Goblin Industries
Dig in. Build the works. Bore deeper.
Goblin Industries is a pixel-art factory and colony sim set in a goblin cave, for Windows, macOS and Linux, with online co-op for up to four players, coming to Steam in 2027 from ProtoGames.
Key facts
- Genre
- Pixel-art factory and colony sim
- Developer
- ProtoGames
- Release
- 2027, on Steam (exact date not yet announced)
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, SteamOS and Linux (native builds)
- Store
- Steam (wishlist now)
- Players
- Single-player, or online co-op for up to 4
- Co-op
- Drop-in: friends join your camp from a Steam invite
- Camera and art
- Top-down, 2D pixel art
- Modes
- Standard camp with raids, or a sandbox camp without them
- Languages
- 14, with interface, full audio and subtitles: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Greek, Japanese, Polish, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- Steam features
- Steam Cloud saves, Family Sharing, captions
- Minimum spec
- Windows 10 64-bit, 4-core CPU, 4 GB RAM, a Direct3D 12 or Vulkan GPU; macOS 15 on Apple M1; Ubuntu 22.04 or similar
- Storage
- 1 GB
- AI-generated content
- Disclosed on Steam: translations, character voice lines, testing simulations, programming assistance
- Engine
- Godot
- Steam app ID
- 5346930
About the game
A pixel-art factory game in a goblin cave. Dig out the rock, build the works, and keep the crew fed, rested, paid and armed while you bore ever deeper.
Ever wanted to be a hard-working goblin? Me neither, but here we are. Every goblin dreams of the easy life on the surface, and to get there you've got to put in your shift. Come underground: mine, smelt, and get the factory running.
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Dig in
Hack through the rock with your own pick, plant Mining Posts by the iron, copper and coal for your goblins to dig, and set Crystal Drills on the glowing crystal. Every wall you knock down is room for another machine.
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Build the works
Hoppers, belts, arms, smelters and factories. Your miners tip their ore into the Hoppers by their post, the Hoppers chute it onto your belts, and the plates, wire and gears roll in.
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Run the camp
Every goblin needs a bunk, a meal and a nap. Grow glowing mushrooms, cook soup in the camp pot, hand out duties and hire more at the Workers' Station. Keep the purse full for payday: a goblin left unpaid walks out.
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Hold the camp
Knights, mages and priests camp out in the dark and send raiding parties your way. Forge swords, axes and spears for your guards and archer towers, or call up a warband and wreck their tents for the loot. In a sandbox camp they keep to their own fires.
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Raise a herd
Down at 250m, wild fire cows spit fire. Knock one down and strap it into a cryo-harness to tame it, and give your cows and chickens a pen each: they can't stand each other.
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Trade with the surface
The surface goblins have forgotten how to work, so the broker's contracts pay gold for whatever your camp can make. A Trading Post sells off the spare, and the gold pays the wages.
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Study the plans
Most machines, recipes and belt heights are studied at the Library first, paid in gems made from your own crystal, so the camp opens up bit by bit.
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Lay the rails
Track, stations and a steam engine with a goblin at the wheel. Haul ore and rock by the cartload, with a passenger cart so the crew can commute.
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Bore deeper
Feed the Factory Drill what it asks for and it bores down to the next floor: hotter, with richer ore. Link the floors with lifts and tunnels, and at the bottom pump up the core's molten gold.
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Better with friends
Co-op for up to four. Friends drop into your camp at any time, straight from a Steam invite.
Screenshots
Get Goblin Industries on Steam
Coming to Steam in 2027. Wishlist it to be told when it launches.
Common questions
When is the Goblin Industries release date?
Goblin Industries is coming to Steam in 2027. An exact release date has not been announced yet.
Wishlist it on Steam to be told when it launches.
What platforms is Goblin Industries releasing on?
Goblin Industries is releasing on PC through Steam, for Windows, macOS, SteamOS and Linux.
Each platform has a native build. No console versions have been announced.
Does Goblin Industries support co-op multiplayer?
Yes. Goblin Industries has online co-op for up to four players.
Friends can drop into your camp at any time, straight from a Steam invite. You can also play alone.
Is Goblin Industries a factory game or a colony sim?
Goblin Industries is both: a factory game and a colony sim in one camp.
On the factory side you automate mining and smelting with Hoppers, belts, arms and factories, and lay rails to haul ore. On the colony side every goblin has needs, skills, a job and wages, and an unpaid goblin walks out.
Can I play Goblin Industries without combat?
Yes. In a sandbox camp, the knights, mages and priests keep to their own camps and leave yours alone.
In a standard camp their camps grow bolder the further out you dig, and send raiding parties that your guards, archer towers and warbands have to see off.