But man, its hard work making these chocolates.

Too much manual labour.

Yes, that should work.

Horace the Endless Bear wraps himself around the top of a Christmas tree.

Behind door number one isFactorio: Space Age!

Ollie:As Im sure is often the case,Factoriowas the game that got me into factory-building games.

And since then, its all clicked.

A long, thin spaceship in Factorio: Space Age hurtles through space, with tentacle-like metal arms grabbing asteroids from the front of the ship.

I understand what I need to do and when to do it.

And then Factorio: Space Age came along and turned everything on its head.

And then the moment I launched my first rocket, everything ground to a halt.

A screenshot of a section of coal mines next to a boiler and steam engine setup on the planet Vulcanus in Factorio: Space Age.

Out there beyond the atmosphere, different rules apply.

Take the lava planet of Vulcanus, for instance.

Here, there are no iron or copper deposits in the ground.

A screenshot of a map of Vulcanus in Factorio: Space Age, where the player’s base is surrounded by hazardous red areas denoting Demolisher territory.

How about the spongy landscape of Gleba, where everything spoils into unusable gunk in a matter of minutes?

Factorio: Space Age is gobsmacking in its scope and inventiveness.

Headback to the advent calendarto open another door!