AAA Games usually have a different realm of complexity and quality than factorio. Factorio is one-trick-game, in the sense that there is one thing it's doing re

AAA Games usually have a different realm of complexity and quality than factorio. Factorio is one-trick-game, in the sense that there is one thing it's doing really really good, while AAA games are doing many different things at the same time and sell you the whole package. For example, graphic of factorio is very basic. Level-design is not really existing, nor is there any story, music, highly optimized cutscenes, a quest-system or a constantly balanced battle-system. Multiplayer is rather basic, not some high level infrastructure with dozens of servers for 100k+ players. There is also no big marketing where you deliver some stuff outside the game. And Factorio is running only on PC, not consoles or mobiles. Basically, Factorio is 95% high level code which makes it successful because people enjoy the gameplay coming from this code; while AAA games are successful because of the 95% of things which are not code. People enjoy the gameplay, but even more do they like what is on top and around the engine. The story, the interaction, the atmosphere...