FOUNDRY

Item: FOUNDRY
Rating: 62
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-07-07

Summary

Seamless multiplayer experience is a highlight
Deep automation and logistics are engaging
Unfinished and unoriginal game experience
Excessive grind and slow progression
Lack of core engagement reported
Bugs and stability issues present

Emotions

Satisfaction24%Disappointment19%Frustration17%Excitement9%Joy7%

Snapshot History

Positive

Negative

909

74%

26%

861

62%

38%

Reviews (sample size): 1235
Helpful reviews: 70%
Unhelpful reviews: 27%
Protest reviews: 3%

62%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
38%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 1828
Negative points: 2201
Gameplay points: 898
Perf. points: 46
Rec. points: 500
Misc points: 390

Point	Description	Importance
Seamless multiplayer experience Description The game's multiplayer functionality is highly praised for being seamless and well-implemented, significantly enhancing the enjoyment of building and optimizing factories with friends. Cooperative play allows for joint planning and shared duties, adding a new layer of fun and engagement. Importance 89%	The game's multiplayer functionality is highly praised for being seamless and well-implemented, significantly enhancing the enjoyment of building and optimizing factories with friends. Cooperative play allows for joint planning and shared duties, adding a new layer of fun and engagement.	89%
Fun, deep, and polished Description Players consistently find the game highly enjoyable, deep, and addictive, often praising its polished state and smooth performance for an Early Access title. The game offers significant content and replayability, providing a relaxing and stress-free experience. Importance 79%	Players consistently find the game highly enjoyable, deep, and addictive, often praising its polished state and smooth performance for an Early Access title. The game offers significant content and replayability, providing a relaxing and stress-free experience.	79%
Deep automation & logistics Description The game excels as a deep and engaging automation and factory-building simulator, offering complex systems for supply chains, resource management, and production optimization. Players praise its ability to provide a satisfying experience for both newcomers and veterans of the genre, often highlighting its unique twists and polished mechanics. Importance 36%	The game excels as a deep and engaging automation and factory-building simulator, offering complex systems for supply chains, resource management, and production optimization. Players praise its ability to provide a satisfying experience for both newcomers and veterans of the genre, often highlighting its unique twists and polished mechanics.	36%
Distinct from genre peers Description The game is frequently compared to genre giants like Satisfactory, Factorio, and Minecraft, often highlighted for its unique blend of their best elements. Reviewers appreciate its distinct approach, such as voxel-based terraforming, a slower pace, less overwhelming progression, and improved energy management, offering a fresh experience. Importance 22%	The game is frequently compared to genre giants like Satisfactory, Factorio, and Minecraft, often highlighted for its unique blend of their best elements. Reviewers appreciate its distinct approach, such as voxel-based terraforming, a slower pace, less overwhelming progression, and improved energy management, offering a fresh experience.	22%
Active developer support Description Reviewers highly commend the developers for their active engagement, consistent updates, and clear vision for the game's future. This dedication instills confidence in the game's significant potential to grow and improve, especially as an Early Access title. Importance 19%	Reviewers highly commend the developers for their active engagement, consistent updates, and clear vision for the game's future. This dedication instills confidence in the game's significant potential to grow and improve, especially as an Early Access title.	19%
Peaceful building sandbox Description A significant draw for players is the game's peaceful, combat-free environment, allowing for a truly relaxing and stress-free building experience. This focus on pure creation, combined with extensive building freedom and terraforming capabilities, makes it an ideal sandbox for automation enthusiasts. Importance 15%	A significant draw for players is the game's peaceful, combat-free environment, allowing for a truly relaxing and stress-free building experience. This focus on pure creation, combined with extensive building freedom and terraforming capabilities, makes it an ideal sandbox for automation enthusiasts.	15%
Update 2 improved game Description Update 2 is consistently highlighted as a game-changer, significantly enhancing content, gameplay, and quality-of-life features. This update deepened the purpose of production, introduced new mechanics like galactic trade, and made the experience of growing and optimizing factories even more satisfying and addictive. Importance 14%	Update 2 is consistently highlighted as a game-changer, significantly enhancing content, gameplay, and quality-of-life features. This update deepened the purpose of production, introduced new mechanics like galactic trade, and made the experience of growing and optimizing factories even more satisfying and addictive.	14%
Engaging galactic trade Description The galactic trade system is a standout feature, providing a compelling endgame objective and a unique twist to the factory genre. It offers a strong incentive for large-scale production and adds a fresh layer of logistics and economic strategy, differentiating the game from its peers. Importance 10%	The galactic trade system is a standout feature, providing a compelling endgame objective and a unique twist to the factory genre. It offers a strong incentive for large-scale production and adds a fresh layer of logistics and economic strategy, differentiating the game from its peers.	10%
Destructible voxel terrain & verticality Description A highly praised and unique feature is the game's fully destructible voxel-based world, which allows players extensive freedom in terraforming and shaping the environment. This capability enables creative solutions for resource management and factory placement, including building underground tunnels for belts and even flying structures, making the world a vast and adaptable playground. Importance 10%	A highly praised and unique feature is the game's fully destructible voxel-based world, which allows players extensive freedom in terraforming and shaping the environment. This capability enables creative solutions for resource management and factory placement, including building underground tunnels for belts and even flying structures, making the world a vast and adaptable playground.	10%
High replayability & longevity Description The game offers immense replayability and acts as a significant time sink, with players reporting hundreds of hours of engagement. Its infinite, procedurally generated world, combined with addictive gameplay loops, provides endless opportunities for expansion and exploration, making it easy to lose track of time. Importance 7%	The game offers immense replayability and acts as a significant time sink, with players reporting hundreds of hours of engagement. Its infinite, procedurally generated world, combined with addictive gameplay loops, provides endless opportunities for expansion and exploration, making it easy to lose track of time.	7%
Unique art style & atmosphere Description The game is praised for its distinctive and appealing art style, characterized by visual simplicity, a bright palette, and clear voxel forms. This aesthetic, combined with a complementary soundtrack, creates a soothing and immersive atmosphere that contributes to the game's unique identity and overall enjoyment. Importance 7%	The game is praised for its distinctive and appealing art style, characterized by visual simplicity, a bright palette, and clear voxel forms. This aesthetic, combined with a complementary soundtrack, creates a soothing and immersive atmosphere that contributes to the game's unique identity and overall enjoyment.	7%
Procedural map generation Description The game features a robust procedural map generation system that creates unique and diverse environments for each playthrough, filled with varied biomes, hills, caves, and resources. This ensures high replayability and encourages exploration, preventing repetitive gameplay and offering fresh challenges for factory placement and resource acquisition. Importance 5%	The game features a robust procedural map generation system that creates unique and diverse environments for each playthrough, filled with varied biomes, hills, caves, and resources. This ensures high replayability and encourages exploration, preventing repetitive gameplay and offering fresh challenges for factory placement and resource acquisition.	5%