Planet Factory Steam Charts & Stats

At the time of this review, the game isn't even a month old and cost $0.99 so I feel some expectations needs to be lowered when it comes to game play. Also like to point out that I'm not sure what potato other people are playing on because my i7-9700k has no issues with the game. For reference, my computer is about 5 years old. The game offered something to me that I wanted that Factorio couldn't produce and that was native game play without annoying attacks. Yes, you can turn them off in Factorio but that's besides the point. I just wanted an automation building type game. At start up, the game basically gives you some very simple instructions and throws you to the wolves, you have to figure out everything on your own. Which isn't really a problem. The bad thing is though, by the end of the 1st achievement (as they are only two) you should have a pattern/system down on what to do for the rest of the game. The music is catchy and not bad but some more space themed or ambient tracks would have been nice. The game interface is very close to early-mid 2000s Flash games. I really wish there were more achievements, goals and missions to complete. Also, the ability to 2x, 4x, the speed would have been nice. I still recommend this game, I mean it's a dollar and I got around 8 hours of gamplay in it. Still had fun.

its a nice factory game were you create the universe, its a pleasant experience

Fun little game. The trailer makes it look more difficult than it is and I for one am not mad about it. The tutorial is a rapidfire of info dumping though, but hey it's a super cheap game and had fun while listening to a podcast so I can't complain overly much. Easiest 100% in the history of the planet, just play the game.

This is a fun little factory game but I will admit that I finished the game very disappointed. The first part of the game is WAY more fun than the second part. Honestly, I figured that there would be a third part where they combine the two parts but maybe have more difficult crafting recipes for the first section items. But nope. it just ended. I hope this game gets a little more added to it in the future but honestly it's very worth the price.

It's a pretty good game if you got 5 hours to kill. Would love to see a mass delete option like how the blueprints work. Hope to see more content in the future, but great otherwise.

So, this is a rather quick-ish game where you launch completed crafts in an effort to build a solar system and a galaxy. It was fun. However, there are some points I both, think are a bit rough and should be addressed ASAP. First, performance issues. I have a pretty decent rig and there still moments where the game will chug for a bit when doing large builds with a lot of moving parts. This is something that doesn't happen to me in other games. Second, allow one to delete blueprints. Third, reformat the UI. Right now, there are boxes that prevent clicking through, this is an issue mostly for the resources section. So at least allow for an option to resize that... It takes up quite a bit of space as it is. Fourth, add a side view box for a selected craft so we can manage the build process with relative ease. Not constantly having to go into one menu after the other. Or screen shoting to keep it fresh. (This is mostly just a hassle. Fifth, more logistics. Like spliters and the like. For those of us who like building complex and compact. Sixth, more content. Finished a Galaxy, now a Universe?

Simple little game. Worth the price but has some bugs. Saving doesn't work. For the game and for blueprints too.

For $1? Can not complain, now i suppose my next goal is to try and beat it faster. My only thing is it would be nice to drag and copy whole set ups when trying to expand production over having to place each piece every time. Would definitely recommend as a nice time killer

not really the biggest fan of the second part, if you were able to split outputs or be able to copy paste then it would be much better- but it felt like just repeating the same iron chain. and even then its a whole lot of waiting because of the medium crafting times for it while also needing 30 something of the resource. It would have been fine if that was it, but the fact that you had to create so many star types that are basically just copy pastes but with just enough variation to not be able to reuse your old buildings. I was vibing with it during the first stage, just wish there was a way to connect multiple crafters off of one line but since you cant you would assume to just create more of the same 10+ block crafting tree, but with the goal only being 10 stars and the fact that it will be a completely new and random star after makes you not want to do that. honestly im typing this review while i wait for my single objective to complete before i have to make a new type of boring star. Like i said earlier, the first part of the game was neat. i like the facts that there were different planets that give different resources, even if it is just for the arbitrary task of using those resources to make its own planet, it still added a little bit of depth to the crafting rather than a long ass chain. however this second part is legit just long ass chains of crafting that cant really be sped up or anything. Also there are BAD FPS issues, late game i was just placing down crafters and was getting to less than 5 FPS. for a game that is in such a tiny space it is seriously unoptimized. legit got to a point where i was at 1 FPS, even with my settings on the lowest and i was selling every single tile that was being displayed, so it wasnt because of too many tiles on one spot If copy paste gets added, or a way to chain crafters off a belt get added, and some SERIOUS fps optimizations get added i will change this review, but for now i really don't recommend it Edit 4/7/25: Copy paste is a very nice feature, but the lag feels even worse now. Try it out yourself- try placing ONLY CONVEYOR BELTS from top to bottom of the map, i could only make it 1/4th the way before it was lagging incredibly hard. about 15 tiles wide. Honestly blueprints aren't even as big of a deal, especially if you just build it all once and forget about it, but with all this lag you cant build big. Honestly this game seems like it could be a fun and interesting game, which is why im criticizing it so hard, i see lots of potential and it definetly was frustrating trying to make a large scale "Make-everything-so-i-dont-have-to-rebuild" sorta machine, but the lag made that not possible. Definetly gonna play it more when it gets polished

It's fun to combine and compact, but it gets really stressful when so many small parts come together. A pin of the recipe would be a nice upgrade (at the moment you have to do a lot with screenshots if you have poor memory).