Factorio is one of those games where getting started is quite tricky given its complexity, yet once you do get comfortable it's also a game where you can easily lose hundreds of hours feverishly trying to optimize your ever-growing and all-consuming factory. And I should know, because I'm exactly that man! However, don't take any of this as a complaint because Factorio is a great game, and it has just become even greater!

Thanks to the freshly launched Space Age expansion you can now shed the shackles that bound you to the biter-infested world of Nauvis and explore four unique new planets. The new sights include desolate wastelands, multi-colored swamps, volcanically active hellscapes and their frozen counterparts. As you might imagine, each world brings with it its own unique challenges, potential flora and fauna, as well as a plethora of unique resources or opportunities to exploit.

What all of this looks like in action, as well as how nifty of a space station you can build, that you can check out through the trailer below:

Besides all of the extraterrestrial content, the Space Age expansion has also brought with it some general improvements and additions. Trains can travel via elevated platforms, pretty much everything you build now has a quality rating, there are new enemies and defenses to toy around with, and most importantly of all, there's an appropriately giant worm to square off against! Because of course there has to be a giant space worm!

You can read about all the finer details, as well as take a peek at the worm, over at Steam. Enjoy, and I'll leave you with a couple of teaser images: