Yes, they did, but there are measurements to go along with that.

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    My favourite games of today are also made by fewer than 30 people though

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      Yeah, that’ll happen. You can’t make Elden Ring or Baldur’s Gate 3 with that team size though.

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          And how long it took that sized team to make Factorio?

          Oh right, 8.5 years, from the first concept prototype, to the official version 1.0 full release, according to the dev themselves: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-360

          I think you actually just illustrated exactly OP’s point with your exceptionally poor example here, Factorio is absolutely an outlier in every way, including how it literally started a whole new genre, which absolutely does NOT happen with the majority of video games ever developed.