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Factory Town Idle

Erik Asmussen · 2024-01-08

Steam

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

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!

Factory Town Idle is a 2024 Casual, Indie, Simulation game priced at $4.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 1257 reviews).

45
playing now
91%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

45 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 45 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 7% of 29,056 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 9 of 18 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

7902026-09-15 00:00 — 27 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 28 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 21 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 25 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 32 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 31 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 42 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 67 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 58 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 54 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 63 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 57 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 42 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 57 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 63 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 33 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 45 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 50 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 41 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 54 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 43 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 39 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 45 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
81139Apr 2023Aug 2026Apr 2023 — avg 445 · peak 646Jun 2023 — avg 248 · peak 482Aug 2023 — avg 318 · peak 438Oct 2023 — avg 116 · peak 217Dec 2023 — avg 95 · peak 174Feb 2024 — avg 294 · peak 570Apr 2024 — avg 149 · peak 228Jun 2024 — avg 97 · peak 176Aug 2024 — avg 70 · peak 114Oct 2024 — avg 57 · peak 97Dec 2024 — avg 70 · peak 117Feb 2025 — avg 135 · peak 321Apr 2025 — avg 68 · peak 132Jun 2025 — avg 60 · peak 118Aug 2025 — avg 58 · peak 109Oct 2025 — avg 53 · peak 96Dec 2025 — avg 51 · peak 102Feb 2026 — avg 41 · peak 62Apr 2026 — avg 44 · peak 77Jun 2026 — avg 39 · peak 74Aug 2026 — avg 39 · peak 71
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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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