In early summer of 2021, we had a thread regarding this situation. While it was discussed in the gaming community for a bit, it faded away fairly quickly. During today's Nintendo Direct, I hadn't even realized that Factorio was the game at the center of last year's controversy until being...
TLDR: The creator of factorio is scum. Don’t support this shitbag with your cash. Pirate the game if you want to play
It really isn’t. Not because it’s a worse game, but because it’s not the same game at all. Mindustry is a wave defense game that’s not about stress building and military focus; it’s a military-industrial complex game. Which is fine, but it’s not Factorio, or a better game, any more than Satisfactory is. They’re different games.
https://mindustrygame.github.io/ is the better option anyways.
It really isn’t. Not because it’s a worse game, but because it’s not the same game at all. Mindustry is a wave defense game that’s not about stress building and military focus; it’s a military-industrial complex game. Which is fine, but it’s not Factorio, or a better game, any more than Satisfactory is. They’re different games.