Tag: Factory

Games about automation and factory planning and building.

  • Sky Factory 4

    Sky Factory 4

    So Minecraft, amirite? I did say I’d do one of these eventually, but I don’t really know how to tag or categorise it, so uhhhh, time for a ‘Mods’ category, I suppose. Anyway, you’ll need Minecraft for this one, of course. Skyblock is a genre of map/modpack where you start from a tree on a…

  • Factory Town

    Factory Town

    This is a weird one to recommend, I saw it on the Jingle Jam bundle and thought why not give it a try. Turns out its actually an incredibly deep management simulation styled like a town simulation game, with a fairly wide range of things to manage and consider.

  • Dyson Sphere Program

    Dyson Sphere Program

    A slightly different take on the factory management game, the whole thing takes place on a sphere. Or should I say a lot of spheres. You see, you get given ownership over an entire sector of space for you to use and exploit however you want to, and you have to use those resources to…

  • Shapez

    Shapez

    Shapez is the single most distilled form of a factory building and simulation game I have ever played. Most other games of the genre have something extra adding friction to the game, such as resource or money costs, enemies trying to break your stuff, having to manage a power grid, or even having to play…