I've been meaning to play this game for years. It's sort of like the ultimate survival crafting game (which is a genre I love). I dunno, it's really hard to describe until you play it. In normal crafting games you spend a lot of time mining ore. You can get better tools, but the basic loop is kinda repetitive. In factorio, you build a machine that plays the game for you, and the machine gets bigger and more complicated and ugly and beautiful.

The initial learning curve is steep, but power through it.

I've been meaning to play this game for years. It's sort of like the ultimate survival crafting game (which is a genre I love). I dunno, it's really hard to describe until you play it. In normal crafting games you spend a lot of time mining ore. You can get better tools, but the basic loop is kinda repetitive. In factorio, you build a machine that plays the game for you, and the machine gets bigger and more complicated and ugly and beautiful. The initial learning curve is steep, but power through it.