Alchemy Factory
Worth it · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $17.99.
- Length
- 120h
- Value
- $0.15/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 78% over the last 30 days against 88% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1060, or AMD RX 470/RX 570, or equivalent performance & VRAM, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $14.39, set in September 2026. It has been discounted 6 times in the 10 months tracked here, typically at 10 percent off, with about 9 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, 100 New Year Cats (free, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Forage Wizard ($6.99, scores 75).
Players rate it 88 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 78 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 10 of the 546 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 149 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
98% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
3,122 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 08:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Alchemy Factory scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3669570/alchemy-factoryReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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