Is Factorio HNs favourite game or is it Civ V?
Factorio is much more like software development. Especially when you notice that your earlier assumptions were wrong and you need to refactor your base, tearing down all the stuff you build earlier.
And the fact that the dev has a weekly newsletter with dev updates, that helps
FFF (Factorio Friday Facts)
https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-432
Today will be the last FFF before the expansion launches next week.
It's NEXT WEEK?! That made me so happy I got goosebumps. I gotta take some vacation days.