Comparison

Mindustry vs Ficsit Field Guide

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Mindustry

Build complex factories, manage supply chains, and defend your base from enemy waves in this real-time strategy game. Conquer planets, research new technologies, and engage in multiplayer battles with friends.

Highlights
  • Factory building and supply chains
  • Tower defense against enemy waves
  • Cross-platform multiplayer co-op and PvP
  • Conquer planets with campaign and procedural sectors
  • Research new blocks and technologies
  • Map editor with scripting support
Features
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Mindustry is a factory-building game with tower defense and RTS elements. Create elaborate supply chains to feed ammo into your turrets, produce materials to use for building, and construct units. Command units to capture enemy bases, and expand your production. Defend your core from waves of enemies. Gameplay Features: - Use production blocks to create a wide variety of advanced materials - Defend your structures from waves of enemies - Play with your friends in cross-platform multiplayer co-op games, or challenge them in team-based PvP matches - Distribute liquids and fight constant challenges, like outbreaks of fire or enemy flier raids - Get the most out of your production by supplying optional coolant and lubricant - Produce a wide variety of units for automatic management of your base or assault on enemy bases - Set up assembly lines to construct armies of mechanized units - Use your units to square up against fully functional enemy bases Campaign: - Conquer the planets Serpulo and Erekir as you advance through 35 hand-made maps and 250+ procedurally generated sectors - Capture territory and set up factories to produce resources while you play other sectors - Defend your sectors from periodic invasions - Coordinate resource distribution between sectors via launch pads - Research new blocks to fuel progress - Invite your friends to complete missions together - 250+ technology blocks to master - 50+ different types of drones, mechs and ships Custom Games & Cross-Platform Multiplayer: - 16+ built in maps for custom games, in addition to two entire campaigns - Play co-op, PvP or sandbox - Join a public dedicated server, or invite friends to your own private session - Customizable game rules: Change block costs, enemy stats, starting items, wave timing and more - Full functional map editor with scripting support

About

Ficsit Field Guide

This companion app helps players plan factory production, track world resources, and monitor game progress for Satisfactory. It offers detailed production chains, world map data, and progress tracking features, all while working offline and without ads.

Highlights
  • Factory production planning
  • World map with resource nodes
  • Progress and milestone tracking
  • Save file import for unlocks
  • Offline functionality
  • No ads or tracking
Features
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Field Guide is a companion for Satisfactory: a production planner, a world map and a progress tracker in your pocket, built for a second screen beside the game. PLAN ANY FACTORY • Pick what you want to make and how fast. Get every machine, the power it draws and the raw resources it needs. • See the whole chain as a list or as a production network, with each step and every belt and pipe between them. • Overclock individual steps, add Somersloops, and watch the plan re-solve. • Batch mode for fixed amounts: how many crafts, how long, and what's left over. • Power mode: choose a generator and fuel, and plan the fuel's production chain too. • Compare every recipe for an item, alternates included, across the whole chain. • Save plans and come back to them. KNOW THE WORLD • Every resource node, well and geyser, with its purity and altitude. • All 1,242 power slugs, 106 Somersloops, 298 Mercer Spheres and 89 crash sites. • Double-tap a collectible to mark it collected, and long-press to mark where you are. • Find the nearest pure iron node, or the nearest slug you haven't picked up yet. • Claim the nodes you're mining, and see your total extraction at a glance. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Milestones, MAM research and alternate recipes. The planner only uses what you've unlocked. • Space Elevator phases and milestones, each one plannable in a tap. • A crash site checklist showing what each site needs before it opens. IMPORT YOUR SAVE Open a .sav file from your PC and Field Guide reads your unlocks and every collectible you've picked up. You check a summary before anything changes, and one tap undoes it. YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE • No account, no ads, no tracking. Everything stays on your device. • Works offline, with the whole game database and map built in. • Back up everything to a single file you can keep, or move to another device. Field Guide is an unofficial fan-made companion app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Coffee Stain Studios AB. Satisfactory is their trademark.

Screenshots

Mindustry4 screens
Ficsit Field Guide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Ficsit Field Guide at Free against Mindustry's $1.99. Ficsit Field Guide also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Mindustry's advantage is ratings volume (1K vs 3) and chart position (#53 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Ficsit Field Guide is free to download; Mindustry costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ficsit Field Guide holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mindustry has 1K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Mindustry versus Ficsit Field Guide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindustryFicsit Field Guide
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (1K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings1K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#53 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size149 MB31 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperAnton KramskoiJohn Robinson

Bugs and requests

Mindustry

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Game crashes on launch
  • Freezing and performance issues
  • Save data corruption and loss
  • Incompatibility with newer devices

Requested features

8 requests
  • Ability to save/load custom maps
  • More campaign levels and content
  • Improved tutorial and onboarding
  • Expanded tech tree and upgrades
  • Better UI scaling for larger screens
Show 3 more
  • Ability to queue/fast-forward waves
  • Improved pathfinding and unit AI
  • More diverse enemy types and mechanics

Ficsit Field Guide

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Mindustry

No in-app purchases

None

Ficsit Field Guide

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mindustry free?
Mindustry costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ficsit Field Guide free?
Ficsit Field Guide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mindustry or Ficsit Field Guide?
Ficsit Field Guide is rated higher. Mindustry averages 4.5 out of 5 from 1K ratings, while Ficsit Field Guide averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Mindustry or Ficsit Field Guide have ads?
Neither Mindustry nor Ficsit Field Guide shows ads.

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