Belts of Iron

If you like factory games like Factorio, Satisfactory, and StarRupture this is a game to play. It has the same indie quality of a game like Foundry. But I like this one a bit more due to the fact there are enemies to deal with. Also this is using the Unreal Engine 4. So you don't have to worry about any of the bullsh*t performance issues you get with the awful version 5 of Unreal Engine. This alone is a great reason to support this solo developer.

Essentially copy/pasted satisfactory/factorio, and didn't understand either. The resource nodes are large enough that you can just complete the game on a single one. Not kidding. Enemies don't actually attack you? So what was the point of that? They kinda sorta exist on those ferrocrystal deposits you need... to research weapons.. so if you don't research weapons... you never need them? Resource RNG is pretty stupid - nearest iron ore deposit to my starting one is over 2 kilometers away - but it doesn't matter I guess, because I will never need it and can just afk on my starting platform...??? Factorio was good because of the urgency, and this does not have that. Satisfactory was good because of the graphics and sass, this does not have those. Ugly little game made by uncreative thieves. It's actually to the point where Coffee Stain should probably sue these guys. Even the alignment and snapping icons (the blue and orange arrows) are the same shape and color. The belts are the same shape. The splitters have the same features. Many of the buildings are similar in size and shape. The ore resources look the same, like they just took Satisfactory assets and low-poly'd them whole cloth. There is zero originality or creativity here; none whatsoever, and every place their skeevy little 'mashup' tries to merge the things it stole, it's horribly unbalanced or pointless.

Fun game for awhile but the recipe ratios are absolutely horrible to deal with as you get farther into the game. Byproducts that makes byproducts that make byproducts. There's no sink. No way to balance anything. There's no priority system for pipes. You end up making several competing products that are cross-dependent on each other that can never be perfectly balanced. It's an absolute mess as you get farther. There needs to be a resource sink, or something. Or, maybe a bunch of alternate recipes to unlock to help. Also: traveling is horrid. There's no travel system and for whatever reason the map generates with resources WAY, WAY, WAY far away from each other...99% of the map is just empty space. So as you grow your factory it just becomes a walking simulator.

The mechanics are there, content isn't. Quite a few things look promising, but the world feels very empty. Issues: - Challenged vertically. For some reason it feels like it's harder to build vertically in this game than satisfactory or foundry. - Progression/receipts. Research tree is short. Effort/reward ratio for electrical pack feels skewed towards effort multiplied by small scale (instead of needing 'deep' lines like in factorio, it's almost one machine per product). Iron plates and copper wires fill a belt entirely from a single contructor, etc - Boring world. This game mimics satisfactory, but a good chunk of satisfactory's 'factory' mechanics deficites are compensated by exploration. - Boring combat. - Floor snapping mechanics probably needs to be reconsidered. - Factory scale feels tiny. Partially because a single contructor fills a belt fully, partially because we start with a single iron mine and can't scale it up for a while, partially because the world feels huge. On the plus side: - Runs fairly smooth, I noticed no bugs. - Far more space than satisfactory (but on the downside it makes the factory feel smaller) To me this feels like a demo, not an EA.

хм... довольно интересный микс строительный тут вам и Satisfactory, и Factorio, и Engineeg Alpha, и Foundry и другие и что интересно, версия игры 0.3, только вышла в ранний доступ, а уже есть чертежи и поезда

5/31/26 Update Thank you for the response, re purchased and downloaded the game and multiplayer is working without issues. 5/28/26 Game looks fun for the time i spent playing but MULTIPLAYER IS NON FUNCTIONAL AT THIS TIME. I spent about a hour playing but if you are joining a friend in muilti player it will lock up system completly when trying to access the reserch bench. if that get fixed i will repurchase. game was refunded.

Satisfactory für arme Leute. Macht Spaß und es gibt nichts zu meckern.

I like it so far but it is like playing a silent game, where is the sound (machines, wind, atmosphere)? I had to quit. I need some kind of sound.