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(9-year-old's review, typed by his dad)

(adopts old-sounding voice) My son recently began— Dad, type it.

My son recently began his wonderful journey into his nice, wonderful, bean-covered world, and also there's purple stuff underground, don't go in there. And in the sky, baby islands. Nonononono I said "they be islands".

(Drops fancy voice) And also there's this weird goat, who's name is ROAR-oo. And also there's a boat in the sky. You have to hop on rocks. Bye.

[Dad's Note: When he said "Rauru", he didn't say the word "ROAR", he roared as loud as he could, and then said "oooo".]

I think Factorio manages to do what very few other games in this sort of mini-genre of factory games do and threads a very fine line between being a very satisfying and complex factory strategy game while also conveying through just its aesthetic that this sort of enormous-scale industrialization is definitely making you the bad guy.

The fastest way to lose is to realize that you can build a better factory than the one you worked on for 40 hours.