One of the nice things about Factorio is that you can finish a level and put it down and come back later.
Not a ton of plot. It’s mostly just a building sim.
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OmegaMouse@pawb.social 1 day ago
I’ve been meaning to try Factorio for years. But I’m worried that as soon as I do, I’m never going to get round to playing all the other games in my backlog…
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
OmegaMouse@pawb.social 1 day ago
How does one ‘finish a level’ in Factorio? I thought it was pretty open ended (until you launch a rocket)?
But I do get what you mean - it’s definitely harder to drop and return to a story based game.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Finish a run, excuse me
Minnels@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
My last run was over 300 hours… But you are right. I haven’t really picked it up again since.
CurvatureOuttakes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The Devs have stated the game will not be on sale. The price is what they felt a fair price is for their game. Its in a blog post somewhere
OmegaMouse@pawb.social 1 day ago
Ah I know, I’m not waiting for a sale. Just need more spare time lol
Bababasti@feddit.org 1 day ago
Yeah same. I feel like it would be irresponsible to buy it now, cause my kids are still very dependent on me and it‘d be a shame for them growing up without a father. So until then, the factory must
growwait :<
e0qdk@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I just played it recently for the first time. Took me about 50 hours from start to rocket launch (the win condition) in the default, recommended free-play campaign + a few more hours before that to go through the tutorial stages.
Haven’t tried the Space Age expansion yet, so not sure what to expect there on time commitment.
Denjin@feddit.uk 1 day ago
It’s not about the destination, it’s about the optimisation tangent we spend 15 hours on, we met along the way.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 day ago
Haven’t tried the Space Age expansion yet, so not sure what to expect there on time commitment.
Massive increase in time commitment there.
You still start the same way, but now launching a rocket isn’t the end of the game … it’s just the end of the first act. Now you also build orbiting space stations and interplanetary spaceships (which require launching dozens of rockets to build), so you can go colonize 4 more planets, each with their own new challenges and new resources to gather and exploit. Each one of those can easily take just as much time to colonize as your original planet, if not more. You’ll need to build autonomous spaceships to regularly ferry supplies and finished products around the solar system to where they’re needed. Then finally build a big, badass spaceship capable of reaching the edge of the solar system, and that is the new win condition.
After playing Space Age, the original Factorio game seems like just a tutorial level.
arrowMace@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
They actually moved some of the base game content from the starting planet to other planets with the DLC. And you can transport things between planets to kick start your factory, so each new planet should take significantly less time than the starting planet. So it’s not really as long as playing through the whole base game then 4x more.
Still takes longer to beat but not like 5x. Closer to 2x for most people I think. Don’t be afraid. The interplanetary factory must grow.
JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social 1 day ago
Missing out on one of the best video games ever made out of fear of the backlog is ridiculous. Play it.
OmegaMouse@pawb.social 1 day ago
I mean I say it kinda tongue-in-cheek! I’ll play it eventually, it’s not going anywhere :)
taco@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
I did this with Rimworld. Started a few months ago, approaching 400 hours, and I was totally correct.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 day ago
Usually when I pick it up it’s only for about two weeks. Then I get back to my job and leave the house again.