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An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!
719 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
42 months, April 2023 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 434 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 285 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Factory Town Idle was released on 8 Jan, 2024.
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74 achievements in total.
50 developer announcements, May 2023 to Jun 2026 · times in UTC
Hello! I figured if you liked Factory Town Idle, you'd be interested in the sequel I'm working on for the original game.It's called Factory Town 2: Paradise, and in this game you are building up a tropical island village and feeding a…
Erik Asmussen- Updated Unity version to patch vulnerability CVE-2025-59489
Patch notes- Added button to on home page to minimize credits, version notes, feedback, and other misc buttons. This minimization preference is preserved between game sessions. - Included button in this collapsible section that links to store page for…
Erik AsmussenHello again! I've been secretly working hard on a true sequel to Factory Town. It takes place on a series of tropical islands, where you're building up a town at the foot of a giant (but friendly) volcano. There's more items, buildings…
Erik Asmussen- Fixed bug: Was able to assign production capacity (workers) to market recipes in excess of available capacity to borrow from other recipes, causing available production capacity to go negative
Patch notesMisc Improvements When all production capacity (workers) are assigned at a building, you can now hit the ‘+’ button to assign additional workers to that recipe. - they will be reassigned from other recipes at the same building. Some…
Erik AsmussenAuto-Trade Improvements In this update, the Auto-Trade feature has been changed to give players better control of how their trades work, and in general to result in more stable behavior (less flip-flopping between import and export modes)…
Erik AsmussenNew Features New Game Modifier: Trading Tokens. In this mode, exporting an item earns 'Trading Tokens' based on the value of the item. Imports require spending these tokens. This system encourages towns to have a balanced import/export…
Erik AsmussenGame Modifiers When creating a new game, you can now select multiple 'Game Modifiers' that can change the game progression in dramatic ways. Many of them require some game progress to unlock. Extra Idle / Extra Active: Changes construction…
Erik AsmussenFixed bug: Production detail tooltip for currencies would incorrectly sort 'Production' rows at the bottom of the list, below Consumption totals Fixed bug: Research panel would not consistently update its display of available production…
Patch notesTurbo Mode performance improvement Turbo (fast-forward) mode has been optimized to run smoothly at all speed multiples. It does this by running one full simulation step per frame, and then repeating the last recorded net gain/loss for each…
Erik AsmussenBalance Changes Reverted the ‘Dynamic Storage’ effect of Rail Depots. They were causing too much town instability due to sudden increase in storage. Rail Depots now provide a static boost of 10K to global storage capacity per building. The…
Patch notesBug Fixes: Tooltip for trading post inventory details would not display correctly or at all Game would not relaunch in Steam if launched from .exe while Steam was closed, causing cloud saves to be inaccessible Locked button on World Panel…
Patch notesBug Fixes - Fixed localization issues in last patch
Patch notesBalance Changes Town Perk "Storage Boost" now adds storage to each item based on its max per-second demand (50% per level). This should improve how well storage scales for all items as the economy grows, and is intended especially to help…
Patch notesImprovements Inventory panel will display a header displaying which filter is active, if any. This is for both recipe filters and the increasing/decreasing state filters When Inventory is filtered to show increasing or decreasing items, it…
Erik AsmussenImprovements: Added Italian language localization Changed ‘Scroll Up’ and ‘Scroll Down’ hotkeys from Q and E to A and Z, to prevent overlaps with existing menu hotkeys. In addition, the keys can be held down to scroll repeatedly. (Page Up…
Patch notesHi again, I'm happy to announce that Factory Town Idle has graduated from Early Access and is now available as as full 1.0 release! A huge thanks to all the players who participated in the early Playtest and Early Access versions, and in…
Erik AsmussenMisc Improvements More details provided in Market Fulfillment tooltip, specifically including descriptive rows for things that modify oversupply rates Low market supply does not use sad face icons, to avoid implying a penalty Balance…
Patch notesBalance Changes Advanced levels of Research Speed upgrade, that require red, blue, and purple coins, now require that coin’s respective unlock quest to be completed first Stone Mason is now available in initial research set, and Quarry…
Patch notesFirst, a quick but important announcement: Factory Town Idle is transitioning from Early Access to a "1.0" Full Release version! The launch will happen this Monday, January 8th. I've been working on the game for a year and a half, 9 months…
Erik AsmussenMisc Improvements: Added buttons on top of Inventory panel that let you choose between the old 1-column or more compact 2-column layout Added new icons for many storage buildings Removed background tint that would be applied based on active…
Patch notesHello! I've been writing some background music for this game for the past few months and it's finally ready to share, so I added it to the game in this patch. If it's not your thing, you can turn it down in the Options panel : ) I've also…
Erik AsmussenBalance Changes Added new quests to reach various town levels in specific biomes. These quests provide a new item ‘Reward Booster’. Each Reward Booster will increase the min and max random ranges for Quest Coins received from the Daily…
Erik AsmussenRemoved obsolete Clickables option from cost icon right-click menus (which would result in the old clickables menu appearing and being unable to hide it) Selecting a recipe filter no longer shows all other recipes that share inputs and…
Patch notesImprovements Header expand / collapse status is preserved based on active panel filter and active town. This status is also now saved with the game file Added animated pointer finger icon to help guide player through early game stages Added…
Patch notesHello! This is probably the biggest update yet to Factory Town Idle, and it brings a huge set of changes intended to make the whole experience more pleasant to explore and navigate. Some menus have been arranged into different places, so…
Erik Asmussen{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43372048/5d02af2ae0d8e75b68a229e208ea68443a72a4d4.png Hello! It's been a while since the last update because I've been very busy on what is basically a full rework of the game's UI, which you can see above. There's still…
Erik AsmussenNew Features / Improvements New Building: Rail Depot. Increases global trading storage capacity. Has an upgrade to increase its effect {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43372048/a427eb69dec0aa2d6b1f23a9f4091dc2eda6bc46.png 8 New Biome-specific perks that…
Patch notesEight Wonders of the World! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43372048/b9b01d2d33a8f7bfb1661ee59f3c1dbde514d9f6.png Eight new buildings have been added. Each of these are unique to a specific biome, and their bonus effect is applied globally. University…
Erik AsmussenBalance Changes / Improvements Can now press Turbo Mode (F3) or Turbo Max (F4) multiple times to increase the fast-forward speed, up to 50,000x. (The speed scales up faster in Turbo Max.) To reduce processing latency at very fast speeds (>…
Erik AsmussenIdle Time rework A new system of collecting & accounting for idle time has been added. It is more flexible (allowing you to 'spend' the idle time whenever you want) and more advantageous (100% of idle time can be collected instead of…
Erik AsmussenInteractive Tooltip Guide {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43372048/ae9a994756e13dabd13f3189a2937b8c2e8b4ccc.png The game now has much more useful tooltips for buildings, resources, recipes, quests, and research. Hover over the label of an object and a…
Erik AsmussenBalance Changes Greatly reduced growth in physical building costs (coin costs still grow at same rate). The issue with the physical materials in construction costs is they so far outpaced storage that you could never bank enough of them and…
Erik AsmussenUpgrade Quest Rework {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43372048/52e9b2c01745cf8cc4460def08919d7dad233f9a.png Quests that unlock Upgrades have been converted to requirements for their respective upgrade, and are displayed directly as in-line progress bars…
Erik AsmussenFixed bug: Highest and Lowest priority settings were treated as normal priority in terms of ingredient consumption and auto-assign order Fixed bug: Reward notification for infinite research Cultivation Speed and Prospecting Speed had the…
Patch notes- Fixed bug where settings on the Trading Post categories such as Pause, Auto-Assign, Priority, and Production Limit were not preserved when saving & reloading the game
Patch notesTrading Autobalance {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43372048/13a269acf25bf73e8d4bce3ae8c9ad74126e95c6.png Players have frequently asked for the ability to make trading recipes more flexible. Instead of always exporting or always importing, the recipe…
Erik AsmussenGlassmaking Players are now able to produce Quartz, and turn it into Glass. Glass can be sold at the Hardware Store, and eventually can be used to make Solar Panels - a unique building in the Desert Biome that produces lots of Power. More…
Erik AsmussenNew Building: Arcane Emporium {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43372048/6665d6e1ea3326524652344f12001bf1e0e47fc0.png The Arcane Emporium is a new Market-type building that sells magical crystals & ethers, which previously were not available for sale. It…
Erik AsmussenHello! In this update, several changes were made to Harvesting for provide better balance & to support some future plans. Instead of directly requiring Workers, Harvesting tasks now need Harvesting Huts to be created…
Erik Asmussen{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43372048/0a9e4346121768bb4768460cb20f72f05accea48.png 74 Achievements have been added to the game! They are earned by performing a variety of tasks, some simple (start towns in various biomes, craft a certain number of…
Erik AsmussenOmniCoins & OmniUpgrades {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43372048/6c79866d42808bcaa0dde4f93acff8d006d52e94.png Omnistones are no longer used directly for upgrades, because rapidly increasing costs led to extreme demand for Omnistone Storage. Instead…
Erik AsmussenNew Feature: Production Limits Often you may not want to have a recipe produce its maximum amount - maybe you are preserving resources for another recipe, or you're trying to maximize market fulfillment scores without oversupplying. Now you…
Erik AsmussenFixed longstanding bug/balance issue where production would be capped by inventory space, even if the items could be consumed immediately. This often resulted in flickering inventory counts & displays when production greatly exceeded…
Erik AsmussenFixed auto-assign sometimes assigning more workers than was available on Harvest panel (resulting in negative workers) Adjusted some biome backgrounds & world panel display Fixed bug: some games would fail to load if they used very large…
Patch notesNavigation Options You can currently click on an icon to jump to its production, but often you'll want to navigate to the market or trading records for an item instead. So now, you can right-click on an item icon to bring up a menu of…
Erik AsmussenAutomatic Rebalance works on Harvesting and Research panel Automatic Rebalance partially takes priority into account (higher priority recipes are assessed for needing space production capacity first) Automatic Rebalance is now unlocked via…
Erik AsmussenAutomatic Production Balancing This new feature was added this support the players that want the game to be a more Idle experience. When active, it will automatically adjust the number of assigned recipes with the goal of reaching 100%…
Erik AsmussenLots of improvements and fixes in this one, including the ability to prioritize an entire building or menu panel at once, and boosts to trading and steam power. Group & Menu Prioritization Once you unlock the Prioritization research, you're…
Erik AsmussenWhat Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
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| Launch | Factory Town Idle.exe | windows | ||
| Launch | Factory Town Idle.app | macos |
It runs on public data and somebody's spare time.
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