History VideoGame / FactoryIdle

* ForWantOfANail: It's ''very easy'' for a ''single'' mistake in your setup to cause the entire system to perform under full efficiency and eventually jam up entirely.

''Factory idle'' is an IdleGame about running a fully automated factory. You set up machines to buy resources, process them, and sell them, and hook them all together with conveyor belts. After that, it gets complicated.

''->Welcome to the crazy world of '''factory idle'''!''

->Welcome to the crazy world of '''factory idle'''!

''Factory idle'' is an IdleGame about running a fully-automated factory. You set up machines to buy resources, process them, and sell them, and hook them all together with conveyor belts. After that, it gets complicated.

Not to be confused with ''Reactor Idle'', an IdleGame by the same developer about managing power reactors.

!This game provides examples of:

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: When hovering over a new machine, the description pane will have a little diagram of just what other machines you need to feed into it to make it run at 100% efficiency, even in weird cases like needing to feed 3 of one machine into 2 of another, or if one input machine can feed multiples of the machine you're looking at.

* SpinOff: ''[[http://missions.factoryidle.com/ Factory Idle Missions]]'', a PuzzleGame mode of ''Factory Idle'' that requires you to build conveyor belts to put different coloured boxes into different outputs. Like ''Factory Idle'', [[NintendoHard it is far harder than it sounds]].

A SpinOff, ''Factory Idle Missions'', is a PuzzleGame using similar conveyor belt mechanics to sort different quantities of differently coloured boxes into corresponding outputs.

You can play it [[http://factoryidle.com/ here]].

* NintendoHard: It outright says in the intro that it's hard for an IdleGame.

* AttackDrone: You start building these one step after building tanks.

* AllTheWorldsAreAStage: At first, you start out selling Iron and Steel. You upgrade to selling Plastics and Electronics which require almost entirely different resources. After that, you're back to metals again, this time producing Guns. After that, you're using a mix of metals and electronics to produce Engines. This all sounds quite random initially, until the final stages, where you produce Tanks that require Guns and Engines to produce, bringing all the production line resources together in one "finale". Ditto for Drones, which require Guns, Steel, Plastic, Aluminium, and Electronics to produce.

* AllTheWorldsAreAStage: At first, you start out selling Iron and Steel. You upgrade to selling Plastics and Electronics which require almost entirely different resources. After that, you're back to metals again, this time producing Guns. After that, you're using a mix of metals and electronics to produce Engines. This all sounds quite random initially, until the final stages, where you produce Tanks that require Guns and Engines to produce, bringing all the production line resources together in one "finale".

* BribingYourWayToVictory: In the "extras" menu. You can buy time-travel tickets (that just give you 3 hours of profits outright) or more bonus ticks. There's also a pair of one-time upgrades.

* TankGoodness: What your factories will eventually be producing in the late-game.

* ArtificialStupidity: Machines that produce more than one output will ''not'' selectively sort the outputs onto the conveyors you want them to. One has to either build a sorter or find a way around their... weird nature of sorting.

* ArtificialStupidity: In-universe: Machines that produce more than one output will ''not'' selectively sort the outputs onto the conveyors you want them to. One has to either build a sorter or find a way around their... weird nature of sorting.

* NintendoHard: It outright says in the intro that it's hard for an IdleGame.

* InventoryManagementPuzzle: Can you squeeze just ''one'' more steel foundry setup into your building?