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Released Jan 8, 2024 $4.99 Very Positive Counts toward your Steam games

Factory Town Idle

By Erik Asmussen

Followers —
Reviews 1,242 Very Positive
Players yesterday 34 at the busiest moment
Owners 100K–200K estimated

About Factory Town Idle

Factory Town Idle is a game tagged Idler, Incremental and Resource Management by Erik Asmussen, released Jan 8, 2024. It has 1,242 Steam reviews (Very Positive). It has an estimated 100K–200K owners on Steam. The Steam games most like it include Wood Clicker, Resource chill and Paradise Architect: Idle Tycoon.

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!
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Steam data

Everything Steam lists for Factory Town Idle · record updated 5 hours ago

Steam store

Overview

App ID2207490
Release dateJan 8, 2024
Last change number39549367
Last record update5 hours ago

App info

App type
Game
Developer
Erik Asmussen
Publisher
Erik Asmussen
Steam profile
Counts toward game count and achievement totals · checked Nov 1, 2025
Franchise
Factory Town

Languages

10 · 0 with full audio
LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
English Yes
French Yes
German Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes
Japanese Yes
Simplified Chinese Yes
Turkish Yes
Russian Yes
All 10 languages
LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
Italian Yes
Portuguese - Brazil Yes

Platforms

Windows macOS 64-bit
Steam Deck
Playable

Features

4
Single-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Related apps

Prices

Price · US$4.99
On sale0 of 41regions right now
Lowest seen · US$4.99Oct 25, 2026
Checked1 day agoin 41 regions

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Patches

Patch notes

16
  1. Oct 4, 2025 Patch Notes 1.3.6a

    - Updated Unity version to patch vulnerability CVE-2025-59489

  2. Mar 28, 2025 1.3.5 Patch Notes + Factory Town 2 Announcement!

    - 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 fo…

  3. Apr 26, 2024 Patch Notes 1.3.4

    - 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

  4. Apr 25, 2024 Patch Notes 1.3.3

    Misc 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 condit…

  5. Apr 23, 2024 Patch Notes 1.3.2

    Auto-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) …

  6. Apr 2, 2024 Patch Notes 1.3.1

    New 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 sch…

  7. Mar 27, 2024 Patch Notes 1.3.0

    Game 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…

  8. Feb 26, 2024 Patch Notes 1.2.1

    Fixed 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 ca…

  9. Feb 23, 2024 Patch Notes 1.2.0

    Turbo 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…

  10. Jan 30, 2024 Patch Notes 1.1.4

    Balance 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…

  11. Jan 28, 2024 Patch Notes 1.1.3

    Bug 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 …

  12. Jan 27, 2024 Patch Notes 1.1.2

    Bug Fixes - Fixed localization issues in last patch

Builds

3
BuildBranchUpdated
20253672publicOct 4, 2025
20253672betaOct 4, 2025
12416917legacy_uiNov 21, 2023

Packages & DLC

Packages

2
IDNameGamesPrice (US)
790537 Factory Town Idle 1 $4.99
31762 Bundle Factory Town Bundle 3 $42.47

Depots

Depots

2
IDNameSystemsSizeDownloadManifest
2207491 — Windows 169.4 MB 74.9 MB 6823424380974431179
2207492 — macOS 163.7 MB 72.4 MB 4560795552530840317

Branches

3
BranchBuildUpdatedAccess
public 20253672 Oct 4, 2025 Open
beta Public test branch 20253672 Oct 4, 2025 Open
legacy_ui Snapshot of 1.90 with older UI 12416917 Nov 21, 2023 Open

Configuration

Install foldersteamapps/common/Factory Town Idle

Launch options

2
ExecutableArgumentsSystemsDescription
Factory Town Idle.exe Windows
Factory Town Idle.app macOS

Cloud saves

Space per player953.7 MB
Filesup to 1,000
Save locations0

Screenshots

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Update history

Changes to the Steam record

since we started watching
  1. Oct 25, 2026 · 12:21 #39549367
    • appid removed
    • common.ReleaseState added released
    • common.releasestate removed
    • common.store_tags.0 597 → 615955
    • common.store_tags.1 615955 → 560542
    • common.store_tags.10 1702 → 1643
    • common.store_tags.11 12472 → 1702
    • common.store_tags.12 4057 → 1654
    • common.store_tags.13 1698 → 597
    • common.store_tags.14 492 → 1684
    • common.store_tags.15 21 → 4845
    • common.store_tags.16 493 → 599
    • and 11 more

News

  1. Jun 16, 2026 · Community Announcements Factory Town 2 demo now available in Steam Next Fest

    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 tr…

  2. Mar 21, 2025 · Community Announcements Announcing Factory Town 2: Paradise!

    Hello 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) vo…

  3. Jan 14, 2024 · PC Gamer Spinoff of cute little Factory Town turns it into a sprawling spreadsheet exercise

    The industrially-inspired town building game Factory Town has a spinoff as of this week, packing the entire experience of building up and expanding an oddly factory-like society into a series of oddl…

  4. Jan 8, 2024 · Community Announcements Factory Town Idle 1.0 Launch!

    Hi 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 Play…

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