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by and0 1833 days ago
To anyone who loves Factorio as much as I do, I strongly recommend the new game Dyson Sphere Program. I never truly beat Factorio the way I did DSP, so I can't compare them completely, but DSP takes the concept to a 3D planetary scale and is in many ways much friendlier.

Also no combat/bugs, at least not yet. The dev team is Chinese and are releasing amazing quality-of-life updates at a rapid clip, too. Truly impressive piece of software.

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Glad you mentioned DSP so I didn't have to ;) It really feels like the perfect extension/progression, or what I imagine Factorio 2.0 would/should be. The graphics are absolutely stunning as well, which is one point that started to really turn me off of Factorio after hundreds of hours, especially on a 4K monitor... not to mention watching spaceships fly cargo around the solar system is way cooler than trains ;) Also a lot of the tedious build-up that killed my interest in restarting Factorio for the Nth time is handled IMHO much nicer, such as giving you drones from the start. I haven't played in a couple months, still waiting for blueprints, which are supposedly right around the corner. I'm also very curious what/how they plan to implement enemies...
Yeah, nothing in Factorio can quite match watching all of your solar sails and ships orbiting and snapping into place around the sun in the sky. Which you can also fly right up to and watch all the little details in person.