Alchemy Factory

Remember micro-machines? You like conveyor games? This is the miniature version of a conveyor game, and it can get really compact if you push it. Had this contraption for my money collector, and despite it being super compact, it was wildly overbuilt on purpose, like a Rube Goldberg device. I haven't played in a while, but seeing it releasing soon, and reading the negative reviews, makes me want to jump back in and slingshot some stuff around my store.

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This game I think has a lot of fun and shows a lot if potential. If you're a fan of Satisfactory, you'll like this one. It has a lot of the same concepts, except miniaturized which I think is a really neat concept. I love being able to build really small intricate setups to automate every item you have. I also really like the shop mechanics even if they seem to just be background noise once you automate everything. Be nice if this was expanded some in a future update (which I think is on the road map). But here is where I think the game needs some improvement. The early game I think is literally perfect. It starts you out with very small simple parts you can make, there is a lot of manual moving of things around, getting parts, etc. Then you unlock the catapults which allow you to automate the shop, and eventually portals that allow you to fully automate start to finish. The progression into automation feels really good early on. It seems like right after this though the game starts getting crazy with the recipes. You have to build a lot to automate a little. And then the cauldron unlocks. The cauldron makes sense for an alchemy game, you put seemingly random stuff in and get something different out. It's a cool concept, however when you hit mid game, the recipe ratios get so crazy you almost have to center every build around the cauldron. For me, it makes the game very un-fun at this point because it feels like they made the recipes exceptionally complicated such that you have to use the cauldron or else you literally cannot afford to build the part. What would be better here is make the base recipes not so crazy to build. Fix the ratios/parts required so building the parts aren't as complicated and throw the cauldron in as an alternative. Gives you a reward for using it, without making it feel like you NEED to use it. I love the concept of the cauldron, I hate how it feels like you cannot progress at some point without including it in everything. I am also not a big fan of the skill tree. I like the idea of being able to upgrade different areas of the game. but when you upgrade it changes how everything runs. I am almost hesitant to do any upgrades until mid/endgame when I have lots of points to burn because some of what you take ends up breaking everything you've done. For example, one of the upgrades causes furnaces to consume more fuel. You get some of your earlier builds working perfectly, you take a couple of those upgrades, and now nothing you made works because the fuel you're using isn't good enough anymore. Or if you're using some lines to feed others, an overflow into the shop might end up not working anymore because the upgrades caused your other factories to completely consume everything you were building. It just doesn't feel balanced. Not sure how you'd do it but if there was some kind of way for the upgrades to not effect what was currently built I think that would fix it. Something like the efficiency slider in Satisfactory. If you're building something at 60/min, you unlock some perks which now allows you to build at 120/min, have a slider that keeps the thing running at the 60/min, and you can configure it to go up to 120 if you want. Fuel consumption/etc would then scale to that value. I think something like that would massively fix this system so you're not having to go back and re-do everything every time you spend a skill point. I know this review sounds overly negative, but the game is actually a lot of fun, and if you're into the shop keep and/or automation games, this is definitely worth playing. It is so close to being perfect, just a couple changes above and this game could be a massive success.

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操作が非常に煩雑で、ほぼ最初の方で投げ出してしまいました。 特に酷いのがベルトコンベアで、分岐や合流のやり方が分かるまで、ほとんどのプレイ時間を費やしてしまい、そこで力尽きました。 これならまだ、マイクラの工業化MOD「Create」の方がずっと詳細なヘルプを搭載しています。 ちゃんとしたゲームが、いちMODに負けているのはどうなのかと思います。 操作性の改善、Helpの充実。マルチに対応するより先にこちらを何とかすべきだと思います。

really fun shop simulator + factory game. Tons of unlocks and complex recipes. 10/10

Bought in anticipation of 1.0 release next week, but I’ve already been hooked on the gameplay loop. Addicting, and I haven’t traveled more than about 50m from my starting spawn.