Any more ideas or should i just get a refund from steam?

I assume Windows is your operating system of choice. The symptoms you described are known to be caused by some versions of uncommon antivirus software, which prevents factorio.exe to be exectured for uknown reason. Or by old version of Logitech Quickcam or Razer Synapse injects its DLL into Factori...

Try opening task manager and closing all of the processes related to steam and then reopen it and try again. For reference you can find out how to get the log file here but since factorio is not actually launching in this case it would not be of use. Still no luck! I also uninstalled factorio and r...

I just bought the game and it wont launch at all. It pops up saying preparing to launch then nothing happens.
I would put the log here but i dont know how to do that sorry!