Factorio used to be groundbreaking, but everything it does is now done better by other games that aren't restricted by the flat 2D plane. You can get everything this game does and more out of games like Dyson Sphere Program and Satisfactory, that allows you much more freedom with your constructions and build on a much grander scale, even though both are still in early access.

Also its business model appears to be reversed. Never going on sale is a dev decision that I fully support. But instead, this fully released game becomes more expensive over time, without any more content patches to the base game. The devs ask you to pay more for an aging game that has not changed since it was released, while there are better successors on the market.

The army that defends this are, of course, 99% people who bought the game for the old price or even less than that.

Factorio used to be groundbreaking, but everything it does is now done better by other games that aren't restricted by the flat 2D plane. You can get everything this game does and more out of games like Dyson Sphere Program and Satisfactory, that allows you much more freedom with your constructions and build on a much grander scale, even though both are still in early access. Also its business model appears to be reversed. Never going on sale is a dev decision that I fully support. But instead, this fully released game becomes [i]more[/i] expensive over time, [i]without[/i] any more content patches to the base game. The devs ask you to pay more for an aging game that has not changed since it was released, while there are better successors on the market. The army that defends this are, of course, 99% people who bought the game for the old price or even less than that.