Factorio: Space Age expansion release date and price revealed

Developer Wube Software revealed today that its upcoming Factorio: Space Age expansion release date is officially October 21, 2024. The team feels like the date gives enough time after summer vacation to polish the game for release while also leaving some time for hotfixes before the Christmas holiday. The price for the first expansion for the popular factory builder was also announced as $35, the same price as the base game.

This means the first-ever expansion for the popular automation base-building game will be released about four years after Factorio has reached its Version 1.0. Even though the expansion is bringing a ton of new features and content, it also marks the release of Factorio 2.0, a free upgrade for all owners of the base game. Version 2.0 adds smarter worker robots, new rails, a remote view, improvements to train controls and the circuit network, a new fluid system, and more.

As for the expansion itself, Factorio: Space Age picks up right where the base game left off, after players have launched a rocket into space. Using these rockets, players will explore new worlds each with their own unique challenge and playstyles, discovering new resources and technologies. Using a new feature called Space Platforms, players can build defenses, catch and mine asteroids, and set up cargo holds to shuttle resources between the planets.

Three new planets—Vulcanus, Fulgora, and Gleba—have already been revealed, each with its own unique features. Vulcanus for example requires players to harness lava to produce molten iron and copper used to extract and refine a new resource called Tungsten using massive mining drills and foundries. On Fulgora, however, nightly lightning storms require players to create safe havens while also harnessing the power to reclaim the technology of a long-forgotten civilization on the planet. A fourth new planet as well as new enemies and defenses are also coming in the expansion but have not been detailed just yet.

Factorio: Space Age is set to release for PC on Steam on October 21, 2024.