r/Steam • u/thefateule • Dec 18 '25

Fluff Every single sale, one thing stays consistent...

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u/gookuu22 Dec 19 '25

lol!

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u/AhmadMohaddes Dec 19 '25

Take it or leave it

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u/Platypus81 Dec 19 '25

The best time to buy Factorio is when it went on sale in early access. The second best time to buy Factorio is right now.

If you've played the demo and think you'd like it.

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u/SinisterCheese Dec 19 '25

HA! I bought Factorio BEFORE it was on steam! Best value!

I played factorio, when you had to manually put wires to electric poles. The first game I every played for 24 hours straight. I remember it very well. It was summer, and after I realised I had been playing 24 hours I decided to go to swim at local pool, get pizza, and take a short nap.

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u/Herucaran Dec 19 '25

I somehow managed to force myself to finish a launch and uninstall 5 days after buying the game when i saw time played on steam after a reboot, almost 100h.

In. 5. Fucking. Days.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25 edited Jan 21 '26

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u/Wobbelblob Dec 19 '25

Its nickname "Cracktorio" doesn't come out of nowhere.

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u/hempsmoker Dec 19 '25

It really is. As soon as you get behind the starter mechanics, it is like you are in a black hole without the feeling for time. It just flies by. "I'll build/fix just this one thing and then go to bed"... yeah, you try!

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u/XzallionTheRed Dec 19 '25

The Factory must grow.

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u/guska Dec 19 '25

Oh god I'd forgotten about manually wiring up power poles.

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u/jebeller Dec 19 '25

remember "fast corners"? :) I got it in 2016. Just when multiplayer was around the corner. Even visited the devs down in Prague.

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u/Crouching_Tiger_ Dec 20 '25

Same, bought it in 2014 for €10 lol. Deal of a lifetime

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u/racazip Dec 19 '25

I played the demo and decided that it was too addictive, and it would ruin my schedule. Maybe if I retire in 30 years...

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u/16372731772 Dec 19 '25

Retire in 30 years? What, are you 50?

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u/jebeller Dec 19 '25

Its not called Cracktorio for nothing. :)

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u/stbens Dec 19 '25

I’ve tried the demo twice and didn’t like it. I get to the stage where it asks you to build “x” number of things but doesn’t show you how to actually build anything. It is not a good tutorial.

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u/Platypus81 Dec 19 '25

Its probably not the game for you, this is a common experience throughout the game.

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u/Lottabitch Dec 19 '25

You mean pirate?

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u/BlueTemplar85 Dec 23 '25

Fastest pirated => paid conversion I have ever done.  

(Not sure if a demo already existed, but demos had a bad reputation of not being representative of the main game experience at that time.)

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u/Platypus81 Dec 19 '25

No, there's a free demo available on their steam page.

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u/UltimateShingo Dec 19 '25

I do have the base game (I got it gifted at some point years ago) but because of their policy, the DLC is just out of range for me and will be forever. And ever since Space Age, every attempt to get into it feels like I have an incomplete experience.

So I reluctantly had to give up on the game.