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Learning Factory

Luden.io · 2025-01-27

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IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jan 18, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 18, 2021 (Mac)

Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.

Learning Factory is an Indie, Simulation, Strategy game released in 2025, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (86% of 523 reviews).

2
playing now
86%
positive of 523 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 35 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 15% of 49,579 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 10k–24k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 523 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$10.49-30%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $8.99 at Steam (2026-03-09) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 36 of 75 observed days · $1.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
383820212026Week of 2021-02-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-09-15 07:00 — 4 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 5 players2026-09-17 22:00 — 3 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 4 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 5 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 4 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 5 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
302Feb 2021Jul 2026Feb 2021 — avg 22 · peak 61Apr 2021 — avg 4 · peak 13Jun 2021 — avg 4 · peak 15Aug 2021 — avg 4 · peak 13Oct 2021 — avg 5 · peak 19Dec 2021 — avg 9 · peak 40Feb 2022 — avg 4 · peak 11Apr 2022 — avg 4 · peak 16Jun 2022 — avg 4 · peak 14Aug 2022 — avg 5 · peak 14Oct 2022 — avg 8 · peak 24Dec 2022 — avg 5 · peak 16Feb 2023 — avg 4 · peak 13Apr 2023 — avg 5 · peak 12Jun 2023 — avg 6 · peak 17Aug 2023 — avg 3 · peak 11Oct 2023 — avg 8 · peak 30Dec 2023 — avg 4 · peak 13Feb 2024 — avg 4 · peak 10Apr 2024 — avg 4 · peak 13Jun 2024 — avg 5 · peak 12Aug 2024 — avg 5 · peak 11Oct 2024 — avg 5 · peak 16Dec 2024 — avg 4 · peak 11Feb 2025 — avg 30 · peak 83Apr 2025 — avg 8 · peak 21Jun 2025 — avg 5 · peak 15Aug 2025 — avg 15 · peak 87Oct 2025 — avg 5 · peak 12Dec 2025 — avg 3 · peak 8Feb 2026 — avg 4 · peak 9Apr 2026 — avg 4 · peak 10Jun 2026 — avg 2 · peak 10Jul 2026 — avg 2 · peak 7
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$8.992021-02-182026-10-142021-02-18 — best price $13.492021-10-11 — best price $13.342021-12-22 — best price $10.492022-06-23 — best price $10.042022-10-18 — best price $14.992022-11-30 — best price $10.492023-01-30 — best price $14.992023-03-23 — best price $14.992023-06-05 — best price $14.992023-07-25 — best price $14.992023-10-18 — best price $10.492023-12-13 — best price $9.742024-02-27 — best price $9.742024-05-06 — best price $14.992024-07-15 — best price $9.292024-08-26 — best price $9.292024-10-18 — best price $9.742025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-03-13 — best price $11.542025-05-06 — best price $11.392025-06-27 — best price $11.092025-09-01 — best price $14.992025-10-06 — best price $14.992025-12-03 — best price $14.992026-03-09 — best price $8.992026-06-09 — best price $9.752026-08-29 — best price $10.492026-09-06 — best price $10.492026-09-14 — best price $14.992026-09-22 — best price $14.992026-09-30 — best price $14.992026-10-08 — best price $10.492026-10-14 — best price $10.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
84.9%
earned "The Invitation"
10.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam WorkshopAdjustable Text SizeCamera ComfortColor AlternativesCustom Volume Controls3 DLC

31 supported languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Korean, Japanese, Polish…

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2021-02-18, latest 2025-01-29 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,5111%78
Xbox One, Windows (Xbox)303%77

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

Player tags

CatsCuteEconomySandboxScienceBuildingCraftingRelaxingStrategyAutomation

Census log

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

Recent updates

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