Seize your house fits, as a result of Factorio is heading to house. Developer Wube Software program revealed in a weblog put up right now that the primary growth for the favored factory-building recreation could be Area Age.

Based on Factorio discovered kovarex, Factorio: Area Age will proceed the participant’s journey after launching rockets into house on the finish of the bottom recreation. Gamers will uncover new worlds with their very own distinctive challenges and exploit their assets. In doing so, new technological advances will probably be discovered. Moreover, gamers will be capable of handle their very own fleet of interplanetary house platforms.

It’s been three years since Factorio formally launched, and over seven years since its Early Entry launch.

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A well-known path for Factorio: Area Age

Hardcore Factorio followers will discover the Area Age growth fairly acquainted. One of the crucial fashionable Factorio mods is the Area Exploration mod. As you may anticipate, this mod additionally takes you to house. In actual fact, the unique creator of that mod, Earendel, is now a part of the Wube Software program group and is engaged on the Area Age growth.

Based on Earendel, regardless of the comparisons, the growth can have loads of cause for individuals who have and haven’t performed the mod to present it a strive. Earendel believes Area Exploration is extra focused at challenge-seekers, whereas Area Age targets all Factorio gamers. Whereas all of the challenges of the Area Exploration mod can take 150-100 hours or much more to determine, Area Age is a extra streamlined and fast-paced expertise between 60-100 hours.

As an enormous Factorio fan, I’m completely happy to see any content material being launched. I’ve simply over 650 hours performed thus far—that are informal numbers to some—and would like to put in additional. I’ve performed the Area Exploration mod so clearly the overlap is regarding. However as an precise growth, Factorio: Area Age can do extra feature-wise than a mod can. Don’t get me flawed, the Area Exploration mod is unbelievable at what it does. However, among the extra clunky issues reminiscent of piloting ships could be extra streamlined in Factorio: Area Age.

Whereas there isn’t a strong launch date for Factorio: Area Age, kovarex explains that their present launch window is about one 12 months from now. Nonetheless, gamers within the growth can stay up for weekly posts detailing its improvement progress.