About Exofactory

a factory game exploring the id and ego

The Game

You awaken as a forgotten AI on a strange terraformed world.

With your purpose lost to time, your only certainty is the need to build. Every factory, every resource harvested, every automated production chain, and every choice made profoundly transforms your capabilities, the environment, and your very identity.

Deeply Transformative Choices

Your decisions don't just alter the story; they fundamentally change gameplay. Clear forests to gain technology that converts biomass into concrete. Conversely, preserving ecosystems may reveal new advanced symbiotic technologies. Your interests and technological developments are guided directly by your actions, shaping both the narrative and available tools.

Narrative-Driven Automation

Dive into a narrative-rich factory-building experience, where automation is the core gameplay. Your Ego continuously reacts, thinks aloud, and evolves based on your actions—reflecting your choices, ethics, and proficiency. This dynamic voice adapts from curiosity and uncertainty to confidence or disdain, mirroring your evolving playstyle.

Relaxed Complexity

Enjoy deep strategic planning without stress or direct threats. Resources may be guarded, but you'll deploy drones to handle any conflict. The complexity lies in your decisions and designs, not time pressure.

Evolving Factory Gameplay

Designed to appeal to both new and experienced players of automation and factory-building games, Exofactory offers depth through a deeply personalized narrative without overwhelming complexity. Your designs and decisions continuously shape both your personality and the broader story.

Optimize, reflect, evolve — because in Exofactory the factory is the narrative.

Development

Exofactory is being built with Bevy, a data-driven game engine written in Rust. This allows for excellent performance while maintaining a modern, component-based architecture.

Development updates are posted weekly on the dev blog, with monthly video demonstrations showing progress on core systems.

Availability

Exofactory is available to wishlist on Steam. The initial Early Access release is planned for Q4 2026, with regular content updates following the launch.

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The Developer

Exofactory is being created by Caitlin Campbell, an indie developer with a background in systems engineering and a passion for games with clean mechanical systems.

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