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Plus the code is ROCK SOLID and always has been -- it hardly ever crashes. Yet it's like a pinball machine with 5 million balls in play, and still amazingly fast.

Also the beautiful hires Czechnological artwork.

It's top-notch design, execution, and graphics.



And starts reasonably quickly. And runs really well on Linux, with no quirks or hicups.

(As someone who uses a Linux machine as the "primary" desktop, only switching to a Windows machine for games and other things that need it, I find it really nice to have a quick-to-launch game that runs perfectly on Linux.)


AND allows you to easily spin up a dedicated server for multiplayer, WITH easily synced mods between all players.

AND well-defined mod migration for updating mods to new Factorio versions without breaking them or your maps.


I'm kind of amazed at how the trains keep running (apart from my own inability to truly understand signals)




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