$9.99Mindustry Factories that fight back
Build supply lines, keep your turrets fed and push out to take the enemy's base.
Is Mindustry worth it?
Mindustry is worth it if…
- you like building supply chains and watching them feed a defense
- you like tower defense where ammo and power are your problem too
- you like slow, fiddly optimization that gets punished by the next wave
- you want a long campaign, co-op missions or team PvP
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Belts, materials and liquids that keep everything running
Everything starts with what you dig up and where you send it. You place drills, link them with conveyor belts, and route copper, lead, coal and stranger stuff into factories that turn it into building materials, ammo and fuel.
Liquids get their own pipes, and production runs better with extras like coolant and lubricant. Power matters too, and so do small disasters: fires break out, flying enemies slip past walls. One crossed belt or missing resource can stall the whole line, and fixing it is half the game.
Turrets, walls and shields around your core
Lose your core and the map is over, so defense is constant work. You pick spots for walls and turrets, then keep them fed with ammo, power and coolant. Support buildings add shields and repair damage nearby.
Waves keep coming while you build, so you place, test and rearrange. You route one more belt of ammo around the back of a turret line, patch a thin wall, add power where the line sags. Holding the line feels earned because you built every link of it.
Armies, enemy bases and more ground
Defense pays for attack. You set up assembly lines that turn out drones, mechs and ships, then send them at working enemy bases with their own turrets and production.
Winning ground lets you drop more cores, tap new resources and grow the factory further. The loop stays practical: make more units, pick an angle, wear the defenses down, keep supply flowing while the fight eats through what you stockpiled.
A long campaign plus co-op, PvP and mods
The campaign crosses two planets, Serpulo and Erekir, with hand-made maps, many procedurally generated sectors, research for 250-plus blocks, and sectors you can hold, supply and defend from invasions through launch pads.
You can play it alone, bring friends in co-op, or face them in team PvP. Custom rules change costs, enemies and wave timing, and the map editor, Workshop maps, schematics, public servers and mods keep adding places to play and ways to play them. Skip it if you want a story-led campaign with characters.
Good to know?
How hard is it to learn?
Expect a slow start. You juggle mining, belts, power, liquids, ammo and building at once, and early sectors ask you to learn each system while waves keep coming.
What do you actually defend?
Your core. It stores resources and anchors the base, and if enemies destroy it you lose the map. So walls, turrets, ammo supply and power all point back to keeping that one structure alive through each wave.
Is it more factory game or more strategy game?
Both, in that order. Most of your time goes to drills, belts, factories, coolant and power. That production then decides how many turrets you can feed and how large an army of drones, mechs and ships you can field against enemy bases.
What can you do with friends?
Run campaign missions together in cross-platform co-op, host a private session or join public servers, or split into teams for PvP. Custom rules let you tune block costs, enemy stats, starting items and wave timing before you start.
What comes after the main maps?
Plenty of side work.
