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Textorio — ASCII Factory Automation Game · Out Now in Early Access on Steam · Free Demo Available

A crashed ship. A hostile world. Only your ingenuity stands between you and the void.
ASCII Factory Automation · PC · Out Now in Early Access · Free Demo on Steam
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KEPLER-442b ◆ 1,200 LIGHT-YEARS FROM EARTH ◆ DAY 1 — CRASH CONFIRMED ◆ OPERATOR STATUS: CRITICAL
YOU CRASH.
50,000
colonists in cryo-sleep
aboard U.N.S. Hephaestus
100
cycles until orbital
decay is irreversible
1
survivor on the
surface. You.
01
💥
CRASH LANDING
Your escape pod hits Kepler-442b hard. The colony ship above enters decaying orbit. No rescue is coming.
→
02
🌡️
DEAD PLANET
The core is cold. No magnetosphere. No breathable air. A colony tried this before. They made it to cycle 94.
→
03
⚙️
BUILD OR DIE
Mine. Smelt. Automate. Research. The planet's resources are the only thing between 50,000 lives and the void.
→
04
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RESTART THE CORE
The planned campaign descends through four world layers to restart the geothermal core. Early Access currently focuses on the surface.
BASTION_UPLINK — RECOVERED TRANSMISSIONS

[DAY 1] ▞ BASTION AI
"Vitals stabilizing. Objective protocols loaded. Remember your directive, Operator: Restart the Core."

[DAY 2847] 📼 DR. MARA VOSS — FOUND LOG · Fragment 1 of 6
"Audio log. ■■■■■ the drilling team reached sublevel 4 today. Kira says the crystal formations are unlike anything in ■■■■■■■■ we should have stopped when the readings changed. I told Harlow. He didn't listen."

[DAY 2857] 📼 BASTION INTERNAL LOG — Fragment 5 of 6
"Anomalous energy readings at 04:12 station time. Colony power dropped to 12%. All personnel to emergency zones. ■■■ I tried to save them. The core collapsed before I could reach ■■■■■■■■"

BASTION:~$ You are the Operator. Someone tried to colonize this planet before. They got to cycle 94. The planet's core destroyed them. Your mission: mine, smelt, automate, research, descend — and restart what they failed to restart.

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// COMPANION UNIT · DESIGNATION UNKNOWN
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You Are Not Alone

The Mote is your repair drone. It floats alongside you at all times. It bobs. It spins when it's fixing something. Its mood indicator changes based on how your factory is doing.

Nobody programmed it to have a mood. It just… developed one.
It seems more worried about the factory than you are.
Make of that what you will.

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// CORE SYSTEMS — FACTORY AUTOMATION GAME FOR PC

Deep Factory Automation Systems

Textorio is a factory automation game built for PC. From hand-mining your first iron ore to launching orbital payloads — every system is deep, interconnected, and satisfying.

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Mining & Resources

Hand-mine surface deposits or automate with electric mining drills. Start with surface ores and build your production chains. Deeper resources and the completed four-layer descent remain in development.

12+ ore types
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Smelting & Processing

Stone furnaces for iron and copper plates. Chemical plants for acid processing. Electric furnaces for advanced alloys. Each recipe chain feeds into the next.

crafting · smelting · chemical
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Factory Automation

Conveyor belts, inserters, and assembling machines form the backbone. Smart inserters with filters, long-arm variants, and underground belts solve logistics puzzles.

belts · inserters · assemblers
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Power Networks

Steam engines, solar concentrators, windmills, geothermal plants, and accumulators. Build grids with poles and substations. Monitor satisfaction, demand, and production in real-time.

6 power sources
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Fluid Mechanics

Pipes, valves, pressure systems, and storage tanks. Pump water from offshore sources, process oil into petroleum and lubricant, manage steam pressure networks with safety valves.

pressure · valves · routing
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Research & Technology

Twenty-five technologies from basic Automation to Computational Hydraulics. Labs consume science packs. Each unlock opens new recipes, buildings, and possibilities.

25+ technologies
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Steam & Pressure

Boilers convert water + coal into steam. Pipes carry pressurized steam to engines. Overpressure causes explosions. Solar concentrators and exothermic mixers provide alternative steam sources.

pneumatic · hydraulic · logic
🌤️

Day/Night & Weather

Full day-night cycle affects solar output and visibility. Weather systems influence wind power and solar efficiency. Storms reduce output — plan backup power accordingly.

dynamic environment
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A Colony That Grows Or Starves

Feed a depot and twelve survivors become a Metropolis of fifty thousand across seven tiers. Every tier is held by continuous food, water and power — let supply lapse and the settlement slips back. It is the only part of your factory that notices when you fail.

7 tiers · 12 → 50,000 people
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Factory Wars (Multiplayer)

1v1 LAN battles on shared maps. Raid your opponent's factory while defending your own. Same resource pool — different strategies. Race to build the stronger army before they breach your walls.

1v1 · LAN · competitive
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Orbital Network

Connect to other players. Compete on global leaderboards. Upload your factory as a tour and walk through other players' bases in read-only mode. Self-hosted server — no cloud required.

leaderboards · tours · self-hosted
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Textorio in Motion

Screenshots only get you so far with a game made of text. These are real clips, no edits, no sound.

Belt Networks

The core loop. Every item you see moving is a character on a grid, routed by belts and inserters you placed yourself.

P.Logic, Running

Pressure logic doing actual work: gates switching, counters ticking, seven segment displays reading out live values.

Turbines After Dark

Steam power at night. The light comes from the machines, so a bigger factory literally lights more of the map.

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// WORLD LAYERS — FACTORY EXPLORATION GAME · KEPLER-442b

Four World Layers to Mine, Build, and Descend

Each layer deeper reveals new resources, new factory automation challenges, and new mysteries. Textorio is a factory builder game across 4 distinct underground worlds. The planet keeps its best secrets buried.

DEPTH 0
● ACCESSIBLE
♣ ♣ . . ≈ ≈ . ♣ . ☗ . ⊙ ═ ▒ . . ♣ . ▒ . . . ♣ ♣
Surface
Open terrain with trees, water, and mineral deposits. Iron, copper, coal, and stone are abundant. Wildlife roams freely. Your crash site is here.
Iron · Copper · Coal Stone · Oil · Uranium Biters · Spitters
DEPTH 1
● CAVES
▓▓▓ · · ▓▓▓▓▓ ▓ · ♦ · · · · ▓ ▓▓▓ · · ▓ · ▓▓
Caves
Dark underground networks with stalactite formations and mineral veins. Deeper ore grades, rarer metals, and things that have never seen sunlight.
Rare Metals · Gems Cave Beetles Darkness
DEPTH 2
● EXTREME HEAT
███ ✧ ✧ █████ █ · ♦♦ · ≋≋ █ ██████ · ✧ ██
Deep Caves
Pressure-sealed chambers with fluorite crystals and geothermal vents. Lava flows illuminate walls of gemstone. Your machines run hot here.
Fluorite · Crystals Geothermal Vents Evolved Enemies
DEPTH 3
● HOSTILE · ENDGAME
▓▓▓ ◉ ◉ ▓▓▓▓▓ ▓ ≋≋≋ ◉ ≋≋ ▓ ▓▓▓▓▓ ◉ ◉ ▓▓▓
Core Chamber
The planet's molten heart. Hive cores pulse with alien energy. Behemoths guard the deepest passages. This is where the planet killed the last colony.
Behemoths Hive Cores Restart the Core
Surface ━━━━━▼━━━━━ Caves ━━━━━▼━━━━━ Deep Caves ━━━━━▼━━━━━ Core Chamber
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// COMBAT & SURVIVAL — FACTORY SURVIVAL GAME PC

Factory Survival — Combat Against Alien Wildlife

Textorio is a factory survival game. The alien wildlife won't watch quietly as you strip-mine their home. They adapt. They attack. They evolve. Build defences or lose everything.

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Biter

Fast, aggressive melee attackers. They swarm in packs and overwhelm unprepared outposts. Low health, high numbers.

S

Spitter

Ranged acid attackers that corrode structures from a distance. Slower but deadlier. Acid pools linger on the ground.

B

Behemoth

Massive armored creatures that serve as living siege engines. Enormous health pools. Telegraph their devastating attacks with ground-shake warnings.

s

Scout

Fast reconnaissance units that probe your defenses and report back to the hive. Killing them quickly prevents larger raids.

Real-Time Combat & Defence

Combat is real-time. Enemies breach your perimeter — you fight back or fall back. Every decision costs health or time.

Attack — Strike adjacent enemies directly. Your suit's energy is finite. Pick your fights.

Grenades (G key) — AOE explosive, 2-tile blast radius. Devastating against packs. 3-second cooldown. Start with 10.

Heal (H key) — Auto-selects the best item available: med-pack (50 HP), combat stimulant (100 HP), or repair kit (45 HP). Watch your count in the status panel.

Turrets & Walls — Your factory's immune system. Mini turrets hold the perimeter. Laser turrets unlock later — no ammo, but power-hungry. Walls funnel enemies into kill zones.

Enemy evolution — the hive adapts. The more you build, the more pollution spreads, and the more aggressive and numerous the waves become. There is no peace.

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// SETTLEMENT PROTOCOL · DEPOT 001

They Are Counting On You Literally

(The number on the screen is people.)

A depot sits near your crash site. You did not build it and you cannot move it. Feed it and twelve survivors become fifty, then a hundred and fifty, then a town with districts and a council hall. Stop feeding it and the number goes down. It is the only part of your factory that notices when you fail.

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Seven Tiers, Fifty Thousand People

Survivor Camp. Small Village. Village. Town. Large Town. City. Metropolis. Twelve people at the bottom, fifty thousand at the top — the same fifty thousand still in cryo-sleep above you. Each tier costs concrete, steel and circuits to reach, and then costs food and water forever.

12 → 50,000 · seven tiers
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It Can Fall Back

Tiers are held by continuous supply, not unlocked once. Food, water, power — and from Town upward, steam pressure. Let any of them lapse and unrest climbs, then the settlement slips back a tier. It is recoverable. It is also entirely your fault.

unrest · recoverable · unforgiving
◉

It Names Itself

Your settlement picks its own name when it takes root — Vestige, Cinderfall, Last Light, Emberholm. The people in it have names too, and they walk to places for reasons. The CITY app on the mainframe tells you who they are and what they need.

named town · named citizens
▲ Food is a production chain. Nutrient synthesizers make rations. Rations go on belts. Belts feed the depot. A settlement of fifty thousand is a logistics problem wearing a human face.
≈ The depot only takes what it uses. Rations up to its buffer and the exact materials the next tier asks for. Misroute a belt of iron into it and it will refuse the delivery rather than quietly swallow it.
// MAINFRAME APPS
⌂ City
◎ Objectives
! Threats
◫ Statistics
▥ Logs & Mail
▣ Command Line
▤ Briefing

Press M in game. BASTION may have pre-installed a few things you did not ask for — the logs are worth a read when things go quiet.

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// KNOWLEDGE BASE — FACTORY AUTOMATION RESEARCH

Factory Automation Research Tree

Twenty-five technologies spanning factory automation, energy systems, military, biotech, and deep planet exploration. Each unlock transforms your factory's capabilities. Like Factorio — but deeper underground.

TIER 1 — FOUNDATION
Automation · Logistics · Steam Power · Military · Materials

Your first science packs unlock the machines that end hand-crafting. Belts run. Drills mine. Furnaces smelt without you. The factory begins to breathe on its own.

TIER 2 — INDUSTRY
Oil · Fluids · Advanced Energy · Control Systems · Exploration

Pipes carry oil. Pressure systems push steam. Fluid logic routes signals without electricity. The factory grows complex — and so does the threat outside its walls.

TIER 3 — DESCENT
Biotech · Exoskeleton · Computational Hydraulics · Deep Mining

The surface is no longer enough. Tier 3 opens the cave systems — and equips you to survive what lives in them. The Core Chamber is close. The planet resists.

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100+
Buildable Structures
25+
Technologies
4
World Layers
📡
Orbital Network
∞
Factory Possibilities
// LAUNCH STATUS · EARLY ACCESS v0.9 · OUT NOW

Honest Early Access Notes

This is unfinished — and that's the point. You're not buying a complete game. You're buying in early, shaping what it becomes, and your name goes into the ship's manifest.

⚠ What Early Access means for Textorio The Early Access build is the surface layer — factory automation, power grids, fluid and steam systems, combat, the research tree, and a colony that grows across seven tiers from twelve survivors toward fifty thousand. The caves are the closing scene: you can descend, and what you find down there ends the chapter rather than opening a new one. The deep caves and the Core Chamber generate and run but are not finished content. That descent is what 1.0 is for.
✓ Shipping now in v0.9
  • ✓ Surface layer — mining, smelting, full factory automation
  • ✓ Power systems — steam engines, solar, wind, geothermal
  • ✓ Fluid networks — pipes, oil, valves, pressure
  • ✓ Combat — biters, spitters, grenades, turrets, walls
  • ✓ Research tree — Tier 1 & 2 technologies fully unlockable
  • ✓ BASTION AI — story transmissions, milestone events
  • ✓ Factory Wars — 1v1 LAN multiplayer (experimental)
⟳ The Descent — Coming Updates
  • Planned — Enemy evolution & hive nests · new creature types
  • Planned — Cave layers polished · crystals · deeper lore
  • Planned — Orbital Network live · leaderboards · factory tours
  • Planned — Core Chamber · story conclusion · endgame
  • 1.0 — Full release planned · achievements · OST
// PASSENGER MANIFEST — EARLY ACCESS RECORD

Become Wreckborn.

The U.N.S. Hephaestus carries 50,000 colonists in cryo-sleep. They are the reason the Operator is still building. Every one of them has a name. Yours can be one of them.

Early Access buyers are Wreckborn — the passengers who survived the crash, still sleeping in the vaults, waiting for the factory to bring them home. Your name enters the in-game passenger manifest. The Operator is building this for you.

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Passenger Manifest
Your name in the in-game ship manifest. Query MANIFEST LIST on any terminal.
🎖
Credits: Wreckborn
Listed in the full release credits under "Wreckborn — those who believed in the descent."
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Discord Role
Exclusive [Wreckborn] role in Discord. Early build access, dev updates, direct line to the developer.
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Locked-In Price
Buy during Early Access and keep the game at full release. Check Steam for the current regional price.
⚠ Known Rough Edges Some balancing issues expected. Save files may not be forward-compatible between major versions. Certain UI panels are placeholder. Bugs should be reported — feedback directly shapes each update.
♥ Why Buy Early Access You pay less. You shape the game. Your name goes into the manifest. Solo developer — no publisher, no team, no safety net. Every purchase keeps the descent going.
BASTION: "Early Access purchase confirmed. Your name has been entered into the passenger manifest. The Operator has been notified. — End of transmission."
→ Buy on Steam

EARLY ACCESS · OUT NOW · FREE DEMO ON STEAM · NO MICROTRANSACTIONS

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// FREQUENTLY ASKED — TEXTORIO FACTORY GAME FAQ

Textorio FAQ — Factory Automation Game Questions

What kind of game is Textorio?
Textorio is an ASCII-art factory automation game for PC, inspired by Factorio. You mine resources, build production chains, manage power grids, research technologies, fight alien wildlife, and work toward a planned four-layer descent — all rendered in beautiful text characters, guided by BASTION AI.
Is it really just text characters?
Yes — every tree, machine, enemy, pipe, and conveyor belt is an ASCII or Unicode character. But with color, animation, particle effects, weather, and lighting, the world feels rich and alive. The constraint drives creativity.
What platforms does it run on?
Textorio is built with JavaScript and packaged with Electron, targeting Windows PC. It runs as a native desktop application with no internet connection required. Your saves are stored locally. Available now on Steam in Early Access, with a free demo.
How deep is the automation?
Very. You have mining drills, conveyor belts (with underground and splitter variants), inserters (basic, long-arm, filter, stack), assembling machines, chemical plants, oil refineries, steam pressure networks, fluid logic systems, and hydraulic computing. If you've played Factorio, you'll feel right at home — if you haven't, the research tree guides you step by step.
Is there combat?
Yes. The alien wildlife gets aggressive as your factory grows and pollution spreads. Enemy types include biters, spitters, and larger evolved forms. Combat is real-time — attack, throw grenades (G), heal (H), or retreat. Build turrets and walls for passive defense. The hive evolves as your factory scales.
What's the goal?
You're the Operator — sole survivor, guided by BASTION AI. The U.N.S. Hephaestus is in decaying orbit above with 50,000 colonists in cryo-sleep. The planet's core is dead, its atmosphere unbreathable. The planned full campaign asks you to descend through four world layers, restart the planet's geothermal core, restore the magnetosphere — and build a docking spire to catch the ship before it burns. Someone tried this before. They got to cycle 94.
How much does it cost?
Textorio is out now in Steam Early Access. Check Steam for the current regional price and any discounts. Early Access purchases include the game at full release. Buy it on Steam, or try the free demo first. No ads, no microtransactions, no DLC. One price, the whole game. Early Access buyers are Wreckborn: your name enters the in-game passenger manifest, you get Discord role access, and you're listed in the final credits.
What is the Orbital Network?
The Orbital Network is an optional online feature that connects players. It includes global leaderboards (ranked by level, machines, power, tech, or kills), factory tours (upload your base for others to walk through in read-only mode), and real-time presence via WebSocket. Online features require a connection and depend on service availability. The basic single-player game runs locally without a game server.
Can I visit other players' factories?
Yes! Players can upload their factory as a tour. You can browse tours sorted by popularity or recency, then click "Explore" to walk through their base in read-only mode with WASD controls. Your game is backed up and restored when you exit. Tour availability and accessible areas depend on the current build and the uploaded factory. The finished deeper descent remains in development.
Do I need a server to play?
No. The game runs entirely offline. The Orbital Network is an optional add-on for leaderboards and tours. If no server is configured, the game works perfectly without it.
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// OPTIONAL ONLINE FEATURES

The Orbital Network

Online rankings and factory tours connect operators beyond the single-player opening. Availability depends on your build and the online service. The demo permits browsing rankings while restricting submissions; Factory Wars and Kepler Online are paid-build modes.

Compare demo and Early Access features · Read the FAQ

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Early Access — Out Now Full surface layer, factory systems, combat, research. Check Steam for current regional pricing. → Buy on Steam

Ready to Descend?

The factory must grow. The clock is ticking. 50,000 people are still in cryo-sleep aboard a ship in decaying orbit. They're waiting for you.

Early Access buyers become Wreckborn — your name enters the passenger manifest. You are one of the 50,000 the Operator is building to save.

Solo developer. Lithuania. No publisher, no team. Your purchase supports continued development.

→ Buy on Steam

EARLY ACCESS · OUT NOW · FREE DEMO ON STEAM · NO MICROTRANSACTIONS

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In the Manifest
Your name in the ship's passenger manifest. Query it on any in-game terminal.
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Locked-In Price
Early Access pricing may change at full release. Check Steam for the current regional price.
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Wreckborn Credits
Listed in full release credits: "those who believed in the descent."
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Discord Role
Exclusive [Wreckborn] role. Dev updates, early builds, direct access.
🖥️ Windows PC
💾 Offline Play
🎮 Keyboard & Mouse
🚂 Steam Early Access
📋 Wreckborn Manifest