Factory Town

shouldn't have wasted money on pointless backlog

This is a great little chill and relaxing game. Enough to keep you going for a while and each map introduces you to new things. People stating that it isn't Factorio obviously don't get that this is a much smaller developer and the game isn't meant to have the complexities that Factorio has. I play both games for different reasons and both are great to play because of this.

This game is good. It took me a little while to get the hang of it, but after that I was building my little town. Hardest part for me to understand was getting water to buildings. After you figure it out it's easy, but at first it was hard to know what to do. The cuteness is great and the game play it a cool mix of colony sim and automation game. Definitely will put more hours into this game.

Unfortunately has a broken tutorial. I may come back to revise this review if I youtube how to play the game first and maybe install it on my desktop pc first and not my steam deck. Tutorial 1 is completely broken for me. it asks you to place a house, whih you cant do due to lack of resources.... Ok now what? The game starts off pause and no instruction is given as to how to unpause it. No instruction given as to how to collect resources to construct the house it asks you to build in the tutorial. There cant hav3 beenany testing. Not recomended if the very first thing you have to do in the game is broken and you released this over 5 years ago? Are you kidding me? its still broken? run away from this. dont buy it.

This is one of the best city simulators I've played. Relaxed and chill.

For the most part it is enjoyable. I am still working on the campaign. Pathing seems an issue and having same worker do multiple tasks causes trouble if they are unable to deposit or withdraw at a station. I did learn you can have same building make multiple recipes at once and even use stuff they are making.

Some of the Quality of Life stuff in this game, the roads and paths for me, is horribly obnoxious, to the point that it was infuriating. At best, there are controls that are never clearly explained. At worst, the game forces you to delete things that you've already setup, in order to recreate a better structure at times. That gets old REALLY fast. I got through a few of the campaign levels before I got fed up with it, and called it quits. Guess you get what you pay for though...

An interesting blend of city management and factory building +vertical belt stacking with a high cost +Need to satisfy citizens to progress +waste products to manage +/- terrain makes building and planning challenging, but terrain sculpting is a thing so there's little point to it later on +/- most recipes are simple to automate, balanced out by the large quantity of them to manage -very finicky logistics system -game acts like automation isn't the goal sometimes