Refactor on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Refactor is a hard-core tower defense game that combines modular building, route planning, and element composition.

Refactor is a tower defense, rogue-lite and building game developed by GAGA and published by LightOn Game.
Released on March 28th 2022 is available on Windows and MacOS in 2 languages: English and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 447 reviews of which 383 were positive and 64 were negative resulting in a rating of 8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Refactor into these genres:

Tower Defense Rogue-lite Building Turn-Based Tactics Strategy Pixel Graphics Voxel Sci-fi Indie Space 2D Singleplayer Resource Management Top-Down Turn-Based Strategy Futuristic Casual Rogue-like Retro Combat

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7+
Processor: AMD Athlon X4 5350, Intel Core i3-2100T or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 480M, Radeon HD 6790 or equivalent
Storage: 200 MB available space

MacOS

OS: OS X 10.7 or more recent
Processor: Intel 1.7+ GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 support
Storage: 200 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

Offers plenty of replayability and challenge, at an affordable price. Has a number of fresh mechanics, but can be very RNG-reliant.

Dec. 2024

very good game, recomended

Aug. 2024

Shapes, shapes, SHAPES!!! I like Tetris. I like the tetris-like minigame in Pico Park. This game is good, if you haven't played anything Tetris related. The strange shapes require IQ I don't have. Me stupid, smooth brain. The UI is also really weird. Not very intuitive. Once you pull up the Shapes^TM, you can't get rid of the side panel (or maybe I'm still stupid). Besides those things being my only gripes, I like the 'look' of the UI. Reminds me of Subnautica 'blue'. Sound design slaps. Concept is well executed. I like the game, if I weren't so stupid.

July 2024

I had put a quick, positive review up when I had only played this one a little bit, wanted to do a more in-depth one with a few hours under my belt. A full on traditional TD game, this delight has scratched my itch for the genre. For starters, the making of the maze is central to the game play. I know a lot of players like that, and this game has it in spades, though it can be a bit tricky to get the hang of it at first. The play area is sadly smaller than I would like, but not horribly so. It does have traps scattered about, which you try to work into the maze as you grow your path. They vary, and can be moved, for a cost. There is a wide variety of tower, with an interesting upgrade system. There are five elements, and the basic towers are of one of these, each with it's own attack range and style, straight, half circle, and full circle being the most common. These can go up in level, so far I think 5 is the top, however they are NOT upgraded individually, and can only be purchased at their specific level. There are recipes, called Refactors, (yes, the game name) to make the more complex towers out of the lesser ones. You get to pick one of three at each level, as you unlock them. These are quite complex, with elements adding to their abilities, and each with a special ability as well. These can be added together to create the most powerful level of tower type! It is quite the learning curve. There is a nice variety of foes, with some nasty bosses, to go with this. There are no flying monsters, but I don't fault this, as at the start the spawn point and your base are very close together, fliers would not work. The game does allow you to speed it up, however as near as I can tell you cannot control the towers target preferences, something I do miss. There are times when they target a foe different from the one I would prefer. There are sadly no strategic or tactical options, once you have set up your maze for each level, it is really fire-and-forget, and you can only watch. The game, as is, is very fun, an easy two thumbs up. It falls short of great, however, due to the lack of a good story or campaign mode, which is often the real difference maker. It does have several modes, and I think six levels of difficulty, though I have yet to defeat level five. Endless mode allows for a wide variety of run-specific rules, which allows you to shift the difficulty from very easy, to very hard. There is also a challenge mode, but I have yet to really explore that. All in all, the final product is a TD game well worth exploring... ADDENDUM: Fifteen hours in, and it is starting to feel repetitive. The core mechanic is good, but the wrapping is bland. I still enjoy it, and I frel like at fifteen hours I got my moneys worth, but my endorsement is not as enthusiastic. Will probably play a bit more, but I am nearing the end of my interest.

June 2024

solid game

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Developer

GAGA

Publisher

LightOn Game

Release 28 Mar 2022

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