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FOUNDRY

FOUNDRY

Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Released May 2, 2024 Developer Channel 3 Entertainment Publisher Paradox Interactive Platforms Windows Early AccessAutomationBase-BuildingSandboxResource Management
View on Steam ↗ $29.99 (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

78.9%positive2,783 reviews
Recommended · 114 found this helpful

“I am one of those people. Someone with 1800 hours in Factorio and 360 hours in Satisfactory and 550 hours in Workers and Resources and Captain of Industry and blah blah... I'll stop there because you get it. Now, this is not a dig at Satisfactory. It's great, but after a while I…”

— a player, Steam review · 132 hrs played
Recommended · 17 found this helpful

“Put simply, this game is amazing! The game runs very well even with truly MASSIVE builds. When I first got Foundry I didn't expect it to be as well optimized as it is, yet here I am, several hundred hours into a single save and the game is still running as smooth as butter!”

— a player, Steam review · 416 hrs played
Not recommended · 46 found this helpful

“If you are coming from Factorio, Satisfactory, or early Minecraft, be warned: Foundry has a solid technical foundation but lacks the soul and quality-of-life tools that make automation games fun. Scaling is brutally tedious. By the Red Science pack, you are manually hand-placing…”

— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 10:17 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

398playing at last check
52024-hour peak
8,183all-time peak
0 2.5k 5k 2025 2026 2.5k avg · May 2024

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

81achievements
5.0%median completion
0.2%rarest: Galactic Monopoly
23.6% of players 22.1% of players 21.5% of players 21.5% of players 20.2% of players 18.2% of players 17.3% of players 15.8% of players 15.8% of players 15.8% of players 14.9% of players 14.8% of players 13.8% of players 12.9% of players 12.7% of players 12.7% of players 12.0% of players 11.5% of players 11.1% of players 10.6% of players 8.8% of players 8.5% of players 8.4% of players 8.3% of players 8.2% of players 7.6% of players 7.5% of players 7.2% of players 7.1% of players 6.9% of players 6.9% of players 6.7% of players 6.5% of players 6.5% of players 6.2% of players 5.6% of players 5.5% of players 5.4% of players 5.4% of players 5.1% of players 5.0% of players 4.5% of players 4.5% of players 4.4% of players 4.4% of players 4.3% of players 4.3% of players 4.2% of players 3.6% of players 3.5% of players 3.5% of players 3.5% of players 3.3% of players 2.7% of players 2.6% of players 2.3% of players 2.3% of players 2.1% of players 2.0% of players 1.8% of players 23.6% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
23.6%Crisis Signal — Finish researching Emergency Beacon.
22.1%Honor The Basics I — Create 1.000 Xenoferrite Plates.
21.5%Rod Factory I — Create 1.000 Technum Rods.
Rarest badges of honor
0.2%Galactic Monopoly — Have market dominance on 100 planets.
0.4%Corporate Dominion — Achieve 1.000.000.000 in lifetime earnings.
0.4%Abyss Diver — Create 1.000 Marine Exploration Bots.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$29.99current · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$29.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-11
US29.99 USD
EU29.99 EUR
UK26.99 GBP
Australia42.95 AUD
Canada39.99 CAD
Japan3,990 JPY
Brazil124.99 BRL
China128.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$19 Japan Brazil Canada US Australia EU UK≈$36

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

$0 $25 $50 07-11 07-13 07-16 07-19 07-22 07-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jul 24, 2026
DevBlog #108 | Foundry Fridays: Conveyor Lifts

Hello everyone! Last week I showed a preview about the way we intend to rework loaders and I’m glad that the feedback was very positive. There were a couple questions and suggestions, and we’ll refine

Jul 10, 2026
DevBlog #107 | Foundry Fridays: New Loaders

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another FOUNDRY Friday. Today we’re taking a look at a new take on loaders. One of the things we’ve been working on the past months was a re-interpretation of loaders,

Jun 26, 2026
DevBlog #106 | Foundry Fridays: More Work In Progress

Hello everyone! In this FOUNDRY Friday I want to share various improvements of existing features that different team members have been working on. Increased Map Zoom In a previous update we already we

Jun 12, 2026
DevBlog #105 | Foundry Fridays: Small Assembly Lines

Hello everyone! In today’s FOUNDRY Friday I want to share something we have been experimenting with: Small Assembly Lines. in progress If you played the game for long enough, you have seen our Assembl

May 29, 2026
DevBlog #104 | Foundry Fridays: Work in Progress

Hello everyone! Last FOUNDRY Friday I asked about what you’d like to see next for the future, and the amount of responses was (pleasantly) surprising. We often get a lot of feedback in the comments or

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresIndie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Player tagsEarly Access · Automation · Base-Building · Sandbox · Resource Management · Crafting · Building · Open World · Robots · Voxel · Co-op · Procedural Generation (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , French * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Japanese, Polish * , Russian * , Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America * *
Achievements81
Estimated owners200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttps://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/foundry/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-2120 | AMD® FX™ 6350 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 660 (2GB) | AMD® Radeon™ RX 460 (2GB) | ASUS® ROG Ally | AMD® Radeon™ Vega 8 | Intel® Iris® Xe