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FOUNDRY

Channel 3 Entertainment · Paradox Interactive · 2024-05-02

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: May 02, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

223
playing now
81%
positive of 3.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
84/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

223 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Foundry is a factory simulation video game developed by Channel 3 Entertainment and published by Paradox Interactive. It was released on Steam for Windows in early access on May 2, 2024. The player takes control of a worker robot on an alien planet who builds factories that construct robots, then sells them. It also contains online cooperative multiplayer. The game has been heavily compared to Satisfactory in its setting and gameplay. It was praised by reviewers for its voxel-based, procedurally-generated world resembling Minecraft, though it was also criticized as being overly forgiving in its gameplay and lacking difficulty.

Health check

Cooling
  • · 223 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 518 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~65/week).
  • · Review velocity down 47% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 78k–176k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,919 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $14.99 at Steam (2025-05-08)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
99799720242026Week of 2024-05-01: 997 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 234 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 335 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 108 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4291302026-08-07 00:00 — 202 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 185 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 298 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 230 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 234 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 381 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 275 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 325 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 389 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 242 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 173 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 298 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 200 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 181 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 300 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 157 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 167 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 345 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 225 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 153 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 249 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 242 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 193 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 394 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 271 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 130 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 229 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 303 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 223 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$14.992024-05-022026-07-092024-05-02 — best price $26.992024-05-16 — best price $29.992024-06-27 — best price $26.992024-07-11 — best price $29.992024-11-27 — best price $26.992024-12-04 — best price $29.992024-12-19 — best price $26.992025-01-02 — best price $29.992025-03-13 — best price $26.992025-03-20 — best price $29.992025-05-08 — best price $14.992025-05-22 — best price $29.992025-06-26 — best price $20.992025-07-10 — best price $29.992025-07-14 — best price $20.992025-07-21 — best price $29.992025-09-29 — best price $14.992025-10-06 — best price $29.992025-12-18 — best price $22.492026-01-05 — best price $29.992026-01-21 — best price $20.992026-01-28 — best price $29.992026-03-19 — best price $22.492026-03-26 — best price $29.992026-04-30 — best price $20.992026-05-14 — best price $29.992026-06-25 — best price $20.992026-07-09 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2332026-05-30 — 21 pageviews2026-06-02 — 14 pageviews2026-06-05 — 19 pageviews2026-06-08 — 12 pageviews2026-06-11 — 8 pageviews2026-06-14 — 15 pageviews2026-06-17 — 7 pageviews2026-06-20 — 7 pageviews2026-06-23 — 16 pageviews2026-06-26 — 18 pageviews2026-06-29 — 15 pageviews2026-07-02 — 14 pageviews2026-07-05 — 11 pageviews2026-07-08 — 12 pageviews2026-07-11 — 9 pageviews2026-07-14 — 14 pageviews2026-07-17 — 9 pageviews2026-07-20 — 13 pageviews2026-07-23 — 12 pageviews2026-07-26 — 4 pageviews2026-07-29 — 8 pageviews2026-08-01 — 16 pageviews2026-08-04 — 14 pageviews2026-08-07 — 14 pageviews2026-08-10 — 13 pageviews2026-08-13 — 9 pageviews2026-08-16 — 9 pageviews2026-08-19 — 14 pageviews2026-08-22 — 8 pageviews2026-08-25 — 15 pageviews2026-08-27 — 14 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

2002026-08-27 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 22:34 — 18 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 20 viewers2026-08-28 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 19:34 — 12 viewers2026-08-28 20:34 — 13 viewers2026-08-28 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 12:35 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 18:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 21:34 — 4 viewers2026-08-29 22:34 — 6 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 8 viewers2026-08-30 00:34 — 7 viewers2026-08-30 01:34 — 8 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 6 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
24.4%
earned "Crisis Signal"
7.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opDualShock Controller SupportPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,1991%81

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

Player tags

Co-opVoxelRobotsSandboxBuildingCraftingAutomationOpen WorldSimulationMultiplayer

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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