Factorio is all about automated logistics, which is fancy talk for "you build and maintain a factory that does stuff". You need basic resources to make things, you need production lines to refine things, more complex structures to assemble things, and so on. It's all one big chain of resource hunting and efficiency tweaking, exactly the kind of thing we want in our simulations. You even have to power the factory and defend it from attackers. The trailer below introduces the gameplay quite well.

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