Satisfactory Meets Minecraft in Paradox Interactives New Game “Foundry”

Peter Donnell / 6 months ago

I love original games and concepts, but every now and then, taking the best elements of a few big hits and smashing them together is more than enough to make an exciting new game. That’s exactly what Foundry has done, with a Voxel-based game that is very much like Minecraft, but with the manufacturing, robots, and engineering found in games like Factorio and Satisfactory, and it looks pretty damn fantastic. Pretty sure the little bot in the trailer is based on Wheatly from Portal too.

Paradox Interactive and Channel 3 announced that Foundry is now available in Early Access on Steam, so if you’re eager to play it, you can grab a copy for just $29.99 / €29.99 / £26.99. This Early Access phase is an opportunity to implement additional content and updates outlined in the roadmap, such as new technologies, world updates, UI/UX enhancements, blueprints, new decor items, and advanced power plants, among others.

Primarily, it will allow the development team to gather feedback from players and adjust the current roadmap based on community input, but if that doesn’t appeal to you, it may be worth waiting for the final release.

About the Game

FOUNDRY is a first-person, factory-building and automation sandbox set in a beautiful, procedurally-generated voxel open world. Starting from humble beginnings of manually mining and processing resources, crafting machinery, and developing technologies, players can advance to automating the entire production line to their precise creative plans and vision. They will face different logistic challenges such as planning and managing pipe networks and power systems while working to optimize their constantly growing production lines as they create their own gigantic, automated, and self-sustaining factory. Played solo or with friends, FOUNDRY is the perfect mix between grid-based construction games and factory building simulations.