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2020 PCNintendo Switch 32.00 € 👍 97 % Overwhelmingly positive, 215,209 reviews on Steam Steam Deck verified

Stranded on an alien world, you grow a crude mining operation into a sprawling automated factory, endlessly optimizing belts, production chains and logistics. All the while you must defend it from native creatures angered by your spreading pollution.

What defines Factorio:

  • Open world
  • Tactical depth
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Sci-fi setting

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2017 PC 33.99 € 👍 85 % Very positive, 7,066 reviews on Steam Steam Deck playable

  • Open world
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Puzzles and brain teasers

You build and run a space station, wiring and balancing demanding systems like atmosphere, power and manufacturing yourself. Solo or with friends, a single mistake can quickly turn deadly.

Mindustry

Tactical depth

Mindustry blends tower defense with factory building: you design conveyor networks and production chains to supply resources and ammo for defenses against enemy waves. It also offers a map editor, co-op and PvP.

Space Engineers

Co-op or multiplayer

A physics-driven space sandbox where you engineer ships, stations and rovers block by block, mine asteroids and watch your creations get realistically torn apart. Its huge creative and technical freedom shines brightest with friends in co-op.

Starmade

Co-op or multiplayer

A sandbox space game where you build your own ships and stations from blocks, explore the void, and fight in combat, whether solo or on multiplayer servers.

SpaceCraft

Strong character progression

An online space game about exploring a vast galaxy, mining resources, building your own ships, and automating planetary bases and interplanetary logistics. Trading and cooperating with other players is a core part of the experience.

Empyrion: Galactic Survival

Strong character progression

A space sandbox survival game where you build your own ships, stations and planetary bases while exploring planets and deep space. Gathering resources, defending your bases and playing solo or with friends are at the core.

StarRupture

Strong character progression

A first-person survival base-builder on an alien planet: extract resources, automate industrial production lines and fend off hordes of alien monsters, solo or in co-op.

Satisfactory

Puzzles and brain teasers

As a FICSIT Pioneer you build sprawling automated factories in first person on an alien planet. Designing efficient production chains in a beautiful open world, solo or in co-op, is deeply satisfying.

Dyson Sphere Program

Puzzles and brain teasers

A space factory-automation game where you build production chains across multiple planets and ultimately wrap a star in a Dyson sphere. The appeal lies in optimizing sprawling logistics networks on a galactic scale.

TerraTech

Strong character progression

You assemble custom vehicles from blocks to mine resources, build bases and fight your way across a procedurally generated planet. The appeal lies in creative tinkering and testing your own contraptions.

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