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FOUNDRY

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

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

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.

FOUNDRY is an Indie, Simulation, Strategy, and Early Access game released in 2024, priced at $29.99, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (81% of 3,930 reviews).

187
playing now
81%
positive of 4.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
84/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
5
Nexus mods (484 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

187 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 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.

Trailer

FOUNDRY trailer thumbnail

Foundry Official Gameplay Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Cooling
  • · 187 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 4% of 49,616 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 79k–179k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,972 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 5 of 10 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

345872026-09-15 14:00 — 174 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 142 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 99 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 255 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 280 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 114 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 170 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 207 players2026-09-26 03:00 — 146 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 238 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 231 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 117 players2026-10-01 09:00 — 118 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 228 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 188 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 128 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 227 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 173 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 122 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 318 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 244 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 87 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 187 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2.5k96May 2024Aug 2026May 2024 — avg 2,456 · peak 5,780Jun 2024 — avg 891 · peak 2,261Jul 2024 — avg 456 · peak 1,074Aug 2024 — avg 351 · peak 788Sep 2024 — avg 180 · peak 507Oct 2024 — avg 121 · peak 262Nov 2024 — avg 96 · peak 194Dec 2024 — avg 111 · peak 230Jan 2025 — avg 111 · peak 223Feb 2025 — avg 99 · peak 211Mar 2025 — avg 102 · peak 222Apr 2025 — avg 116 · peak 234May 2025 — avg 2,020 · peak 8,183Jun 2025 — avg 942 · peak 2,616Jul 2025 — avg 672 · peak 1,701Aug 2025 — avg 457 · peak 984Sep 2025 — avg 289 · peak 667Oct 2025 — avg 469 · peak 1,063Nov 2025 — avg 315 · peak 661Dec 2025 — avg 303 · peak 674Jan 2026 — avg 454 · peak 1,251Feb 2026 — avg 539 · peak 1,235Mar 2026 — avg 325 · peak 740Apr 2026 — avg 304 · peak 1,096May 2026 — avg 1,094 · peak 3,151Jun 2026 — avg 517 · peak 1,078Jul 2026 — avg 336 · peak 719Aug 2026 — avg 249 · peak 459
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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

2142026-05-30 — 21 pageviews2026-06-03 — 18 pageviews2026-06-07 — 11 pageviews2026-06-11 — 8 pageviews2026-06-15 — 13 pageviews2026-06-19 — 7 pageviews2026-06-23 — 16 pageviews2026-06-27 — 11 pageviews2026-07-01 — 14 pageviews2026-07-05 — 11 pageviews2026-07-09 — 8 pageviews2026-07-13 — 11 pageviews2026-07-17 — 9 pageviews2026-07-21 — 13 pageviews2026-07-25 — 9 pageviews2026-07-29 — 8 pageviews2026-08-02 — 15 pageviews2026-08-06 — 11 pageviews2026-08-10 — 13 pageviews2026-08-14 — 11 pageviews2026-08-18 — 17 pageviews2026-08-22 — 8 pageviews2026-08-26 — 18 pageviews2026-08-30 — 18 pageviews2026-09-03 — 4 pageviews2026-09-07 — 20 pageviews2026-09-11 — 15 pageviews2026-09-15 — 12 pageviews2026-09-19 — 15 pageviews2026-09-23 — 13 pageviews2026-09-27 — 19 pageviews2026-10-01 — 11 pageviews2026-10-05 — 15 pageviews2026-10-08 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

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

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-05-02 (Steam store data)

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.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

Co-opVoxelRobotsSandboxBuildingCraftingAutomationOpen WorldSimulationMultiplayer

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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