Factory Town

Great game. I'm gonna go ahead and compare it (favorably) to Factorio: - Cozy cozy cozy cozy. I'm not making flamethrowers to fight aliens. I'm just making bandages for the local drugstore and sandwiches for the tavern. - Soundtrack is very relaxing - Depth is excellent. I'm on level 5/8 and there are already twelve different types of research. - Play your way. There are bonuses if you tap into existing RNG resource spawns, but if you really need them somewhere else, you can plonk them down. - Trains are intuitive yet challenging. You're not going to stare at the screen for fifteen minutes wondering why a train won't leave the station. - Logistics/signaling system goes as deep as you want (probably deeper, tbh) but you don't ever have to use it. - A billion raw materials and another billion things to make out of them. - Piping is way more fun, can be used on a wide variety of materials. If you like the factory genre, especially if you wish it were more bucolic, I would definitely check this one out.

I found myself really wanting to enjoy the game enough to finish it, but the tedium of painstakingly recreating and progressing through the same slow, basic content really hits you after the first few maps. Every campaign map has the same early progression that's a slog to get through with no blueprints, copying or real focus on accessibility or clarity, just pure tedium where you have to build all the same stuff back up to get to the base level necessary to then progress to next tier of unlocks in the tech tree needed to complete the map's goals. Then you do it all again in the next map, progress through all the same content in the same tedious manner to reach the same point of progression, to then upgrade to the next tier to meet the map's campaign goal. Repeat until frustrated and bored. Add to that an utter lack of QoL features, and I no longer cared much about finishing the game partway through 4 of the 8 campaign maps. As much as I hate to admit it, you can really see the lack of care that went into certain aspects of the game. Wheels don't even spin, managing workers is a chore, many interface elements are unclear and unintuitive, and there are basic features for things like expanding storage (why bother?) and apparently terraforming that I didn't even know existed after two dozen hours into the game. More time and effort should have been spent on the design for gameplay and progression, rather than adding things like logic blocks nobody will bother to actually use. Simplicity shouldn't mean tedium, and the lack of depth in the design of the game results in a shallow, repetitive experience that ultimately leaves you wondering why you were hoping it'd get better. Ultimately, it's an okay game that could have been much better if more care had been taken to make actually playing it, and making sure that progressing through the same content (which is necessary by design) less of a chore.

I wanted to play a base-building factory game while waiting for Satisfactory 1.0 to be released, so I decided to try this one. In my opinion , it is a very good game where you can play at your own pace and you get rewarded by doing things well, without any external factors "destroying" what you've built. I only played the campaign mode, and I found it very complete. The levels increase in difficulty in a smart way, starting small and gradually introducing new concepts as you progress. Since I spent some time on the last campaign level, I ended up trying out a lot of things and didn't feel the need to start a custom map. However, I think playing a custom map could add a lot more gameplay time.

lets gonna be short since i dont think anybody read this review:stucked retarded workers

It reminds me of Factorio, but simpler and more chill and not as much stressing about efficiency. Pretty fun.

Strong recommend especially if you like the idea of Factorio but are perhaps a bit put off by the complexity. It feels very Factorio-lite but with a much more casual vibe and with an added city-builder component. I've found it scratches the factory itch for when I don't want to think too hard. Seems to have a good amount of content to boot, only 15 hours in and I haven't really gotten to trains or the more advanced stuff yet (I'm still fairly inexperienced). Building in 3D is also pretty nuts and adds an extra layer to building. Finally the graphics are great if simple, I find the overall aesthetic very pleasing and fits the game quite well along with the music.

This is pretty amazing game. I've been looking through the discussions and the developer has been pretty amazing with the feedback an incorporating suggestion. This game an autists' dream. I've been playing games since pong. Two thumb up. Way up!

As others have said in their reviews, Factory Town is unusual for an automation game in that it is highly 'comfy' and relaxing to play. Not that automation games can't be satisfying in their own right, but Factory Town has an aesthetic and a pace that means you play the game much more chilled than other automation games; there are no enemies to kill nor is the map eventually made up of huge sprawling factories and there's generally no sense of urgency to get things set up. While those aspects are not issues, Factory Town makes a nice change in that you can spend time perfecting your automation network and experimenting with the gameplay features, rather than worrying about ensuring your factory-fortress doesn't fall to the enemy. It's great for playing whilst listening to something in the background.