For those coming to this a year later, Mindustry has massively changed since this. It is now an open "planet", the levels are just spots on the planet - some pre-generated, some seed-generated.
And it is about to get another massive update. The version of mindustry featured in the video is v5, as of now there is an unfinished version of v7 available for free. It's buggy but has quite a lot of content
This major update can also tip your research tree over if you played before it, because some locations have new reqs to complete as well as new factories.
Mindustry is also available on IOS and Android, has Cross Plattform Multiplayer if I'm not mistaken, and has a classic "Edition" for those who don't like the new stuff. : )
@@randomaccount6435 yee like literally all you need to do is copy and paste the name of the person who made it and what the mod is called into the game, enable the mod, restart your game, and you're done
There was sorta-kinda a 'genre' that predates Factorio, made up largely of Zachtronics games, styled as 'games for engineers'. They tend to be more puzzle-based rather than open-ended, but old flash games like the Codex of Alchemical Engineering (since remade, polished, and improved upon as Magnum Opus) involved smashing bits together to make more complicated bits in increasingly complex production chains, etc. I played me a whole lot of SpaceChem back in the day.
I discovered Factory-like from Minecraft way a fair bit before Factorio, with mods like Industrial Craft, Buildcraft etc... and even mods adding Conveyor Belts and Pipes. I would not put Factorio as the source for the Factory genre, I am sure there are many examples that inspired those mods in the first place.
1st day of mindustry: "Sees all of the building" how the heck I'm going to do this 1st year of mindustry: "Intense Calculations" "Complex buildings" "And learning the logic" And all hail the *ROUTER*
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Mindustry is my favorite of all factorio games because: - editor maps - Mods unlimited (except if you have potato phone) - Unlimited Campaign with mods (in V7, it’s possible) - PvP - you can even invite players in the campaign in very difficult sectors Edit: I forgot that it’s also ✨FREE✨ (In PC and android, but not for IOS) Also -in V7 (August 9 2022) an Alpha update that includes 2 PLANETS has release. It gets even better and better everyday
Who's ready for the mod "project unity" which changes every single thing in mindustry and makes it 100× better *literally* Not done though but I'm waitin for it
In case anyone is holding off on satisfactory because they think early access means it feels incomplete, it very much already feels like a full game. The only real sign of early access is that there's no story, and you won't even realize that with the focus on your production lines.
Mindustry consumed my soul for a solid year last year, and I just got back into it excited for the next update. I love how it is constantly growing and evolving. SatisFactory looks great too. I see you've got other videos on logistics/resource management games so I think I'm gonna go ahead and subscribe. Thanks!
Tip for Mindustry: if you have two exits from enemy spawn for enemies to go, completely block one of entrances with few thousand blocks because A.I works that they go where are less blocks, or no blocks. So you can just build very long maze with exit and put billion turrets.
Yeah, I think it's a tad unfair to claim that these games were solely based off of Factorio. While a game like Mindustry may share conveyor belts and NPC attack waves, I don't think it's enough to call it a clone.
I agree mindustry is not a clone plus Factorio=absolute disgustingness and people that assume mindustry is a Factorio clone are also absolute disgustingness and idiotic
Mindustry is actually new now mindustry now makes it so when you beat all the waves of a sector you capture it and will be yours forever make sure to knock out the enemy bases if there are ones near the sector (there’s even story now)
@@darkmoon556 The mining drones from v5 are not totally gone, there are new mining drones called "Mono"s and they are produced by the air factory in v6 and v7. A lot of the other support/green units can mine as well, and you can use the logic processor to make them act like mining drones.
Dyson Sphere Project also looks to be shaping up nicely. Idk if I’d prefer it to Factorio, but it’s cool enough. It is in early access as of right now though, so don’t get too excited for a full product just yet.
Started with Shapez, used to get mad watching let's plays and people saying "oh, wrong hot key, I'm used to Factorio", or stuff like "in Factorio you can.. blah blah". I'd be like "well this isn't Factorio, if you love it so much, go play that". Well... I eventually had to go see what all the hype was about, now I'm closing in on 500hrs. Shapez still holds a special place, I adore the wires mode. Making a "Make Anything Machine" was a really fun puzzle. Also, that shape is a Jelly Fish.
This year I have gotten unhealthy obsessed with Shapez. I can say it is a really fun game. I don’t really like games that get stressful with combat or a limited amount of resources so this game was the best. I can say it gets really addicting once you get past the first levels. The game is worth it if you like to create factories that go to other factories that go to other factories and so on. Right now in the game I have 20 different factories just to make one shape! I do recommend the game to all.
Unpopular Mindustry opinion: Router chains are actually OK in early game when refill speed does not matter. They only become a problem in late-game, and if you launch before late-game you're fine.
I still think optimizing conveyors is still better because you're both saving resources and not wasting your output when you eventually switch to titanium conveyors.
2:15 it will suck you in and won’t let you go, next thing you know it’s 3 days later, you missed work, didn’t eat, or go to the bathroom and your only 1% thru the game 😂😅
Love my factorio, artillery is supremely satisfying, after defending wave after wave and constantly stressing, finally getting artillery and just fuckin bombing biters from half a mile away and watching the shell slowly travel and just gib ten worms is just... chefs kiss. But Mindustry is also a super addicting game. I think it would be interesting to have a 2D factory builder where the goal is to get to the core of alien planets, constantly digging down, needing new tech to get deeper and unlocking new upgrades like thermal power but also constantly having to expand towards the top to get more low tier material to continue the grind
Mindustry has come a long way since this video, and im willing to say it is possibly better than factorio, not only in content and gameplay, but in convenience and ease of access. and there are mods. That's fun. Oh, did I mention it's free?
Nice video, didn't know about shapes.io before now. My personal somewhat factorio like game ranking would be: 1. Factorio 2. Factory Town (fantasy setting and 3D make this pretty interesting also I kind of like not having an avatar to control, not needing to walk around the map gives just building stuff more focus) 3. Mindustry 4. Production Line (about building a car factory, surprisingly enjoyable) 5. Automachef (about automated cooking, was surprised by how well suited the theme of cooking stuff is to automation and it's optimization, food spoilage and rush hours in particular make things pretty neat) 6. Autonauts (all about programming bots instead of using conveyor belts or such) 7. Blueprint Tycoon (you build a town but each production building has a blueprint that would have been like a mini Zachtronics game puzzle if they were implemented slightly differently but as is I found the way it works too simple) 8. Some Ludum Dare game from at least a year ago that I forgot the name of (it was about magic in some form) 9. Survival Vacancy (Terraria like, not super interesting to me and pretty far from finished) 10. Automation Empire (Would be awesome if it didn't have ton of stupid limitations, just one example would be that pipes used to deliver resources to nearby structures connect only in a straight line and come only in lengths of 1 and 3 which means lots of time spent figuring out the exact spacing your structures should have and/or doing some silly workarounds just to get resources across a 2 or 4 tile gap) Anyway when Satisfactorio first came out I quickly noted that my PC probably can't run it very well but it's performance might have been optimized since then so maybe I should look into it again.
@@qzump7989 Haven't tried modding it, tried Minecraft out when I noted that it's TIGSource thread was pretty popular but at the time wasn't that interested since it just seemed like a needlessly cumbersome way to make 3D maps(at least compared to using GTKRadiant to make Tremulous maps like I was doing at the time).
Automation Empire could be such a great game if only there would be more effort. It now feels pretty abandoned. Still has the most appealing aesthetics to me.
@@qzump7989 Cool, looking at those I'm reminded that I somewhat recently played and liked FortressCraft Evolved(and Vintage Story though that's not very factorio like) which is probably pretty similar to those mods. Anyway some other factorio like games I've played since my first comment are * Dream Engines Nomad Cities a cool game kind of similar to Warptorio mod(also reminds me of Eggoria which is a lovely nomadic city builder) * Satisfactory, it was nice and worked decently on my old PC. * Dyson Sphere Program which I played for quite a while despite getting abysmal FPS, liked how jetpack worked in that so much that decided to add a jetpack mod to Factorio though obviously that wasn't quite the same thing. * ReFactory, still early in Early Access so didn't play much but it's seemingly trying to feel less exploitative with more focus on green energy and such and in general trying to be more appealing to people who would be passionate about that. * InfraSpace, much more of a city builder, I feel like most of my time was spent building and adjusting roads but it's still pretty factorio like overall.
What? No love for Autonauts? It has all of the factory and programming of Factorio without any enemies to get in your way--at least for now; they are adding a survival mode. ...AND IT IS SO DARNED CUTE!!!
Dyson Sphere Program is a REALLY good factory game. Its primary feature is, well Dyson Spheres. You can design dyson spheres, or copy blueprints from the internet, and then construct them by launching rockets and shooting railguns at them! It's factories on a galactic scale.
This! DSP is more similar to factorio than the games in this video. Although the 3D-ness & Dyson sphere design really adds another level of gameplay too
shit, i've actually played all the games on this list lmao never found a list of "X games you should play" where i've played all (or even any) of them before. Cool. I do hope Mindustry can fix their wiki situation though, there's like 5 different wikis and it's fucking broken as hell.
No, I just didn't have the picture in front of me when I was talking about it so I just said a color I *thought* it was. I knew when I was editing that people would ask that question haha
I'd like a 2D factorio with way more exploration and some impactful decisions. For instance a snowy biome could have no enemies, but once you get pollution it melts snow which floods your base and also invites enemies. Or you could have desert where you need water to cool down your factory. And the incentive to go there is that these are the only places where specific resources are common, you can of course tap into tiny patches in safe areas but you will feel how you starve for resources. If the game invited you to explore distant lands with diverse biomes, mechanics, risks and payoffs then it would be great. How about delinearizing gameplay? Maybe an alternate route to get something? How about more hostile fauna, maybe some infighting we can use thanks to careful wipe out of a few key nests? You know factorion, but on drugs. I didn’t really touch the mods that much, I got quickly overwhelmed by Pyandon’s, which is probably natural, but still I doubt there’s that level of mods out there. Anyway, anyone else get feelings factorio is just perfect base that needs more development?
Is practically all of the game in this video turn into one game impactful logistic, place to explore, enemies to fight practically mindustry or factorio on a lot of mods
Shapezio is a game I've put more time then I should have. I have games that barely run over a few frames because of the factories I've made. I love it.
I used to play some of these all the time then I got a new phone and I forgot the name of the game, I never stopped looking for it and thanks to you my search has come to a end Much thanks
I'm not sure if this is common for people like me, but I have actually owned and played all the games mentioned in this video, so I kinda wanna give my opinion. - Factorio factorio is one of those games that I have always been obsessed with but I never actually got to buy it, so when I remembered this classic from my childhood it just had to be the next game I buy, and to this day I don't regret my decision at all. Being a very fun game to sink your time into and also a great game for exploding tons of enemies with your automatic grenade factory, the only real downside to it is that for more casual players it could be a bit overwhelming and not so fun to play if you're not into the combat being basically forced upon you. After all a great game if you're looking for a more complicated and thurough factory game. - Satisfactory what can I say, this is probably the best factory game I have ever played. It has awesome grafics, sound design, research mechanics, factory building, actually some really creative and allowing building for all your architectual needs. It is basically a 1up to the games it took inspiration from, which doesn't mean that the other games like factorio haven't done certain things better, what I'm saying is that with a bit more work and the game coming out of early access, this is and is always going to be a masterpiece in the industry by coffee stain If you love being satisfied by nicely lined up factories and also love the though of exploring an alien planet, then this game is worth every penny. - Mindustry even with my limited experience with this game I can tell that it's a treat to anyone who loves tower defense and factory building. I could find myself coming up with creative sollutions to problems I would never think I'd have to face in a game like this. It has a very unique idea and a great execution, I think it's really underappreciated and deserves more love than it gets. I'm not too much into the combat focused games but I still very much enjoyed it and would recommend at the very least trying out the itch.io version. overall, an awesome game with an awesome idea and a really cool artstyle as well. - Shapez.io now, this game may seem a little barebones at first, but it is a favourite of mine and if you give it a try you'll soon understand why. Having a very simple idea while having the game be so much fun to play, this game can get really fun, really fast. At the start I saw it through a youtube video and it really grew on me when I tried out the browser version. I bought it as soon as I could just so I could experience the full version for myself. If I'm going to be honest it did get a bit boring later on but I managed to keep myself going with just starting another save and trying different methods of planning out my factory and after all, the game gets really frequent updates from (I think) the one passionate developer that works on this game and it also has a puzzle DLC so now you have a whole plethera of things you can use to motivate yourself to play. Great game to play for relaxation on your free time. And that probably concludes this. I just want to say that this is all my opinion and if you disagree you can CALMLY respond and propose your opinions and experiences with any of these games. Also props to whoever actually reads this, I apreciate you very much and also thanks to Ingeniouseclown for making this very entertaining video, so entertaining in fact, that I wasted at least an hour on this comment. :)
Factory Town absolutely deserves a slot here. It's the zen version and is absolutely superb, especially considering it started off as a one man project and is one of the greatest examples of a quality early access title. :)
Factorio:Noo you can't just wait for stuff to build before constructing it Satisfactory:Noo you can't just make stuff without clicking it forever to make lots of resources Mindustry:Haha construction goes brrr,but sometimes grrr,but we have polys and megas to help us out
I highly recommend Mindustry even now, the game is still zero on itch and app store and newly updated game is massive and mods just make it better. Happy constructing you factory one any of these games.
1:40 "the entire world is a puzzle and you're there with your box of Legos trying to solve it." Never has this game been better summarized in a single sentence.
Yea lol V5 V6 completely overhauled the unit system, resprited and renamed most old units and added new things too, most notably tho it kinda made it a bit more complex.
you should count factory town in, that game has nice features like: vertical building, renewability (you can make your own resource sources later on) also it has no enemies, chill : D. the only downside is it becomes way too complex when it comes to vertical building
Yeah its kinda hard to understand why mindustry would be the best if these 3. But it is. At least for me. You have to play for a stupidly long time to fully understand it. To know that you have created schematics that you couldnt possibly explain to very many people. That only a select few can even fathon how you make every single resource from scrap. Or how you create power seemingly out of thin air. Even people who have played for a hundred ours are still in their beginning stages. THEEEEN, you get to multiplayer. Where nothing you learned as of tactics or space management applies. Where itll only take the opponent a few minutes to find out how to completely eradicate you. Even though you have 5 layers of thorium walls 2 layers of mend projectors and an american shit ton of foreshadows. Love this game and i will play it until the very very bitter end
What made me love factorio as long as the tutorial lasted, and then get bored as soon as I entered the open world because I lacked an extrinsic motivation, might be just what mindustry has
I'm so glad mindustry on this list, It's changed a lot durring the time this video has been out but it's my favorite tower defence/real time strategy/factory game ive ever played. The updates are frequent, the main game is very fun especially with coop + it has pvp that you can play with friends which is my favorite part. It's definitely with checking out
oh, another nice game in the same 'factory builder' realm that started early access since this video came out is Dyson Sphere Program, wherein your goal is to create dyson spheres around various stars by setting up logistics networks between their planets. Due to how dyson spheres work with energy generation, it gets exponentially easier to add more to a sphere as it is built, and once you have one fully constructed it makes it immensely easy to build another
Correction: factorio man's objective is not to "escape the planet" or "get home". While the ship crashing wasn't part of the plan, he came to that planet on purpose. And that purpose is to strip it of all resources.
Every time I fire up Satisfactory 200 hours of my life dissapear. Also map-wide conveyor stacks is the optimal way to transport resources! It requires the least amount of brainpower to design and it doubles as transportation! Slide jumping on T5 belts gives you some insane speed. Admittedly there was that one time when I passed through an area where the collision was really fucked up and fell through the floor multipple times, but it was worth it in the end because I didn't have to think.
Hadn't heard of that so was excited but then realized it seems to be only for mobile. Is there no PC version or should I think about re-installing an android emulator?
What I love about satisfactory is that it doesn't have any pollution mechanic, no renewable energy except geothermal because the company that the player character works for (and is probably owned by) just doesn't care and gives you nuclear bombs and a post car
After update 5 for Satisfactory the game has been much more refined along with the addition of a ton a new building parts, the game completely changed for myself and many others as a result. Coffee Stain also does not do road maps so every update is usually a surprise but they do show some content before updates come out but they leave out massive features and show those the day of the update launch.
I agree with this. Especially when they announ ced collisions for trains, where nobody expected completely derailed trains upon collision and have excellent physics on each wagon separately.
I found shapezio during quarantine and I dumped so much time into it. My computer made me stop playing it because it couldn't handle the sheer number of not so mini factories and the basically infinite number of random shapes going into the central hub.
When I first researched oil in Satisfactory, I built a several kilometers long bridge over a big lake-filled forest, because I expected the path on the ground to go past something dangerous. I don't know if I was right, but at least I found lots of power slugs on trees.
Myself, I think TerraTech deserves an honorable mention. Granted, the game only has some elements of a factory game as most of the focus is on other things like exploration, building vehicles and completing missions and race tracks with them. While the factory elements are not as sophisticated, it actually does have some factory elements.
Also, I'm rather shocked that there was no mention of Fortresscraft Evolved. I mean, that's an open-world, exploration-based automation game seemingly inspired by Factorio (and Minecraft) with quite a few similarities.
Just put the shapes game in my wishlist. I like playing puzzle games and managing resources to wind down a bit and think. It's better if said game is somewhat bare bones (think tetris or something). The other two look interesting, but just looking for chill game atm. Nice video, btw.
Actually started with Satisfactory, and only recently tried Factorio. There's something about Factorio that just doesn't quite hit the same notes for me though. I think it has a lot to do with the fact Satisfactory focuses not just on the factory, but on the world, exploration and building. There's so much more room for player expression in Satisfactory as well. My factory is now a huge structure with some thought to outward aesthetic design, even if on the inside it's sometimes still a mess of conveyor belt spaghetti monster.
I still remember that old version of mindustry the first one i played and i was addicted to it in the first minute and i didn't even notice it and now mindustry seems to have not changed too much but it have even more things now idk how the type game are so addictive
Fun fact: if you get the space exploration mod for factorio, you’ll get an exploration side to the game, as you scour through asteroid belts, orbits, star systems and even the interstellar void
dyson sphere program definitely deserves an honorable mention, setting you up in a small galaxy of individual solar systems with spherical planets for you to exploit and build factories on, with you eventually developing interstellar logistic netword to build a dyson sphere
While Satisfactory is in some ways a more chill game than Factorio, it does provide slightly other type of challenges and the size of the factory can be felt more. A relatively new entry to this genre is "Learning Factory" with a little bit different approach, and a big huge shout out for Dyson Sphere Program. I love this Interstellar logistics game almost more than Factorio and Satisfactory. I don't know which one I like best, so to me it is a shared 1st place between Factorio, Satisfactory and DSP for now. Not mentioned games are also Early Access, but especially DSP has quite a high level of polish and quality comparable to Satisfactory EA. PS(edit) : I saw you covered both in separate videos. Great work! 😉
This guy needs to remaster this video in the future. Because Factorio is getting a DLC. Mindustry is V7 now and Satisfactory is approaching release. Best part is he didn't go into modding in mindustry and factorio
Factorio is one of the few games that I needed to see a gameplay video for 30 seconds without knowing absolutely anything about it to go purchase straight away without even worrying about its price, so much was the interest it sparked. I think the only other game that did that to me ever was Minecraft.
Not only is Shapez a good game, it has an amazing sound track. I have never cared about sound tracks ever before hearing this one. I tried Mindustry on my phone and had no idea what I was doing, so I deleted it. Satisfactory looks difficult, yet beautiful. It's the only one I haven't tried yet.
I too like when games tickle my "no-no spot". Still waiting on my factorio visual novel. "Factorio-kun won't you come help me dig out this 'ore' "
Clown is really cursed for pinning this...
Factorio visual novel?
@@nurrahmanpurwanto2976 yes
@@dogefort8410 ok XD
What did i just read
For those coming to this a year later, Mindustry has massively changed since this. It is now an open "planet", the levels are just spots on the planet - some pre-generated, some seed-generated.
Yea and there's a new planet coming soon too!
yey close beta
And it is about to get another massive update. The version of mindustry featured in the video is v5, as of now there is an unfinished version of v7 available for free. It's buggy but has quite a lot of content
This major update can also tip your research tree over if you played before it, because some locations have new reqs to complete as well as new factories.
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Mindustry is also available on IOS and Android, has Cross Plattform Multiplayer if I'm not mistaken, and has a classic "Edition" for those who don't like the new stuff. : )
I didn't realize that Mindustry was available on PC.
Dont forget that you can easily add mods by the community
@@randomaccount6435 yee like literally all you need to do is copy and paste the name of the person who made it and what the mod is called into the game, enable the mod, restart your game, and you're done
I played the original mindustry (now called mindustry classic) in like 2018 and was so happy when I found out about mindustry 4.0 on youtube in 2019
Man Mindustry is sooooo underrated
I'm so glad that Factorio started a "Factorio-like" genre
Now all one needs is Factoriovania 💁♂️
There was sorta-kinda a 'genre' that predates Factorio, made up largely of Zachtronics games, styled as 'games for engineers'. They tend to be more puzzle-based rather than open-ended, but old flash games like the Codex of Alchemical Engineering (since remade, polished, and improved upon as Magnum Opus) involved smashing bits together to make more complicated bits in increasingly complex production chains, etc. I played me a whole lot of SpaceChem back in the day.
its called "factory automation" :>
Like rogue and metroid
I discovered Factory-like from Minecraft way a fair bit before Factorio, with mods like Industrial Craft, Buildcraft etc... and even mods adding Conveyor Belts and Pipes. I would not put Factorio as the source for the Factory genre, I am sure there are many examples that inspired those mods in the first place.
1st day of mindustry: "Sees all of the building" how the heck I'm going to do this
1st year of mindustry: "Intense Calculations" "Complex buildings" "And learning the logic" And all hail the *ROUTER*
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Mindustry is my favorite of all factorio games because:
- editor maps
- Mods unlimited (except if you have potato phone)
- Unlimited Campaign with mods (in V7, it’s possible)
- PvP
- you can even invite players in the campaign in very difficult sectors
Edit: I forgot that it’s also ✨FREE✨ (In PC and android, but not for IOS)
Also
-in V7 (August 9 2022) an Alpha update that includes 2 PLANETS has release. It gets even better and better everyday
On mobile how do you invite a player from different networks
In V5 some mods had campaign expansion
mindustry is a military simulator
Who's ready for the mod "project unity" which changes every single thing in mindustry and makes it 100× better *literally*
Not done though but I'm waitin for it
@@Soup0066 zerotier one
In case anyone is holding off on satisfactory because they think early access means it feels incomplete, it very much already feels like a full game. The only real sign of early access is that there's no story, and you won't even realize that with the focus on your production lines.
Comment I was looking for , very good game!!!
Mindustry consumed my soul for a solid year last year, and I just got back into it excited for the next update. I love how it is constantly growing and evolving. SatisFactory looks great too. I see you've got other videos on logistics/resource management games so I think I'm gonna go ahead and subscribe. Thanks!
I'm also very excited about the next update
Mindustry is a dangerous game for me because its so addicting that i can sometimes do an all nighter just playing accidentaly
@@dziugast7454 fr I remember how I decided to play one more stage for 20 minutes before going to bed and when I looked at the time and it was 4 am 💀
Also the creator said that if mindustry 2 would exist it would be 3d
7.0 Early beta is here
Tip for Mindustry: if you have two exits from enemy spawn for enemies to go, completely block one of entrances with few thousand blocks because A.I works that they go where are less blocks, or no blocks. So you can just build very long maze with exit and put billion turrets.
But then they're gonna go to the second exit and break the wall
crawlers
@@Princedustry6789 well make a big corridor lined with guns and rain hell from all sides
@@Jermain-cz4bh ok
no if you block one they go the other path they walk the shortest amount of distance to your base
The Sacred Router Chain, the best strategy in all of Mindustry
Heresy
This is heresy to me
Yes
@@user-kz6zm3ij5f ROUTER CHAIN ROUTER CHAIN ROUTER CHAIN
new player be like:
Router 'Un'chain
FWIW, Mindustry also has mods, Steam Workshop support, multiplayer, and text-based schematics (meaning you can copy and paste them easily).
*"Noooo you can't just chain routers together!"*
Haha router chain go brrrrr
Heresy
Unacceptable
We all know what happens with the router chains in mindustry they block your suplies and go destroy your factory😂😂
Praise the router b*ch
you can control a router
I'm going to argue that those games aren't clones (because they're not), that's like compering terraria and Minecraft
Yeah, I think it's a tad unfair to claim that these games were solely based off of Factorio. While a game like Mindustry may share conveyor belts and NPC attack waves, I don't think it's enough to call it a clone.
"that's like compering terraria and Minecraft" so perfectly normal and expected?
I agree mindustry is not a clone plus Factorio=absolute disgustingness and people that assume mindustry is a Factorio clone are also absolute disgustingness and idiotic
BTW do you call it mind-dustry or min-dustry I call it mind-dustry
@@Iperus I believe the intended pronunciation is 'min-dustry' as with industry
Mindustry is actually new now mindustry now makes it so when you beat all the waves of a sector you capture it and will be yours forever make sure to knock out the enemy bases if there are ones near the sector (there’s even story now)
but mining drones are gone, right?
@@darkmoon556 The mining drones from v5 are not totally gone, there are new mining drones called "Mono"s and they are produced by the air factory in v6 and v7. A lot of the other support/green units can mine as well, and you can use the logic processor to make them act like mining drones.
Dyson Sphere Project also looks to be shaping up nicely. Idk if I’d prefer it to Factorio, but it’s cool enough. It is in early access as of right now though, so don’t get too excited for a full product just yet.
I made a video about it recently, actually! I beat all the currently existing research and put it away until 1.0 comes out.
Started with Shapez, used to get mad watching let's plays and people saying "oh, wrong hot key, I'm used to Factorio", or stuff like "in Factorio you can.. blah blah".
I'd be like "well this isn't Factorio, if you love it so much, go play that". Well... I eventually had to go see what all the hype was about, now I'm closing in on 500hrs.
Shapez still holds a special place, I adore the wires mode. Making a "Make Anything Machine" was a really fun puzzle.
Also, that shape is a Jelly Fish.
Are you telling me I can't be so immersed in factorio that I forget about the z-axis of life?
Is it sad to say I own all of these and I hadn't seen this video before I bought them
It just means you have good taste.
This year I have gotten unhealthy obsessed with Shapez. I can say it is a really fun game. I don’t really like games that get stressful with combat or a limited amount of resources so this game was the best. I can say it gets really addicting once you get past the first levels. The game is worth it if you like to create factories that go to other factories that go to other factories and so on. Right now in the game I have 20 different factories just to make one shape! I do recommend the game to all.
Unpopular Mindustry opinion:
Router chains are actually OK in early game when refill speed does not matter. They only become a problem in late-game, and if you launch before late-game you're fine.
I still think optimizing conveyors is still better because you're both saving resources and not wasting your output when you eventually switch to titanium conveyors.
From when you can unlock routers, right up until you can unlock overflow, which, like, is a whole 2 minutes there.
So just starting playing, what coud be a better alternative to router chains?
@@veto_5762 overflow and underflow gates
@@shalvei_ didnt they patch that?
2:15 it will suck you in and won’t let you go, next thing you know it’s 3 days later, you missed work, didn’t eat, or go to the bathroom and your only 1% thru the game 😂😅
Mindustry player be like:
Everybody gangsta until the purple spider spawned
Play it to get why we call it that way
Im already know the name
@@novahan7 yeah ik but is for people who might not know about it
Love my factorio, artillery is supremely satisfying, after defending wave after wave and constantly stressing, finally getting artillery and just fuckin bombing biters from half a mile away and watching the shell slowly travel and just gib ten worms is just... chefs kiss.
But Mindustry is also a super addicting game.
I think it would be interesting to have a 2D factory builder where the goal is to get to the core of alien planets, constantly digging down, needing new tech to get deeper and unlocking new upgrades like thermal power but also constantly having to expand towards the top to get more low tier material to continue the grind
Despite being a year out of date, I'm still happy that MINDUSTRY Is in the list
Mindustry has come a long way since this video, and im willing to say it is possibly better than factorio, not only in content and gameplay, but in convenience and ease of access.
and there are mods. That's fun.
Oh, did I mention it's free?
Satisfactory is really fun until you have to lose all of your sanity while tryng to upgrade to phase 3
Of course your the one to release a labor day video. Can't wait for arbor day!
Nice video, didn't know about shapes.io before now.
My personal somewhat factorio like game ranking would be:
1. Factorio
2. Factory Town (fantasy setting and 3D make this pretty interesting also I kind of like not having an avatar to control, not needing to walk around the map gives just building stuff more focus)
3. Mindustry
4. Production Line (about building a car factory, surprisingly enjoyable)
5. Automachef (about automated cooking, was surprised by how well suited the theme of cooking stuff is to automation and it's optimization, food spoilage and rush hours in particular make things pretty neat)
6. Autonauts
(all about programming bots instead of using conveyor belts or such)
7. Blueprint Tycoon (you build a town but each production building has a blueprint that would have been like a mini Zachtronics game puzzle if they were implemented slightly differently but as is I found the way it works too simple)
8. Some Ludum Dare game from at least a year ago that I forgot the name of (it was about magic in some form)
9. Survival Vacancy (Terraria like, not super interesting to me and pretty far from finished)
10. Automation Empire (Would be awesome if it didn't have ton of stupid limitations, just one example would be that pipes used to deliver resources to nearby structures connect only in a straight line and come only in lengths of 1 and 3 which means lots of time spent figuring out the exact spacing your structures should have and/or doing some silly workarounds just to get resources across a 2 or 4 tile gap)
Anyway when Satisfactorio first came out I quickly noted that my PC probably can't run it very well but it's performance might have been optimized since then so maybe I should look into it again.
Shapez.io
FWIW Blueprint Tycoon gave me strong Anno vibes. I've only played 2070, so I can't attest to how good the others are.
@@qzump7989 Haven't tried modding it, tried Minecraft out when I noted that it's TIGSource thread was pretty popular but at the time wasn't that interested since it just seemed like a needlessly cumbersome way to make 3D maps(at least compared to using GTKRadiant to make Tremulous maps like I was doing at the time).
Automation Empire could be such a great game if only there would be more effort. It now feels pretty abandoned. Still has the most appealing aesthetics to me.
@@qzump7989 Cool, looking at those I'm reminded that I somewhat recently played and liked FortressCraft Evolved(and Vintage Story though that's not very factorio like) which is probably pretty similar to those mods.
Anyway some other factorio like games I've played since my first comment are
* Dream Engines Nomad Cities a cool game kind of similar to Warptorio mod(also reminds me of Eggoria which is a lovely nomadic city builder)
* Satisfactory, it was nice and worked decently on my old PC.
* Dyson Sphere Program which I played for quite a while despite getting abysmal FPS, liked how jetpack worked in that so much that decided to add a jetpack mod to Factorio though obviously that wasn't quite the same thing.
* ReFactory, still early in Early Access so didn't play much but it's seemingly trying to feel less exploitative with more focus on green energy and such and in general trying to be more appealing to people who would be passionate about that.
* InfraSpace, much more of a city builder, I feel like most of my time was spent building and adjusting roads but it's still pretty factorio like overall.
Mindustry v5: Survive as long as possible and leave
Mindustry v6-v7: This is my planet now.
Satisfactory was like a gateway drug for me, I now own all the games in the thumbnail
You forgot about 1 important game to add to this list: Dyson Sphere Program!
Me: mom can we get factorio?
Mom: we already have factorio at home.
Factorio at home:
Me: oh it's not that bad.
mindustry best cuz money
@Fallen mindustry is basically a more advanced rts version of factorio
@@Azure9577 more like more military version
@@soillong9755 rts is real time strategy so yeah.....
@@Azure9577 well except RTS generally doesn't let you pause and plan out future builds like that?
I think mindustry is the best of all of them, cuz its fun but scary when they destroy your hard work
The rage on Windswept Islands is immeasurable.
@@helo6824 yep that's true HAHAAHA it took me 2 tries to capture it
What? No love for Autonauts? It has all of the factory and programming of Factorio without any enemies to get in your way--at least for now; they are adding a survival mode. ...AND IT IS SO DARNED CUTE!!!
Dyson Sphere Program is a REALLY good factory game. Its primary feature is, well Dyson Spheres. You can design dyson spheres, or copy blueprints from the internet, and then construct them by launching rockets and shooting railguns at them!
It's factories on a galactic scale.
This! DSP is more similar to factorio than the games in this video. Although the 3D-ness & Dyson sphere design really adds another level of gameplay too
yes! this video also lacks a riftbreaker presentation
shit, i've actually played all the games on this list lmao
never found a list of "X games you should play" where i've played all (or even any) of them before. Cool.
I do hope Mindustry can fix their wiki situation though, there's like 5 different wikis and it's fucking broken as hell.
I have played all 4 games, and somehow Factorio itself is the game I have spent less time at
When you realize you already have all these games
16:49 are you colourblind?
I was waiting for someone to ask this! I knew I couldn’t be the only one who noticed
No, I just didn't have the picture in front of me when I was talking about it so I just said a color I *thought* it was. I knew when I was editing that people would ask that question haha
I'd like a 2D factorio with way more exploration and some impactful decisions. For instance a snowy biome could have no enemies, but once you get pollution it melts snow which floods your base and also invites enemies. Or you could have desert where you need water to cool down your factory. And the incentive to go there is that these are the only places where specific resources are common, you can of course tap into tiny patches in safe areas but you will feel how you starve for resources. If the game invited you to explore distant lands with diverse biomes, mechanics, risks and payoffs then it would be great. How about delinearizing gameplay? Maybe an alternate route to get something? How about more hostile fauna, maybe some infighting we can use thanks to careful wipe out of a few key nests?
You know factorion, but on drugs. I didn’t really touch the mods that much, I got quickly overwhelmed by Pyandon’s, which is probably natural, but still I doubt there’s that level of mods out there. Anyway, anyone else get feelings factorio is just perfect base that needs more development?
Is practically all of the game in this video turn into one game impactful logistic, place to explore, enemies to fight practically mindustry or factorio on a lot of mods
Shapezio is a game I've put more time then I should have. I have games that barely run over a few frames because of the factories I've made. I love it.
Mindustry has gotten a lot better since then
I used to play some of these all the time then I got a new phone and I forgot the name of the game, I never stopped looking for it and thanks to you my search has come to a end
Much thanks
I'm not sure if this is common for people like me, but I have actually owned and played all the games mentioned in this video, so I kinda wanna give my opinion.
- Factorio
factorio is one of those games that I have always been obsessed with but I never actually got to buy it, so when I remembered this classic from my childhood it just had to be the next game I buy, and to this day I don't regret my decision at all. Being a very fun game to sink your time into and also a great game for exploding tons of enemies with your automatic grenade factory, the only real downside to it is that for more casual players it could be a bit overwhelming and not so fun to play if you're not into the combat being basically forced upon you.
After all a great game if you're looking for a more complicated and thurough factory game.
- Satisfactory
what can I say, this is probably the best factory game I have ever played. It has awesome grafics, sound design, research mechanics, factory building, actually some really creative and allowing building for all your architectual needs. It is basically a 1up to the games it took inspiration from, which doesn't mean that the other games like factorio haven't done certain things better, what I'm saying is that with a bit more work and the game coming out of early access, this is and is always going to be a masterpiece in the industry by coffee stain
If you love being satisfied by nicely lined up factories and also love the though of exploring an alien planet, then this game is worth every penny.
- Mindustry
even with my limited experience with this game I can tell that it's a treat to anyone who loves tower defense and factory building. I could find myself coming up with creative sollutions to problems I would never think I'd have to face in a game like this. It has a very unique idea and a great execution, I think it's really underappreciated and deserves more love than it gets. I'm not too much into the combat focused games but I still very much enjoyed it and would recommend at the very least trying out the itch.io version.
overall, an awesome game with an awesome idea and a really cool artstyle as well.
- Shapez.io
now, this game may seem a little barebones at first, but it is a favourite of mine and if you give it a try you'll soon understand why. Having a very simple idea while having the game be so much fun to play, this game can get really fun, really fast. At the start I saw it through a youtube video and it really grew on me when I tried out the browser version. I bought it as soon as I could just so I could experience the full version for myself. If I'm going to be honest it did get a bit boring later on but I managed to keep myself going with just starting another save and trying different methods of planning out my factory and after all, the game gets really frequent updates from (I think) the one passionate developer that works on this game and it also has a puzzle DLC so now you have a whole plethera of things you can use to motivate yourself to play.
Great game to play for relaxation on your free time.
And that probably concludes this. I just want to say that this is all my opinion and if you disagree you can CALMLY respond and propose your opinions and experiences with any of these games. Also props to whoever actually reads this, I apreciate you very much and also thanks to Ingeniouseclown for making this very entertaining video, so entertaining in fact, that I wasted at least an hour on this comment. :)
mindustry might need a rewatch after the new update
I also like to mention Dyson sphere program, intergalactic factory megastructure constructing fun
the nostalga of older mindustry before the planet was so nice to see
Factory Town absolutely deserves a slot here. It's the zen version and is absolutely superb, especially considering it started off as a one man project and is one of the greatest examples of a quality early access title. :)
Factorio:Noo you can't just wait for stuff to build before constructing it
Satisfactory:Noo you can't just make stuff without clicking it forever to make lots of resources
Mindustry:Haha construction goes brrr,but sometimes grrr,but we have polys and megas to help us out
I highly recommend Mindustry even now, the game is still zero on itch and app store and newly updated game is massive and mods just make it better. Happy constructing you factory one any of these games.
1:40 "the entire world is a puzzle and you're there with your box of Legos trying to solve it." Never has this game been better summarized in a single sentence.
I see you still managed to reach the very last maybe memory of draug miners on Mindustry
Yea lol V5
V6 completely overhauled the unit system, resprited and renamed most old units and added new things too, most notably tho it kinda made it a bit more complex.
In Satisfactory, when you need to manually craft multiple items, you can just hit space and it will keep crafting :)
Still doesn't make it any faster..., but hey less finger cramps!
Factory Town is a nice addition to the genre.
5 things that makes Mindustry great:
-router
-router
-router
-router
-router
you should count factory town in, that game has nice features like: vertical building, renewability (you can make your own resource sources later on) also it has no enemies, chill : D. the only downside is it becomes way too complex when it comes to vertical building
mindustry having online coop and pvp is just glorious
Yeah its kinda hard to understand why mindustry would be the best if these 3. But it is. At least for me. You have to play for a stupidly long time to fully understand it. To know that you have created schematics that you couldnt possibly explain to very many people. That only a select few can even fathon how you make every single resource from scrap. Or how you create power seemingly out of thin air. Even people who have played for a hundred ours are still in their beginning stages. THEEEEN, you get to multiplayer. Where nothing you learned as of tactics or space management applies. Where itll only take the opponent a few minutes to find out how to completely eradicate you. Even though you have 5 layers of thorium walls 2 layers of mend projectors and an american shit ton of foreshadows. Love this game and i will play it until the very very bitter end
If don't get the impact the name means go play it and unlock everything and you will know why
What made me love factorio as long as the tutorial lasted, and then get bored as soon as I entered the open world because I lacked an extrinsic motivation, might be just what mindustry has
I'm so glad mindustry on this list, It's changed a lot durring the time this video has been out but it's my favorite tower defence/real time strategy/factory game ive ever played. The updates are frequent, the main game is very fun especially with coop + it has pvp that you can play with friends which is my favorite part. It's definitely with checking out
Hey can you do a video on “What makes a game unique” or “What gives a game a unique aesthetic” something like that.
oh, another nice game in the same 'factory builder' realm that started early access since this video came out is Dyson Sphere Program, wherein your goal is to create dyson spheres around various stars by setting up logistics networks between their planets. Due to how dyson spheres work with energy generation, it gets exponentially easier to add more to a sphere as it is built, and once you have one fully constructed it makes it immensely easy to build another
“So your *guy* can’t craft things”
That’s one curvy guy....
Correction: factorio man's objective is not to "escape the planet" or "get home". While the ship crashing wasn't part of the plan, he came to that planet on purpose. And that purpose is to strip it of all resources.
The factory must grow
Every time I fire up Satisfactory 200 hours of my life dissapear. Also map-wide conveyor stacks is the optimal way to transport resources! It requires the least amount of brainpower to design and it doubles as transportation! Slide jumping on T5 belts gives you some insane speed. Admittedly there was that one time when I passed through an area where the collision was really fucked up and fell through the floor multipple times, but it was worth it in the end because I didn't have to think.
Have you tried sandship?
Hadn't heard of that so was excited but then realized it seems to be only for mobile. Is there no PC version or should I think about re-installing an android emulator?
Dude, this is an awesome video. Thank you for this.
What I love about satisfactory is that it doesn't have any pollution mechanic, no renewable energy except geothermal because the company that the player character works for (and is probably owned by) just doesn't care and gives you nuclear bombs and a post car
After update 5 for Satisfactory the game has been much more refined along with the addition of a ton a new building parts, the game completely changed for myself and many others as a result. Coffee Stain also does not do road maps so every update is usually a surprise but they do show some content before updates come out but they leave out massive features and show those the day of the update launch.
I agree with this. Especially when they announ ced collisions for trains, where nobody expected completely derailed trains upon collision and have excellent physics on each wagon separately.
Dyson Sphere Program
I found shapezio during quarantine and I dumped so much time into it. My computer made me stop playing it because it couldn't handle the sheer number of not so mini factories and the basically infinite number of random shapes going into the central hub.
pov me seeing that much coal while i am on mindustry:
I WANT TO TAKE UR WHOLE STOCK
When I first researched oil in Satisfactory, I built a several kilometers long bridge over a big lake-filled forest, because I expected the path on the ground to go past something dangerous. I don't know if I was right, but at least I found lots of power slugs on trees.
You mean the spider infested forest i would never go in without arachnophobia mode? Building a bridge there seems like a very good idea!
I have and love all of these. Well done !
Myself, I think TerraTech deserves an honorable mention. Granted, the game only has some elements of a factory game as most of the focus is on other things like exploration, building vehicles and completing missions and race tracks with them. While the factory elements are not as sophisticated, it actually does have some factory elements.
Also, I'm rather shocked that there was no mention of Fortresscraft Evolved. I mean, that's an open-world, exploration-based automation game seemingly inspired by Factorio (and Minecraft) with quite a few similarities.
Just put the shapes game in my wishlist. I like playing puzzle games and managing resources to wind down a bit and think. It's better if said game is somewhat bare bones (think tetris or something). The other two look interesting, but just looking for chill game atm. Nice video, btw.
I remember your space pirates and zombies playthrough. Memorys.
dyson sphere program is my favourite factorioid. very relaxing and soothing.
Thanks, now I can't unsee that shapez io shape
I was playing satisfactory while watching this video and I am putting this out when update 5 has been out for a bit and I have to say its so adicting.
I love that resting saves progress in Death Stranding
Actually started with Satisfactory, and only recently tried Factorio. There's something about Factorio that just doesn't quite hit the same notes for me though.
I think it has a lot to do with the fact Satisfactory focuses not just on the factory, but on the world, exploration and building. There's so much more room for player expression in Satisfactory as well. My factory is now a huge structure with some thought to outward aesthetic design, even if on the inside it's sometimes still a mess of conveyor belt spaghetti monster.
let game it out lol
It’s preference thing, but I am thankful for factorio for opening the door to a genre of games I never thought I would like
I still remember that old version of mindustry the first one i played and i was addicted to it in the first minute and i didn't even notice it and now mindustry seems to have not changed too much but it have even more things now idk how the type game are so addictive
Fun fact: if you get the space exploration mod for factorio, you’ll get an exploration side to the game, as you scour through asteroid belts, orbits, star systems and even the interstellar void
I actually played all four but factorio is so increndible!
FYI, mindustry is open-source, people can actually contribute to the codebase and add things
This guy can be a marketing employee and whatever he makes an advert for would get like 10+ million downloads
there is also Factory town, which is like a mix of factorio and Anno but without combat
dyson sphere program definitely deserves an honorable mention, setting you up in a small galaxy of individual solar systems with spherical planets for you to exploit and build factories on, with you eventually developing interstellar logistic netword to build a dyson sphere
While Satisfactory is in some ways a more chill game than Factorio, it does provide slightly other type of challenges and the size of the factory can be felt more.
A relatively new entry to this genre is "Learning Factory" with a little bit different approach, and a big huge shout out for Dyson Sphere Program. I love this Interstellar logistics game almost more than Factorio and Satisfactory. I don't know which one I like best, so to me it is a shared 1st place between Factorio, Satisfactory and DSP for now. Not mentioned games are also Early Access, but especially DSP has quite a high level of polish and quality comparable to Satisfactory EA.
PS(edit) : I saw you covered both in separate videos. Great work! 😉
It says a lot about myself when I've played all of these games
Dont forget about modded minecraft some modpacks really are a 3d factorio.
You should definitely revisit Mindustry, the game has come a long way
Now, you better check back on what Satisfactory had updated with.
A nap? The Factory must grow!
Mindustry is often overlooked
Thx for talking about it
I'm so glad you showed mindustry, that game needs more recognition
Also mindustry has v6 :D
This guy needs to remaster this video in the future. Because Factorio is getting a DLC. Mindustry is V7 now and Satisfactory is approaching release.
Best part is he didn't go into modding in mindustry and factorio
Factorio is one of the few games that I needed to see a gameplay video for 30 seconds without knowing absolutely anything about it to go purchase straight away without even worrying about its price, so much was the interest it sparked. I think the only other game that did that to me ever was Minecraft.
Not only is Shapez a good game, it has an amazing sound track. I have never cared about sound tracks ever before hearing this one. I tried Mindustry on my phone and had no idea what I was doing, so I deleted it. Satisfactory looks difficult, yet beautiful. It's the only one I haven't tried yet.