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Tower Factory
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
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 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
67 of the 84 reviews raise this.
“☕ Cozy Fun Chaos ⚙️ Addictive & Re-Playable 🛡️ Satisfying Tower Defense Played the demo during Steam's 2026 Tower Defense Fest. I went into the demo expecting a simple mash‑up, but within an hour I was completely hooked…”
“The early game is great! If possible, it would be awesome to add a clickable mini-map showing all points of interest, including unopened chests. It would also be very helpful to display, at each castle entry, how many…”
14 of the 84 reviews raise this.
“☕ Cozy Fun Chaos ⚙️ Addictive & Re-Playable 🛡️ Satisfying Tower Defense Played the demo during Steam's 2026 Tower Defense Fest. I went into the demo expecting a simple mash‑up, but within an hour I was completely hooked…”
“Yes, this game is really fun. Love the automation and tower defense combo. Its a game you can learn pretty quickly but it will take you awhile to get good at. I didnt really find that it had a steep learning curve…”
“One of the best tower defence games, requires tons of strategy later on, highly recommend if you love spending hours on defence games. Buy this game if you like a challange, victory is very much earned in this game and…”
8 of the 84 reviews raise this.
“I adore this game. It took me ~25 hours to buy every upgrade, defeat every boss currently in the game and put it all to the test in endless mode where I survived 15 nights on a map called Frozen Forest. This mashup of…”
“This game is for everyone who loves 2 genres : Tower Defense + Factory Games. This game is a must purchase. First deep game with a nice tree, endless mode, multiple levels, bosses, simple yet satisfying Factory…”
“Update: April 17, 2026: There have been some updates that have made this game so much more fun, I particualrly like that you now can choose between easy, regular and hard it has made the game much more fun, and elevated…”
8 of the 84 reviews raise this.
“When I played the demo, I thought the game was just meh because there wasn't much to it. Right now, there's enough content in the game to have a good time. I just have questions about all these poison, fire, and…”
“One of the best tower defence games, requires tons of strategy later on, highly recommend if you love spending hours on defence games. Buy this game if you like a challange, victory is very much earned in this game and…”
“I adore this game. It took me ~25 hours to buy every upgrade, defeat every boss currently in the game and put it all to the test in endless mode where I survived 15 nights on a map called Frozen Forest. This mashup of…”
6 of the 84 reviews raise this.
“☕ Cozy Fun Chaos ⚙️ Addictive & Re-Playable 🛡️ Satisfying Tower Defense Played the demo during Steam's 2026 Tower Defense Fest. I went into the demo expecting a simple mash‑up, but within an hour I was completely hooked…”
“I adore this game. It took me ~25 hours to buy every upgrade, defeat every boss currently in the game and put it all to the test in endless mode where I survived 15 nights on a map called Frozen Forest. This mashup of…”
“This game is great. You have to micro-manage heavily as you need constant resources coming in such as wood, iron and stone. You have lots of production variants to create different things from these elements. Which…”
13 of the 84 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“The game is fine from the first glance, but after few hours, it's obvious that moving building from one position to another every few minutes is quite boring and repetitive. It's not about scaling production and…”
“I love the idea, has combined the automation and TD parts together in harmony, but lacks depth (and probably content, but thats to be expected from early access) and forces grinding. The fighting system mimics Rogue…”
“I don't usually post review, but I really hope this game to make it. Overall the game is fun, the mechanics, graphics, and concepts are very cool. BUT the game needs some serious balancing. At the moment, the mobs…”
12 of the 84 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“Good balance of TD combined with "factory" and resource management. Can be a bit frustrating at first until getting the hang of game mechanics. I use the pause button a lot!”
“I don't usually post review, but I really hope this game to make it. Overall the game is fun, the mechanics, graphics, and concepts are very cool. BUT the game needs some serious balancing. At the moment, the mobs…”
“This GAME IS HARD! This is a warning for those who think it will be a cozy tower defense. It really frustrates me that I am on a third level and I already can't win it. Considering a refund. Otherwise its very fun and…”
6 of the 84 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“I love the idea, has combined the automation and TD parts together in harmony, but lacks depth (and probably content, but thats to be expected from early access) and forces grinding. The fighting system mimics Rogue…”
“this game is ADDICTING. Cant wait for the other levels to come out!!!”
“Game is boss, even though it is not finished.”
4 of the 84 reviews raise this.
“I love the idea, has combined the automation and TD parts together in harmony, but lacks depth (and probably content, but thats to be expected from early access) and forces grinding. The fighting system mimics Rogue…”
“Grinding for permanent upgrades and building same factory again and again is not a good combination. The game is not to build a factory while resolving various logistics problems. The game is to build he factory as soon…”
“I like the concept, but the difficulty goes hard quite fast, it's quite easy to play the first two levels, but after that it becomes quite grindy. Build the same factory again, lose, upgrade, rinse and repeat until you…”
3 of the 84 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“The early game is great! If possible, it would be awesome to add a clickable mini-map showing all points of interest, including unopened chests. It would also be very helpful to display, at each castle entry, how many…”
“When I played the demo, I thought the game was just meh because there wasn't much to it. Right now, there's enough content in the game to have a good time. I just have questions about all these poison, fire, and…”
“I like the game, the graphics, the resource gathering, the tower defense aspect. The game breaker, in my view, is the fact that to progress and win the game you have to make fire towers to break the fog of war to find…”
Counted across 84 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 89.7% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“This game is in my Top5 of tower defense games, together with GemCraft Chasing Shadows, Creeper World 3 and 4 and the Kingdom Rush series. It has a very unique way of creating resources (for a td game) that also scratches the building and resource management itch. There is also…”
— a player, Steam review · 66 hrs played“It's the lovely child of Factorio and Bloons Tower Defense. Very satisfying”
— a player, Steam review · 25 hrs played“This is by far my favorite tower defense game. It honestly may be one of my favorite games ever, not exaggerating. I find it incredibly addicting, and it's super satisfying when I wrap my head around a new mechanic and am off to the races. I definitely min-maxed the production…”
— a player, Steam review · 222 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 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 2026-09-05.
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.
Small Update v0.5.1.1 and Summer Sale (20% OFF)
Hello everyone! Tower Factory Version 0.5.1.1 is here, and it brings a few important improvements and balance changes! SMART SPLITTER One interesting feature of this update is the new Smart Splitter.
Small Update v0.5.1: Multi-Selection
Hello everyone! Tower Factory Version 0.5.1 is here, and it brings some changes that many of you have been waiting for! MULTISELECTION The main feature of this update is multi-selection . You can fina
Hotfix v0.5.0.3
CHANGELOG When you face a boss, its name and life bar will now appear at the top of the screen. The boss now always appears on the right with a red background in the Wave Enemy Info UI. If the “auto l
Hotfix v0.5.0.2
Changelog Added a beam of light above chests to make them easier to spot. Added a number under the player’s health bar so you can quickly see the exact remaining HP. Infinite-effect Altars of the Crys
Hotfix v0.5.0.1
Changelog: Improved overall performance, especially on Large and Giant maps. Fixed a bug that caused Combiners, Splitters, Crossings, and Underground Belts to have the wrong speed after loading a save
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Free To Play, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Automation · Tower Defense · Strategy · Base-Building · RTS · Resource Management · Rogue-lite · Crafting · Procedural Generation · Rogue-like · City Builder (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Spanish - Latin America |
| Achievements | 21 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64bit Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-9600 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 970 4GB / Radeon RX580 4GB or better Storage: 500 MB available space