Factorio

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Factorio

Short description

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Developer
Wube Software LTD.
Publisher
Wube Software LTD.
Release
Fri, Aug 14, 2020
Price
$35.00
Reviews
192,796
Positive
98%
Followers
416,775
Owners (estimated)
5M – 10M
Concurrent players
16,426
Genres
Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Features
Multi-player, Co-op, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Adjustable Text Size, Camera Comfort, Custom Volume Controls, Adjustable Difficulty, Playable without Timed Input, DualShock Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, Save Anytime, Subtitle Options, Partial Controller Support, Includes level editor, Remote Play on Tablet
Tags
Automation Base-Building Resource Management Sandbox Crafting Strategy Multiplayer Survival Management Open World Building Co-op 2D Moddable Singleplayer Trains Simulation Pixel Graphics City Builder Indie
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$304msomewhere between $175m and $350m · roughly 5M–10M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $35.00 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

80 data points since Jul 29, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$299m → ~$304m
Reviews 189,925 → 192,796
Followers 413,067 → 416,775
Concurrent players 16,426 → 16,426
Price $35.00 → $35.00
Positive reviews 97.5% → 97.5%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 130 further data points reach back to Feb 1, 2016 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $20.00 on Feb 26, 2016.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Factorio is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Automation + Base-Building + Resource Management

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Factorio. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
shapez shapez Tobias Springer 2 titles 6 same tags $9.99
$0.99
90%
best price ever
14,345 96% Sun, Jun 07, 2020 $5m
$2.9m – $5m
Factory Town Factory Town Erik Asmussen 4 titles 5 − Strategy + Simulation $19.99 4,135 91% Wed, Nov 17, 2021 $4m
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Mindustry Mindustry AnukenDev first game 4 − Sandbox − Crafting + Tower Defense + Multiplayer $9.99 24,931 96% Thu, Sep 26, 2019 $11.2m
$10m – $19.9m
Techtonica Techtonica Fire Hose Games 7 titles 4 − Sandbox − Crafting + Simulation + Building $29.99 3,057 65% Thu, Nov 07, 2024 $4.1m
$3m – $6m
Outpath Outpath David Moralejo Sánchez 9 titles 4 − Automation − Resource Management + Simulation + Pixel Graphics $14.99 2,866 93% Mon, Oct 16, 2023 $1.9m
$1.5m – $3m

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