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Start with one carbon atom. See how far it goes.
A calm game about growth. One carbon atom becomes grains, rocks, planets and giants, then a star that collapses or a quiet garden of worlds.
Build the factory. Make the bullets. Break the game.
- In development
- Windows (test build)
- 2 languages
- Godot 4
- Store page: not yet
So, what is Bullet Factory?
One morning, the scrap in the Great Junkyard started to walk. One factory is still standing, and Granny Odette, 87, retired welder, has just left it to you. "I'm retiring, not hanging up my helmet." She stays on the radio to give advice, or at least to comment.
It starts with a press that makes bullets and a belt that carries them to the wall. At the end, a turret fires whatever it gets. In between, you decide: every machine a bullet goes through changes it. Fire, a seeker head, an explosive tip, a prism that splits it in three. Each bullet wears its recipe, and the fancy ones get a rarity and a name of their own.
Nothing is free, though. Every pass through a booster costs impact damage, so you keep asking yourself the same question: one very special bullet, or lots of plain ones?
Puff says: Granny Odette told me to stop blowing on the conveyor belts.
Trailer
What's inside
Design your ammo
Every machine on the belt changes the bullet that goes through it. Bodies, tips, fins, elements. The rare ones get generated names, some of them a bit ridiculous.
Five ages of industry
Five sectors take your factory from planks and nails to steam, electricity, chemistry and finally the future. Each age changes how the machines look and what they need.
Power and pipes
Run cables from the power plants. Overload the grid and the whole workshop goes dark. Pump water to boilers and turbines, and cool the big machines before they overheat.
Work, then defend
During the work phase you build, repair and send drones to collect scrap. During the defense phase the Rusties arrive, and the factory has to hold.
Walls and breaches
The wall is built in segments. If one falls, enemies walk in and head for Granny Odette's hut, breaking machines on the way. Odette shoots back from her window.
Bosses with habits
Five sectors, five bosses: the Armored Crusher, the Swarm Chief, the Mirror Automaton that returns your hits, the Unstable Boiler, and the giant Industrial Inspector who has come to shut the factory down for non-compliance.
Ballistics
Trajectory modules make bullets wave, corkscrew, come back like a boomerang or orbit their target. Some module combinations unlock combos with names like Comet and Galaxy.
More than 50 things to build
Turrets, modules, faster belts, power plants and reactors, unlocked with plans from bosses. Medals from Odette open a talent tree, and optional contracts reward people who like a challenge.
When all else fails
You can click an enemy to hit it by hand. It's a skill too, and yes, it can be upgraded.
Little clips
Snapshots
Sector 1: planks and nails. 
The steam age. 
Holding the wall. 
The Mirror Automaton sends hits back. 
The Ghost Foundry. 
Inspection day. 
The upgrade tree. 
Research plans.
Select a screenshot to open it at full size.
Story and languages
The story, briefly
Bullet Factory has just enough story to explain why there's a grandmother on the radio. The rust woke up, the scrap heaps walk, and they're hungry for metal. They're called the Rusties. Granny Odette climbed the five ages of industry when she was young, and she'll watch you do it faster. At the end of the road waits the Industrial Inspector, who never approved her factory. She has a score to settle.
Languages
English, French.
You asked (probably)
When does it come out?
No public date yet. When there is one, it'll be on this page and in the news.
Which platforms?
Windows first. There's also an Android build that we test on our own devices, with touch controls, but nothing to announce for mobile.
Is it hard?
Our balance robot wins the full campaign in about 80 minutes of simulated play, with a few defeats along the way. Humans haven't been measured yet, and the robot doesn't stop to admire its bullets.
Who is Granny Odette?
The previous owner of the factory. 87 years old, retired welder, talks on the radio, has opinions. She explains each new thing when it shows up, so there's no long tutorial.