These are management games, not factory games. Crafting games are games where a lot of the gameplay is combining items in particular ways to get new items. Fa

These are management games, not factory games. Crafting games are games where a lot of the gameplay is combining items in particular ways to get new items. Factory games are crafting games where you build raw logic, wires, conveyor belts etc. for automating crafting. Some are pure factory games where automation is the only way to craft anything, others reveal their debt to modded Minecraft by having a player person who does the first crafting by hand. There were arguably factory games evolving alongside Minecraft, in particular Zach Barth's programming/automation puzzle games. But you'd be hard pressed to find a factory game before modded Minecraft. The first game anyone built a working computer in was Dwarf Fortress, although through unintended game mechanisms. I believe this was what inspired Notch to add redstone to Minecraft, the first intended game mechanism for Factory-style gameplay.