2025 · Automation · Medieval · Building
How long isAlchemy Factory?
20 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 6.5 hours and 59 hours
On the long side for an automation game: 20 hours for the typical player, longer than 80 of 95 automation games here.
85% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
88% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
91% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
90% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
92% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
95% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
Does Alchemy Factory hold up?
Grows on people
85% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 95% at 100–200 hours played.
Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of Alchemy Factory tell you?
In the first two hours59%recommend it
After that90%recommend it
12 in 100 said no: 9 after the window had closed, 3 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 20 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 6.5 hours and 59 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 2,970 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It grows on people: 85% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 95% at 100–200 hours.
6% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 59% of those recommend it. After the window, 90% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 78% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 9 hours in.
When would you get there?
20days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 20 hours on Friday, December 4.
Half of its reviewers had played between 6.5 and 59 hours: Nov 21 to Jan 12, 2027 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
How far do players get in Alchemy Factory?
Launched it 100%
Earned its most common achievement 99%
Earned a typical achievement 6.6%
How this is counted
Steam's global achievement stats, as shares of players who launched it. They are not a finish rate.
Is Alchemy Factory worth it?
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One hour, at list price
Alchemy Factory
- Steam list price, US
- $17.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 20 h
- automation game rate
- $1.43/h
- 20 h at that rate
- $29
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Alchemy Factory worth it? Yes.
Good value
1.6× the hours of a typical automation game, for the same money
Loved
90% recommend it after the refund windowmost automation games: 90%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $17.99, the typical player's 20 hours come to 90¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 90% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 90¢ an hour, Alchemy Factory is cheaper per hour than 73 of 95 automation games here: the typical one of 95 automation games here charges $1.43, so the same $17.99 buys 1.6× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (automation games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play Alchemy Factory today?
On PC
Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.
- todayPC2025
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Alchemy Factory came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Alchemy Factory?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Alchemy Factory, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Alchemy Factory would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@nestortillo holds this page
- 1st
@nestortillo54 h - 2ndopen– – –
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Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with Alchemy Factory?
All 8
Copies in the libraries here: launched it
1 in 908
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Alchemy Factory: a kind of game it is that Alchemy Factory is not, a feature its tags carry that Alchemy Factory's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.