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@@tarrker Thanks! That's Factory Town, I listed it in past years and it's now released. I'm testing showing past good games in the intro and outro this year.
Very excited for the Factorio Expansion, after the game was released out of beta, it felt 'complete' yet for the expansion they're adding stuff that has me like "how did I live without this before?"
@@GamerZakh I think they talked about it right after the release 1.0 update, talked about plans for the future, but maybe after this expansion they'll move onto other projects, I'm not sure I don't keep up with the blogs.
After that they'll spend the next 2 decades making it 1st person 3d with orbital mechanics and proper spaceship building like kerbal and underground mining like minecraft
Heh yeah the expansion looks incredible especially with the new challenges and quality of life improvements. The teasers make me want to open Factorio again right now, but I'll wait since those quality of life changes aren't in the base game yet.
Thanks for including my game Moose Miners in this list :) I have been watching your videos for quite a while to see what new interesting games are upcoming in the city-builder, tycoon and related genres. Seeing my own game in one of these videos feels really cool.
I started Satisfactory for the first time this week, with the new Unreal Engine 5 update. It's so good! As a Factorio veteran it's a different style and takes a while to get used to but the game is freaking beautiful.
Satisfactory is like a friendly vampire, it won't kill you, it just drinks you spare time. I enjoy Satisfactory as well and I am looking forward to 0.9 and 1.0.
I love how real Captain of Industry feels. Even on my low-end 1080p system, the graphics are awesome. The taillights actually work on the vehicles, and the hydraulic cylinders etc. are accurately modeled. "Maintenance" and "Unity" are great mechanics. Very innovative.
I would like to suggest SHAPEZ 2, which is suggested for 2024. The first SHAPEZ is a Factorio reduced to the absolute basics, and it's more an ongoing engineering puzzle. Very interested to see what the sequel offers.
Dyson Sphere is an amazing game. Played it more than a year ago and I am definitely looking forward to diving into it again from scratch once it goes full release. Automation Station looks interesting cause of the whole physics engine thingy it'll have going on, but I wish to see more of it first. Astro Colony seems to be VERY ambitious, will add it to my radar. Foundry sounds fun cause of LAN support not gonna lie haha. I miss those days. Techtonica is kinda reminding me of Planet Crafter, which I've been playing for a long time now and I greatly enjoy it. Gonna give it a shot and see if it can dethrone Planet Crafter for me.
Great game. Even in early access, it was more polished than final releases from some big name studios. I played the demo of Foundry. Good game, but didn't grab on to me. And of course The Planet Crafter is awesome.
I think it's cool how factory building games have gotten really popular. When Infinifactory first came out I completed that one. Then Satisfactory came out later and I was on it first thing. Then I discovered survival games and that lasted for a while. Survival games got to a point where it feels like they are all the same. I noticed I have stayed with factory building games :)
I highly approve of this list!!!! Was going to mention though, the Developer of the Space Exploration mod got hired by Wube and is heavily helping with developing the new expansion ❤😊
Oh man i just began programming my own factory game a month ago. Hopefully i can get in 2025s list. Slow progress, as a solo dev doing it on my free time Great list as always Zakh
One I have been testing out now that came out just a week ago is Final Factory - it's basically a love letter to Factorio, Cosmoteers and far future science fiction with gameplay different enough to feel like a fresh experience. Everything you build is made of structures that make up a space station - and you can put thruster on the stations for ship building happiness. I'm having a lot of fun with it. :>
Hey karnematch, you are right. Revive & Prosper is inspired by Timberborn and also Going Medieval or Factorio. The difference is that you have a limited amount of characters. You can remodel the terrain as you wish. There is real-time water physics meaning that the moisture spreads according to weather conditions, and terrain upgrades. It also evaporates from the ground which you can slow down by planting vegetation and again weather can affect it too. And there are catapults for transporting items. There's even more, and we're always happy to discuss the depth of R&P on the Discor. Feel free to reach out to us there. shootinka 🙂
Satisfactory actually entered EA in 2019 March on epic. It went early access on steam in 2020 so it's been almost 5 years. Personally, I'm very much looking forward to the 1.0 release. I've spent a great deal of time in this game and I even bought it twice
I read or paraphrase the description as a 'word from the developers'. Then I give my opinions. It's not creative content at all, this is informational content. Your misunderstanding of the purpose makes you snarky but as you can see many people derive use from my lists, more than other lists, for a reason.
Uhhh The Crust looking good. Plan B: Terrarform looks good too. Captain of Industrie is a great game, i have a lot of fun with that. Moose Miners looks a little like the Scam ADS that you get for mobile games xD Got Dyson Sphere Programm, but hadnt the time to play more then a few hours. Astro Colony... i watched Josh`s Lets game it out and after that i couldnt play the game without doing only stupid things^^ thanks for the list, i will keep an eye on The Crust and Plan B
Funny that you would say that Moose Miners looks like the Scam ads for mobile games, that was the original inspiration for the game actually. I thought that the games as presented in the ads looked quite fun and wondered why no one made a game like that and decided to do it myself
@@lingonstudios thats cool =) i often think the same. the ads looking better then the actual game. already downloaded the demo, will test it in the evening when the handyman completed repairing our shutters.
@@lingonstudios okay i played the demo for around 9hrs until there was nothing more to mine. liked it so far, but i wished for an auto buy grinder left and right. and i hated the tease with the upgrades available in the full release, not knowing what they will do in the future xD
I played The Crust demo during the last Steam Fest, it's really nice and addictive. Like the story. Pretty sure it's going to be great. Also enjoying Astro Colony - notably that is a solo-dev game. Tefel, the dev is live streaming weekly on twitch. The interesting thing about Astro Colony is that the planets and planetoids are more like floating islands and you can dock your space ship to them and take them with you. Some players have hollowed out a planet and put a base inside.
Foundry looks interesting. Been a while since I played Satisfactory, to me Satisfactory got kind of linear in a weird dynamic way. Hoping to find one a little more free form.
@@AtherionGG I absolutely LOVED the Foundry Demo when it was live. I've settled for Satisfactory since it's no longer playable, but Foundry was way more addicting in the quickness of its gameplay, whereas Satisfactory is way more slow and methodical. Exploring new seeds can be so addicting too, so you've never completely "solved" the game.
wish u said satisfactory is finally on update 8. ive been waiting on that forever! im also super hyped for an update for factorio. those r the best two factory games out there for now.
Can highly recommend Captain of Industry, Dyson Sphere Program and Plan B: Terraform. Only caveat is that Plan B: Terraform is really processor heavy, so make sure your rig meets the minimum spec, better yet the recommended spec.
@@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868 "Sushi belt" in Factorio is a looped belt that you put multiple items on it without order and filter specific items off it at different places.
@@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868 the term "Sushi belts" is used when you place a looped belt and put multiple items on it and filter specific items off it at different places of the belt. DoshDoshington made a fully auto- launching base base only using a massive sushi belt and explain what is a sushi belt in factory games. DocJade too but he used a different sushi belt design. Both videos are great
Factory/automation games are something I've always thought would be really cool to get into and yet somehow I couldn't get either of the two biggest games in the genre - Factorio and Satisfactory to stick, which is really sad/frustrating. Do you think there are any others in the genre that might somehow be appealing, maybe something more guided or beginner appealing or idfk what? Figured you might be the kinda fella to ask considering your content.
@@Taima Hmm if there's a theme or setting you really like, there's likely a game with that setting and I find that really helps getting into the mechanics. Otherwise you might try city-builders with production chains? They're sort of automation-lite but have a city-building focus. Games like Anno or Timberborn.
Is there a list of these that are multiplayer? I like playing factory games with friends and co-op or single player is often missing from reviews and I need to dig for it.
I can never decide if i want to get factorio or not. I have played a lot of dyson sphere program and satisfactory, but factorio just seems ridiculously complex and idk if i can get into that
Moose Miners is so dumb.... and I love it. haha. Perfect game for playing while watching a movie/show. BTW, WHAT is the game in your intro? (at 0:04 - 0:24 seconds)
I don't think Satisfactory is anywhere near getting out of EA. They just did the first stages of the monumental task of upgrading the games engine from UE4 to UE5 and then upped UE5 to UE5.2 and will likely upgrade again to UE5.3 and subsequent versions of the engine. This isn't something you do when you're ready to call a product finished. This is something you do when you have big plans and the new engine facilitates executing these plans. While the EU5 upgrade gives some major engine improvements, you'll be hard pressed to recognize the graphical difference between the UE4 and UE5 versions. The big advantages are in the unseen part of the engine and you don't upgrade an unseen part of the engine unless you plan to use the advantages that brings.
Zakh I love your videos i really do. I have only one request please can you also look at free to play games if possible because I can't afford the games
I'm covering as much as I can but good news, the creator Nookrium is doing a free games month. You can check out his videos from this month, he's playing just free games.
Satisfactory since mid 2020? At that time it was already over 2 years old and on update 3. Mid 2020 it went to steam in addition to epic, so it's quite old right now.
Games are inspired from all sorts of things, I could speak about that forever. Minecraft mods (IndustrialCraft and BuildCraft) inspired Factorio, I could mention that. Minecraft copied Infiniminer, so I could go there too.
Astro Colony is in a nice place right now, as long as you don't want to play multiplayer. It still needs a good chunk of polish for multiplayer. Constantly desyncs causing bots and scientists to multiply visually.
Had my eye on Satisfactory for years but I got out of the habit of buying Early Access games. However, with such an endorsement, I'm willing to make an exception.
Aaah automation games... the ones that drive me totally insane ! Desync, I gave up on it... At least at the moment because programmation is pushing the concept a bit too far. Dyson Sphere program with enemies will be super fun but gosh this game needs co-op. Astro Colony, kinda gave up on it as well because moving your base is a nightmare and ressources do exhaust really fast. Satisfactory is still amazing and getting more and more complex ! Factorio is still the most amazing one for me, the pioneer but the most effective, space age is going to be a blast (off) !! Also, maybe it's just me but I tend to place the Rift Breaker in this category, since it has that kind of factorio feel but more simplistic and based on action... Dunno, it's a weird mix that one, still a great one though !
Dyson Sphere has a mod for coop. The game isn't overly complex on that so the mod ended up working pretty much perfectly. Not sure if they will update it for the combat stuff but it is there right now.
Tomahtoe/tomaytoe. Ahprikot/ayprikot. Vahse/vayse. Garrarje/garrej I never understood why gif/jif was more of an issue than the hundreds of other words with multiple pronunciations. Both are in the dictionaries.
@@GamerZakh, I believe it is more US vs World thing not lingunistics. American obsession to pronounce G as they do, but for rest of the (non-English languages) G is pronounced as in word Günther :D And this 'debate' is older than the world and more of a joke tease! I did my part to boost UA-cam algorythms for your video, so you see I'm a good guy here afterall ;)
I've been loving Dyson Sphere Project ever since the start of the early access release, but I'll be honest: I hope they're not focusing too much on the combat stuff. I have zero interest in that, and will be disabling it in any future playthroughs. Would rather have them expand ideas like alternative recipes, more resource types, etc... I'm also the kind of guy who set up the biters in Factory to be non-respawning. I don't mind clearing them out, but I don't want this "Struggle for survival" theme to be the core. I want to be able to sit still for a few hours and not be under any kind of active threat, other than resources running out.
Game developers are real cruel these days. They make addicting games that you will never have the time for playing them :-(. Everything looks really interesting. For me I will stay with Factorio (and its upcoming expansion) for now. (But maybe its possible I will take a look in one of those anyway ;-) )
The doggone devs and studios keep putting awesome games with great reviews on sale. I haven't added to my 3k+ hours in Factorio in quite a while. I've got Valheim, Dwarf Fortress, Deep Rock Galactic, and now Baldur's Gate 3 all going on.
It is not just you, I actually got inspired by these fake ads for the mobile mining games and though why not make a game that plays more like what the ads show. So I did, and it is going to be a buy once game on Steam with no microtransactions.
@lingonstudios cool. I tried the demo, the upgrades having a cost but not how much of a difference they make as a bit annoying, but the nail in the coffin was how hard it was to find the one miner that wasn't upgraded since they all look exactly alike and the only indication of which one you clicked on is the price of the upgrades.
People get wrong idea about game going to 1.0. It often means game wont be getting new content, features other than hotfix. Same for satisfactory, they told if its going 1.0 they wont be adding more mega game changing updates like they do atm. But satisfactory has big mod community around 400mods to config your game to ur liking. Factorio i cant play because it makes me feel dizzy 2d, patterns and when moving around. Just not for me, but i enjoyed it otherwise for hundred hours.
The way I see 1.0 is that the developers consider it 'feature complete', so the primary vision is implemented. More content can be on the way though. But mainly, once you label a game '1.0', what it's telling the players is that it's a safe buy and you're going to get what is promise. As long as a game says they aren't 1.0 yet, then I'm more lenient because they're clearly saying "this is not finished, buy at your own risk", which I respect more for their honesty and I'm more lenient with judging. Once a game is 1.0, I judge it as a complete game and if it's not complete I judge it harder because they're not being honest with people.
No man sky was a released game not early access. But now they have update it with massive amount of features that never suppose to be there in first place. Without extra cost and still being updated every 2-6 months. I played at 1.0 i had a great time but now its overwhelming content that i dont know where to start playing so i havent. Funny how some negatively viewed game ends up that way that there is too much in it. Its only game i know that done it opposite way.@@GamerZakh
In the specific case of Satisfactory, you're wrong. They've stated they're saving the story for 1.0, so it will never be available in the EA version. kinda annoying listening to the disembodied voice around the artifacts, but you can turn that off now at least.
The simulation genre is HUGE this year, this is only one subgenre. Don't miss ALL upcoming simulation games in the playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLYVqUDxY6COh7bkuJoBb1koNRX7mAX2yp.html
Amazing work! You've stepped on another level this year with these video series.
Captain of industry has already been released and so you can't put it here. Try putting something else there instead.
@@teamruddy611 So you're saying I shouldn't include Early Access games as upcoming?
Excellent work, as usual. But, what's the game you showed in the end credits? Kinda looks like a board game? I like it. :)
@@tarrker Thanks! That's Factory Town, I listed it in past years and it's now released. I'm testing showing past good games in the intro and outro this year.
Very excited for the Factorio Expansion, after the game was released out of beta, it felt 'complete' yet for the expansion they're adding stuff that has me like "how did I live without this before?"
I was kind of expecting the dev to just retire on the success of Factorio haha, it was hard to imagine how to make it better.
@@GamerZakh I think they talked about it right after the release 1.0 update, talked about plans for the future, but maybe after this expansion they'll move onto other projects, I'm not sure I don't keep up with the blogs.
After that they'll spend the next 2 decades making it 1st person 3d with orbital mechanics and proper spaceship building like kerbal and underground mining like minecraft
Heh yeah the expansion looks incredible especially with the new challenges and quality of life improvements. The teasers make me want to open Factorio again right now, but I'll wait since those quality of life changes aren't in the base game yet.
Thanks for including my game Moose Miners in this list :) I have been watching your videos for quite a while to see what new interesting games are upcoming in the city-builder, tycoon and related genres. Seeing my own game in one of these videos feels really cool.
Well it is an interesting one!
@lingonstudios Hi, I don't know if you know it, but Bit Defender take your game as a Trojan.
And on virus total, 12/72 positive
I started Satisfactory for the first time this week, with the new Unreal Engine 5 update. It's so good! As a Factorio veteran it's a different style and takes a while to get used to but the game is freaking beautiful.
Satisfactory has consumed so much of my life. I realize now how much I love these games.
Satisfactory is like a friendly vampire, it won't kill you, it just drinks you spare time.
I enjoy Satisfactory as well and I am looking forward to 0.9 and 1.0.
I feel you, 750+ hours
I have more hours in Satisfactory as an Early Access game than any other game I’ve ever played. Best $30 I’ve ever spent!
Dyson Sphere and Captain of Industrie are real bangers and if you find dyson sphere complex than Captain of Industrie will blow your mind!
I love how real Captain of Industry feels. Even on my low-end 1080p system, the graphics are awesome. The taillights actually work on the vehicles, and the hydraulic cylinders etc. are accurately modeled. "Maintenance" and "Unity" are great mechanics. Very innovative.
I would like to suggest SHAPEZ 2, which is suggested for 2024. The first SHAPEZ is a Factorio reduced to the absolute basics, and it's more an ongoing engineering puzzle. Very interested to see what the sequel offers.
I did see it planning a 2025 release and didn't realise they were looking at 2024 for early access. I'll list it next time.
Dyson Sphere is an amazing game. Played it more than a year ago and I am definitely looking forward to diving into it again from scratch once it goes full release.
Automation Station looks interesting cause of the whole physics engine thingy it'll have going on, but I wish to see more of it first.
Astro Colony seems to be VERY ambitious, will add it to my radar.
Foundry sounds fun cause of LAN support not gonna lie haha. I miss those days.
Techtonica is kinda reminding me of Planet Crafter, which I've been playing for a long time now and I greatly enjoy it. Gonna give it a shot and see if it can dethrone Planet Crafter for me.
Great game. Even in early access, it was more polished than final releases from some big name studios. I played the demo of Foundry. Good game, but didn't grab on to me. And of course The Planet Crafter is awesome.
I think it's cool how factory building games have gotten really popular. When Infinifactory first came out I completed that one. Then Satisfactory came out later and I was on it first thing. Then I discovered survival games and that lasted for a while. Survival games got to a point where it feels like they are all the same. I noticed I have stayed with factory building games :)
Literally just realized that this is the game genre I am most passionate about. Great video!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
Amazing games, great summary! I'm honored to be on the list! 🚀
I highly approve of this list!!!! Was going to mention though, the Developer of the Space Exploration mod got hired by Wube and is heavily helping with developing the new expansion ❤😊
Wow I didn't know they hired the modder for Space Exploration. That is good to hear. I actually bought Factorio because of his mod.
Oh man i just began programming my own factory game a month ago. Hopefully i can get in 2025s list. Slow progress, as a solo dev doing it on my free time
Great list as always Zakh
Finishing a solo game in under 2 years is a hell of an achievement. Even big studios usually need 3-5 minimum.
Will you post any updates to your UA-cam? I subbed and will be keeping an eye out in the future if so :)
One I have been testing out now that came out just a week ago is Final Factory - it's basically a love letter to Factorio, Cosmoteers and far future science fiction with gameplay different enough to feel like a fresh experience.
Everything you build is made of structures that make up a space station - and you can put thruster on the stations for ship building happiness. I'm having a lot of fun with it. :>
2nd one just looks like a mod or something for timberborn
Hey karnematch, you are right. Revive & Prosper is inspired by Timberborn and also Going Medieval or Factorio. The difference is that you have a limited amount of characters. You can remodel the terrain as you wish. There is real-time water physics meaning that the moisture spreads according to weather conditions, and terrain upgrades. It also evaporates from the ground which you can slow down by planting vegetation and again weather can affect it too. And there are catapults for transporting items. There's even more, and we're always happy to discuss the depth of R&P on the Discor. Feel free to reach out to us there. shootinka 🙂
Satisfactory actually entered EA in 2019 March on epic. It went early access on steam in 2020 so it's been almost 5 years. Personally, I'm very much looking forward to the 1.0 release. I've spent a great deal of time in this game and I even bought it twice
Yeah I forgot the year on Epic, so was one year off.
Factorio became my favorite game back when i first tried a couple years ago, what a game.
Nothing quite beats the dude reading the game steam description word for word... top notch creative content 😂
I read or paraphrase the description as a 'word from the developers'. Then I give my opinions. It's not creative content at all, this is informational content. Your misunderstanding of the purpose makes you snarky but as you can see many people derive use from my lists, more than other lists, for a reason.
Love the opening, I have really fond memories of Infinifactory
Uhhh The Crust looking good.
Plan B: Terrarform looks good too.
Captain of Industrie is a great game, i have a lot of fun with that.
Moose Miners looks a little like the Scam ADS that you get for mobile games xD
Got Dyson Sphere Programm, but hadnt the time to play more then a few hours.
Astro Colony... i watched Josh`s Lets game it out and after that i couldnt play the game without doing only stupid things^^
thanks for the list, i will keep an eye on The Crust and Plan B
Funny that you would say that Moose Miners looks like the Scam ads for mobile games, that was the original inspiration for the game actually. I thought that the games as presented in the ads looked quite fun and wondered why no one made a game like that and decided to do it myself
@@lingonstudios thats cool =) i often think the same. the ads looking better then the actual game. already downloaded the demo, will test it in the evening when the handyman completed repairing our shutters.
@@lingonstudios okay i played the demo for around 9hrs until there was nothing more to mine. liked it so far, but i wished for an auto buy grinder left and right. and i hated the tease with the upgrades available in the full release, not knowing what they will do in the future xD
I played The Crust demo during the last Steam Fest, it's really nice and addictive. Like the story. Pretty sure it's going to be great.
Also enjoying Astro Colony - notably that is a solo-dev game. Tefel, the dev is live streaming weekly on twitch. The interesting thing about Astro Colony is that the planets and planetoids are more like floating islands and you can dock your space ship to them and take them with you. Some players have hollowed out a planet and put a base inside.
Thanks Zakh! Always enjoy these vids!
Glad you do! I'm trying to list as many games as possible this year so everyone is gonna be super informed.
Awesome game list, thanks for the update, 2024 is going to be another great year for this gaming genre
Factory must grow!
To be specific, "The factory is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding factory." Just like the Bureaucracy. 🙂
Factorio SA, Satisfactory and DSP are my top 3 waiting list
Factorio: Space Age will also include planets, in addition to the floating platforms
Foundry looks interesting. Been a while since I played Satisfactory, to me Satisfactory got kind of linear in a weird dynamic way. Hoping to find one a little more free form.
“Linear in a weird dynamic way” what do you mean?
@@jsblack02 i guess the best comparison would be minecraft being more non-linear because the map is random.
@@AtherionGG I absolutely LOVED the Foundry Demo when it was live. I've settled for Satisfactory since it's no longer playable, but Foundry was way more addicting in the quickness of its gameplay, whereas Satisfactory is way more slow and methodical. Exploring new seeds can be so addicting too, so you've never completely "solved" the game.
captain of industry looks kinda epic
Foundry lan party sounds nice. :P
I should start a new Satisfactory playthrough, it’s been a couple of years and I bet so much has changed.
dyson sphere released the dark fog update and its SO GOOD i tell ya
Great list Zakh. Thanks
Glad you like it!
wish u said satisfactory is finally on update 8. ive been waiting on that forever! im also super hyped for an update for factorio. those r the best two factory games out there for now.
You forgot Shapez2 - I believe the plan is release next year. Shapez1 is awesome.
I read it was planning a 2025 release and missed that it said early access for 2024.
much hype for crust. super keen on it :D
My current favorite genre ☺❤
Can highly recommend Captain of Industry, Dyson Sphere Program and Plan B: Terraform. Only caveat is that Plan B: Terraform is really processor heavy, so make sure your rig meets the minimum spec, better yet the recommended spec.
About the Crust,they may cooperate with "Iron Sky" lore. It will be great scenario
Hi GamerZakh, thank you for listing Revive & Prosper! 🌱
Hey! All the best with development!
I guess you just looked in Steam, but Satisfactory was released on Epic on March 18, 2019, one year earlier.
It's been half a decade, I just forgot the year of Epic exclusivity. I listed Satisfactory in 2019 too.
Revive and Prosper looks like Timberborn without polish.
When Timberborn started people said it was like Banished without polish haha.
Revive and prosper is timberborn with belts and catapults
Thank you for the list Zakh, looking forward for your next ones.
Glad you're enjoying them!
I love the fact that the devs of Factorio use a sushi belt for unloading a train at 21:22
those are just conveyor belts
@@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868 "Sushi belt" in Factorio is a looped belt that you put multiple items on it without order and filter specific items off it at different places.
@@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868 the term "Sushi belts" is used when you place a looped belt and put multiple items on it and filter specific items off it at different places of the belt.
DoshDoshington made a fully auto- launching base base only using a massive sushi belt and explain what is a sushi belt in factory games.
DocJade too but he used a different sushi belt design.
Both videos are great
I would have been disappointed if you didn't include factorio expansion in this video ❤
Factory/automation games are something I've always thought would be really cool to get into and yet somehow I couldn't get either of the two biggest games in the genre - Factorio and Satisfactory to stick, which is really sad/frustrating. Do you think there are any others in the genre that might somehow be appealing, maybe something more guided or beginner appealing or idfk what? Figured you might be the kinda fella to ask considering your content.
@@Taima Hmm if there's a theme or setting you really like, there's likely a game with that setting and I find that really helps getting into the mechanics. Otherwise you might try city-builders with production chains? They're sort of automation-lite but have a city-building focus. Games like Anno or Timberborn.
Captain of industry has, imho, the best terraforming ever.
Is there a list of these that are multiplayer? I like playing factory games with friends and co-op or single player is often missing from reviews and I need to dig for it.
I can never decide if i want to get factorio or not. I have played a lot of dyson sphere program and satisfactory, but factorio just seems ridiculously complex and idk if i can get into that
Update 8 came out for Satisfactory the other day, 1.0 is imminent.
Some good games...GOOD VID.
Thanks!
my father had a factory game that was an early access game since he was a teen ager and planning to release it on his 80 year birthday 🤣
I'm sad that Scorchlands didn't make the list, the game is pretty, casual, and has a unique style.
Nice to see new types of games, I'm so tired of Zombie Survival Games.
Amazing list, but what was that game play that you were showing at the very beginning?
Moose Miner looks like all those cheap mobile games made into an actual, interesting game
12:35: "Intergalactic factory" well not yet, only interstellar so far
Alot of these games focus on the factory. I think factorio is still the best because there is factory AND combat.
I own a lot of these games, just need to find the time to play them...
Automation Station looks like Astroneer from top, no?
Factorio: Space Age looks so damn goood!
Satisfactory is my favorite factory game
there will be a demo for the crust on jan /8 /24 it was announced on their discord
Moose Miners is so dumb.... and I love it. haha. Perfect game for playing while watching a movie/show. BTW, WHAT is the game in your intro? (at 0:04 - 0:24 seconds)
That's Infinifactory. A lovely factory puzzling game where you build production lines to solve levels.
watching this video literally while playing Satisfatory lol
I don't think Satisfactory is anywhere near getting out of EA.
They just did the first stages of the monumental task of upgrading the games engine from UE4 to UE5 and then upped UE5 to UE5.2 and will likely upgrade again to UE5.3 and subsequent versions of the engine.
This isn't something you do when you're ready to call a product finished.
This is something you do when you have big plans and the new engine facilitates executing these plans.
While the EU5 upgrade gives some major engine improvements, you'll be hard pressed to recognize the graphical difference between the UE4 and UE5 versions.
The big advantages are in the unseen part of the engine and you don't upgrade an unseen part of the engine unless you plan to use the advantages that brings.
Not my genre at all, but here's a comment for the almighty algorithm ;)
Thank you! I appreciate the support
I hope you can secret hidden fight nazis in Crust. :)
You had some footage play for production line - but you didn't show it? It's a great little game - just a bit older than others.
I've listed production line for 2 years building to its release but it fully released in 2019, so half a decade before the scope of this list.
Zakh I love your videos i really do.
I have only one request please can you also look at free to play games if possible because I can't afford the games
I'm covering as much as I can but good news, the creator Nookrium is doing a free games month. You can check out his videos from this month, he's playing just free games.
Satisfactory since mid 2020? At that time it was already over 2 years old and on update 3. Mid 2020 it went to steam in addition to epic, so it's quite old right now.
Oh right forgot the year on Epic, it was 1 year old at that time, initial Epic exclusive launch was 2019.
since 19 march 2019@@GamerZakh
Hey, all these games look like they actually fit the genre. You're leaving me nothing to complain about! 🙂
You didn't mention that Factorio was the game that started the interest into developing Satisfactory and the other Factory Games.
Games are inspired from all sorts of things, I could speak about that forever. Minecraft mods (IndustrialCraft and BuildCraft) inspired Factorio, I could mention that. Minecraft copied Infiniminer, so I could go there too.
Astro Colony is in a nice place right now, as long as you don't want to play multiplayer. It still needs a good chunk of polish for multiplayer. Constantly desyncs causing bots and scientists to multiply visually.
Thanks! Did you try co-op on the dedicated servers? There are many free public servers you can play currently on.
Isn't Shapez 2 targeting a 2024 release?
Ah I read it was planning a 2025 release and didn't realise it was saying early access in 2024.
Shapez 2 is coming out pretty soon, and it's 3D this time.
Shapez 2 has a 2025 release date, but I missed that they're looking at mid-2024 for early access.
The Factorio DLC looks like the space exploration mod because they hired the modder who made space exploration to work on the DLC 😂
I think it is the other way around, Earendel works at Wube and makes factorio mods on his free time
@@pedromiguelsilva2077 they were hired in 2021 (announced in FFF 365) but the first spacex mod was from 2019
Had my eye on Satisfactory for years but I got out of the habit of buying Early Access games. However, with such an endorsement, I'm willing to make an exception.
You won't regret it. This game will entertain you for hundreds of hours until you automate all space elevator parts.
Now would be a good time $16.49 USD until the Nov 20th on Steam.
@@ForsakenFenix SO tempting. I've bought so many great games on sale lately, I'll probably never finish all of them.
@@ForsakenFenix Already bought it. 😁
Love your channel, here to support. But these games are not for me.
Thank you! That's very kind of you and no worries, a lot more genres to cover.
the ppl who made Planetary Annihilation are making a factory war game called Industrial Annihilation
I got that slated for the RTS list, but yeah there's factory stuff there too.
@@GamerZakh it is called “industrial” annihilation after all 😄
Aaah automation games... the ones that drive me totally insane ! Desync, I gave up on it... At least at the moment because programmation is pushing the concept a bit too far.
Dyson Sphere program with enemies will be super fun but gosh this game needs co-op.
Astro Colony, kinda gave up on it as well because moving your base is a nightmare and ressources do exhaust really fast.
Satisfactory is still amazing and getting more and more complex !
Factorio is still the most amazing one for me, the pioneer but the most effective, space age is going to be a blast (off) !!
Also, maybe it's just me but I tend to place the Rift Breaker in this category, since it has that kind of factorio feel but more simplistic and based on action... Dunno, it's a weird mix that one, still a great one though !
Dyson Sphere has a mod for coop. The game isn't overly complex on that so the mod ended up working pretty much perfectly. Not sure if they will update it for the combat stuff but it is there right now.
awesome
Satisfactory still has incredibly buggy multiplayer, btw. For anyone considering picking it up to play with friends.
Hate to say it but Revive and Prosper looks almost exactly like a dollar store Timberborn
You said JIFS, not GIFS, I cannot accept that.
Tomahtoe/tomaytoe. Ahprikot/ayprikot. Vahse/vayse. Garrarje/garrej I never understood why gif/jif was more of an issue than the hundreds of other words with multiple pronunciations. Both are in the dictionaries.
@@GamerZakh, I believe it is more US vs World thing not lingunistics. American obsession to pronounce G as they do, but for rest of the (non-English languages) G is pronounced as in word Günther :D
And this 'debate' is older than the world and more of a joke tease! I did my part to boost UA-cam algorythms for your video, so you see I'm a good guy here afterall ;)
@@MLMariss Haha thank you! A bunch have been coming for me on this video because of that.
Rightfuly so, man :D But never the less - nice work here, I'm scouting from more games to play and make sure I haven't missed any!
Satisfactory is the best!
tell me please what the game is from 0:04 in intro were the block are welding, cuting and destroing
That would be Infinifactory
You kind of sound like Real Civil Engineer, except if you told me you were an engineer I would believe you
Haha well I'm not an engineer, I was a school teacher though.
@@GamerZakh your video is well done
@@nilsvids Thank you!
I've been loving Dyson Sphere Project ever since the start of the early access release, but I'll be honest: I hope they're not focusing too much on the combat stuff. I have zero interest in that, and will be disabling it in any future playthroughs. Would rather have them expand ideas like alternative recipes, more resource types, etc...
I'm also the kind of guy who set up the biters in Factory to be non-respawning. I don't mind clearing them out, but I don't want this "Struggle for survival" theme to be the core. I want to be able to sit still for a few hours and not be under any kind of active threat, other than resources running out.
Game developers are real cruel these days. They make addicting games that you will never have the time for playing them :-(.
Everything looks really interesting. For me I will stay with Factorio (and its upcoming expansion) for now.
(But maybe its possible I will take a look in one of those anyway ;-) )
The doggone devs and studios keep putting awesome games with great reviews on sale. I haven't added to my 3k+ hours in Factorio in quite a while. I've got Valheim, Dwarf Fortress, Deep Rock Galactic, and now Baldur's Gate 3 all going on.
You gotta showcase shapez 2
I saw it was scheduled for a 2025 release and missed they were looking at 2024 for early access. I'll list it next time it fits a genre.
Revive and Prosper looks suspiciously like Timberborn. Too much in fact.
When Timberborn started people said it looked suspiciously like Banished. All games copy something older.
What was the game in the end credits of your video? It wasnt one of the titles in the video itself :S
That's Factory Town, I'm using popular released games that I've listed before in the intros and outros this time.
there is a demo for foundry i believe.
was. It went offline October 28th.
ah.@@StarlightLumi
What is the game shown during the end credits in this video?
That's Factory Town, listed it for years, it's out now.
Is it just me or does moose miners look like any of a couple dozen mobile mining microtransaction "games"?
It is not just you, I actually got inspired by these fake ads for the mobile mining games and though why not make a game that plays more like what the ads show. So I did, and it is going to be a buy once game on Steam with no microtransactions.
@lingonstudios cool. I tried the demo, the upgrades having a cost but not how much of a difference they make as a bit annoying, but the nail in the coffin was how hard it was to find the one miner that wasn't upgraded since they all look exactly alike and the only indication of which one you clicked on is the price of the upgrades.
I wanna find another factorio😢 play 300+ hours
People get wrong idea about game going to 1.0. It often means game wont be getting new content, features other than hotfix. Same for satisfactory, they told if its going 1.0 they wont be adding more mega game changing updates like they do atm. But satisfactory has big mod community around 400mods to config your game to ur liking. Factorio i cant play because it makes me feel dizzy 2d, patterns and when moving around. Just not for me, but i enjoyed it otherwise for hundred hours.
The way I see 1.0 is that the developers consider it 'feature complete', so the primary vision is implemented. More content can be on the way though. But mainly, once you label a game '1.0', what it's telling the players is that it's a safe buy and you're going to get what is promise. As long as a game says they aren't 1.0 yet, then I'm more lenient because they're clearly saying "this is not finished, buy at your own risk", which I respect more for their honesty and I'm more lenient with judging. Once a game is 1.0, I judge it as a complete game and if it's not complete I judge it harder because they're not being honest with people.
No man sky was a released game not early access. But now they have update it with massive amount of features that never suppose to be there in first place. Without extra cost and still being updated every 2-6 months. I played at 1.0 i had a great time but now its overwhelming content that i dont know where to start playing so i havent. Funny how some negatively viewed game ends up that way that there is too much in it. Its only game i know that done it opposite way.@@GamerZakh
In the specific case of Satisfactory, you're wrong.
They've stated they're saving the story for 1.0, so it will never be available in the EA version.
kinda annoying listening to the disembodied voice around the artifacts, but you can turn that off now at least.
My vehicle sounds are completly gone and i donno why. All the other stuff seem to work.@@StarlightLumi
we need slave and pyramid building simulator
What's the game In the intro with the constructing on conveyor
That would be Infinifactory.