Total Factory

About

"Total Factory" is a game where you play as a robot with advanced AI, tasked to automate resource production on a mysterious planet. Build and protect your base, complete tasks to unlock new machines, and explore four different biomes. The game features procedural generation, combat and engineer robots, and the option to play in peaceful mode. Upgrade your robot and defenses as you advance through the game.

Genres & Tags

Play Modes

Single-Player Play through the game's story or campaign solo

50%

Audience ScoreBased on 20 reviews

graphics2 positive mentions

grinding12 negative mentions

Total Factory offers a fun game loop and progression for about 75% of the gameplay.
The game runs smoothly without performance issues and features a nice visual presentation.
Players appreciate the option to include or exclude enemies, making it accessible for different play styles.

The inventory management is limited, lacking auto stacking and sorting, which becomes a major issue in late game.
Combat mechanics are frustrating, with a weak main weapon and finicky targeting making encounters tedious.
The last two levels feel rushed and unbalanced, requiring excessive manual effort for farming and resource management.

grinding
12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Players find the grinding aspect of Total Factory to be excessive and tedious, particularly in the end game where levels feel rushed and unbalanced. The need for constant micromanagement, especially in resource gathering and crafting, detracts from the overall experience, leading some to resort to unconventional methods like using a rubber band to automate their actions. While the game excels in automation for much of its duration, the manual tasks required can become frustratingly repetitive.
- “Total Factory is a strong automation game for 75% of the time, but the end game feels rushed with levels that are extremely grindy, unbalanced, and inventory that is not optimized in a way to lessen the player's time.”
- “There's too much grinding to manually mine a lot of the resources before it can be automated - I ended up using a rubber band to hold down the mouse button.”
- “It's unnecessarily tedious to have to track down and craft subordinate parts manually.”
optimization
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
33%
33%
33%
Overall, "Total Factory" performs well with no significant bugs or performance issues, functioning as intended. However, players note that the end game suffers from grindy and unbalanced levels, along with an inventory system that could be better optimized to enhance the gameplay experience.
- “It's not labeled early access; it has a full achievement list, and it all works as intended without any performance issues.”
- “No bugs or issues with performance.”
- “Total Factory is a strong automation game for 75% of the time, but the end game feels rushed with levels that are extremely grindy, unbalanced, and inventory that is not optimized in a way to lessen the player's time.”
graphics
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The graphics effectively capture the essence of the genre, featuring a variety of elements like conveyor belts and drills that function as intended. Players appreciate the aesthetic upgrades that occur when these components are enhanced, adding a pleasing visual touch to the gameplay.
- “Everything from the genre is here: conveyor belts, drills, power lines, assemblers, mergers, splitters, etc. All works as expected, and when upgraded, I was surprised to see them aesthetically change. Nice touch.”
gameplay
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
50%
Players appreciate the gameplay mechanics that facilitate progress, particularly highlighting the ability to build factories, which enhances their overall experience.
- “I found some game mechanics that work in the player's favor, and I was actually able to start building a factory.”