Factory Default: Build, Trade, Repeat

Factory Default: Build, Trade, Repeat is about running a global industrial empire. You extract raw materials, refine them into components, manufacture high-tech goods and sell them around the world. You build production chains, manage workers, secure supply contracts and expand across a 3D globe inspired by real-world geography.

Build across the planet

The globe contains over 100 regions modeled after real-world countries and economic unions, each with different resources and strategic opportunities. You can mine in resource-rich areas, refine materials where it makes economic sense, manufacture near major markets and connect continents through trade. Your network can span remote mines, semiconductor plants and other industries.

Manage supply chains

You coordinate production across 675+ resources and products, from raw materials to advanced technology. Each stage affects the efficiency and profitability of the chain. Supplier contracts, imports and exports help you balance supply, while trade routes and dynamic markets connect your operations worldwide. Prices change daily in response to world events and your trading volume.

Balance profit and reputation

The Global Perception system evaluates your company’s financial strength, environmental impact, corporate responsibility and industrial influence. You spend influence on company-wide policies, choosing whether to support sustainability and worker rights or use aggressive practices that can raise profits at the expense of public opinion. Your choices shape how the world views the company and can affect its stability and reputation.

You also manage pollution and can offset your environmental footprint with technologies such as carbon capture and artificial coral reefs. Adjust wages, benefits and staffing to keep workers productive, and research new industries, infrastructure and production capabilities through a research tree.

Build a new continent

As your company grows, you can contribute to the Ultima Mundi Project, a large-scale effort to construct an entirely new continent. Completing it unlocks further engineering feats.