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If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……

River Town Factory is a automation, base-building and pixel graphics game developed and published by iFAction Studio.
Released on February 06th 2024 is available only on Windows in 8 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, German, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil and Portuguese - Portugal.

It has received 1,245 reviews of which 1,121 were positive and 124 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.61€ on Steam with a 35% discount.

The Steam community has classified River Town Factory into these genres:

Automation Base-Building Pixel Graphics Open World Simulation Sandbox Time Travel Alternate History 2D Indie Sci-fi Story Rich Resource Management Singleplayer Building Early Access Time Management Crafting City Builder Survival

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS: Microsoft® Windows® 10/11 (64bit)
  • Processor: intel CORE i3-3200
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GT730
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

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June 2025
So much fun it's crazy! I didn't expect to get into this like I did, but the characters are charming, the designs are well thought-out, and the game-play keeps me coming back for more. The translations into English can be a little difficult to read, but I can still understand what's going on enough to enjoy the plot. Chai Feifei is my favorite <3
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Feb. 2025
Timewarp fantasy, a really long one River Town Factory is quite an unique game. You just arrived to claim your inheritance when a dug-up building comes to life and sends you over 1200 years into the past where you find out the building is a sentient temple in need of repairs. Repairing its nodes lets you unlock more technology to build more things and set up manufacturing devices and conveyor belts so you can start to bring in the big bucks. Meanwhile your boon uncle is getting increasingly worried by the strange devices and noises coming from your workshop. The local town has a lot of friendly characters to meet, gift to and eventually woo. But doing so requires money and making money is not as easy as it seems. You'll learn swordplay, hone it through combat, do town quests like bringing wooden plates to repair a leaky roof, forage for fruits/fish/etc. while buying and upgrading resource sites. The repairs and story events do open up more of the map for you as well, but the process is a little grindy by the time you hit the third node. The grind is one of the gripes I could raise against the game. The Engrish level translation is actually charming, but may turn off some folks. And I'm a little worried that chests have a fixed numbering when placed that just goes up. With the amount of times you'll have to redesign your workshop factory yard, that'll be an issue if there's a 999 limit or something. And putting a manufacturing machine ahead of making glass and quartz is... not handy. Even so, I highly recommend this game. It's fun, its got some surprises and it's definitely cozy. One of the major surprises though is how many things there are to unlock in the tech tree. A further gripe on that end is that grinding for tech crystals can get a little excessive. But the game manages to surprise you even late game. Post game Finally finished it and it's been a doozy. Still heavily recommend it, but the last things to do in the game take forever due to the hard limits on oil, fuel, etc. even if the other resources are very abundant by then. 350h, practically, start to finish and it's been a real blast. I do have to add some to the critiques pile though: storyline content peters out around year 2-3 aside from the main quest and the game's engine needs more optimisation as it struggles to process fully filled workshop areas and cloud storage. The final house upgrade's a no go even then and the more you look at the tech tree, the more issues there are. It'd have been better if they'd gone with cooking oil vs packaged oil for rubber to mention one major bottleneck in late game production queues. But all the inconveniences aside, River Town Factory is a must-play game.
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Dec. 2024
It's pretty fun. It's essentially a cross between stardew valley and a mix of automation games primarily satisfactory and factorio. The combination works surprisingly well. The English translation is pretty decent as well.
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Aug. 2024
Factorio is a masterpiece. But somehow I enjoy this game more. It's the combination of - an exotic setting (ancient China) - a more interesting story - the social elements, a bit like Stardew Valley - the more *optional* combat - the mini-games - various little things (skills, the need to buy land, etc). Although there are still small bugs, it's a well made game. To the developer: Thank you for this game! Please allow me a few feature requests: - The ability to rotate templates - More diverse board tasks ("bring some stuff" gets boring very quick) - more soundtracks - AI-powered dialogues with the NPCs (a big feature, but would massively improve the social aspect of the game. Maybe as a paid mod?)
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Aug. 2024
Loving how in depth the automation system goes. I am by ABSOLUTELY NO means good at this game, and it is still ending up on my favorites list. I upped my in game day time to 30 minutes and I can spend the full in game day just to barely optimize my current setup for iron and copper production. Only to realize my system can be further upgraded! This game has so much potential its insane, all 25 hours + 6 from tutorial have been spent having fun. Combat isn't anything to go insane about. Game has been translated to English very well. You see the occasional poor grammar or missing word, but it isn't detrimental to the experience.
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Frequently Asked Questions

River Town Factory is currently priced at 9.61€ on Steam.

River Town Factory is currently available at a 35% discount. You can purchase it for 9.61€ on Steam.

River Town Factory received 1,121 positive votes out of a total of 1,245 achieving a rating of 8.54.
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River Town Factory was developed and published by iFAction Studio.

River Town Factory is playable and fully supported on Windows.

River Town Factory is not playable on MacOS.

River Town Factory is not playable on Linux.

River Town Factory is a single-player game.

River Town Factory does not currently offer any DLC.

River Town Factory is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

River Town Factory does not support Steam Remote Play.

River Town Factory is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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River Town Factory
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8.5
1,121
124
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iFAction Studio
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iFAction Studio
Release 06 Feb 2024
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