A free weekend is underway on Steam for FOUNDRY, the Early Access robotic factory simulation from Channel 3 Entertainment and Paradox. This post has details on the festivities, saying this gives players the chance to sample all the game has to offer, including the recent Galactic Commerce update. For those who wish to continue to grow your manufacturing empire, the game is on sale for half-off, and your progress from the weekend will carry over. Here's word on the foundations of FOUNDRY:
FOUNDRY is a first-person (first-robot?) factory builder with complete creative freedom set in a procedurally generated and infinite voxel world.
Land on an unexplored planet and design a giant automated robot production facility under the watchful direction of your AI friend, Carl. Navigate the complexities of interstellar trade and sell your products through interplanetary trade networks to reach your
El Pit wrote on May 17, 2025, 12:03:I've played a lot of various factory games including roughly 1k hours in Satisfactory. Certainly when Foundry first came out, it was clear it needed some more time to mature. With this update it looks like it is getting much closer. I'm tempted to pick it up at the current 50% discount... and then either give it a whirl, or just hold on to it until the next update and be ready to go.
As a Satisfactory addict, I bought this a while ago and will wait for it to get finished before I will play it.