Likewise, you can spend dozens of hours in Factorio making the automated assembly lines of your dreams, but can you also make friends with the cute librarian while fixing up a sleepy town?

This included the excellent Satisfactory, which arrived in September 2024 after five years in Steam early access, while Factorio's long in-gestation Space Age expansion blasted off a month later ...

Read our detailed Astronomics review here and decide if you want to jump into the aesthetically pleasing space mining ...