WHAT YOU GET

The demo is the real opening arc — not a teaser reel, a playable slice of the actual game:

• Crash-land with nothing — a busted escape pod and a single terminal on a hostile alien surface.

• Build your first factory — mine ore, smelt it, and lay down conveyors that carry it to machines you place yourself. No blueprints. No auto-solver. You figure it out.

• Bring the grid online — real electricity that flows along wires. Power your drills, your smelters, your defenses.

• Meet the wildlife — silicon-based biters that don't want you — they want your factory. They feed on your power. They adapt to how you fight them.

Every machine is a glyph. Every system is a real system. If you understand it, you can break it. If you can break it, you can optimize it.

LIKED IT? HERE'S WHAT HELPS MOST

• Wishlist the full game — it's the single biggest thing you can do for a solo dev. It tells Steam to show Textorio to more people.

• Leave a note — bugs, ideas, "the pipes turned red and I panicked" — the community hub is open and I read everything.

• Tell one friend who likes Factorio, ASCII, or watching a factory sprawl out of control.

— BASTION will be waiting. 50,000 are still asleep.