Short and sweet.

The screenshots on the store page are a lie: your factory will not look like that. It will be a giant mess, the epitome of controlled chaos, a place that only you can navigate.

Factorio is a resource management game where you make layout decisions that only make sense at the time of construction.

Your past self has no idea how badly things get out of hand, your current self kicks the can down to road, and you hope that your future self figures out a proper way of doing things.

Factorio has an excellent demo that showcases the basic gameplay loops of the full game.

One of the best stories in a video game.

It's chess. Technically.