game a couple years back but never really got into it, only got like 12 hours. I will probably get into it more soon so thanks.

I play in binges. A total of 360 hours, but the current map is about at 60, and just now setting up the silo. This map I'm trying to learn to balance all my inputs. Add yellow science, and suddenly I have a deficit of an item. So I add more assemblers, and then I need more resources. Crud, then i need more trains, then I need more stations... But it's SO FUN!

I will play a map until I'm at a point I'm done, then wander off and play Kerbal Space Program for a few months. Only I can decide what "done" is. My goal this time is a base that launches a rocket every 30 minutes, with no bottle necks in production. I'm also using no blueprints except for a mall. I'm making my own BP book once each section is optimized to MY liking.

12 hours is probably the point where I was pretty frustrated, since all the YouTube videos show these overwhelming megabases with complicated beacons and circuit networks. I just picked a walkthrough and systematically learned stuff. Then Kerbal wiped my brain and I had to do it again :)

[Serathis]

If you don't want to bother way too much, 20-30 hours once you get the hang of things.

[Scarsick]

Originally posted by jhughes:

If you play with that as a goal, and you do nothing except moving towards the launch.. You can easily do it in 2 to 3 hours.

No. 2 to 3 hours is doable, but it's not easy at all.

[SalukaOfLand]

2-50 hours for first rocket launch

[Mirradian]

It's a very open ended game, soft goal is to launch a rocket, other goals can include researching all non-open ended upgrade technologies or destroying all biters 'x' distance from your base, but it is very self determined. I have a friend who usually plays for about 6-10 hours before getting a rocket launched but he kinda focuses on that. My play style is much, much more laid back and I play mostly to just experiment with different ways to build things, more just fooling around in single player.

Short answer: it really depends on you but anywhere from an average of 5 to 100 hours, depending on your play style and any self objectives you may set.

[fractalgem]

Originally posted by rickkeman:

Thanks yall for the reactions, I got this game a couple years back but never really got into it, only got like 12 hours. I will probably get into it more soon so thanks.

You can also complicate and extend the gameplay with mods like krastorio, bob's, or pycoal. (listed in order of complexity, from the moderate increase in difficulty to the "WTF IS GOING ON AHHH I"M GOING BALD FROM PULLING OUT MY HAIR" that is the completey pycoal suite...)