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Mindustry
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
69 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Most addicting industry expanding and strategy game I've ever played. I have this game on my phone and computer so I can play on the move or at home, its js that great. Would recommend to others who are interested in…”
“Mindustry distinguishes itself through an intricate synthesis of strategic depth, creative engineering, and kinetic combat. Rather than simply repelling adversarial waves, players architect elaborate supply chains and…”
“DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME! IT WILL GIVE YOU AN INSATIABLE HUNGER FOR MORE AND MORE AUTOMATION GAMES!!!”
12 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Started this game thinking it was a fun cozy factory game about mining rocks and building robots. I now have a PhD in chemistry and physics.... Overall the game is a great time and the complexity is about what you make…”
“One of my all time favorite games, well worth the price. Love that they're still making updates when they absolutely do not need to.”
“I played this game and finished the campaign multiple devices many times... 100% worth it!”
11 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Started this game thinking it was a fun cozy factory game about mining rocks and building robots. I now have a PhD in chemistry and physics.... Overall the game is a great time and the complexity is about what you make…”
“A simple yet incredibly fun game, alone or together with friends it can be chaotic, relaxing or a little in between, it is ensured to give you a nice time for hours regardless if you want to play casually or go all in.…”
“Steam randomly showed me this on my store page, and without much overthinking I bought it, then played for 10 hours solo, then invited a friend and we played for 10 more. Quite frankly didn't have too much hope for this…”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“absolute peak factory x tower defense. light weight, simple to get into, and can be played anywhere”
“I love the worldbuilding, the minimalism, and the sheer amount of content. It's fun to play and is the exact right amount of challenge.”
“W GAME, always nice to play, difficulty gets impossible so thats cool, never managed to finish the game in all max difficulty, L V8 update tho, waiting for new planets”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Mindustry distinguishes itself through an intricate synthesis of strategic depth, creative engineering, and kinetic combat. Rather than simply repelling adversarial waves, players architect elaborate supply chains and…”
“I played this game and finished the campaign multiple devices many times... 100% worth it!”
“Factorio but without all the frustration and pressure. Sandbox or difficulty, it's got both. For the price, especially on sale, there's nothing better in my opinion.”
10 of the 103 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“It’s really good, my only real issue is combat because it feels really hard for me, but I am more familiar with like Satisfactory which has pretty much none so it’s more inexperience.”
“The V8 update is not very playable. I was enjoying V7 and how challenging it was. But the new update made everything too easy and kinda pointless (enemy bases no longer attack my neighboring areas) and also very…”
“Great game, I like erekir more becuause I like attack sectors more than survive sectors. This game blends factory sim, tower defence, and rts really well. If you like rts more, play erekir first. I feel serpulo is more…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“The V8 update is not very playable. I was enjoying V7 and how challenging it was. But the new update made everything too easy and kinda pointless (enemy bases no longer attack my neighboring areas) and also very…”
“After the new update I started a new campaign. Like 20+ hours in I switched computers but the steam sync didn't register there was a desync, so it loaded my old campaign which seemed to be bugged to ♥♥♥♥ now, and…”
“Really fun addictive game, drives me 6 year old rage gamer crazy when I lose, but I guess that's a sign of something fun! One small bug perhaps, when I lose or abandon a sector, and I instantly re launch to retake it,…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“The V8 update is not very playable. I was enjoying V7 and how challenging it was. But the new update made everything too easy and kinda pointless (enemy bases no longer attack my neighboring areas) and also very…”
“I've had my fun but can't bring myself to play any longer. A map can take two hours to complete if you're like me, and 15 seconds to lose, as each map has a single point of failure - your core. You only need to fail to…”
“I really want to love this game but there are flaws. I love the cross between tower defense and factory building but the game lulls, there are some spots where it's very unclear hoe how to proceed and I've hit a wall…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 95.8% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“the game experience is essentially this: after many agonising hours i think i have finally completed this planet, i'm pretty sure i have made the perfect defense. wait whats that thing shooting a billion orange orbs??? IS THAT A TIER FI- 10/10 game, also this basically happened…”
— a player, Steam review · 217 hrs played“I don't leave reviews often, but Mindustry is a game I need to write one for. It has easily become my favourite game of all time. I've always loved Factory/Resource Management games, and this one takes the cake, and the integration of Real-Time Strategy and Tower Defense make…”
— a player, Steam review · 159 hrs played“Thanks to the developer for making Mindustry. It's a great game in its genre, and the fact that it's completely free and open source (FOSS) is something I really value.”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:19 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
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.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
v8 Build 159
This release brings a new system for adding arbitrary content (sounds, music, images, blocks, items, etc.) to maps or servers. In terms of functionality, this is very close to what JSON mods can provi
v8 Build 158
Fixed save corruption caused by large build queues Fixed use of `@queries` world logic variable causing save corruption Fixed message block content limits being inconsistently enforced (now always 400
Mindustry v8 Released
After a long wait, v8 has finally been released. For those coming from v7, here's a rundown of the major changes. Serpulo Campaign The entire Serpulo campaign has been overhauled; most maps have been
Build 157 (Beta)
If all goes well, this will be the final version before v8 leaves beta. After build 157 is deployed, I will wait a few days to fix any major bugs present, then release 157.1 as a "full" non-beta versi
Build 156 (Beta)
Fixed schematics having a blank thumbnail when uploaded to Steam Workshop Fixed wait time not saving in processors Fixed many various data patcher bugs Fixed a server memory usage exploit Fixed Japane
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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.
| Genres | Strategy |
| Player tags | Base-Building · Resource Management · Tower Defense · Strategy · Automation · Multiplayer · Sandbox · Building · Co-op · 2D · RTS · Online Co-Op (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements |
| Languages | English, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Ukrainian, Italian, Czech, Romanian, Swedish, Vietnamese, … |
| Achievements | 87 |
| Estimated owners | 1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7/8/10 Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: Any card with OpenGL 2.0 support and the framebuffer_object extension Storage: 200 MB available space