To me, games like Factorio (and other programming games like Satisfactory, Human Resource Machine, and many of the Zacktronics games), mimic the fast edit-compi

To me, games like Factorio (and other programming games like Satisfactory, Human Resource Machine, and many of the Zacktronics games), mimic the fast edit-compile-debug loop and solution search that you get when you have minimized a problem to a core algorithm/data structure or some OOP design you are trying to refine. They take away all of the boilerplate/dependency/platform busywork that you might need to do to actually ship something.