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edit: I've played an additional 2000 hours since I wrote this review. I'm not going to going to be exhaustive but if I'm to have a review up at all, I want these things to be said;
At no point while playing this game have I felt that I've stopped learning new, interesting, or better ways to accomplish things. I am always, and still, finding new ways to be more efficient. I've purposefully avoided guides for everything possible, and if you're like me, this will supremely boost the amount of entertainment you can get out of the game in comparison to plopping down any of the plethora of perfected blueprints available online from other players. Factorio is a rare member of a class of games that manages to be both deep as an ocean, and wide as one too. Not one aspect of the game is shallow. I have thought hard to try and pinpoint any aspect of the game that I really am neutral to or even just don't like. All I can think of is that there's no game-world representation of dense air pollution or smog, only water turns green. The Spidertron is too noisy and makes noises too frequently, especially as what is essentially a permanent mech-vehicle the player resides in and rides around in for the rest of the game once built. I had to install a mod to make it play the noise far less often, 45 seconds or so instead of constantly. It wears your sanity away after playing the game this long, like the income noise in Europa Universalis IV. If you know you know. The last thing to add is that the game, once you've mastered it, has so many huge, extremely lovingly made overhaul mods that range from giving you different visuals with many additions without swamping you, to things like Space Exploration that finishing would dwarf my current playtime at the time of this review. If you love Logistics, Resource management, Trains, Factories or automated processes, or just satisfying some deep urge to destroy the disgusting pulsating bug hives with artillery and fire. Gross.
I love Factorio.

based game based developers edit: I've played an additional 2000 hours since I wrote this review. I'm not going to going to be exhaustive but if I'm to have a review up at all, I want these things to be said; At no point while playing this game have I felt that I've stopped learning new, interesting, or better ways to accomplish things. I am always, and still, finding new ways to be more efficient. I've purposefully avoided guides for everything possible, and if you're like me, this will supremely boost the amount of entertainment you can get out of the game in comparison to plopping down any of the plethora of perfected blueprints available online from other players. Factorio is a rare member of a class of games that manages to be both deep as an ocean, and wide as one too. Not one aspect of the game is shallow. I have thought hard to try and pinpoint any aspect of the game that I really am neutral to or even just don't like. All I can think of is that there's no game-world representation of dense air pollution or smog, only water turns green. The Spidertron is too noisy and makes noises too frequently, especially as what is essentially a permanent mech-vehicle the player resides in and rides around in for the rest of the game once built. I had to install a mod to make it play the noise far less often, 45 seconds or so instead of constantly. It wears your sanity away after playing the game this long, like the income noise in Europa Universalis IV. If you know you know. The last thing to add is that the game, once you've mastered it, has so many huge, extremely lovingly made overhaul mods that range from giving you different visuals with many additions without swamping you, to things like Space Exploration that finishing would dwarf my current playtime at the time of this review. If you love Logistics, Resource management, Trains, Factories or automated processes, or just satisfying some deep urge to destroy the disgusting pulsating bug hives with artillery and fire. Gross. I love Factorio.