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Alchemy Factory
Developer D5 Copperhead
Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping. From the Steam store page
297 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
85
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216 positive · 39 negative
95% range 80–89%
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| Steam reviews | 216 | 39 | 0 |
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42 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
2,603 of 2,954 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 297 · most liked firstI like the underlying concept but it has a lot of unresolved jank. Some of this I hope will be polished up for the final release but until then I'm not holding my breeath. - The build controls are a bit weird, and not as smooth as other factory games that have figured this stuff out. - It would be nice to be able to see through constructions to build underneath, but not sure if the game is capable of patching that in. - Some ratios are way off. Upgrading your machine processing speed can…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're playing it for the factory aspect, it's really good. My only disappointment is that as someone who really loves the wonder of alchemy, there's not a lot of stuff to make you feel at home with the building in this game. It's almost purely focused on the factory part and not much on the aesthetic of your typical alchemist house. Lacks decoration, paint, nice emissions on the potions you're selling. Instead they're sold in these leather sacks instead of glass vials. I get the idea…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the urge to fit everything in a 5x4 block and optimize recusively-consumed coke powder output had me writing a python script to calculate the sum of a converging geometric series... 10/10 would recommend to all my AuDHD soulmates
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's really unfortunate because its so close to being an excellent game, then it throws it all away. It starts off as a really well thought out factory sim and shop keeper sim. Balancing the purchase and production of materials and goods with the profits they bring. But by mid/late game it turns into a slog where you can't seem to turn a profit until the cauldron takes over everything. Since for some reason, you can put in random garbage and get the material you want as output. Ruining the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Where’s the Alchemy? What I Liked What I like most about this game is that it is a lot easier to see my overall automation. Compared to games like Satisfactory, everything is on a smaller scale. This does not reduce how complicated it is though. But it’s nice being able to walk up and seeing my entire production line of a product and see how it’s working. What I Did Not Like My problem with most of these games is that sometimes unlocks don’t enhance the production line, it requires…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Factorio and Satisfactory player here. My wife will play this one with me. Huge ups for that!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too tedious, not satisfying. I don’t think the game is bad overall, but the aspect that appealed to me the most — the factory — isn’t enjoyable enough. I still support the devs to continue developping and polishing the game, as I think the base is solid. Here is a quick summary : Good : - Shop management, similar to other shop simulator games - Progression system - Quests - The granularity of building (which also comes with drawbacks) - Some recipe ideas (like using fuel and plants to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly, going into this game, I expected a little, somewhat short game about automating the brewing of various alchemical supplies. I did NOT expect how fleshed out it is, and while it isn't perfect (why are belts slower than advertised?) It is a Really really fun experience. This game is much more focused on building compactly, which is also obvious in the choice of building sizes, basically everything you build is tiny, transports tiny items, and seeing little catapults fling items…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some things of note. This is one of those fantasy shop games that runs off an asset store template. You know them when you see it. That said, the store part is just for off-loading resources, the actual game is a rather well made factory game. The one noticeable difference here is that your factories are small models, train set scale, and are very stackable. Things go vertical without being overwhelming because it only comes up to your shoulders. Transport uses a lot of throwing items around,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Positive: This game is a beautiful mixture of Satisfactory and Supermarket Simulator. Its a cosy experience with great pacing and steady expansion. Negative: To level up you need to maintain store reputation by maintaining stock of items customers want (similar to supermarket simulator's system) Currently i feel the punishment is too harsh for not maintaining as the reputation decays far too quickly. There is also no end of the day report for what customers wanted and couldn't find so you find…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've only just started but I can definitely see it has great potential. I normally wait for reviews to come out before I buy a game, but my Satisfactory itch was acting up so I took the risk and bought this game as soon as it released. What I'm enjoying so far is that everything is nice and small so I don't have to waste a bunch of time running around as I did in Satisfactory. My factory's were never efficiently grouped, and my power was always going out so I would have to run clear across…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game gets very detail heavy very quickly. I requested a refund personally, but it's likely a good game for people who like factory games, and the maths, and the re-working involved. It needs a sense of "why". There is no "why" for what you are doing and no "homey" feeling like you are building something for your character. Possibly there is a "homey" feeling but the curve is so steep you don't get to bask in it. You are sweating from the first bits. It's all about what you like in games…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want so much to like this game, I love games about running a little shop, and factory games. The game's progression limitations and ideas of how you will play are limited, limiting, and unobvious. There is an intended "how to play" which is inflexible and annoying. After 20 hours or so, I thought I was ready to finally make my "final" layout, giving myself the room I needed to build up, connect to other adjacent plots, and redo my store layout. I spent time lovingly planning out the spacing…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Few days extra off of work after the weekend will be all nice and relaxed right? I found this game on sunday, It is now half way through tuesday and im 39h deep already only afk for maybe 1h in total. If you find good factory games addicting and value sleep do not get this game! Who am i kidding you know you want it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, partially coded by AI going by some of the files. It uses onnx runtime which is a LLM assisted development platform.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →over 2k hours in factorio, hundreds in satisfactory and this game comes really close. The combination of everything being so small and being able to comfortably create blueprints, also to just move things around, makes it so much more enjoyable to me than satisfactory. on the Roadmap the devs included a shrinking machine, which i am very hyped about, this will make it even better because we'll be able to not just create factory blocks and close them off, but also enter them to troubleshoot.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All I need to recommend this game to others is for there to be less penalty for refactoring your setup. It took me 20 minutes of picking up little bags and putting the contents into boxes after deleting my whole plot. A quick fix would be an unlimited/virtual box that can only receive items from deconstruction. Focus on fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seemed more fun in concept than in practice. I was hoping for less factory focus and more shopkeep, and the abliity to get to the more alchemy or magical themed items feels like it took quite a bit longer than necessary. The game feels very barren anywhere outside of the main interactable item areas, and working with such small items with only a standing and crouched height can be a pixel finding game a lot of times. Needs quite the qol overhaul before it's in a recommendable state. If it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a great game made by a small company! If you like satisfactory (which I love) you will like this game as well. The out of the gate blueprint functionality is fantastic. I am surprised that even in multi-player, this game is pretty polished as new as it is. You can tell that the developers actually know this type of game personally. I have over 100 hours already and plan much more!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very satisfying factory game with some of the automation you can design. I got VERY good at building incredibly complicated designs in a very compact space that looked stunning to watch flow. And the game itself has no hitches! Smooth as butter, zero drops in frames, I didn't encounter any glitches... genuinely well optimised - for me at least - in this moment. So why the negative review? UI is okay - house building definitely could be better! Look around your little village and it's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I shouldn't write a review for this because I got stuck playing it for 8 hours straight. Man is this addicting to get the production chains right. I haven't felt like this since Tekkit. It definitely is a bit rough around the edges and is a bit punishing for a factory game, but if you're used to placing single blocks in Minecraft, it has got that feel. I wish I had known about the "V" key bind for the recipes. It might have told me in the tutorial that I skipped. SO GLAD I could skip that. I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →RECOMMENDED IT AT FULL PRICE, even if the DEVs abandon the game today, it already offers many hours of fun solving puzzles. But don’t be fooled by its cozy appearance — it’s a game that ends up being quite complex, more than Factorio (pre-DLC) or Satisfactory. Problems most likely due to the low budget or to being an indie game with few developers. - There is no story. The medieval setting begs for a few quests or alternate storylines to break up the day-to-day routine. very minor issue,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As someone who has thousands of hours in all the main factory games (each)....I can't recommend this game enough. I didn't buy it for the longest time....because uhh, magic? Nah I'm good dog. Selling and having to deal with a store/commerce? Gonna go ahead and pass on that dog. But wow, what a mistake that was....this is actually a really, really great factory game, and it's only going to get better. Don't pass on this just because of it's theme or the shop mechanic. At it's core it's a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alchemy Factory D5 Copperhead. NO disclosure for ripped music that was the put through AI found in-game. Gamirror says they used outsourced supplier and "will adjust other music in the future and avoid using controversial materials." -y steamcommunity.com/app/3669570/...
unlabelledView post →At first I'm like "OK these cute little machines make potions and stuff, this should be easy." And then a few hundred hours later I'm managing a 16 story skyscraper riddled with belts moving around piles of coins everywhere to fuel magical portals that buy materials for my machines. It's a fun game with a lot of different things to make and ways to secure revenue and profits. The game gets a little chuggy when it has to handle thousands of placed objects, but I would imagine that will be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I forgot that eating was a thing from focusing too hard. Great weight loss game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great chill automation game, Its like supermarket simulator meets satisfactory. Very fun busy game loops of running your shop while balancing automation building expanding and scaling
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →That's probably the most fun i've ever had in a game in the last years. Absolutelly awesome! The progression, the difficulty, the beauty of the machines, the sounds, how you have to use your brain. I'm almost out of words to describe how much fun i had with this game, everything seems to fit, the machines, the fact you have to sell the goods, the upgrades. Fun fun fun fun fun fun!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolute gem if you like factory games!! Factorio/Satisfactory fans are going to have a blast.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I still have to put far more hours into this, but I spent a few dozen on the old pre-release demo already, and the early access has improved greatly on basically all the pain points while bringing in a bunch of spicy new mechanics and interesting reworks. Alchemy Factory is a factory game made by devs who very obviously know their stuff, and are very interested in community feedback to find and eliminate flaws in the game. The only real minus points I can give are in the game's presentation -…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just a late review prior the 1.0 Launch in like 2hours. I already enjoyed like 200hours out of this game and im willing to start all over again as soon as the new update drops. This game is a gem under a lot of factorioslops because it has a unique view on the automation genre with the shop integration and "small-scale" buildings Basically you build tiny little machines to craft potions/gems/equipments to sell them to wandering heroes browsing your shop arsenal. Starting with a little shelf…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First #streamschedule of the year! Hope to see your there! Tuesday - More Alchemy Factory, I'm addicted Friday - We're starting a new horror game with Little Nightmares Sunday - Kerbal Space Program because I watch an hour essay about the game's planets and I know it's fun
unlabelledView post →This looked really promising in Early Access, but I was disappointed in the 1.0 release. Much of the jank that was excusable for an Early Access game was left unaddressed, and the "shop" aspect is incredibly shallow. If you removed the gold cost of items and just threw your products into the void, the gameplay would be identical. This might be a cynical take, but I get the impression the dev made a lot of money in early access and simply decided to go enjoy being rich instead of working…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The main loop is fun, the logistics get a bit messy, but once you hit the cauldron it's time to redo everything anyways. Pros: - Sunk a bunch of hours in already and still enjoying the challenge. - Optimizing the footprint and expansion of your designs. - Selling things fired by cannons, cool. Cons: - The pathing of the NPCs is atrocious, they block each other and walk into obstacles, then pause and magically grab or deposit as they time-out/give-up. But oh well, as long as they pay... - The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →258 Hours in, I find that I am finding this a super cozy game that allows me to rebuild my entire factory without penalty every single level if I want. Some may think this is crazy, but I find the ability to use new unlocks to make things more efficient / visually organized, etc. Also a fun screen to run semi afk and watch the customers enter the shop. Looking forward to unlocking more parts!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoy the idea of this game, it's a bit overwhelming though - as the production lines get more complicated I've really struggled to come to terms with the building constraints, unwanted byproducts, and general spreadsheet-mandatory vibe of the game. The game doesn't really have any serious goals, you're just running a shop and while it's open people will come in and buy stuff - it's very casual in that aspect. However there's a heavy learning curve and you'll spend hours designing a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you love factory games this is so much more than you'd expect from an early access game. With a fully fleshed out production chain that spans dozens of items and several tiers, you'll find yourself immersed in building GIANT mega project builds that are so smol. Almost no crashes in 200 hours of play and I'm still enjoying each playthrough as thorougly as the last. (I'm a chronic restarter)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was brilliant. very addictive and the pace was well done and the game feels limitless. I think this was one of my all time favorite Automation games.Have been holding off playing for a few months hoping some new big patches will come in and make the game feel almost new so i can have another rip at it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finally got through all or most of 7 Days to Die. It has no end game, disappointingly enough, but the journey was fun. Started playing Alchemy Factory, after burning through Star Rupture and MineMogul much faster than anticipated. All fine factory games, in varying need of QOL updates.
unlabelledView post →Hey you! Your favourite goth bunny is playing more Alchemy Factory! Has this game got me obsessed with it... Perchance. www.twitch.tv/joannahexen #vtuber #envtuber #goth #witch
unlabelledView post →Alchemy Factory is a game that takes a lot of the fun aspects of factory games and condenses it into a shop management sim in an amazing fashion. You can tell just based on how "achievable" goals are at each tier that the dev put a LOT of thought into production chains and that they also have a deep amount of love for the automation genre. The game starts off slow, but around Tier 5 you start to feel how well thought out production chains are made. Relics are practically made to deal with…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game rules. It does three things really well outside of just being fun. 1) it doesn’t sweat the order of things. It somehow feels like well balanced gameplay to both streamline the main quest and putz around building and rebuilding the same recipes over and over to make it faster or prettier. I’m really impressed that I never feel rushed to move onto the next quest but that I’m not overwhelmed by the options I unlock each level. 2) the economy seems well considered. Demand for things and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a Satisfactory "expert" (600h played) I can vouch for this game now after 35h played. While everything is less than the gold standard Satisfactory, it's still addictive has heck and easy to build in, in some ways it is even more convenient, such as quick blueprinting, area select, copy paste or move sections. It is also easy to refactor your factory. In my first 10h of the game though I felt it was wonky, I struggled mainly with the game loop - which is about A) automating purchase of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →fun early to mid game but late game just makes one lose interest. The recipes later on seem convoluted for no reason and i would prefer if progression was some "level up town global stats" vs just expanding building area. I think if there was some simple mechanic where selling higher tier items increases the "stat" of the town which equates to the population being more rich/defeating more monsters etc would be more world building. Otherwise at it's current state you'd enjoy maybe the first 30…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was my first journey into automation games, it was a choice between Satisfactory and Alchemy Academy. Well, price won, AA is way cheaper. I just wanted to test it out. YouTube reviews and examples didn't help much. every game is too hectic, as if trying to reach some imaginary finish line. So I played at my own pace, made a lot of mistakes and re-played some things - and had the time of my life. So much fun, so much to do - never annoying or stressful if you play slowly. Damn good game -…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thank god for co-op so I can delegate tasks to my friends and make someone play supermarket sim while the rest of us figure out the factory situation. The in-game universe (customers, vendors) could use some fleshing out because it does feel pretty empty when you aren't actively neck-deep in factory logistics, but for an early access game, it's to be expected.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoyed my time with the game. I got 46 hours out of it before I quit. Never got near the end though. I've completed games like Satisfactory and Factorio multiple times but this game just became too much of a grind for me at a certain point. The late game outputs are so miniscule for the effort you need to put in. It just burned me out. I can see myself returning to it in the future however, as the game development progresses further.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a really fun game. I bought it to play with a friend, and we are both big fans of automation and factory style games. We are having a great time playing it together. The game is basically about running a shop where you sell products to customers. Everything you sell is made by yourself using a factory that you also build. just in a miniature scale. Everything consists of small parts like tiny wooden planks, metal bars, and similar items moving along small conveyor belts. One of the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best factory game since factorio. Be prepared for the tetris effect.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My bucket list and inspirations: 🏘️ Colony Sim (Timberborn, Whiskerwood) 🏭 Logistics Management Game (Factorio, Satisfactory, Alchemy Factory) 🏢 Modern City Builder (Cities: Skylines 2, Citystate: Metropolis) 🎲 TTRPG Mapmaker (Dungeondraft, Inkarnate, Dungeon Alchemist) #gamedev
unlabelledView post →After 28 hours it just takes to long to make things for me to keep playing. Using fertilizer should take care of more than 3 plants. You spend all your time filling up boxes from your garden. Game needs work. It is good for early access and worth 16 bucks for 28 hours to me.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought this game, started playing after work, and 15 minutes later, 4.5 hours have passed.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have a confession to make. Maybe, just maybe, I started a new save to try salvage what we built last time, and just maaaaybe I made an even bigger mess in Alchemy Factory. Oops. Let's build a bit more together and see what we can do! CAW! twitch.tv/jaybirbgames
unlabelledView post →Potion seller, I require your strongest potions! Alchemy Factory released out of early access recently, let's go take a look at this mix of shopkeeper and automation game! CAW! Live in a couple minutes at twitch.tv/jaybirbgames
unlabelledView post →Alchemy Factory does not have a fishing minigame :(( #alchemyfactory #indiegame #gaming #videogames #fishing #fishingminigame
unlabelledView post →Some ratios are off. Fertilizer is just a huge difficulty-spike. So it is kinda unbalance. But the game underneath is great
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A sold take on factory games with enough changes to make it unique and interesting. Has a few UI issues I'd like to see improved on such a a range display for catapults and painting parts to improve design clarity.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Holy smokes does time cease to exist on this game... I've played a lot of games and not sure I've truly lost time like I have with this. Actually a bit scary... That being said... very fun...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Kind of an "Anti-Satisfactory"! Instead of building "BIG" you build really small. Now they get bigger over time and Blue Prints are a big deal. Takes a bit getting used to the mechanics. Very Fun game. I look forward to may hours of play.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I only wish it was more cozy and easier to make a nicer shop instead of being 99.9% focused on the factory behind it
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