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Manufactoria 2022

PleasingFungus Games · 2022-08-16

Steam

Simulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 16, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Manufactoria 2022 is a constructive puzzle game about pushing robots around. (It's okay, they don't complain.) Use simple parts to engineer solutions to open-ended problems, then rebuild 'em better! Take a company from your backyard to the soaring heights of success! How hard could it be?

96%
positive of 73 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 58% of 11,693 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 73 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.99 at Steam (2025-05-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
141420212026Week of 2021-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$9.992021-10-092026-07-092021-10-09 — best price $17.992022-05-19 — best price $15.992022-06-24 — best price $17.992022-08-16 — best price $17.992022-11-22 — best price $15.992022-12-22 — best price $14.992023-03-16 — best price $14.992023-04-24 — best price $13.992023-06-30 — best price $13.992023-08-03 — best price $12.992023-09-18 — best price $14.992023-11-21 — best price $13.992023-12-21 — best price $11.992024-02-26 — best price $13.392024-05-23 — best price $13.392024-06-27 — best price $13.392024-10-07 — best price $13.992024-11-27 — best price $13.392024-12-19 — best price $11.992025-03-13 — best price $13.392025-05-29 — best price $9.992025-06-27 — best price $11.992025-07-14 — best price $9.992025-09-29 — best price $11.992025-10-13 — best price $11.992025-12-18 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $13.392026-05-28 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $11.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-11-17 (Steam store data)

Player tags

FunnyIndieLogicComedyPuzzleRobotsColorfulStylizedIsometricNonlinear

Census log

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

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