Textorio

Textorio is a factory automation game built entirely from text characters. After crashing on Kepler-442b, you have a wrist terminal and must restart the reactor keeping 50,000 colonists in cryo-pods alive. You mine ore, smelt it and build machines to automate production.

Factory systems

The factory is displayed as a text schematic, making large layouts readable at a glance. Its machinery uses interconnected systems: electricity flows through wires and grids can brown out, balance loads or short; fluids move under pressure through multi-tile pipe networks; and steam condenses back into water, with poorly managed loops risking pressure spikes. Belts carry two independent lanes.

P.Logic is an in-game pneumatic programming language with sensors, gates, comparators, latches, timers and counters. You can use it to build a working memory cell from pipes, then troubleshoot and optimize the systems you create.

Layers and threats

The world has four layers: Surface, Caves, Deep Caves and Core Chamber, each with different engineering challenges. Machinery overheats in the Deep Caves until you research thermal management, and a lift system moves you and goods between layers. The Core Chamber is present, but its boss is not yet included.

Wildlife feeds on electromagnetic energy and targets your factory. It evolves to break through walls, while turrets draw larger swarms; static defenses eventually stop working, so you have to adapt your defenses.

Colony and tools

You keep the colony alive with food, water and power. It grows through seven tiers, up to 50,000 people, and named citizens walk around and talk to one another. The Mote is a companion drone that can follow, guard or scout, and has moods about how you play.

The game also includes a full research tree, oil refining, three-phase power, and auto-tiling walls and floors. An in-game terminal OS provides a live map, power statistics, production graphs and more than 50 commands.

Factory Wars

Textorio includes 1v1 LAN Factory Wars. LAN play works, but public matchmaking is not available.