Textorio artwork$3.99100%1 user reviews

Textorio

A factory automation game made entirely out of text characters. Real simulated electricity, fluid pressure, steam and logic gates. You crash on a dead planet with a terminal and 50,000 sleeping colonists somewhere below you. Runs on almost anything. Free demo.

Screenshots

From the Steam store

TEXTORIO

i am Donaldas, a solo dev from Lithuania. Textorio is a factory automation game made entirely out of

text characters.

You crash on Kepler-442b with a wrist terminal and not much else. 50,000 colonists are asleep in

cryo-pods somewhere below you, and the reactor keeping them alive is off. So you mine some ore, then

you smelt it, then you build the machine that does the mining for you, and it goes from there.

Why ASCII, honestly

Not because i could not do graphics. Because a factory made of glyphs is readable.

When your base is 50,000 tiles, a 3D version becomes a pretty mess you cannot actually parse. In text

you see the whole thing at once, like a schematic. Bottlenecks just show up on their own. You look at

it and you know where it is stuck.

Aaand it runs on almost anything. Integrated graphics, old laptop, whatever you have :)

The systems are real

This is the part i care about most. Nothing here is a number pretending to be a machine.

Electricity actually flows along wires. Grids brown out, load balances, you can short one

Fluids have real pressure across multi-tile pipe networks

Steam condenses back into water. Mismanage the loop and the pressure spikes

P.Logic, a pneumatic programming language inside the game. Sensors, gates, comparators, latches, timers, counters. You can build a working memory cell out of pipes

Belts carry two independent lanes

If you understand a system you can break it, and if you can break it you can optimize it. That is

the actual game.

Four layers down

Surface, Caves, Deep Caves, Core Chamber. Each one is a different engineering problem, not just a new

color of rock. Deep Caves overheat your machinery until you research thermal management. A lift

system moves you and your goods between them.

The wildlife feeds on electromagnetic energy, so it is not really coming for you, it is coming for

your factory. Build walls and it evolves to break walls. Use turrets and it swarms in bigger packs.

Static defense stops working after a while, so you have to keep adapting.

Also in there

A colony you keep alive with food, water and power. It grows through seven tiers, up to 50,000 people. Named citizens walk around and talk to each other

The Mote, a companion drone that follows, guards or scouts, and has moods about how you play

A full research tree, oil refining, three-phase power, auto-tiling walls and floors

An in-game terminal OS with a live map, power stats, production graphs and 50+ commands

1v1 LAN Factory Wars

What is not finished yet

It is Early Access, so let me be straight with you:

The Core Chamber boss is not in yet. The layer itself is

English only for now

LAN 1v1 works, public matchmaking does not

Try it before you buy it

There is a free demo and it is the real opening arc, not a trailer. Crash, automate, get the power

grid online, meet the colony. If you do not like it you lost nothing.

Built by one person in Anykščiai, Lithuania. No publisher, no marketing budget. If something annoys

you, tell me on the discussion boards and i fix fast :)

Lets automate.

D.

Games like Textorio

See all
FluxWerks

FluxWerks

Build a factory inside a destructible voxel world, tunneling, managing heat and letting your nanobot swarm handle the rest.

90% of 109 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$24.99
Brave New Wonders

Brave New Wonders

A factory builder with no conveyor belts. You mine ore and crystal, smelt and craft parts, then tell mover robots what to haul in plain words and…

78% of 69 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$21.24
AutoForge

AutoForge

Build Mana-driven production lines as a golem, farm and tame monsters, and unlock a colorful world region by region while a persistent defense…

86% of 445 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99
MegaFactory Titan

MegaFactory Titan

A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with…

77% of 153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Evospace

Evospace

Mine, refine and build production chains that grow from simple smelters to fusion power, then open a portal to another world.

83% of 353 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$14.99
Snacktorio

Snacktorio

Snacktorio is a level-based cooking automation game where you build & scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your…

89% of 231 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$7.99
Automation Empire

Automation Empire

Mine, farm and manufacture across seven planets, linking it all with trains, trucks and drones until every bottleneck untangles itself.

65% of 2,585 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$29.99
Factory Town

Factory Town

Grow a village in the wilderness and let belts, rails and airships do the hauling while your townsfolk get happier.

90% of 4,165 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 63$4.99
FOUNDRY

FOUNDRY

A first-person factory builder in an infinite voxel world. Mine, automate and optimize robot production from deep underground to the sky, sell…

82% of 3,334 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 206$29.99
Sandustry

Sandustry

Sift gold from sand, build factories that grow with you, and uncover what an ancient civilization left behind.

97% of 5,720 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 981$19.99
Atrio: The Dark Wild

Atrio: The Dark Wild

Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything.

78% of 559 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
MineMogul

MineMogul

Dig for ore, wire up conveyors and let physics turn your underground factory into a glorious mess.

96% of 4,516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 135$14.99