Indie · November 17, 2021

Factory Town (2021)

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Your goal is to build a thriving village in the wilderness, supplied with a wide selection of food, clothing, tools, books, and magical artifacts that you produce from raw materials. Worker units can help you move goods between production buildings and markets, but as much workload as possible will need to be automated using mechanical transportation systems. Use a combination of gravity-powered chutes, conveyor belts, railroads, pipes, sorters and filters to route items around the map so they can be processed and sold. As your earnings rise, you can research new technology to improve your supply chains and grow your civilization. There's no enemies or starvation to worry about, so you can enjoy a stress-free logistics challenge to maximize production and happiness. - Play through eight built-in campaign maps with unique goals, or start your own customized/random map from scratch - Build complex logical systems with gates, triggers, and filters to make sure resources get to the right destination - Steam Workshop features let you customize rules & even create new items - Unlock magical technology to boost your production buildings to absurd output rates - Terrain sculpting tools to shape the world to suit your needs - Creative/Sandbox mode let you build whatever kind of huge factory you want

Indie releases from 2021

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Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Automation · 271
  • Base-Building · 259
  • Resource Management · 251
  • Sandbox · 245
  • Simulation · 237
  • Crafting · 233
  • Management · 229
  • City Builder · 224
  • Colony Sim · 210
  • Economy · 165
  • Building · 159
  • Strategy · 156
  • Transportation · 133
  • Moddable · 121
  • Trains · 120

Peer Indie titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Indie

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume4.3k Steam reviewsTop 56% in Indie
Positive rating91% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 46%
Engagement hours11 h averageTop 55% for session depth among Indie

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (10)

  • English
  • French
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Simplified Chinese
  • German
  • Portuguese - Portugal
  • Russian
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Portuguese - Brazil

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Cloud

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Release & Availability

Release dateNov 17, 2021
DeveloperErik Asmussen
Base price$7.99 -60%
DLC / Add-ons1 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · [email protected]

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

11h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

3h

Typical completion time

Achievements

32

Steam unlocks available

Reception Metrics

Steam community

91%Very Positive · 4.3k reviews

3.9k positive · 389 negative

Curator recommendations

4.1k

Editions & Packages

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