Incremental Factory
by Significant Steak · 29 Jan, 2024
21 downloads
About the Game
From the mind of a lone engineer, watch as your empire grows into a sprawling network of parcels and clusters, each humming with the rhythmic dance of machinery. This is more than just an automation game - it's an intricate dance of strategy, planning, and constant optimization, where every decision you make has a ripple effect throughout your entire enterprise.
Construct and operate your own factory, managing the flow of resources, overcoming challenges, and constantly optimize your production chains. With a whole array of tools and structures at your disposal, the power to create a bustling industrial empire is in your hands.
Incremental Factory is a living, breathing game, with an active community that plays a vital role in shaping updates and bug fixes. Together with your fellow players, you'll help to shape the game and create an ever-evolving experience that's as immersive as it is challenging.
Are you ready to build your own industrial empire and conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
What others say about the game
- "This is honestly one of my dream games. I love Factorio but it’s such a time sink. I’ve always wanted a good logistics game that could just run in the background. As long as it gets regular updates I can see myself coming back to it for years"
- "It’s one of the best idle games I’ve found."
- "This game is the perfect incremental of factorio, I swear!"
Screenshots
10 images
Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Bug Fixes:
Fixes fuseFactoryTech so it now properly unlocks the Fuse Factory (including localization and save backfill for already-completed research).
Fixes repair kit progression timing: Basic Repair Kit Factory Tech is now available before purple science (moved to Military Tech Tier 2 path).
Fixes overlapping same-direction hub connections (e.g. copper plates/cables stacking and becoming hard to select).
Fixes research unlock text mismatches:
Basic Electronics now only lists Gen 1 Chip Plant.
Silicon Production Tech now lists Silicon Furnace.
QoL Feature:
Adds Shift-drag axis lock in map view:
live horizontal/vertical lock switching while dragging,
in-canvas guide line + lock label,
clearer drag-origin indicator.
Live on v08-beta branch!
Bug Fixes:
Fixes a savegame loading bug
Improves hub connection resource selector 'More' candidates.
QoL Feature:
Adds color-coded production rate stats in the sidebar.
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- Added a loading screen escape hatch: if the game gets stuck while auto-loading (e.g. “initializing excavation”), you can now press Back to Home and then Continue/Load manually.
- Added Large Node Parcels setting (bigger node visuals; handles still appear on hover).
- Fixed production hubs sharing camera state: each hub now remembers its own camera position and zoom, including across leaving the view and reloads.
- Fixed research UI progress/hover bars showing incorrect remaining cost/progress (no more incorrect 0%/100% display).
- Fixed combat zone unlock bug when switching zones mid-fight: fights now resolve/unlock the correct zone and don’t leave zones stuck in combat state.
This fixes this.
Happy Building everyone ✌️
we are so happy how the launch of 0.7 went and that it got received well!
Our Discord is the most alive it has ever been and we are getting significantly more feedback than in the beta phase. So if we haven't answered you yet, rest assured, we are reading & acting on everything 🙌
This is a hotfix to take care of urgent issues. There will be another update soon that improves gameplay, guiding and UI and will have a high impact on how the game flows start to finish. So keep a look out for that one!
Changes:
- Fixed an issue where users got a black screen after working with blueprints --> If you still get the issue report it on our Discord (or make a new post in the Discussions)
- Fixed lots of small issues, e.g. hotkeys work better now (and are not perfect yet, we need to refactor how we handle keys to make it really clean)
- Performance -> We found more performance gains. Large factories should be more stable now. We tested factories up to 10k parcels (!) on a MacBook Pro M2+ and it was still _somewhat_ playable (~60 FPS with heavy frame drops and short term freezes, but still, the factory kept running). --> I'd say 1k should work for everyone, and 2-5k should work on most good machines and still be playable. --> Try to see how far you can get and post it on discord :)
Good to Know
- Drone Blueprints are still functionally buggy in this version. Just FYI, this will be fully fixed soon
- If your drone tasks / min are too fast, that can impact the performance. So if you are wondering why the game is lagging after pasting --> maybe reduce the speed a bit
- If you have issues with a hotkey, opening a parcel and then pressing "ESC" often solves the issue. Alternativley, tab in and out of the window can help as well.
- If you generally have issues, a restart often solves them. (But make sure to still report them, we want to fix all of them)
P.S.
Here are just a few factories that players have built so far:
Showcase: Player Factories
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User: conkerer
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User: B4D2J0
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User: Shuzo_
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User: mikipiton
- Fixed a translation bug
- Added Spanish, French & (Brazilian) Portuguese
this is the follow up to the v0.5 with the most immediate improvements that will help really use those new features.
Features & Changes
- Improved drone task execution performance to allow it to handle higher task speeds of 1k / min or even 10k / min!
- New Skills:
- Unlock Construction Hub
- Increase Drone Task / Min
- Node Parcel Specialization: Nodes have infinite throughput!
- Unlock Construction Hub
- New Languages:
- Russian
- Simplified Chinese
- German
- More to come very soon!
- Russian
- We fixed a bug where Blueprints with multiple buildings where broken since last update.
Current Release
v0.7.43
Uploaded Feb 24, 2025
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How to Install
Incremental Factory.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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229 MB
v0.7.43
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