Today, the terrain of factory simming is hotly contested by rival piles of conveyor belt spaghetti.

I’m not just talking aboutSatisfactoryorShapez- they’re even makingphilosophical factory simsthese days.

Somewhere up there, there is unspoilt territory.

A factory product line winding through a weirdly coloured alien landscape in Factorio

On Gleba, meanwhile, there’s the opportunity to do a little biomechanical engineering by harvesting weird flora.

Those who do so successfully will “unlock the power of cryogenic technologies and fusion power”.

All this in addition to: over an hour of new orchestral music from Czech composer Petr Wajsar!

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Elevated railways, which let you lay tracks across oceans and set up finicky multi-level intersections!

An appropriately hefty price tag!

Behind his door, I hear the screech and thunder of pistons.

Through his keyhole spills a mad, dancing light, like the passage of comets.

Either he’s working on a review for us or he’s having trouble with his crimping iron again.

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