ReFactory

ReFactory ReFactory is a war strategy game set on an alien planet. As the ship AI, build automated factories, power your city, mine resources, defend facilities, and search for lost crew to escape.

ReFactory

ReFactory is a war strategy game set on an alien world. After a crash, you’re left stranded while your crew is scattered and your gear is damaged. To survive and eventually get home, you take charge as the ship’s AI—gathering resources, setting up automated production lines for energy, repairing key ship facilities, growing a city, expanding both your industry and territory, and tracking down the missing team members.

As the story unfolds, hostile forces and monsters begin targeting your facilities. Progress depends on researching new technology, raising an army, and building defenses to keep your base standing. The game also includes a custom mode, where you can adjust difficulty, resource production speed, enemy strength, and other settings to tailor the challenge.

Key Features

• Crash landing survival: Following a spacecraft accident, you’re trapped on an alien planet with the crew dispersed and equipment in disrepair. Your task is to establish a city, secure resources, recover missing personnel, and find a route back home.



• Build and automate factories: Create automated production to unlock new options. As you progress, turning copper ore into wire, producing conductive cables, and deploying assembly machines increases what your city can produce.
• Mining expeditions and resource chains: Send out to gather materials like copper, iron ore, timber, crystals, granite, and oil. Set up production installations, handle electricity distribution, and keep improving your systems to manufacture higher-quality goods.
• Technology progression: Research advanced fields such as microelectronics, chemical processes, and explosive production. You can create dedicated factories or build an interconnected production network to improve your chances of locating the crew.
• Expand into new territory: Explore to unlock additional regions for placing more factories. As your settlement grows, it can draw the attention of alien invaders—so be ready to respond.



• Defend your city: Strengthen defenses with walls, mines, and heavy cannons. Use chemical weapons when needed and deploy armored drones to help withstand attacks.

Gameplay Strategy Tips

Welcome to ReFactory—a sandbox strategy experience focused on building an automated factory on an alien planet. Your mission is to recover resources, locate your crew, and return to Earth. Use these tips to get ahead:

• Build and automate factories: Set up new buildings and production chains to expand what you can do.
• Mine resources: Gather key materials like copper, iron, timber, crystals, granite, and oil to grow both your city and your manufacturing output.
• Research technologies: Move from early tech to advanced upgrades to improve your odds of finding the crew.



• Explore new lands: Unlock more territory for additional factory construction, but remember—alien invaders may arrive as you expand.
• Defend your city: Repel assaults using mines, cannons, chemical weapons, and drones.
• Plan your online strategy (if applicable): Balance resource distribution, technology upgrades, and your overall long-term plan.

Starting tip: Begin on the easy difficulty and ramp up gradually. Take your time learning the systems, build thoughtfully, and enjoy managing the multitasking side of factory development.

Player Notes

• Initial hesitation, then praise: One player was unsure about buying because they expected it to be a typical mobile adaptation, but they felt the game executes well. They reported being in the second scenario at the time of review.



• Simpler factory building: Belts, buildings, and resources resemble other factory-style games, but setup is less demanding than some titles. Conveyor placement is described as simpler than in similar games, though not as effortless as certain competitors.
• No character avatar: Movement and interaction are handled via drones rather than an engineer-style character.
• Research guidance: If you need prerequisite research, the game jumps you directly to the relevant research entry.
• In-game “book” for production: There’s a reference-style guide that lists how to produce items, what each item requires, and which building performs the crafting.
• Day 1 review status: The review is based on the day 1 release and may change later. The player indicated they recommend the game with a “thumbs up,” while also warning they don’t fully recommend it at the current price/state.

Note on PC vs mobile (from the review): The same review states that the PC version appears very similar to the full mobile version, aside from controls (arrow keys for scrolling and standard mouse controls). They also compare the overhead mining, building, and automation feel to well-known factory/space automation games.

Technical feedback mentioned: The review highlights that ReFactory does not use an engineer/avatar character for navigating the map, distinguishing it from certain similar games.