# ReFactory: Factory Simulator — user reviews > 126 indexed App Store user reviews of ReFactory by BIVAK OOO, rated 4.60/5 from 393 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/refactory-factory-simulator/id1565727443/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/refactory-factory-simulator/id1565727443.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 313 · 4★ 43 · 3★ 14 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 17 ## What do users think of ReFactory? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Great game mechanics - 👍 Intuitive UI and controls - 🔒 No ads or microtransactions - 👍 Challenging and engaging gameplay - 🚀 Efficient battery usage **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and stability issues - 🔒 Locked content behind paywall - 🔋 Difficult progression without purchasing additional content - 🐛 Bugs with purchasing additional content **Commonly reported bugs** - Black screen after loading - Drones not interacting with resources on the ground - Research blocked due to missing resources **Most requested features** - More free content and missions - Ability to refill lakes and ponds - More space-related features and colonization - Ability to mirror/flip factory layouts - Clearer research interface ## Newest reviews (18 of 126) ### 3/5 — Good, yet… *2025-11-01, version 1.12.11* It won’t let me purchase the extra missions. Please fix. ### 4/5 — Sincere feedback *2025-04-19, version 1.12.11* I have been playing games like this, like Factorio, for a few years, and I always wondered when we would have something in this style for mobile, and I was very glad I found this game. I can see the game is still under development, so I think it would be a good timing for feedback. But first of all, I completed 2 missions, and I can’t go beyond that. I tried to buy the rest of the missions, but even that is not possible. Is it a limitation for iOS? I also noticed there were a few upgrades, but I don’t see none of that in the game I downloaded in April 2025, e.g. additional missions. I found the game story line very interesting and many elements overlap with Factorio, but there are important differences that makes the game intriguing and exciting. One factor that I should mention is that the game is too difficult and too frustrating at some points. Even playing on easy mode I caught myself getting my base destroyed by the alien life and taking forever to build anything. This is because the game scenario is too big and the robots too slow and the buildings too expensive. This combination of factors make the gameplay perhaps excessively frustrating and discouraging. Another thing is that the raw resources depot run out too fast, like the minerals, and particularly the wood. I appreciate there is a way to grow trees back, but it’s too slow compared to the consumption rate. My suggestion is to be able to produce energy out of water for example or make it cheaper (less wood consumption, or create an upgrade to make it cheaper). I also found myself getting out of one resource, so to get more of that resource I had to go very far from my base, which the robots took forever to get there, and when I start making something, the aliens come and smash everything down. I tried to make turrets to kill them, but they are way too weak and get destroyed too easily. The tech tree is not very intuitive, and there isn’t a clear list of the available technology and what could be the next step. Again, I really enjoyed playing the game, and I hope it will evolve and with some adjustments it has loads of potential! Great job developers! ### 4/5 — Fun game *2025-04-10, version 1.12.11* Really good game, only a couple of levels but worth a play through 100%, no ads whatsoever. Would have bought the extended missions but purchase fails, guess it’s no longer supported ### 4/5 — Good *2025-04-10, version 1.12.11* Is a good game. Looks like it’s in supported now. Only 2 campaign levels. Before needing to purchase extra but they don’t seam to be purchasable. ### 4/5 — Only one thing I dislike. *2025-03-10, version 1.12.11* Would’ve been much nicer if the AI character looked a bit more kid friendly. It’s a bit uncomfortable. I would appreciate it very much if you could make any changes. BTW this game is AMAZING! ### 2/5 — Good but bad *2025-01-28, version 1.12.11* Pretty fun game and a good way to waste time but can only play 2 or 3 levels without paying so it’s an uninstall for me. ### 4/5 — Amazing game but…. *2025-01-25, version 1.12.11* I managed to complete the first two missions in the first couple days of downloaded and I absolutely love this game, but when I try to buy the extra missions pack, it keeps telling me I have no internet connection even though I have connection, is this a bug in the code? ### 2/5 — Cannot Purchase Additional Missions *2024-12-20, version 1.12.11* This is a fun game, but I am SO disappointed that I cannot purchase additional missions to progress further! Please fix this so I can continue to play! ### 2/5 — Great but unable to purchase full game *2024-11-12, version 1.12.11* I’d like to buy the full version of this game, but every time I try it fails ### 3/5 — Constantly Intrusive tutorial *2024-11-09, version 1.12.11* Game could be great but the constant tutorial pop ups are frustrating as hell ### 3/5 — Broken mission pack purchase, glitchy demo *2024-06-07* I'm so excited to play this, but the very first thing I see is "extra missions" that I'll need to buy in order to play the full game. No problem, I'm happy to pay you for your work. BUT like some others leaving negative reviews, I'm unable to see the price of the extra missions pack, or to purchase it. Restarting did nothing. Not a promising start. Then I played the tutorial, which looked really cool. I got to where it wanted me to take a wood sample, and now the game seems to be stuck. I tell it to send a research drone to get a sample and nothing happens; the drone sits idle. The game looks fantastic, but I don't want to waste my time finding all the bugs. I'm playing on a new M4 iPad Pro. ### 5/5 — Impressive *2024-05-01, version 1.12.11* This is a very accomplished and interesting game. Highly recommend trying it. Suggest to allow for higher resource nodes. Too little resources. ### 5/5 — Great factorio clone *2024-04-02* And I mean “clone” in a positive way - they took parts of a masterpiece and implemented it for mobile. So far (few hours) the game has been fun. I really appreciate that it doesn’t have micro transactions - I don’t know why some people in the reviews complain about “$3.99” IAP for full game, it is well worth the money compared to 99.9% of garbage on the App Store. Good - pleasant graphics, music, UI - somewhat fun writing - reasonable performance - good mechanics and pacing Problems - I had one crash (iPhone 15pro) - when power is out, there is no obvious way to restart the plant again. In factorio, I could manually insert coal into boilers. Here I have to do some weird actions to restart the factory. ### 5/5 — Best game ever *2024-04-02, version 1.12.11* This is the best game I have ever played. It has no ads. This is so fun ### 5/5 — Hours of fun *2024-04-01* This is a great game that you can spend minutes or hours at a time playing. You can pick it up or put it down at will without being penalized for not constantly opening it. Two thumbs up. ### 2/5 — Can’t load the game up anymore. *2024-03-25, version 1.12.11* Wish I could start playing again can’t load it up anymore everytime I open the app it opens up the the dev splash screen and changes to a black screen and now I can’t play. ### 5/5 — The best game I found *2024-02-20, version 1.12.11* Amazing game. You need your thinking cap on to stay one step ahead I must play. ### 5/5 — Refractory *2024-02-03, version 1.12.11* I’m at over 3000 hours in factorio and although not perfect this scratches the itch when I’m away from my computer. I’m excited to see what else they can do! The factory must grow!!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Hi I’d like to buy your game but it wont let me *2025-01-22, version 1.12.11* This game is great. I’ve played it for several hours on the free version and would like to upgrade, however it will not let me make an in app purchase to get the extra missions pack. It would make me really sad if I can’t buy this. ### 1/5 — Devs…are you trolling me or is the game being a d*ck? *2024-05-01, version 1.12.11* I love playing the game, maximizing productivity, managing supply routes, discovering new tech. Its just that…I’m on the second mission trying to research the chemistry technology yet every time I start researching WITHOUT FAIL OR HESITATION the goo immediately starts destroying the A.I core. Even if I load to previous saves, when I reach the same point the goo still does the same thing. It even ignores other buildings & goes directly for the A.I core. So plz tell me if someone on the dev team is trolling me to the point where its pretty much cyber bullying or the code is doing that… ### 1/5 — No new updates *2023-10-07, version 1.12.11* Been a year and no updates :( keeps crashing. ### 1/5 — You have to pay to get the whole game *2023-06-11, version 1.12.11* Nah chief at least price on the App Store ### 1/5 — Really fun game but cannot buy more levels *2023-04-23, version 1.12.11* I really enjoyed this game. Best game to play on long plane rides where there’s no internet. I wouldn’t hesitate to pay for the additional levels but unfortunately it won’t let me. Hope the developer comes back and fixed this. ### 1/5 — Want to buy… can’t buy *2023-04-21, version 1.12.11* Very fun game but it will not let me purchase the extra levels ### 1/5 — Please Fix *2023-01-12, version 1.12.11* My Game does not work after loading it goes on a black screen and does not load any further and I have checked it’s not a problem with my device other things works just fine I have waited on the blank screen for 10+ minutes I hope this gets fixed as I want to play this game ### 1/5 — Why is this so good? *2022-12-14, version 1.12.11* Peopel say thsi is factorio from switch and I have it’s demo and since it’s free to play I tried it and thsi game is just a black screen!it’s not factorio or even jsut a normal rip off! ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2022-11-05, version 1.12.11* iPhone XS with latest iOS update but it black screens after the loading screen what a shame. ### 1/5 — Not working *2022-10-29, version 1.12.11* Crashes on iOS 16.0 and sometimes doesn’t open at all. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Can’t Buy Additional Content *2025-11-10* Great game, but I’m stuck and can’t move forward as it won’t let me buy the additional content pack…do you want money or not? ### 5/5 — It’s a good game *2025-09-28, version 1.12.11* It’s a good game😎 ### 5/5 — Great Factorio adaptation *2025-09-16* This game does a good job at introducing the player to the mechanics and setting up an atmosphere, considering that I have been playing it nonstop since I downloaded it. Art style goes hard, good item balancing, the built in overflow belts are a godsend. Highly recommended! ### 5/5 — Honestly kinda fun *2025-08-08* I love games like Factorio and I was lookin at something that would scratch that itch on mobile. This game did just that, yea you gotta pay a few bucks for the entire game but it’s honestly worth it. There’s quite a fair bit of content that does keep you going for a while. 10:10 do recommend ### 5/5 — Grate game and chalnging *2025-08-06, version 1.12.11* Love the game great graphics, and fun to play Would like if it had shields to protect base in all machinery instead of you having to repair it every time could add asteroid mining for more resources Make the whole game free pz ### 5/5 — Very challenging, great mechanics and story *2025-08-04, version 1.12.11* Build your factories with limited resources to make high level products while fending off alien invaders. The tech research is well considered to require thoughtful development and tactical strategizing. ### 5/5 — Thanks for reuploading it! *2024-11-26, version 1.12.11* Im not 100% sure it was taken down, but i think it was because my ipad automatically offloaded it and it said it was removed. But anyways, an absolutely amazing game. ### 5/5 — Amazing game *2024-10-31, version 1.12.11* A gem in the Apple Store. ### 5/5 — Love the game so far *2024-06-05, version 1.12.11* I have tried to purchase the full version and it keeps saying there is an error. Any way to resolve this? ### 5/5 — The best mobile game I’ve ever played *2024-05-24, version 1.12.11* If you like strategic games, that are complex, difficult and deep. You will love this one. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*