Mindustry pairs factory planning with defense against enemy waves, while letting you build units to assault rival bases. At ≈ $7.70 from GAMIVO, it makes most sense if you want a sustained production challenge rather than action alone. Its player rating of 95% across 24,912 reviews offers another point of context as you weigh the purchase.At $9.99 on Steam, the 95% rating across 24,912 reviews adds player context to the price.
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Released: Sep 26, 2019
Automation · Base Building · Tower Defense · Resource Management · RTS
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01About Mindustry
Build conveyor networks to feed ammunition to turrets and produce materials for new structures. As enemy waves threaten your core, plan defenses, manufacture units, and take the fight to enemy bases. The Steam PC game brings factory management together with tower defense and real-time strategy.Player positive rating: 95% across 24,912 reviews.The campaign spans two planetary settings and can be played solo or in co-op.
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02Before you buy
Factories and defense
Mindustry combines factory building, tower defense, and RTS play: conveyors supply turrets while production lines make materials and units.
Play modes
Play the campaign solo or in cross-platform co-op; the description also lists team PvP and sandbox modes.
Interface languages
The Steam PC listing includes English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese interface languages.
03Frequently asked questions
What do you do in Mindustry?
Build supply chains, feed ammunition to turrets, and protect your core from waves of enemies.
Is there a campaign?
Yes. The description lists two planetary campaigns, with hand-made maps and procedurally generated sectors.
Which multiplayer modes are included?
It lists cross-platform co-op, team-based PvP, and sandbox play.
Popular Steam reviews
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RecommendedSteam player
I've played Factorio for ~170 hours, Satisfactory for ~130 hours and Mindustry for 160 hours. I have finished neither game, though, but what can I say: Just play Mindustry. For me, it's much better than the former two, although maybe this depends on what you're trying to achieve.
In Factorio, you just have one huge map, and all you do for the most time is expand the production. You never have enough resources, and you always have to find new ore deposits, protect them, transport them and later use in production. Rinse and repeat. The optimal strategy for Factorio is just to build a straight line. Enemies? Just annihilate them. Cliffs? Explode them. Lakes? Landfill them. Space is almost unlimited, and the only problem for you is another building that you made. The optimal strategy in Factorio is simply to use a bus -- i.e. many conveyors in the straight line near to each other, so that every conveyor carries specific -- and just build all the production around it, getting resources from the bus and returning the result to the bus. When bus is not enough, you make city blocks, etc. Coming up with new design is always interesting, but at some point it becomes a game of Copy-Paste.
In Satisfactory, you just follow the research tree for all of the time, and the existing production is almost enough. I think that if keep just one constructor for making copper sheets on all the time, you'll have enough of them to the end of the game. The only problem in Satisfactory for me was logistics: when there's not enough resource deposits for your production, you need to go for 30 minutes just to find it and find the path to it, after what you can start exploiting it. And that means placing many foundations, many electric pols, conveyors, rails, train stations, conducting pipes and other boring activities. And there's no even copy-paste function out of the box, although it doesn't help much in context of 3D world.
Mindustry, on the other hand, plays differently. In Mindustry, you never feel yourself like a factory worker, doing always the same. Instead, Mindustry makes you build your factory under constant enemy pressure. You're never safe, and your factory is never safe, so you either think fast and understand how to restart the impact reactor that failed due to wrong distribution of fuel and lack of safety power plant precautions, or your surge alloy smelters fail and turrets are left with no ammo, and you'll have to witness how some other turrets are desperately trying to hold enemies. Oh yeah, and did you know that there aren't many turrets that shoot air targets? Well, it doesn't matter anymore because your core is on fire, and you don't have enough metaglass to build a system to extinguish it, so it's better to ignore that fire and get back to the impact reactor until the next wave has started, or maybe abandon it and just use another, worse yet simpler generator.
The production chains of Mindustry are all simple and short, but building a factory is not a trivial task. The space is always limited and there's no way to circumvent this. There's often not enough resources, as building is expensive. There's always a threat of a building being destroyed. Some buildings (like late-game turrets) take too long to construct alone, so you need to use helper robots to finish them in the limited time you have. And sometimes just having a defense is not enough: you need to *attack* yourself. You need to start building robots and rebuild them very quickly when they die.
Mindustry is a strategic game, and, IMHO, it's much harder to master than other factory games, and it's much more challenging (if we don't compare it to Factorio's death world, of course).Show moreShow less
161.1 hours at review366 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
I feel bad giving Mindustry the thumbs down. I don't really regret the time I spent playing it and it was certainly very reasonably priced, but it is disappointing in a number of crucial ways that have caused me to lose interest in it long before I have unlocked all of the game's "content".
The biggest problem is that Mindustry seems to have quite a lot of contempt toward how valuable your time is. When you unlock a new tier of technologies the game could simply give them all to you right away. Instead, it asks that you accrue enormous quantities of resources with which to buy them. And so you wait, and wait, and wait... eventually letting your factories run afk for significant periods of time accumulating the resources required. It doesn't change anything about how the game plays at all, it just adds enormously unnecessary dead time to the experience.
The "campaign" too, such as it is, comes packed with dreary and needless repetition whether you're just starting out or entering the endgame. Factorio for example asks you to slowly expand across a single contiguous game space, slowly unlocking new technologies and resources as you push deeper into an increasingly hostile world. This progression perfectly matches the cadence of the gameplay wherein new challenges come in lockstep with new capabilities. By contrast, Mindustry asks you to defeat a small play area so that you can... do that again under very similar circumstances somewhere else. There's some connectivity allowed between sectors, but this system seems like a clumsy fit for the moment to moment mechanics of the game.
None of this is helped by the extremely simplistic wave defence that forms the core gameplay loop. There's no indication of what units are about to attack and no indication whether it will be a ground or air attack, which is initially annoying until you realise it's utterly irrelevant. Rather than assaulting you in a pitched battle that attempts to penetrate your fortifications, the most threatening enemies appear to be the ones that can simply walk or fly over your defences and keep heading for the core regardless of where you have placed walls. The net result is that you end up arraying such enormous firepower against them that every single hostile unit is vapourised seconds after setting foot on the map. It's tremendously anticlimactic. If you were genuinely able to wall out your attackers they could be made much tougher, more numerous or both and result in longer, more exciting and more interesting engagements. In my play time a battle amounted to little more than a handful of hostile units spawning, being immediately bathed in the incandescent glow of a hundred laser cannons and vanishing almost immediately.
Mindustry is not a bad game and plenty of people will be (and clearly have been) able to overlook the issues I have with it, but I cannot give a "neutral" or "your mileage may vary" score, so here we are. There's a very solid foundation of attractively stylised and pleasingly complex factory construction contained within, but a lot of the stuff hanging off that core doesn't do it justice or seems actively detrimental to player enjoyment.Show moreShow less
20.6 hours at review63 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
good game, btw the game's free on githubShow moreShow less
157.8 hours at review332 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Look in theory this game rules and I spent a lot of time with it in earlier versions, but the way the game was changed in version 6 made it much worse to play. The difficulty is insane and chaotic, the game explains nothing and gives you no warning of what you can expect on a certain wave. Even the first "attack" map is very tricky to get through while some of the defend maps are really easy. The planet sector system is very annoying and repetitive and I much preferred the older level based system.
The biggest problem though is that the game now has logic gates and microprocessors. I'm into Dwarf Fortress so it's not like I can't deal with a complicated game, but the microprocessors basically require you to program the behavior of your units in command lines. This isn't optional either, without programming your units they will just attack mindlessly and ignore enemy defenses. I'm not a programmer and the way the game worked before was fine, so I don't get why this was added in as a mandatory thing. It's extremely tedious and the game doesn't pause either while you program the processors or give you time to learn. Halfway through the game it's just like, guess what, you're a robot programmer now and forget about all the fun conveyor belt TD stuff. I hope it'll be improved eventually but for now I'm bummed out by the direction the game took.Show moreShow less
98.4 hours at review54 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
the $6 price tag is actually just stupid. devs are ripping themselves offShow moreShow less
10.2 hours at review292 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
I hate to downvote a game I just played for 12 hours, but it's oddly *laborious* for a TD game. I actually quite like both Factorio and TD, but I don't play TD to spend hours on a single map, especially to then just "launch" before getting overrun just so that I can square up with the tech tree. It's a crummy mechanic that makes the game just not fun. I spend an hour or two setting up defenses in this game, but every ten, twenty, or fifty waves, you have a one-shot option to duck out of the map in order to keep the supplies you've gathered so far. If you don't, you lose it all when you get overrun. Unfortunately, those supplies unlock better defenses in the tech tree, so you have to duck out unless your tech tree is full.
I want to like this game. Honestly, if it had the "speed up" (2x/4x/8x/16x) mechanic of other TD games, I'd probably love it. It is all about automation, after all.Show moreShow less
15.2 hours at review39 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Great game! Not for me :(
I came to Mindustry feeling nostalgic for an old tower defense game called Xeno Tactic, hoping this would scratch that itch with an added RTS dimension layered on top. And the first few levels of the Erekir campaign delivered! It was factory-building first, a little tower defense in the middle, and some RTS flavor as the cherry on top. I'm not an RTS guy, but I was enjoying the mining and factory systems and looking forward to the tower defense side developing into something more substantial.
My expectation was that the factory puzzles would get tighter and more complex, and the tower defense would introduce more variety. Maze building, unit diversity, that kind of thing.
What actually happened around level 7 was the opposite: the factory and tower defense elements got sidelined in favor of RTS. You spawn into a big open map, the mining challenge nearly disappears, and the game just... hands you half your factory. It felt like the developer knew those parts weren't scaling well and automated them rather than making them more interesting.
Then came the real wall. Learning RTS fundamentals is already hard, but having to build a factory just to reach the early game makes it nearly impossible. Imagine if chess required an hour of setup before you could play your first move. That's not a flaw for someone who loves RTS. They'd probably enjoy every minute of it. But I'm not that person.
So the same thing that always happens to me with RTS happened again: I'm having fun building, not optimally but genuinely enjoying myself, and then somewhere in the mid-to-late game an overwhelming force creeps out of the darkness and explodes my sand casle because I wasn't fast or efficient enough. And there's nothing I can do about it because it's already too late.
I know it's a skill issue. I just have no interest in developing those particular skills. That's entirely on me, not the game.Show moreShow less
41.6 hours at review283 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Do not buy this if your intention was to play through it with a friend.
Researches are not shared and the guests to your hosted game cannot access the research tree at all. The researches also are not shared.
Your friend will have to play their own singleplayer save to unlock the researches.. So basically, yes there's co-op, but it's just you (the host) playing singleplayer with a friend that isn't able to do anything except manually mine things and shoot.Show moreShow less
0.4 hours at review37 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
I seriously need some helpShow moreShow less
2,559.4 hours at review261 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
I feel like this is the only way that feedback can be acted on. Game is great until the overpowered bosses. Im a casual gamer and i enjoy thinking the schematics for myself and having fun figuring out every level by myself. The game goes smooth and fun, until an exesively overpowered boss wipes your whole base, which was more than capable of holding of a 2x or 3x of the previous wave. Then you have to spend hours again setting everything back on just to try again, or you can do what everybody does and completely destroy all the fun by download schematics that you didnt make, and play rush, not even caring about what the map looks like, just unloading from core and building big ass units and taking the enemy base before the bosses.
This completely breaks the fun for me on an otherwise amazing gameShow moreShow less
59.5 hours at review34 people found this helpful
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