Incremental Factory

Item: Incremental Factory
Rating: 55
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-07-20

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Summary

Unplayable due to critical bugs and instability
Enjoyable, promising Factorio-like factory automation
Satisfying factory building and rewarding progression
Poor UI and inadequate tutorial experience
Restrictive progression and balance issues
Active and responsive developers

Emotions

Frustration27%Satisfaction23%Disappointment16%Excitement8%Enjoyment4%

Reviews (sample size): 166
Helpful reviews: 85%
Unhelpful reviews: 15%
Protest reviews: 0%

55%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
45%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 383
Negative points: 400
Gameplay points: 208
Perf. points: 6
Rec. points: 66
Misc points: 58

Point	Description	Importance
Enjoyable and Promising Gameplay Description Players find the game enjoyable and fun, highlighting its potential to become a standout title in the incremental genre. Many express satisfaction with the core gameplay loop and its addictive nature. Importance 72%	Players find the game enjoyable and fun, highlighting its potential to become a standout title in the incremental genre. Many express satisfaction with the core gameplay loop and its addictive nature.	72%
Satisfying Factory Building Description The game excels as a factory builder, offering a satisfying experience for optimizing production lines and creating efficient layouts. It's often compared favorably to Factorio, providing a more accessible yet deep factory simulation. Importance 64%	The game excels as a factory builder, offering a satisfying experience for optimizing production lines and creating efficient layouts. It's often compared favorably to Factorio, providing a more accessible yet deep factory simulation.	64%
Rewarding Progression System Description The progression system is highly satisfying, with each upgrade feeling like a significant achievement. The game offers a well-balanced challenge that increases with complexity, making replays enjoyable. Importance 31%	The progression system is highly satisfying, with each upgrade feeling like a significant achievement. The game offers a well-balanced challenge that increases with complexity, making replays enjoyable.	31%
Active and Responsive Developers Description The developers are highly active and responsive to player feedback, consistently releasing updates and hotfixes. This engagement fosters a sense of community involvement in the game's ongoing development. Importance 29%	The developers are highly active and responsive to player feedback, consistently releasing updates and hotfixes. This engagement fosters a sense of community involvement in the game's ongoing development.	29%
Casual and Relaxing Play Description The game is praised for its casual playability, allowing it to run in the background without demanding full attention or high system resources. Its minimalist design contributes to a focused and relaxing experience. Importance 26%	The game is praised for its casual playability, allowing it to run in the background without demanding full attention or high system resources. Its minimalist design contributes to a focused and relaxing experience.	26%
Clean and Minimalist Design Description The game's overall presentation is clean and minimalist, contributing to a solid and delightful experience. Its simple design is appreciated by players. Importance 16%	The game's overall presentation is clean and minimalist, contributing to a solid and delightful experience. Its simple design is appreciated by players.	16%
Intuitive and Simple UI Description The user interface is described as intuitive, simple, and effective, allowing players to easily navigate features and focus on the core gameplay mechanics without unnecessary clutter. Importance 15%	The user interface is described as intuitive, simple, and effective, allowing players to easily navigate features and focus on the core gameplay mechanics without unnecessary clutter.	15%
Good Value for Money Description Players feel the game offers excellent value for its price, often exceeding expectations in terms of content and enjoyment provided, especially when purchased on sale. Importance 12%	Players feel the game offers excellent value for its price, often exceeding expectations in terms of content and enjoyment provided, especially when purchased on sale.	12%
Engaging Puzzles and Logic Description The game appeals to players who enjoy logical puzzles and strategic thinking, often involving graph-like diagrams and optimization challenges, despite its simple graphics. Importance 10%	The game appeals to players who enjoy logical puzzles and strategic thinking, often involving graph-like diagrams and optimization challenges, despite its simple graphics.	10%
Satisfying Drag-and-Drop Mechanics Description The mechanics of dragging and connecting parcels and nodes are described as highly satisfying, contributing to an engaging and rewarding interaction with the game's systems. Importance 8%	The mechanics of dragging and connecting parcels and nodes are described as highly satisfying, contributing to an engaging and rewarding interaction with the game's systems.	8%
Immediate Fun and Engagement Description The game provides immediate enjoyment, hooking players from the very first day or hour of play, indicating a strong and promising early game experience. Importance 8%	The game provides immediate enjoyment, hooking players from the very first day or hour of play, indicating a strong and promising early game experience.	8%
Low System Requirements Description The game has low system requirements, allowing it to run smoothly on virtually any computer system without performance issues, making it widely accessible. Importance 7%	The game has low system requirements, allowing it to run smoothly on virtually any computer system without performance issues, making it widely accessible.	7%
Good for Short Play Sessions Description The game is suitable for passing a few hours, offering decent ideas and a change of pace from typical clicker games, which is seen as a positive. Importance 7%	The game is suitable for passing a few hours, offering decent ideas and a change of pace from typical clicker games, which is seen as a positive.	7%