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Factory Town Idle

Erik Asmussen · 2024-01-08

Steam

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 20, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 20, 2023 (Mac)

An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!

30
playing now
91%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

30 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 30 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 97 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~12/week).
  • · Review velocity down 2% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 18% of 9,617 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 25k–57k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,257 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.24 at Steam (2026-07-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
23123120232026Week of 2023-04-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

52192026-08-11 19:00 — 49 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 38 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 45 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 52 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 49 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 32 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 48 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 33 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 30 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 33 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 30 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 21 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 33 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 28 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 19 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 38 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 41 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 28 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 37 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 32 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 25 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 33 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 30 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 31 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 33 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 30 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 37 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 45 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 30 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$1.242023-04-202026-07-202023-04-20 — best price $4.492023-06-19 — best price $3.992023-08-07 — best price $3.992023-11-21 — best price $3.992024-01-08 — best price $3.492024-03-04 — best price $3.492024-03-14 — best price $3.492024-04-22 — best price $3.492024-06-03 — best price $2.992024-06-27 — best price $2.992024-07-22 — best price $2.492024-09-16 — best price $2.492024-11-04 — best price $2.492024-11-27 — best price $2.492024-12-19 — best price $2.492025-02-03 — best price $1.992025-03-13 — best price $1.992025-03-24 — best price $1.992025-05-05 — best price $1.992025-06-16 — best price $1.992025-06-27 — best price $1.992025-08-04 — best price $1.992025-09-22 — best price $1.992025-11-24 — best price $1.992025-12-18 — best price $1.992026-01-12 — best price $1.992026-03-02 — best price $1.992026-03-19 — best price $1.992026-04-20 — best price $1.992026-06-01 — best price $1.992026-06-25 — best price $1.992026-07-13 — best price $1.242026-07-20 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
93.6%
earned "Plains Biome"
45.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Russian, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,12524%74

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DIdlerIndieMagicCasualClickerFantasyCraftingAutomationColony Sim

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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