Factorio
BANGER · Strategy · 2020
The verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $35.00.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.66/hr
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 236,720
- Critics
- 90 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 53.4h
- To 100%
- 227.2h 4.3x the story
- Finish
- 2% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 88
Price and sales
- Sales
- None on record
- Steam low
- $20.00 February 2016
Players and genre
- Online
- 15,206 now
- Recent reviews
- 98% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
64% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
The lowest price on record is $20.00, set in February 2016. In 11 years of price history it has never once been discounted.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. Among the games that feel like it, Satisfactory ($39.99, scores 98) beats it on value, while it beats Hydroneer ($4.49, scores 71).
More about Factorio
90 from critics against 98 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 53.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 17 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 2,061 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 1 percent of everything written about it.
53.4 hours to finish it, 227 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.3 times the campaign.
236,720 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Factorio scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/427520/factorioReviews 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 Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.