When comparing Sugar vs Factorio, the Slant community recommends Factorio for most people. In the question“What are the best educational games on PC?” Factorio is ranked 1st while Sugar is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Factorio is:
With proper planning, users can "code" together very precise ways to create all the things needed for the game, some in very inventive ways that can differ quite a bit. This allows for tons of replayability.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Kids-friendly
Great tool for children. Not only for learning things interactively, but also to be introduced to Open Source computing in a playful manner.
Pro One of the best for Kids
It's a really nice dekstop for kids. Very intuitive and have a very nice design.
Pro Activities
Sugar uses Activities, which are apps that involve and engage the user in order to encourage him to learn. These activities save the results to a journal where reflections are recorded.
Pro Endless solutions
With proper planning, users can "code" together very precise ways to create all the things needed for the game, some in very inventive ways that can differ quite a bit. This allows for tons of replayability.
Pro Under active development
The game is still in Alpha which means endless future possibilities.
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.
Pro Charming old school graphics
While not the most technically advanced graphics the look of the game is much like a game from the 90s but seeing it in action when an assembly line starts moving there is an impressiveness to it that suits the game quite well.
Cons
Con Bad interface and unfriendly learning curve
Con Focused on kids only
This desktop environment is focused on children. No reason for any adult to use it what so ever.
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 Still in Early Access
The game is still in Early Access which means there will be bugs as well as missing features.