- SuperWEIRD COOP IS OUT!!! - 14 July 2026
Hi, factory engineers! Today we’re stepping a little outside Learning Factory to share the biggest news from the project our team is actively working on right now. It’s called SuperWEIRD, and while it has a different planet, different robots, and considerably more suspicious goo, it still runs on something very familiar: building automation systems and then watching them behave in ways no engineer could possibly have predicted. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3818770/SuperWEIRD/ For anyone seeing it for the first time, SuperWEIRD is an automation roguelite about building production chains, commanding clumsy robots, rebuilding a broken planet with Tetris-like pieces, and trying to stop the Corruption known as Goofy Goo. SuperWEIRD now has co-op We’ve just launched our very first proper co-op build. Naturally, everything started falling apart almost immediately. Shortly before release,…
- Steam startup movie is out! - 4 June 2026
A Scientist Cat Can Now Greet Your Steam Deck and Big Picture Mode on PC Tiny news, but very important for cat-based science Today we released a Steam startup movie featuring our scientist cat. You can get it with Steam Points at the Steam Points Shop startup movie So yes: every time you launch your Steam Deck or Big Picture Mode on PC, you can be greeted by a very serious, very intelligent cat who clearly understands automation, production chains, and probably where all the missing screws went. How to Equip the startup movie on Steam Deck Just press "Equip Now" in the Shop How to find the startup movie on PC Open Steam on your PC. Go to the View menu. Select Big Picture Mode. Open Settings. Go to Customization. Choose the startup movie with our scientist cat. Want even more automation? Sign up for the closed playtest of our new game Join our Discord Our website Our free games Write a c…
- What’s New from the Devs - 4 March 2026
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3818770/SuperWEIRD_Automation_Roguelite/ Hey friends! It’s been a while since we shared what’s going on with us — and actually, quite a lot is happening behind the scenes. First of all, we’re still working. From the office. No matter what. 💪 Second, we’re deep into developing SuperWEIRD and actively playtesting it in the browser. And oh boy — you’ve sent us a lot of comments and feedback. We’re carefully digging through all of it now. If you’d like the full story, check out our latest devlogs. We answer the most frequently asked questions there and explain how we work with feedback in general: Feedback has always been important to our studio. We’ve tried to stay close to players on Steam, Discord, and across social media. But with this project, we decided to go even further. It basically turned into full-on data-driven development — constant playtests…
- Happy Programmer's Day! - 13 September 2025
Hey friends! The 256th day of the year is also known as Programmer's Day! That's today. A huge kudos to all the knights of ones and zeroes, present-day, former, and wannabes alike! Without you, there would be no video games! If coding at work is not enough for you (we get it) - did you know that there's a dedicated page on Steam's programming games? Check it out: Browse Programming games on Steam As for our own programming games - you know where to find them: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3818770/SuperWEIRD https://store.steampowered.com/app/619150/while_True_learn https://store.steampowered.com/app/1724140/Craftomation_101_Programming__Craft https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory/ Last but not least, here's one for those who fuel our programming power by providing an endless amount of internet memes - the cats! The furry muses of Luden.io say hi: Happy coding,…
- Some More Good News & Updates From the Devs - 30 June 2025
Hey everyone! We hope that you're having a great Summer Sale, and your Steam library is full of awesome new games (again). As for us, we've got some exciting news of our own! For one, while True: learn() is expected to become a part of exposition in a hi-tech museum in Antwerpen (that's in Belgium) Craftomation 101, in turn, is getting a lift-up in the UI/UX department: we've hired professional designer to make the game shine, and she's doing an awesome job: The next update for that game is just around the corner! As for Learning Factory, it now comes with a controller support, which kind of makes it one of the friendliest factory-building games out there: Last but not least: have you heard of our new games? One of them is called SuperWEIRD. It's a tower defense adventure with automation and some resource management, and it looks exacly as the name suggests: So many games, huh? Are we a…
- Update v1.1.8 - Bug fixes & Optimizations - 10 June 2025
v1.1.8 Changelog UI, QoL & Texts Optimizations Сontroller improvements Minor UI\UX fixes UI improvements for SteamDeck Texts update Bug fixes Minor Bug fixes (kudos to Trichouette) Also, don't forget about our collection of items in Steam Points Shop made by our artist Sergey! ---------------------- How to Get More Involved At Luden.io, we develop games while constantly listening to the feedback from our awesome players. If you feel proactive, you're very welcome to do one or more of the following: Subscribe to our newsletter, to get the latest info about the game's development, and a sneak peek of the upcoming features and events Come say hi to our Discord server, or Twitter Check out some other games by us!
- Update v1.1.7 - A bag of fixes - 21 May 2025
v1.1.7 Changelog UI, QoL & Texts A lot of optimizations A lot of Controller improvements Many minor UI\UX fixes UI improvements for SteamDeck Texts update Texts update for SteamDeck Texts update for Controllers Added Devanagari font support Added Bengali font support Added Thai font support Bug fixes Minor Bug fixes (kudos to Eneri, zxion) Also, don't forget about our collection of items in Steam Points Shop made by our artist Sergey! ---------------------- How to Get More Involved At Luden.io, we develop games while constantly listening to the feedback from our awesome players. If you feel proactive, you're very welcome to do one or more of the following: Subscribe to our newsletter, to get the latest info about the game's development, and a sneak peek of the upcoming features and events Come say hi to our Discord server, or Twitter Check out some other games by us!
- Update v1.1.6 - A bit of everything - 23 April 2025
v1.1.6 Changelog Gameplay Autobuild radius slightly increased Cat Ark upgrades give more buildings for new Expeditions (xz215279) 2 Upgrades for Telemanipulator UI, QoL & Texts A lot of Optimizations Many minor UI\UX fixes You can hold Autofill key to autofill buildings (xz215279) Many small Controller support improvements Tutorials improved Steamdeck UI improved Bug fixes Minor Bug fixes (kudos to MustardSeedTales, sANDY, Yar1o, Eneri, xz215279) Also don't forget about our collection of items in Steam Points Shop made by our artist Sergey! ---------------------- How to Get More Involved At Luden.io, we develop games while constantly listening to the feedback from our awesome players. If you feel proactive, you're very welcome to do one or more of the following: Subscribe to our newsletter, to get the latest info about the game's development, and a sneak peek of the upcoming features an…
- Update v1.1.5 - Improved Controller Support - 25 March 2025
v1.1.5 Changelog Gameplay Loyal cats give more random science based on their Loyalty Level Fish Maker now has additional Terraforming research category Added 2 new terraforming recipes to Fish Maker Art 2 more backgrounds for Researchers in the Lab UI, QoL & Texts New Tutorial about Item Archiver Many minor UI\UX fixes More Controller Hotkeys Many small Controller support improvements Tutorials improved Ruins Edtor slightly improved Bug fixes Minor Bug fixes (kudos to Алёна Счастье) Also don't forget about our collection of items in Steam Points Shop made by our artist Sergey! ---------------------- How to Get More Involved At Luden.io, we develop games while constantly listening to the feedback from our awesome players. If you feel proactive, you're very welcome to do one or more of the following: Subscribe to our newsletter, to get the latest info about the game's development, and a s…
- Major Update v1.1 - Controller Support - 11 March 2025
v1.1.4 Changelog Patch Highlight 1 - Full Controller Support More hotkeys, more settings, supporting any controllers you want to use! Xbox and PS controllers have additional features. Patch Highlight 2 - German and Korean voiceovers Learning Factory now has an official German and Koran voiceovers made by Bastian Scheibe https://www.fiverr.com/bastiansvoice?source=inbox and Hyuk https://www.fiverr.com/h_hyuk?source=inbox Gameplay Mass purchases logic is changed Upsale requests appear a bit later New Smoothie recipe with Milk Old Smoothie recipe with Juice speed increased Trade Deal: Apple Box -> Smoothie is buffed Rich Cats now rarely request Smoothie as part of the Pyramid request Schrodinger's Chamber now can clone Legendary Cats Art 4 more backgrounds for Researchers in the Lab UI, QoL & Texts Sound feedback is slightly improved Many minor UI\UX fixes Copywriting for English and Russi…
- Controller Beta - v1.0.3 - 25 February 2025
v1.0.3 Changelog Patch Highlight 1 - Controller Support (Beta) Starting from this patch you 'technically' can play the game from start to finish using only controller! It won't be fully comfortable yet and we expect some bugs, so if you have any feedback about controller gameplay or bug reports share it with us in our Discord or right here. Thanks in advance! Patch Highlight 2 - Portuguese-Brazilian voiceover Learning Factory now has an official Portuguese-Brazilian voiceover made by native speaker Ramon M https://www.fiverr.com/ramongmaia?source=inbox Gameplay 4 new Legendary Cats Water Tunnel unlock requirement reduced from 500 to 150 Water Tunnel research cost reduced from 500 to 250 5 new Map Pin icons (Eneri) New upgrade for Milk Drill to increase Milk production quantity Zeppelins behavior slightly improved More visual features for cats on transporters Boutique inventory size incr…
- Dr Katz Reporting - About Voiceover - 21 February 2025
Hey! We heard a lot of positive feedback about our voiceover! We are really happy about it and want you to meet our voice actors! English The Original. The Legend. Dr Katz originally is voiced by Ali Gohar. We made a lot of iterations to perfect the cat speech of mad scientists. The main reference for a character was Dock Brown from "Back to the Future" and various cartoon cats. As a result, we got a great voiceover which Ali himself rated as "This is PURRRFECT!" after playing the game and we used his voice as a reference to all other languages. Ali Gohar https://www.fiverr.com/voiceoverali?source=inbox Russian So here we got a bit lucky twice. I have a few friends in "Maly Theatre" in Moscow and some of them recommended Artem Zatiev to us. He is not only a voice actor (agent ISO in Valorant for example) but also an actor in Theatre and Cinema. And the second time we got lucky because w…
- Hotfix v1.0.2 - 13 February 2025
Bug Fixes Minor bug fixes (Murzilka, Lucky) How to Get More Involved At Luden.io, we develop games while constantly listening to the feedback from our awesome players. If you feel proactive, you're very welcome to do one or more of the following: Subscribe to our newsletter, to get the latest info about the game's development, and a sneak peek of the upcoming features and events Come say hi to our Discord server, or Twitter Check out some other games by us!
- Legendary Patch - v1.0.2 - 11 February 2025
For the last two weeks, we've been reading reviews, watching Twitch streams, and YouTube videos nonstop, slowly going crazy! So the patch turned out to be pretty big and nice. Worth it. Send more feedback and bug reports! We love the smell of feedback in the morning. v1.0.2 Changelog Patch Highlight - 15 new Legendary Cats Cat you meet them all? Gameplay Lumber Mill work speed upgrade research cost reduced from 500 to 200 X-switcher research cost reduced from 200 to 150 Reverse Splitter research cost reduced from 300 to 200 Chance of perks with "Can Use Data X" reduced Perks with "Can Use Data X" now give 10% quality of 10% experience Campaign map improved Some Trading deals buffed A lot of new visual features for customer cats Advertising Cat Gates now by default summon cats ONLY with 1 item type, it can be changed in the UI. So they are easier to use Many Legendary Cats have more mone…
- Patching up - Update v1.0.1 - 30 January 2025
Hey, engineers! The game is released, but development continues! v1.0.1 Released Gameplay Storage research cost reduced from 75 to 50 New items & cats appear a bit slower Campaign map improved New Legendary Cat - Ancient Witch Other Content Accessibility - A lot of neutral in-game voiceovers added for different languages Legendary cats talk more while traveling on transporters Lava visuals slightly improved Legendary cats' visuals are improved QoL & Interface Steamdeck Tutorial improved (Kseoni4) Improved tutorials and helps Minor UI/UX fixes Music track selection is improved Copywriting for English, Russian and Chinese is improved Community Localizations for German and French improved (Châtaigne, Eneri) Bug fixes Minor Bug fixes (kudos to BBrisita, Zupnick, Trupen, Ydyp, Day, NhKPaNdA, GoDray) DLC New Support Pack with printable poster is released! https://store.steampowered.com/app/15…
- Relaxed factory automation sim Learning Factory 1.0 is out now - 30 January 2025
A few years in Early Access and it's now complete. Luden.io have released the 1.0 update for Learning Factory, a chilled factory building automation sim about supplying cats on Mars with everything they need. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/relaxed-factory-automation-sim-learning-factory-1-0-is-out-now/
- Grand Re-Re-Opening - Major Update, v1.0.194 - 27 January 2025
Hey, engineers! So, here we are. The great release, v1.0! We won't bother you with flowery words (scroll below for that). Instead, let's get right to the new content because, naturally, we have some goodies for you in this very important update! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory/ But first, here's a little summary of what will be happening these days: The game will have an extended launch discount for 2 weeks. After that, we will raise the game's base price, so it's probably the best time to buy Learning Factory The price for soundtrack will also go up, because it has been enriched with a whole new selection of tracks, composed by Broadcast of Variants collective In a matter of days (or maybe even hours!) we will release a new DLC with a collection of printable posters, for our biggest supporters. We'll let you know once it's out there If you haven't seen it al…
- 3, 2, 1... Catopia! - Learning Factory Retrospective - 26 January 2025
Hey, engineers, As promised, we're back with some more nostalgic Learning Factory content. This week is special because (a friendly reminder) Learning Factory goes to v1.0 release on January 27! If you have the game on wishlist, you'll get an email once it's out there. And if not - it's about time to add it! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory/ If we count the pre-release stage, the development took almost 5 years, which is… wow. To be honest, we just wanted to make a nice little tycoon-like game with cats in it, but then our players asked for more content, one thing led to another - and here we are. It's been a long way. The game has evolved tremendously. Just one example: do you know what capsule art on Steam is? It's that picture you see just above a game's description, it's the ‘face’ of the game, in a way. Check out how this image was changing throughout the…
- Learning Factory Goes v1.0 on 01/27/2025 - Cats go to Mars! - 20 January 2025
Hey, engineers! You've seen the title, haven't you? The big day is on the calendar. Our palms are shaking while we're typing in these words. Learning Factory goes out of Early Access on January 27! We even got ourselves a professional trailer, that's how committed we are: And here's how it all started - Learning Factory's first teaser, February 2021: You'll see a lot more Learning Factory nostalgia on the upcoming week. We've started drafting the game back in the spring of 2020, so there's a lot to remember. But today, we'll be looking into the future, namely, that release day of ours. Here's a short summary of what's going to happen: On January 27 we will release the final v1.0 update. It will feature extended voiceover, the final part of the story, and many improvements in QoL and UI/UX parts. There will be an extended release discount After the discount ends, the price will be increa…
- Learning Factory Is Now Steam Deck Verified! - 24 December 2024
Hey, engineers! Here's a little early Holiday gift for Steam Deck owners: Learning Factory is now officially supported on this magnificient machine. Enjoy! And if you didn't know that already, our previous game while True: learn() is Steam Deck verified too: https://store.steampowered.com/app/619150/while_True_learn/
