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Factorio
CasualIndieSimulationStrategy≤64 playersmoddablenative Linuxsingle-thread
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Host it here
≈ $10/mo
playing ~12 h/week on the metered plan, billed only while the server is actually up. Always-on is $29.99–$59.98/mo · about $7.50 each split between 4 players, 1–2 cores dedicated, never shared.
UPS is single-thread bound — CPU single-thread benchmark sets the megabase ceiling, not players.
Get the game
You buy Factorio once from Steam. It is $35.00 there, a one-off purchase. NecroHost rents you the server it runs on, which is the monthly figure above.