Recent reviews by FortressSideDK

A great game with combat that allows more players to fight over a small region of the map than most other shooter games allow on a whole server.
Great combat, wether you are looking for an infrantry fight, joining an armor column or roaming the skies looking for other planes to attack.

Factorio is a game about automation, and even while automating almost everything in the game you will always find something new to do, or a new (possibly better) way of doing or building something. An example could be that you just build a machine to make a large amount of product A, this requires more of product B and C, so you expand productions of those and find that you can use the excess to create a production of product D, and easily continue like that.

The game is easy to pick up and get started, yet takes plenty of effort to master. You start by building a furnace next to a miner that dumps ores into the furnace, later you build a belt to transport ores from a group of miners that merges with a belt of coal to feed some furnaces. As your production needs increase you will build more machines and increase the number of uninque items your factory produce, all the while figuring out how to use belts to move everything around inside the factory.

Starting a base is easy, just build a small smeltery for iron and copper, then make a couple machines to make basic equipment, and add more and more machines, all of a sudden you zoom out and look at a factory so complex you can barely figure out what is going on in it, even though you just build it, this is also called a "spaghetti base" in the community.


I would say the game has plenty of replay value, after playing the first time you might not want to rip everything you just build apart, and start a new world and make a better factory due to the knowlegde you gained from the first playthrough.

Some of the more advanced parts of the game is arithmetic combinators and deciders that allow you to do all sorts of things, from building a circuit that control your production of transport belts, to the game of life or turing complete computers. Theres also speakers that is controlled this way, allowing you make a system to alert you if you run low on resources or create music. The possibilities are almost limitless.


Pros
- Had a demo (go on, try it before buying the game, the demo is free)
- No bugs (from what i have experienced)
- Large amount of content to explorer
- Easy and intuitive mechanics
- Enemies are very well balanced, not demanding all your attention, but can't be ignored forever (unless disabled or peacefull)
- Many options for the world generator (want more ore, go ahead, larger patches
- Large modding community (everything from renaming an item to game changing mods)
- Very well optimised

Cons
- Early access (don't buy early access games unless you are happy with the current state of the game)
- Some people can find the game "grindy" (source: a friend who tried the demo)
- Some parts of the game can have a bit of a learning curve (I have seen a few complaints about the learning curve of trains and oil)
- Large bases and maps may require a decent amount of RAM from your computer


I would give Factorio a solid 10/10 because of the very well balanced gameplay, great replayability and outstanding optimization

Great game, for those who wants a sandbox game where you gather resurces and build stuff. You can build a space station, space ship, space fighter, transport, mining vessel, drones, or whatever you want.
you can also play in creative with access to unlimited amounts of building materials, and let your fantasy loose.
The only limits i know of in Space Engineers is your fanstasy and how much your computer can take.