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Who It Suits
Each factory expansion gives you another route to protect. A cut in ammunition or power can stop the front, while coolant and unit production must keep running under attack.
Serpulo suits a taste for rebuilding production lines. Erekir puts more of your time into advancing the front through Command Mode.
What makes it fun
Fix the line, feed the front
Even while you mine resources, a misrouted conveyor or a jammed production block can leave the front short of ammo or building materials. Finding the break and restoring the flow ties factory work directly to defense.
What do you build first?
In sectors with waves, enemies approach while you are still setting up mining. Do you deal with a copper or silicon shortage, or keep building defenses? That choice demands your resources and time right after landing.
Old factories fuel new fronts
A captured sector can keep producing and send resources to a Landing Pad in another sector through Launch Pads. Deciding what to make locally and what to ship gives an earlier factory a role in your next campaign push.
Game details
As of Oct 29, 2026- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Release date
- Sep 27, 2019
- Developer
- AnukenDev
- Languages
- Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, Korean ／ 22 languages total
A typical run
After landing in a sector, you use the core's materials to start mining and transport.
You process what you mine and feed ammunition to turrets. Power and coolant need routes to the front as well.
Waves or an enemy base force a choice: add walls and turrets, or put those materials into unit production.
Capturing a sector opens the way to research. Once Launch Pads and Landing Pads are available, resources can arrive from another sector.
A sector under attack may need its defenses rebuilt while you are operating elsewhere.
Core systems
Campaign
On Serpulo, captured sectors grow into production and shipping sites. Erekir follows set objectives as you push the front forward.
The destination for your output changes: supply a later sector, or spend it on the equipment needed to break the enemy base ahead.
Schematic
A Schematic saves a group of blocks and lets you place the layout as a construction plan. Building it still takes materials.
Reuse a small production module or reshape it for the terrain and front line. If you place one without understanding its inputs and outputs, a blockage becomes harder to trace.
Command Mode
Command Mode lets you order produced units to move and attack, including strikes on enemy bases and supply lines.
Wear down the defenses head-on, or send flying and other mobile units toward a weak supply route. Your factory and defenses keep running while you direct the attack.
Launch Pad
A Launch Pad sends campaign resources to a selected sector. The current pad handles one item type at a time, and the receiving Landing Pad needs water.
Send a material unavailable locally or keep processed goods flowing into the next operation. Export too much, and the producing sector runs short.
Logic Processor
This block repeatedly runs instructions to control buildings and units.
It can automate item handling and shutdown conditions. You decide whether a safeguard is worth the space and setup, or ordinary routing will do.
Thorium Reactor
The Thorium Reactor uses thorium and coolant to generate power. Run it without enough coolant, and the explosion can damage nearby structures.
A reactor near the front needs a protected coolant route. Placing it farther away reduces that exposure, but a grid built around it can still lose power across a wide area when it stops.
Difficulty
Campaign settings run from Casual through Eradication. They change enemy health, enemy count, and the interval between waves.
Choose how quickly threats demand a response and how much time remains to rebuild the factory.
What sets it apart
Finishing a factory does not secure its output. Waves and air raids can cut ammunition, power, or coolant routes and leave the front without working equipment.
Captured sectors remain useful as production sites. Once Launch Pads and Landing Pads are available, their output can supply another battlefield.
Learning curve and difficulty
Campaign Difficulty runs from Casual to Eradication, changing enemy health and count as well as the interval between waves.
Early on, check whether turrets receive ammunition and the front still has power before simply mining more ore.
Later, air units can reach factories and power equipment. A layout that contains the effects of a destroyed block keeps the rest of the base running.
In attack sectors, keep unit production moving while you find the enemy's ammunition or power source. Command Mode lets you cut it instead of grinding through the whole defensive line.
Builds and playstyles
Defense-first opening
Run ammunition to the front and put up walls as soon as you land. Expand the factory only as far as the line can hold, especially in sectors that press you immediately.
Modular Schematic expansion
Save small production modules as Schematics and add capacity where a material runs short. If transport jams, you can repair that part without tearing down the whole factory.
Sector shipping network
Process and export from captured sectors so the active sector can establish defenses and unit production sooner. Keep raw materials flowing at the source and water reaching the receiving Landing Pad.
Supply-line assault
Send flying or other mobile units around the enemy base to cut ammunition or power routes. Keep an eye on your own production while directing them.
What longtime players say
Long-time players differ on the planets. Serpulo offers more time spent reworking resource flow; Erekir appeals to those who enjoy pushing the front.
After the Campaign, players head to public servers and PvP, play logic maps, or make maps of their own.
Revising Schematics and clearing production bottlenecks can remain the point of a session long after the basics are familiar. Even a small increase in output gives them something to work toward.
For players who keep capturing and rebuilding sectors, the length and repetition can become tiring.
What players like
Turrets need ammunition for the next wave; an enemy base calls for units. Those immediate uses for factory output make it easier to choose what to produce next.
There is pleasure in tracing a shortage through mining, transport, and processing, then seeing the line run again after a repair.
Beyond long Campaign sessions lie public servers, PvP, and map creation. Logic and mods offer further places to use what you have learned.
In co-op, friends draw on the same landing resources while getting production and defense started. Players enjoy that busy opening.
An air raid can interrupt cooling or power and bring defenses down with it. Players also recount those accidents with amusement afterward.
Right after landing, mining and ammunition must come online before the enemy arrives. Working out a build order that gets defense ready in time is part of the appeal.
Players study how others connect blocks in shared Schematics, then make their own production layouts smaller. Saving and reusing those layouts keeps the process going.
Common complaints
An air raid that hits a factory or power equipment can leave turrets idle. A Thorium Reactor explosion after coolant fails can take the defenses down too.
Capturing a sector and rebuilding it after a loss takes time. Repeating that cycle can make the Campaign feel drawn out.
Erekir gives unit control more weight as it progresses. That shift may disappoint players who came for factory building and tower defense.
Continuing through sectors alone can feel repetitive; these players would rather share the work with a friend.
Public-server complaints cover connection handling and the possibility of another player tearing down what you built.
Who it’s for
It suits players who want to clear a transport jam, feed the resulting ammunition to turrets, and defend that same factory against waves.
It also suits players who keep revising production: add a Schematic, ship from another sector with a Launch Pad, or use a Logic Processor where control is needed.
Who might not enjoy it
If you want to build factories and defend with turrets without directing units, Erekir's progression may lose its appeal.
Rebuilding a lost sector and tracing power or coolant routes broken by an air raid are recurring tasks. Players who dislike that work may struggle to enjoy the Campaign.
FAQ
- Does it support English?
- Yes. The Steam version includes an English interface.
- Can the Campaign be played in co-op?
- Yes. Cross-platform online co-op is supported, and friends can play through the Campaign together.
- Can Campaign Difficulty be changed?
- Yes. The settings change enemy health and count, along with the interval between waves.
- What is available outside the Campaign?
- Survival, Attack, PvP, Sandbox, and public servers are available. There is also a map editor and Steam Workshop support.
- Can community content be added?
- Yes. You can browse community mods in the game. Maps and Schematics are also shared through Steam Workshop.
These impressions are based on 100 Steam reviews sorted by “Most Helpful.” They do not represent the views of all buyers.
Image: Mindustry on Steam