Factory Manager

Factory Manager

StainlessHeart · August 17, 2018 · Simulation, Strategy, Indie

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Factory Manager price by region

Factory Manager costs $1.20 in Georgia (USD), £1.81 in the United Kingdom, €2.11 in Europe (EUR), $2.39 in the United States, CA$3.39 in Canada, NZ$3.69 in New Zealand, A$4.50 in Australia, R$6.49 in Brazil and zł9.22 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Factory Manager offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $1.20 $1.20 — 1
United Kingdom £1.81 −13% £2.09 £1.81 3
Europe (EUR) €2.11 −12% €2.39 €2.11 4
United Statesyour region $2.39 −20% $2.99 $2.39 3
Canada CA$3.39 CA$3.39 — 1
New Zealand NZ$3.69 NZ$3.69 — 1
Australia A$4.50 A$4.50 — 1
Brazil R$6.49 R$6.49 R$12.45 2
Poland zł9.22 −16% zł10.99 zł9.22 3

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Factory Manager

Buy, produce, earn, survive.

Factory Manager is a game in which you start your own production business from a scratch.

In the early stages of the game you will find out what a really bad loan is since you have not earned any trust yet. Hire your first stuff, provide yourself with machines and do not forget about recipes, you will need them for production.

At first, it may seem that the market economy is playing dirty tricks with you, but as soon as you become more experienced entrepreneur, you will have to play by its rules and hammer such simple terms as "demand" and "offer" into your head

Choose your own way of technology development. Potentially, your small nail factory can grow into a large carmaker or even a factory where modern satellites are manufactured.

As you work hard your qualification and your stuff experience will grow. Labor veterans are capable of much more than green newcomers. Use their experience for the benefit of your own business.

Be prepared for surprises: your machines can fail at the most unfortunate moment, the market conditions can change tremendously in a matter of days, and banks can refuse to lend on acceptable terms. In bad times quality management is the only way to save the company.

Factory Manager — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Factory Manager is a budget business simulation with an intentionally retro aesthetic that offers economic strategy gameplay, but suffers from severe balance issues that make progression frustratingly difficult for casual players. The core problem is that profit margins collapse as you advance to higher-tier production while raw material costs spike, creating cycles of debt that feel unrewarding rather than challenging in an engaging way. While some players appreciate the strategic depth and find it worthwhile for the low price, most note the game lacks active development and can feel more lik

Not recommended Oct 18, 2022
Factory Manager is a simple business tycoon game with the very dry premise of running a factory, presented in a kind of 1990's browser game aesthetic (that's definitely not going to win any prizes). Gameplay consists of trying to keep your head above water and your factory in the black, by producing things of increasingly complex nature and selling them for what little profits you have, and fulfilling contracts which are random and difficult. There's no reason such an idea can't work, other games have taken this premise and done well with it. Here, unfortunately, poor technical delivery is matched with poor game design and balance choices, as the game is needlessly difficult for the target audience of people who just want to build, grow and progress casually. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic low quality art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the me…
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Not recommended May 1, 2022
I often find these simulation games rather amusing, and this was no exception. Unfortunately this game suffers f rom whath feels like severe balance issues. You're barely able to scrape a profit with the low tech items, and as you expand to take advantage of the higher tier items their price just tanks and raw materials soar. So essentially you become a car parts manufacturing wannabe with increasingly larger cycles of debt hoping to break through and survive until you can make an actual car. Whether it is worth it in the end I don't' know, but would imagine the price of cars would simply tank rendering most of your investment worthless. I suppose you could take a much slower approach, but the commodity price tanking and raw resource inflation is still very much present at lower levels so you're stuck scraping a barrel.
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Recommended Oct 18, 2025
It's worth $2.50 but lets be clear this isn't much of a game. If the achievements were fixed then it would be enough to make it worth sticking with but this is an old game and as far as I can see no active development engagement. Still what do you expect for the price of a quarter of a beer at a football game?
Recommended Jan 14, 2022
Good work!Thank to developer. Not a clicker, casual game but a game with economic strategy
Not recommended Sep 8, 2020
Im sure i bought this once?
Recommended Mar 12, 2019
Nice little game but you can expect a lot of micromanagement.

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