Factorio Expansion Will Be As Big As The Base Game, According To Dev

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Wube Software has announced that they plan for the upcoming Factorio expansion pack to equal the entire base game in terms of size. Factorio is a factory simulator game that spent four years in early access before being released fully in August 2020. Even then, the game suffered a somewhat fraught release, being plagued by over 100 bugs and other problems that had to be fixed in patch 1.1, which was released about six months later.

Fans of Factorio have had quite the wait since the developers first announced their plans for the Factorio expansion pack. The original statement made clear that the plans for this expansion would not take less than a year to complete and now, almost exactly a year later, Wube has released a blog post with an update on the upcoming expansion release. According to the developers, this expansion pack will be accompanied by a patch that will fix a variety of bugs that have gone unaddressed since patch 1.1. Between the DLC and the patch, Wube plans to fully wrap up all of their remaining development goals for Factorio.

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An article published by PCGamesN yesterday discussed the contents of Wube’s blog update. The DLC is set to cost $30, the same price as the basic Factorio experience itself, but the developers plan to include enough content to make the price worthwhile. The release is still some time from being complete, but according to the post large sections of the game are playable and they will soon be able to playtest the entire expansion top to bottom. Once that is done the DLC will be cleaned and improved before being released into a closed beta. The beta will likely be a small ordeal, as the blog post states that