I've been playing this via Steam and having a lot of fun. It's very satisfying that you start simple and when you discover a new way you cleanly reset and do it better next run.
The only game I've ever hit all achievements in! Very fun though I felt an internal pressure to move quickly, similar to the feeling I get when my factorio base starts getting big.
Woah! I loved this game on Steam. If anyone likes factory games (Satisfactory or Factorio) and programming this is a must try. Also got a bit of idle game in the mix. Surprisingly immersive too for a mostly text game.
I've played both Factorio and Bitburner extensively (both >1000h, but that's unfair wrt bitburner, because you let it run in the background sometimes), but I don't find they compare that well. Factorio can be played without any optimization and completely mechanically if you wanted (i.e. no "programming" of circuits). It's visual style also makes interfacing with the game more like most games you encounter.
In bitburner, you literally have sort of editor (or terminal), which is also the world (you can use an external editor though). The whole game is about programming your way to destroy a BitNode.
I guess they're comparable because they are both about optimization of bottlenecks. In my experience though, having played Factorio for hundreds of hours with software engineer friends, BitBurner with its text only interface is far more niche, and only the thought of playing it reminds some of them of work (so they don't try) ;).
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I guess they're comparable because they are both about optimization of bottlenecks. In my experience though, having played Factorio for hundreds of hours with software engineer friends, BitBurner with its text only interface is far more niche, and only the thought of playing it reminds some of them of work (so they don't try) ;).