I doubt it. There’s already several first person Factory games. Also, they don’t hit like Factorio does. First person is just so fundamentally limited that, as popular as they are, because they’re prettier, I don’t think it works as well.
Top down, especially 2d, let’s the scale be so much larger, and makes it easy to plan and interact with. You can easily copy and paste massive factories. Even the best version of this in first person let’s you only copy small sections. The closest 3D one to the scale of Factorio is the space robot one (I can’t recall the name), but it’s a third person somewhat top-down view. There’s a reason why people still say Factorio is the best factory game, despite having so many options inspired by it.
You are thinking of Dyson Sphere Program, which does look good and runs well at scale. Until you have a few star systems running dyson spheres, then your run is likely over.
I doubt it. There’s already several first person Factory games. Also, they don’t hit like Factorio does. First person is just so fundamentally limited that, as popular as they are, because they’re prettier, I don’t think it works as well.
Top down, especially 2d, let’s the scale be so much larger, and makes it easy to plan and interact with. You can easily copy and paste massive factories. Even the best version of this in first person let’s you only copy small sections. The closest 3D one to the scale of Factorio is the space robot one (I can’t recall the name), but it’s a third person somewhat top-down view. There’s a reason why people still say Factorio is the best factory game, despite having so many options inspired by it.
You are thinking of Dyson Sphere Program, which does look good and runs well at scale. Until you have a few star systems running dyson spheres, then your run is likely over.