I had a very similar experience, I was very intrigued by the game, downloaded the demo and was totally put off by the biters. They kept interfering as I was trying to work out what to do. It was not until I learnt from KoS that biters could be turned off that I bought the game. Now I have several th...

I am 78, with 1132 hours on Steam, and unknown hours on the other 2 installations and probably another thousand watching KoS, Nilaus, Xterminator and others. Factorio is the best game ever invented and I'm very glad i retired 3 years ago, how you work and play Factorio in the same lifestream I have ...