Food Processing Simulator

Honestly... I really DON'T want to recommend this game, like, at all. lol. Because the thing is... I'm weird. And I really don't think most people will like this game. I ended up spending so much time on this because I turned the games poor performance into a game within itself, but also against myself, it was weird. But oddly satisfying. For whatever reason, I got really into Food Processing Simulator, and I don't even really know why. I've ended up going through and doing absolutely everything you can, with 100% achievements as well. I have no idea why I did that lol. If you've combed through the negative reviews, everything they have to say is right lol. Every single recipe is basically the same. You do finally get more complex salad recipes but those basically just mean run three of those exact same production lines and combine them all. You unlock the different types of "end game" foods, and again, it's the exact same production line set ups. they just use different looking machines. There is no depth to literally anything, like AT ALL. The in game economy/money is absolutely just slapped together. You can be like me, and spend over 50 hours grinding to level 55+ and it doesn't matter AT ALL how you do it. With the exception of one or two items, the end game food items you produce sell for basically the same amounts as the ones you first start the game with. But even still it doesn't matter because the money system is mostly forgiving. You're telling me a box of plain, all lettuce, salads sell for 35 bucks but a box of complex multi-ingredient salads costs 36? Like Imagine going to KFC and they're like... "Well we can peel a head of lettuce for you and throw it in a box for 5 bucks, or you can try this fresh romaine chicken salad for 5.15" Like.. what? lol It doesn't make logical sense at all, and this also makes progression boring. I didn't even bother with many of the end game fruit based items because I was already grinding for the ultra rare salad achievements anyways, and with how bad the game runs you can't go hog wild and that ironically ended up being part of why I enjoyed the game.... Because... The game runs like crap, and you'll realize quickly this is all due to the boxes. The more boxes you have in game, the crappier the game will run. I don't care how amazing your rig is, there is no way you could use every square inch of factory space, every square inch of cold storage, running 8 food trucks, and be able to get over 10 frames. As I said, this is ironically also what ended up being one of the reasons I spent so much time playing. Unlike satisfactory where you completely start over multiple times because the rules start to change, and the needs keep growing, I ended up starting over multiple times, completely changing and deleting huge chunks of my production lines so I can change what I'm offering, and find ways to minimize my total on screen box counts so performance remained at a fair spot. So I created a game with myself, how well could I optimize my outputs, still get rich, and still keep the performance at least half way decent. So I went BANANAS with that, min maxing walk times for employees so boxes are quickly dispensed into machines and improve the frame rates drastically. This included building a "menu" where I can make as many finished products as possible using as few ingredients and supplies as humanly possible. Again, all towards the goal of limiting the amount of on screen boxes as low as humanly possible while still running high enough production numbers to get rich and get all the achievements. Honestly if the game didn't start running so poorly, it probably wouldn't have been any fun for me at all. hahaha I was able to design direct transfer lines so boxes could almost immediately feed into machines from their spawn points and drastically lower my storage needs. By the end of the game here I'm grinding out the last four rare Salad achievements and I've maximized my builds so much that there are probably never more then 40-50 boxes on screen at any given time, which has also bought me 60 FPS for a good while now too. It's just... an odd thing...to enjoy and recommend a game when I've enjoyed it based solely on how bad it is lol. And that's why this recommend is a soft one. There isn't much depth here and it's only going to appeal to someone that finds a way to make their own fun. If you can't do that, you aren't going to enjoy this. ESPECIALLY for most hardcore fans of Satisfactory and the like. If you want automation depth and complexity, you won't get that here.