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Incremental Factory
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
“New beta is bringing some needed depth to the game. Wish there had been some posts over the past several months once in a while. I had tried the early alpha of hexes when they first were mentioned and then when I thought the game went dead I uninstalled. Glad to see development…”
— a player, Steam review · 58 hrs played“The game is essentially pure UI and with these simple visuals it was surprising to me, how laggy at was and how many problems I had with black screens, parcels disappearing, connections getting stuck, connections getting mangled when moving groups of notes, research menu working…”
— a player, Steam review · 46 hrs played“Too buggy. There are many glaring bugs that should have been iron out by now. Object selection issues. poor instructions. mid/late stage snags without explanation (probably just a bug). inability to properly zoom in/out. difficult to copy/replicate.”
— a player, Steam review · 158 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-07 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Update 0.9.0.1 - The Progression Wall Comes Down
Engineers, most factories were stuck at the same wall: batteries gating oil, capped Sources, parallel lines undercounting. That wall is gone. Progression unblocked: batteries and scaling The biggest c
Beta Release v09 - Incremental Factory: Infinite
As many of you know, I have been working on v0.8 for quite some time, pushing to expand Incremental Factory into a much larger conceptual world. After all, one thesis for Incremental Factory is: scale
Version v08 Beta - Patchnotes 26.2.16
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 Repai
Version v08 Beta - Patchnotes 26.2.15
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. [img src="
Version v08 Beta - Hotfix (26.2.14)
- 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 Pa
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Automation · Idler · Resource Management · Simulation · Crafting · Strategy · 2D · Sandbox · Relaxing · Building · Economy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: 2.0 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 Memory: 1024 MB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 500 MB available space Sound Card: - Additional Notes: WebGPU: Native hardware support required