‘Factory Default: BTR’ is out now via Steam EA

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Press release:
October 1, 2026 – MicroProse and developer Chett Fitzgerald are excited to announce that Factory Default: Build, Trade, Repeat is available today in Early Access on Steam, putting players in control of a global industrial conglomerate spanning real-world regions, complex supply chains, international markets, and eventually much more than Earth itself.

A brand-new Early Access Launch Trailer is also available today, showcasing the scale of Factory Default – from extracting raw materials and building production chains to establishing global trade networks and pushing industry beyond the limits of the planet.

A New Kind of Industrial Strategy

In Factory Default, Earth becomes your industrial playground. Mine and farm raw resources, refine them into increasingly complex materials, manufacture advanced products, and move them across the globe to where they’re needed most.

With hundreds of resources and products to manage, players can build enormous interconnected supply chains without having to manually place every conveyor belt. Instead, Factory Default focuses on the bigger picture: where to produce, what to manufacture, how to move it, and how to turn an increasingly complex global operation into a profitable industrial empire.

But profit isn’t everything. Corporate policies, environmental impact, workforce management, global perception, research, contracts, and fluctuating markets all influence how your company develops – and what kind of corporation it ultimately becomes.

And Earth is only the beginning.

Through the ambitious Ultima Mundi Project, players undertake increasingly enormous engineering projects, from reshaping Earth to constructing a Space Elevator and Space Station, eventually opening the door to lunar industry and off-world logistics.

Key Features

Build Across a 3D Earth – Expand across 100+ regions based on real-world countries, economic unions, geography, and resource distribution.

Deep Production Chains – Extract, farm, refine, manufacture, and trade across hundreds of resources and products, from basic commodities to advanced technology.

Global Logistics & Trade – Connect industries across the planet with trucks, trains, ships, and aircraft, using editable routes, mixed cargo, fleets, and supplier contracts.

Dynamic Global Economy – Navigate fluctuating markets shaped by your trading activity and events including strikes, embargoes, economic booms, disasters, and technological breakthroughs.

Research & Management – Unlock new technologies and industries while managing wages, benefits, staffing, efficiency, contracts, and the financial health of your growing corporation.

Corporate Power & Reputation – Earn Influence, enact company policies, manage your environmental footprint, and balance profit against how the world perceives your corporation.

Ultima Mundi Mega Projects – Take on increasingly ambitious engineering projects, including the construction of a new continent, Space Elevator, and Space Station.

Beyond Earth – Push your industrial ambitions to the Moon, opening new resources, production challenges, and space-based logistics.

125 Steam Achievements – Pursue milestones across production, trade, finance, contracts, research, influence, markets, story progression, and more.

Factory Default enters Early Access with an extensive management simulation already in place, while future updates will continue expanding its industries, technologies, logistical challenges, and celestial ambitions on the road to 1.0.

Factory Default: Build, Trade, Repeat is available NOW in Early Access on Steam.

Watch the brand-new Early Access Launch Trailer, build your first industrial network, and discover just how far your company can go.

MicroProse, founded in 1982, is a world-famous simulation software company known for developing groundbreaking, classics and cult titles like, the Falcon, F15 Strike Eagle, Silent Service, Gunship, Grand Prix, Civilization, B-17 The Mighty Eighth, and X-COM series and many more simulation products that sold millions of copies each at retail.

Today, MicroProse is not only remaking select classics from its past but also paving the road to next-generation, state of the art games that will create the memories and experiences of the demanding new generations of gamers.

Operating out of Sacramento, California, Chett Fitzgerald is a solo developer, husband, and father of two. He holds a degree in Game Design and Development, and his work is influenced by years of tinkering with supply-chain-heavy games like Anno and Satisfactory. He created Factory Default to be the game he had been wanting to play for years. It is a conglomerate simulation set on a real-world map, focused on global logistics and resource management rather than combat.