Text Factory: Automation

HY Gaming

About this game

Text Factory: Automation is an offline, text-based factory simulation game. The entire game can be played completely offline. Build production lines, set up transportation between maps, upgrade technologies, craft weapons and armor, and defeat enemies to gather more resources and expand your factory.

The story begins a few days ago.

You were on a mission to defeat the predator. But something went wrong, forcing you to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet

With your spacecraft and weapons destroyed, you must use the planet's resources, develop new technologies, return to space, and defeat the predator

Defeat enemies to unlock new lands.
Build machines to mine resources and craft items.
Research new technologies to unlock more items.
Equip powerful weapons and armor to face stronger enemies.
Finally, return to space and defeat Predator to complete your mission.

Explore 5 maps, discover 80+ items, research 50+ technologies, and craft a variety of equipment.

The game currently supports English, Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish, and German, with more languages coming in the future.

Ratings and reviews

As a whole, it is a good game with a lot of potential. A few QoL features would be necessary in my opinion to reach 5 stars: being able to cut the sound (the slider doesn't work on my android phone), being able to triage the buildings or at least automatically group them on categories and be able to collapse/expand the categories, have some building filter on name/production (hard to scroll through 50 entries to find the one manufacturing building producing microchips)

Interesting up to a point.. specifically, the second map seems too difficult to beat. Edit: Gameplay is interesting, hence 3 star, but difficulty needs adjustment as it seems like only a single build is viable for each boss fight and you win with zero turns to spare. Trial and experiment required even after unlocking everything available.

Pretty good game so far. Could use a little more quality of life improvements though. It would be nice to have a sort option of any kind.