Final Factory

A very promising entry to the automation builder genre. Interesting mechanics, especially mobile stations.

I have played this game now for 4 or 5 years. I have put it down and picked it up again several times through many major updates. It isn't some graphically impressive, quick reward, short attention span kind of game, but it will challenge you to do better each time you play it. The objective is straight forward enough, but it is very much the journey that will have you addicted. You'll get stuck at a certain point because you don't have enough of a certain resource, and you'll have to come up with a better system for producing it next time. You can truly customize the way you play and even try every way possible. If you like to use your brain, you'll love this hidden gem of a game.

Its not just another factory game; It stands out. People who say this is a 2D shooter are doing the game a disservice. You can decide for yourself whether to go looking for enemies or expand your factory. If you choose the latter, you will discover the enormous depth the game has to offer. With every upgrade, you realize that you need to adapt and expand. It provides a really fun challenge.

I bought this game about a year ago and, at the time, I wasn't willing to recommend the game, but I didn't want to leave a negative review either because there were many elements of the game I did like. Due to it being in early access and having great potential, I opted to wait instead to see if it improved. After the recent update, I can confidently say that things have exceeded my expectations. Everything that I found wanting has been fixed and all the new additions are great. The game now has a great mix of complexity and accessibility. QOL changes have been great improvements too. Most of the negative reviews came out before this new update (update was on April 25, 2025) which fixed most of the problems the reviews complained about -- something to keep in mind if you are on the fence and reading reviews to make a decision. Final Factory is a great pick for those looking for another factory automation game besides the big three (factorio, satisfactory, and dyson sphere program). With Final Factory still in early access, I have high hopes for the future of this project.

Vraiment bien. J'ai joué à Factorio pendant près de 3000 heures et je cherchais qqch de nouveau. Facile à apprendre. Bon tutoriel, qui cesse assez tôt de nous tenir par la main, et c'est parfait ainsi parce qu'une fois les bases couvertes, on peut assez facilement se débrouiller pour la suite. Combats faciles pour l'instant (juste joué 8 hres). Ne demandent pas d'habileté: les robots font le travail tout seuls. Il suffit de les guider vers l'ennemi (ceux qui nous accompagnent, pas ceux qui sont dispersés sur les plateformes de défense, qui, eux, s'occupent de leur périmètre). Mais il faut planifier la logistique associée (disposition de plateformes de défense, production automatisée de robots de remplacement pour ceux qui sont perdus, etc).

[h1]TLDR;[/h1] It has the bones of very a good game. There's so many brilliant ideas but there's also lots of really redundant stuff that just feels like it works against the core idea of the game. Setting up the logistics, is the most time consuming annoying ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, that you'll have to redo every time you move factory. [h1]THE PROS:[/h1] -You can move your factories, which allows you to rearrange tour factory without having to break stuff down. For example, I am a hoarder, I love hoarding raw resources while doing other things in case I'd need them later. In here, it's super easy to move your storage. -Because it's easy to move stuff, you can eventually make everything a spaceship. You have a factory that requires only one type of resource? Just move it do a different mining spot once the old one is depleted. -Building a battleship to drive and punch through enemy ships is really fun. -The artifacts are really fun reward for exploration or just simply fighting the enemies. Allows you to speed up, duplicate or otherwise optimise your factories for the cost of power. -Easy copy+paste, blueprints, automatically showing you missing buildings pieces you have to craft to build stuff in bottom left. Really nice. [h1]THE MEH[/h1] -So the thing that stops you from building one big infinitly large ship is stability. You can add some stuff to your ship to increase it, which provides a bit of challenge. It also adds a bit of annoyance, especially early in the game, since it's yet another thing you need to attach. -So because "everything can be a ship" and stability, you have to make small scale factories and move resources between them without connecting them directly... When you move your factories the drones won't move with them. So once you set up a complicated logistics system, you'll have to redo ALL of it if you want to move things around. Which can range from minor annoyance to absolute nightmare. -Your character upgradges exist, they are good, you have a reason to go and pick some of them up, but they eventually will become redundant IF you build your factories right, while other upgrades just doesn't seem that worth taking at all. [h1]THE CONS[/h1] -MINOR- It feels a bit barebones. Don't get me wrong, There's tons of systems that work, that are there for a reason, but it just feels like it's missing something. The variety of turrets for example, -MINOR- The menus, the keybindings, the micromanageing of the connectors and having to pick the filters a lot of the times is a bit annoying. Once you know how the things flow in the game it's bearable, but it does feel like it lacks tooltips, QoL stuff, more UI redabiity. -MINOR- the alert about my factories are under attack is going of 24/7. The constant flickering thunder when designing the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ favtory. The flashing ??? on the connectors. Very, very annoying. -MINOR- Movement is absolutly sluggish considering the scale of the factories. -MINOR- Setting up the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ filters for conenctors manually, is really. Really, really, uneccessary. There's never a situation, where I want to pull anything that's not the crafted item from the assemblers. I understand, That this allows to pass the resource THROUGH the assemblers, which is kinda cool, but the effort of manually setting stuff up is just really annoying. -ENORMOUS- It's a factory game, but factory building feels like 20% of the time and 60-70% of the time is spend on slowly building logistics to take resources from asteroid to your factory via Gauss Towers. THe rest of the time is spent looking where the **** is the factory that produces the resource I need. Whether it's lining up the logistc ships or spamming Gauss towers, it's just too tireing and unfun. [h1]CONCLUSION[/h1] It's an okay game, but there are better titles. It's not like it's completly bad or anything, especially that it's an early access game, but it competes with a really amazing games in a pretty narrow category of factory games. For me after spending a bit more time on the game, the logistics suck too much, I despise it with passion. Again 60-70% of time spent literaly on spamming the Gauss Towers and connecting them, while alerts flash and beep while I try to find which factory produces the thing I need.

Great but i think mostly the frustration comes from stability its less fun to deal with that mechanic. overall interesting and great potential.