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Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Modulus: Factory Automation is a simulation, automation and building game
developed by Happy Volcano
and published by Kwalee.
Released on April 02nd 2026 is available only on Windows
in 12 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Dutch.
It has received 680 reviews of which 627 were positive and 53 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 19.60€ on Steam with a 20% discount, but you can find it for 15.09€ on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 - 64 bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-11600K / AMD Ryzen 5 5500
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 / AMD Radeon RX 590
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Sufficient for large factories in 30 fps.
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For reference, I have thousands of hours on modded MC (Greg) + modded Factorio + Satisfactory + <insert factory game here> combined. I've also finished the Zachtronics staples such as Infinifactory and so on. I honestly don't get the negative reviews for this game as they sound like "steak too juicy / lobster too buttery" for me. It's basically a marriage of a Zach-like and a factory game, making you think outside of the typical "just scale up" mentality and actually acknowledge your spacial limits and belt throughputs when transferring items. See logistical location theory and principles of least cost. Absolutely fun game. There's definitely hundreds of hours of content here. A must buy for puzzle-solvers, logistics nerds, and fans of the genre!
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I am giving a positive review to support the devs as I believe the game can become great, but my sentiment on it is slightly negative. If you have other more popular automation games you haven't played, play these instead because Modulus still needs some time in the oven. Let's talk about what can be improved: - The balance of the game needs a change, it will be the biggest deal breaker for people new to the genre, even as a veteran I had to force myself to go through some phases of the early game. Once you are done with t2 droid, any progress basically stop and you will be stuck to grind the same repetitve parts. So not only you have to scale too early, once you have scaled it up you will unlock everything super fast and be stuck again with blue research. Scaling production should either be an endgame goal or for some small parts that feel rewarding and meaningful. - You unlock large building way too early, especially the droid ones, you won't need them anyway until later in the game so you just sit there with useless unlocked building. - Speed upgrades to conveyors/operators do not make any sense as you will only benefit from them when you have unlocked them all to the next tier, nobody is going to adapt their design for ratios that are going to change soon. The only exception is adding a second furnace but even for that I didn't really bother outside some obvious bottlenecks. I know Shapez 2 does the same, but it's way easier to upgrade them all at the same time, here you have to really scale your production until being able to afford them all. Some of these upgrades are also just so far out in the tree and way too expensive making ratios broken (hence upgrades useless) for a long time. - Grey Nexus seems to be a sink for white research but I cannot seem to be able to use it until the end game? Also I built a huge factory line for all its part just to read on the Discord that I won't need them for operating the monument unlike every other buidlings in the game? - Miners placement, oh I hate miners placement in this game. It's not fun, it's not complex, it's just tedious. - We need preview of incoming shapes inside operators, having to wait for shapes to go all the way to the operators to be able to set it up breaks the flow. - The terrain really makes it hard to scale in a non fun way. - We need a force building placement where it replaces anything in the way, it's tedious to have to copy, paste next to it, delete, cut, paste again. - Let us adjust shapes in assemblers without a full reset, it's frustrating when you are off by one for complex shapes but have to redo all of it. I want to say the game is still fun to play if you look past the tedium and repetiveness of it. Also I love the futuristic voxel look, it's refreshing and the factory is a pleasure to look at!
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Okay, THIS is how you do an automation game! I absolutely love some of the ideas they have here, as well as some of the QOL features. (Auto-placing tunnel conveyors if you run your conveyors into an obstacle?? Uhhh, didn't know I needed that until I had it!! hahaha) I'm totally loving the whole 'build your own components' aspect. Yes, it's been done before, but not like this. For example, in Shapez, you stack a bunch of...shapes...on top of each other, in different orientations, etc., but this is a different level of sophisticated component planning and production. It also borrows a little bit from Block Factory (another great automation game based on LEGO-style blocks) - though in Block Factory, each of the resource node 'groups' are one type of shape - 1x1x1 angled, or 2x2x1 brick, etc. And the colors are much simpler to produce as well. But this game, you start off with a simple cube. Then, you cut, attach, flip, cut, punch out, split into more output lanes, etc., that then attach to other shapes to create another shape that eventually attaches to each other, forming a much more complex shape. AND IN MULTIPLE COLORS, EVEN. So half blue, half black, half white, half black, etc. And that's just the tip of the ice burg. Then you have all of the logistics, connecting buildings to other buildings on different platforms, using cable conveyors to cross the gap, or, eventually, large cargo drones to ship the products off to other areas to more production. I love it!!! The ONE thing I am missing, though - and it might even be in the game, just further on in the research tree - is elevated conveyors. I'd love to have a main bus system above all the other ins and outs - like a production super-highway. AFAIK, the only way to cross conveyors is to use the tunnels. I'll have to look more into that... OH!!! Speaking of logistics - I found out yesterday that you can run your conveyors THROUGH miners, so you can literally link up 4 miners on one 60/min belt, in a row, instead of making conveyor spaghetti - comes in VERY handy when they have huge sections of resource nodes for you to tap into, but very tight quarters. It's such a genius concept. IDK, maybe it's in other games, but I don't feel like I've ever seen it done like that before, and I freaking love it. Attention to detail, folks... This game really feeds my need to move to a different task whenever I want. (Anyone with ADD knows EXACTLY what I'm talking about!) - and it's so nice not being under the pressure of a clock or limited by resource output in order to be able to craft more conveyors to continue expanding your factory. They've really taken some of the best ideas from the best automation/factory games, and flipped it all on its head and said "How can we make this better? How can we keep the player engaged and driven?" Literally, one of the best games to lose 8 hours of your life to every time you fire it up. Minimum. hahaha Now, this shows that I'm playing it on Steam Deck, which to be fair, I am - and I had to drop the graphics settings WAY down, but that's MOSTLY because I'm using my Steam Deck while connecting it to a monitor/keyboard/mouse. (Computer is in the middle of component RMA's....so this is the next best thing). I haven't tried using it on the Deck proper, so I can't really speak to how well it performs at it's native resolution (1200x800, I believe?) - but definitely, trying to pump out 3440x1440 is next to impossible, regardless of the game. Oh well - temporary pain point but only because situational (not the devs fault by any means!). TL:DR - JUST BUY THE GAME!! Seriously. If you love automation and chill vibes, this is THE factory game...
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If you've played other factory games and want something new, check this out. If you haven't played the cornerstones (Shapez2, DSP, Factorio, Satisfactory), start there. Core gameplay is a little too puzzle-y for my tastes w/ the shape construction. You will either see the efficient way to build the more complex shapes or you won't. You also spend too much time in the shape alteration buildings instead of laying out factories. I prefer my challenge to come mostly from logistics and layout, not 3DSMax. Still, it's well executed. UX is solid, and the aesthetic and vibe is good. Worth your time and $$$ if you like the genre.
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Runs on Linux (via Proton), but there’s a major issue: click-and-drag doesn’t work properly. This seems quite important to gameplay, needing to drag blocks, copy, place belts and oddly the “report a bug” button is affected, which makes it difficult to report the issue directly. Would love to see this fixed, since the game itself seems promising. Normally I'd give a negative, but I know linux is in the minority here, so I don't want to hurt this games release.
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Modulus: Factory Automation is currently priced at 19.60€ on Steam.
Modulus: Factory Automation is currently available at a 20% discount. You can purchase it for 19.60€ on Steam.
Modulus: Factory Automation received 627 positive votes out of a total of 680 achieving a rating of 8.63.
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Modulus: Factory Automation was developed by Happy Volcano and published by Kwalee.
Modulus: Factory Automation is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Modulus: Factory Automation is not playable on MacOS.
Modulus: Factory Automation is not playable on Linux.
Modulus: Factory Automation is a single-player game.
There are 3 DLCs available for Modulus: Factory Automation. Explore additional content available for Modulus: Factory Automation on Steam.
Modulus: Factory Automation does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Modulus: Factory Automation does not support Steam Remote Play.
Modulus: Factory Automation 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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