https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/7lfn1w/my_friend_... :)

But it's funny because it's true! Factorio is INCREDIBLY addictive, because it stimulates that excellent feeling you get from successfully writing and refactoring beautiful code.

I actually organize my creations by thinking about hardware architecture, too. To me, Factorio is just a pretty graphical CPU.

yes, regret it you will. I've had it for a while and from time to time I see someone play it online and go "oh, I should go play that again".... just recently....

7pm: I think to myself, let's do some work on my side project... but first, lets play a little factorio

3am: FU#! :/

It is really addictive though. When you get to the point of having little helper robots that do your bidding... Priceless.

> (Edit: I’m joking. It’s a great game.)

It's a joke, but like all the best jokes it's one with a large grain of truth and exactly why I've held off buying Factorio for now (Frostpunk as well).

You're probably safer with Frostpunk. It seems much more self-contained; you'll play it through once, and then you're unlikely to pick it up again.

I'm ~750 hours deep, doing a SeaBlock run. I've never found a game with quite so much depth as Factorio.