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Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Factory Town is a automation, base-building and resource management game developed and published by Erik Asmussen.
Released on November 17th 2021 is available on Windows and MacOS in 10 languages: English, French, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, German, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 4,314 reviews of which 3,916 were positive and 398 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 64-bit
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 250 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: 10.13
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Storage: 250 MB available space

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March 2025
As others have said in their reviews, Factory Town is unusual for an automation game in that it is highly 'comfy' and relaxing to play. Not that automation games can't be satisfying in their own right, but Factory Town has an aesthetic and a pace that means you play the game much more chilled than other automation games; there are no enemies to kill nor is the map eventually made up of huge sprawling factories and there's generally no sense of urgency to get things set up. While those aspects are not issues, Factory Town makes a nice change in that you can spend time perfecting your automation network and experimenting with the gameplay features, rather than worrying about ensuring your factory-fortress doesn't fall to the enemy. It's great for playing whilst listening to something in the background.
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Jan. 2025
It definitely has the one-more-turn effect but like most conveyor belt simulator games it gets too close to my day job by end game. I never finished any of these type of games. 1. It has "humans" but they are easily replaced by conveyors quite early in game and then they are objectively better 2. Trains are lackluster and just investing in conveyors is better for short, medium and long term 3. Chutes are an unique idea and I loved it. Its like a cheap gravity powered conveyor that you can get in early game but remains viable throughout. 4. The support mechanic is similar to minecraft. You don't need pillars. So, that makes boats obsolete too as you can just build a floating conveyor over the water which is waaaay more efficient in short, medium and long term. 5. The campaign forces you to build things you don't really need. 6. Building upgrade is inspired by Anno series. Its like if Anno and Factorio had a lowpoly child.
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Nov. 2024
Great game. I'm gonna go ahead and compare it (favorably) to Factorio: - Cozy cozy cozy cozy. I'm not making flamethrowers to fight aliens. I'm just making bandages for the local drugstore and sandwiches for the tavern. - Soundtrack is very relaxing - Depth is excellent. I'm on level 5/8 and there are already twelve different types of research. - Play your way. There are bonuses if you tap into existing RNG resource spawns, but if you really need them somewhere else, you can plonk them down. - Trains are intuitive yet challenging. You're not going to stare at the screen for fifteen minutes wondering why a train won't leave the station. - Logistics/signaling system goes as deep as you want (probably deeper, tbh) but you don't ever have to use it. - A billion raw materials and another billion things to make out of them. - Piping is way more fun, can be used on a wide variety of materials. If you like the factory genre, especially if you wish it were more bucolic, I would definitely check this one out.
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Oct. 2024
Really solid Factorio Lite. I love how your factory is a town with little peons/villagers hopping all over instead drab factories. It’s very worth it on sale, but just feels like it could still go a step further and be amazing. Runs perfect on my steam deck, however I’d heavily suggest disabling the right hand track pad. Game has bugs when swapping between keyboard and mouse on the fly, just spend the time to learn the gamepad and you won’t have issues. I kept bumping that right hand pad on accident. Only two real complaints come to mind: The tooltips really suck. For a lot of menus there is no tooltip at the bottom describing what is selected or saying what it does. What’s the difference between fertilizer and water on crops? It doesn’t tell you at the farms that use them. Also a lot of item descriptions don’t give you hard data, no conveyor speeds or how many items a caravan can hold or what this research will unlock before you choose it. Or that friggan wagons can’t pass through each other and will cause deadlocked traffic unless you give them an interstate. The descriptions are pretty basic and useless, gets quite annoying. And I’m not sure what I’m going to do when I finish the campaign. Even worse, so far each campaign has just been walking me through a tech tier without any special flavor or anything. Theres no grand goal like launching a rocket or some unique challenge ruleset.
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Aug. 2024
I bought this game in early access and played it for a few hours. Came back a few years ago and 100% completed it and played through all campaigns. Very fun, chill and well-rounded game, would recommend. The UI is a bit clunky at first but after some time you get used to it.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Factory Town is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.

Factory Town is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.50€ on Steam.

Factory Town received 3,916 positive votes out of a total of 4,314 achieving a rating of 8.75.
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Factory Town was developed and published by Erik Asmussen.

Factory Town is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Factory Town is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Factory Town is not playable on Linux.

Factory Town is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Factory Town. Explore additional content available for Factory Town on Steam.

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

Factory Town does not support Steam Remote Play.

Factory Town 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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Factory Town
8.8
3,916
398
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Online players
47
Developer
Erik Asmussen
Publisher
Erik Asmussen
Release 17 Nov 2021
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