I would say the game is very much like a CLI - you might at first recoil at the visual style, but almost immediately you understand why - there's going to be a

I would say the game is very much like a CLI - you might at first recoil at the visual style, but almost immediately you understand why - there's going to be a LOT of stuff on the screen, and your little simple man and his simple stuff leads to a simple way of assaying what is happening where. I would say to enjoy the game you really have to play it to the point where you build robots. Factorio is a game that is amazing for many reasons, but to me the main one is exponential growth. At a certain inflection point you can basically tear down everything you've ever built by hand, and have robots recreate it all in a minute or two. The combination of blueprints and robots turn the game from some tedium to a game purely of mind and very little tedium.