Factorio expansion will be as big “as the whole vanilla game”

It’s been over a year since the reveal of a new Factorio expansion, which developer Wube Software opted to do instead of smaller DLC packs, and fans haven’t heard anything since. Now, the team has finally provided an update, confirming that it will be a full-priced release as big as the original game – although it might still be a ways off a release.

The Factorio expansion was announced in February 2021, along with the news that the Steam release would mark the end of updates for the game – so the expansion would be Wube Software’s focus from that point on. It also said that the expansion wouldn’t “take less than a year to develop”.

That statement was correct, as a year later the Factorio DLC still isn’t out – but Wube has released a blog post to update fans on its status. The developer plans to make the expansion $30, the same as the main game, and “put in enough content to make it well worth the price”. “The general goal,” the blog post states, “is to make the expansion feel like as big an addition as the whole vanilla game”.