Factory Town

Zuerst dachte ich, es sei ein etwas merkwürdiger City-Builder, aber dann wurde mir schnell klar, dass es eigentlich factorio im Gewand eines City-Builders ist. Wer also Bock auf ein Spiel a la factorio hat und es mag einen riesigen Logistikapperat zu bauen, der ist hier richtig. Identifizierung von Flaschenhälsen in Lieferketten, Mikromanagement, Tech-Tree mit verschiedenen Ausrichtungsschwerpunkten, etc. Nachteile: Teilweise etwas gewöhnungsbedürftiges UI Ich hab jetzt 60 Stunden investiert und ich glaub das Spiel ist auch nochmal für weitere 60 Stunden gut. Bezahlt habe ich knappe 7 Euro, das passt für mich total! Ich würde glaube ich bis 15 Euro für das Spiel zahlen.

I bought this game ages ago and just never felt like playing it. Well, got the Flu as a Christmas gift this year, so had some time on my hands and played the heck out of this. It's absolutely incredible, I'm surprised I haven't heard more hype about this game. This game is WAY deeper than I thought it would be, and 34 hours in I'm still trying to work through the campaigns, forget about sandbox. The part of this game I love the most is, there are several ways of moving items around in this game, workers, wagons, caravans, conveyor belts, boats, trains, etc. Late game, I'm still using ALL of them strategically. Normally in games like this you just max conveyor belts and throw them everywhere. While you CAN do that in Factory town, the map is huge and each mode of transportation has pros and cons. So, instead, I end up building small settlements here and there with wagons, conveyors, etc. moving things around locally, then boats and trains shipping bigger batches around the map. Absolutely loving this game. Only real downside of this game so far is that it's a bit of a learning curve. Definitely buckle in and be prepared spending some time learning the mechanics. That said, the tutorial and campaigns do a GREAT job of getting you most of the way there.

Really enjoyable process automation game. Campaign is just a touch too repetitive by around 7-ish, but not terribly so. The progress through the campaigns is great, slowing introducing you to the later game mechanics works very well. It's quite approachable. Low challenge, for sure, but an enjoyable game to play. If you're looking for hard puzzles, this is not your game, but for a slow build-up automation game, it's great. Can recommend strongly at any price $30 and under.

This is a great low-pressure, yet complex game. Very much like Factorio only without the threat of alien attack; you can leave this game running and nothing bad happens. The campaign is well-designed, each level building on knowledge from the last, and there's a huge variety of ways to achieve your goals. This isn't so much world-building as factory-building; your villagers won't die from hunger, for instance. It's more about streamlining and automating your production lines to achieve just the right balance of supply and demand. The only thing that has been frustrating is the tutorials: the info provided is pretty sparse, and though the tutorial maps do help a lot (once you realize there are "signs" with additional info!), I've still had to go online to figure out how to do a few basic things, like switch out which items you have in your hotbar.

Long story short, skip this if you intend to play with a controller. Controller support is atrocious, opaque, and poorly documented. The fact that this is flagged as "full controller support" is really misleading. It's unsurprising really, as this type of game is much better served by m+kb input, but the promise of controller support actually made me buy. What I've played of the game itself looked OK but was very rough/indi and rather fiddly/tedious. There are many entries in the genre, I'd say just play something else.

There's something so satisfying about watching your townsfolk run back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and

Pure production line micromanagement fun! Cheerful and simple graphics make everything easy to recognise while you stretch miles of conveyors, train track & mine cart runs. No 'tower defence' or forced timers makes this such a relaxing game that allows you to play at your own pace. The logic system can be a little tricky to understand but once you grasp the basics, micromanagement can range from controlling a single unit to 100's of materials. Even each pawn has to be placed manually and given routes. A true gem of a factory game that deserves a lot more recognition in the genre.

Like Factorio but cute instead of bleak, and no biters to contend with. Deeper than appears on the surface. Heartily recommend.

A relaxed Factorio-like/builder played on a 3D landscape with complex supply chains and charming music. There's three main 'systems' going on in Factory town: your towns/houses, which require deliveries of food and goods to both increase their happiness and pay out various currencies; research, which initially just involves delivering paper and books to schools, but quickly grows to involve combing books with other goods at a laboratory or magic tower to make specialized books that focus on a single subject or element; and mana, which involves mining crystals, refining them, then using the magical power inside them to create items, resulting in a depleted crystal that can be recharged and reused. Various tips worth mentioning as I made my way through the game's 8 campaign levels: * Wooden scaffolding can be affixed directly to the sides of buildings, and can take goods from (or have them delivered to) up to two blocks up. Not coincidentally, caravans require a two block ceiling to pass under something, so you can run belts directly from one building to another over your streets without blocking the traffic below. * Items in barns can be used directly by the player in building, so there's no need to ship things like belts, train tracks, stone, or fertilizer all the way over to the town square. * Hitting 'G' will take you to the underground layer(s). Pipes can be placed directly on this level, effortlessly connecting buildings. Extremely useful for connecting wells to farms and pastures without having ugly tubes running all over the map. As an added benefit, each type of pipe has its own layer, so you can stack different pipes without worrying about cross-contamination. * All buildings/roads/etc. are refunded 100% when removed, so don't hesitate to remodel/rework systems. The only real negatives I can think of are that, for a game that actively encourages vertical expansion, it can be very annoying or even impossible to click on or see what's going on in the lower levels of your town; and that some of the campaign goals feel a little excessive. For instance, the final level requires 400 blue star currency. Each 100 points of that currency requires 100-400 of four randomly picked, high-level goods, and - even when you have the goods available - takes a while to process. The requirement could have been reduced to 200 currency without cheapening my feeling of accomplishment. Overall, a neat little game - I enjoyed it enough to 100% the achievements.