Recent reviews by satscape

I buy a game once a year, maybe two or three years. This game has everything I love, grind and progression, then big pay off for your hard work. Frame-rate is surprisingly good for an Unreal Game-engine game. The little tutorial bot can be annoying, you can either turn him off when starting a new game or press F to tell him to F*** off. Also a big pro for me: No combat, no giant spiders, as it doesn't need them. That's why I haven't bought Satisfactory, also this game has an infinite map, the former has one fixed island. I'd recommend this to everyone who loves Factorio and Factory town

Nothing to review really, I've been playing it for 623 1400 hours so far. It's good. Buy it. Best City building game since Sim City (1990s)
Americans: warning contains socialism and there's no guns, combat or mass shootings, so you might not like it.

Been playing since the beginning on itch.io. Good fun game if you liked Transport tycoon. Needs a few more quality of life additions and my personal peeve: Need to be able to rename towns, yeah, thats right, I need my "Crapton" and "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥" :-)

It's like No man's sky, but without the hype and WITH gameplay, not a tech demo.

Several ways to describe this game: Factorio in profile view...a physics/chemistry simulator. Usually when a game is labelled as a "physics based game", it usually just means gravity and not much more. This has everything to do with physics; thermodynamics, barometric pressure, three states of matter. They make it both fun and frustrating and a huge learning experience for people learning the sciences and for engineering geeks alike. Well worth the asking price.

100+ hours use prior to Steam release!
Can't say enough good things about this game engine. I've been developing and re-developing my own game for a year or so. I started out using Unity, switched to jMonkey, but settled on Godot. It doesn't get any easier than this to make games, almost feels like cheating!
Unity is nice, but they 'shoe-horned' 3rd party "Mono-develop" in for the coding environment, I had several issues where they didn't stay in sync with each other.
jMonkey is a similar approach, they've taken open-source Netbeans and shoe-horned a game engine into it. It works fairly well, but being beta, still a few glitches, some quite bad ones. Eg. the sound system no longer works in 2.0. I reported this on the forum and got told off for not reporting it earlier!
Then comes Godot, still Beta, but very much more refined, very active development too, I monitor commits to the source code. I submitted a bug report/suggestion two weeks ago, it just got fixed and pushed out in the nightly build. Nice!
If you can't make a game with this engine, then maybe game developing is not for you, but you do have to put in some work, learning GDscript (which is basically Python) is the only hard bit.

500+ hours logged before Steam release, with and without using excessive amounts of 'mods'. With or without, it's an amazing game. It goes to prove once again, the most important thing about any game is good gameplay, NOT how good the graphics or special effect are. Having said that, the 2D artwork used in this game is pretty nice too.

If you like Minecraft with tech mods, buying this is an obvious thing to do, that's what drawn me to the game in the first place.

Games like "Fortresscraft reloaded" promise all this, but don't deliver, I got 10 hours of gameplay before I got bored and eyes hurting due to the excessive use of yellow, which can only be fixed with paid DLC, can't even get a refund from the evil Valve Corp....anyhoo...Trust me, you won't be wasting your money buying Factorio, best game in years!
Buy it from the Factorio website, rather than steam :-)

Played this for 10 hours and my eyes hurt. The default lights in the game are yellow and you cannot change that color unless you buy some DLC. Requested a refund and turned down, because I've played over 2 hours. So my advice watch some youtube videos of people playing the game for 5 hours, full screen and see if the yellow EVERYWHERE bothers you, if not, buy the game and enjoy. Better still, save your money and buy Factorio (not on steam yet) it's basically the same game, but without the awful lighting. I've played 400+ hours on that game, no eye strain.
Remember kids: Pirate a game before you buy it to save wasting money.

Meh

So glad this is on Steam, sure you could already download it, but this will bring it to the masses, been using Blender for a while now, currently using it to make models for a game I'm making. It's nice to use open-source software like this, becuase it's so well made, very professional. If you find it overwealming, go watch some video tutorials, there are TONS of them, you've no excuse not to learn how to use this awesome software.