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Factorio is a 2D game about building factories on an alien planet. You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting alien enemies. The core mechanic being that users need to find resources in order to create factory parts in order to create even more complex machines.
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Pros
Pro Massive and infinite procedurally generated world
The playing world is as large as you want to explore, it automatically generates it as you explore more areas.
Pro Cooperative or PvP building
Factorio also supports multiplayer, allowing many players to cooperate and assist each other, or work against each other in PvP. By default, multiplayer games run the CO-OP freeplay scenario where all players work together to launch a rocket with a satellite into space.
Cons
Con Can become rather repetitive
There's really little payoff for being able to build really long chains of automation, it usually results in being able to open a new tech tree which allows the player to continue the process of building automation chains ad infinitum, which, admittedly can become rather boring after a while.
Con Massive CPU usage on a single core makes it lag
Even on very powerful computers, the game will start to lag somewhat late game. This makes it challenging to get groups of friends playing together, since not everyone is likely to have a perfect computer. Some players will be forced to quit after putting dozens of hours in to a factory (base), simply because their computer can't handle the calculations.
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Con Still in Alpha
The game is still in Alpha which means there will be bugs as well as missing features.
Con Still in alpha
The game is still in Alpha which means there will be bugs as well as missing features.