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Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Orebound is a early access, resource management and automation game
developed and published by Emberforge.
Released on October 24th 2024 is available only on Windows.
It has received 435 reviews of which 340 were positive and 95 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Win 10 or later
- Processor: Intel i5 or AMD equivalent 9th gen
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1050ti or higher and AMD equivalent
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 6 GB available space
- Sound Card: N/A
- VR Support: N/A
- Additional Notes: Requirements may vary upon development milestones.
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A digging game that really scratches that itch. It is similar to Satisfactory, harder to make clean lines but luckily you can just hide all the spaghetti underground and out of sight. It is in an early access state but it is entirely playable. The elevator is bugged out at the time of writing this which is unfortunate. You cannot build in reverse for some reason and sometimes steam pipes don't want to fit together without the assistance of a splitter. You can access storage before placing it on the ground. Note: This will delete anything put inside if you choose not to place the storage container down. Probably the biggest complement and gripe is that I want more. There are 10 mineable resources and none of them are especially fantastical. There are biomes with some regionally specific resources but there is almost no reason to venture out to find them. The map isn't especially large and you can get from one end to the other in a couple of minutes. As far as I can tell there are only really 3 levels of the map, surface, -1m to ~-99m, and -100m to -174m. I want some Adamantite, Orichalcum, and other fantasy metals. I want to dig deeper, build more, have a reason to siege enemy strongholds. I want armor and maybe some movement speed boots or fall resistance or double jump or jet pack. All in all I think it's well worth the purchase, 50 hours of beating the current content finding bugs and exploits. Pretty fun game.
You know, the first few minutes were a bit hard to wrap my noggin around. It doesnt present itself the way you might expect, but this Emberforge Team has successfully implemented a gameplay loop that is capable of turning 8PM into 8AM if you arent careful. The aesthetic trappings are immaculate. I would like to see better textures, models and effects, and the shader feels a bit... cartoon painting meets 100% brightness RGB lights. Perhaps my gamma was too high. Perhaps the Overworld / Underworld transitional shaders need work. Hard to say, but it didnt quite feel right. I like my factory games peaceful, focus on making the money, advancing the story, optomizing the tunnels, and i appreciated the option to do so. I would like an early game tool, like a mapping drone, to help understand what tunnels are connected, like an xray wireframe pulse, using the same mechanism as the resource finder. Needs to have an aura / layer limit. With that said, this is the closest ive come to Dwarf Fortress + Factorio / Satisfactory, and it is as pleasant company as the company it keeps. Im two hours in, and ive got a 1998 hours to go.
Orebound is a pretty solid factory game and the dwarf theme is perfect for a game of this genre. However it still needs a lot more work before I consider this game to be on par with Satisfactory or Factorio. What It Does Well + The game starts with a much bigger focus on above ground and under ground exploring than Factory Management + Instead of just giving the player a braindead aimless automation sandbox the devs instead have created an overarching story that charges you with using automation to discover missing dwarven artifacts + A vast array of build pieces to create not only factory buildings but to also build underground dwarf fortresses + This game does have an economy aspect where you can produce consumer goods to sell to merchants and the gold you earn can be used to pay other dwarves to create factory parts for you or to upgrade your technology. +Farming and Food Automation + Absolutely no item durability What It Doesn't - The game starts off extremely slow took me the first 6 hours to finally unlock automation and another 2 hours to get an automation chain built. - Combat is extremely barebones and it needs worked on if you choose to add combat to your factory game then it needs to be robust in a way Factorio has done -The build pieces need a better way to connect to other build pieces. At least with the starting build pieces not all of them connect in a way that looks organic the stone corner piece is a good example of this. - Soundtrack gets old pretty quick, the same 3 or 4 songs on repeat. - Game needs a vehicle of some sort elevators and minecart tracks speed up travel but we need a more convenient and portable way of getting around our massive dwarf holdings! With a decent discount this game is worth picking up but as of right now we need a lot more polish and additional content to justify that 25 dollar price tag.
I think this game has potential, it has some decent graphics, and it captures the dwarf lifestyle well, having the player spend most of their time in caves below ground, and building with dwarven architecture. But a major problem is, the game lacks depth with the automation crafting recipes. I realize this is early access so it's possible the devs have plans to change this, but the way the automation works currently, iron, copper, silver and gold (the 4 base metals in the game) are all carbon copies of one another for their respective lists of recipes in terms of rates as well as the components needed to craft. There are also 3 different gem types, but those 3 also copies of one another in the same way. To elaborate on what I mean by this... For each metal, they all drill the ore at the same rate, crush the ore at the same rate, smelt the crushed ore at the same rate, and then have 4 different components, all made from 2 ingots each, that all craft at the same rate. So there's not variation for crafting components within each metal type, but also no variation across all metal types! This means that if you've designed a production line you feel works well on iron, you're going to probably build that exact production line 3 more times, when you build for copper, silver and gold. This takes a lot of the fun out of the factory design. I hope they have plans to add more depth to the crafting recipes, that requires more interesting thought and problem solving skills.
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Orebound is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.
No, Orebound is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Orebound received 340 positive votes out of a total of 435 achieving a rating of 7.36.
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Orebound was developed and published by Emberforge.
Yes, Orebound is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Orebound is not playable on MacOS.
No, Orebound is not playable on Linux.
This information about Orebound is not available yet.
This information about Orebound is not available yet.
No, Orebound does not support VR.
Orebound offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Orebound includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
Yes, there is a DLC available for Orebound. Explore additional content available for Orebound on Steam.
No, Orebound does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Orebound does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Orebound 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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Last Updates| Steam data | 05 October 2026 06:24 UTC |
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| Steam price | 26 October 2026 20:17 UTC |
| Steam reviews | 22 October 2026 09:55 UTC |
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Developer
Emberforge
Publisher
Emberforge
Release
24 Oct 2024
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