MineMogul

This is one of those games where I wish there was a "neutral" option. I am rating this negatively because although I do think the good parts are really good, there are some serious issues that need addressing and I am honestly baffled as to how this game is rated "Overwhelmingly Positive". The core concept of this game is really good. The physics-based automation is fun and also remarkably stable, you need to seriously spam physics objects before you even begin to notice frame drops. Figuring out the best way to organise conveyors and machines so that they are space-efficient but don't suffer issues caused by the item physics is an interesting challenge. The real issue is in the progression and the objectives. Early on, the progression system is fine, but it very quickly runs into serious problems. As mentioned, a major part of this game is finding the most space-efficient way to build, so when you unlock a new machine that you have to use to progress which has a different footprint and different input and output slots to things you have used before, you have to rebuild significant parts of your factory almost every single time you receive a new machine. Additionally, at a certain point the objectives become exceedingly arbitrary and tedious. Not only are a lot of the later ones utterly mindless tasks - like producing thousands upon thousands of a given product of a given material for no other reason than the game says so - but the order is also arbitrary and very frustrating. For example, for a bunch of them, you must first produce a given product in copper before you produce it in iron or steel or gold. Why? Why is the game assuming that producing this in copper is easier and the "first step", when in fact doing it out of other materials will be much easier for the way my factory is setup (and it is setup that way because of the way previous objectives steered me)? And you can't do it out of order; quests only begin progressing when they are activated, so I [i]have[/i] to make copper threaded rods before steel threaded rods even though, for my factory, that is actually a much harder task. On top of that, why does the game keep making you produce things out of iron for several hours after you have unlocked steel and, therefore, converted your iron ingot production to steel ingot production? It is an utterly pointless exercise that asks you to regress your capabilities for NO OTHER REASON than the quest line says you must do it to move forward. This is the only game I have EVER played which does this. "Doing it because the game says so" kind of seeps into everything. After you've unlocked all the core machines that let you do the basics, and the only unlocks left are superficial production machines that turn ingots into end-products, my motivation to push on completely evaporated. There is no actual gameplay reason to turn ingots into plates and pipes, or rods and threaded rods, or to cast gears instead of ingots (very annoying objective by the way). This is further illustrated by how some of the products the game makes you sell are in fact profoundly useless. A pure gold threaded rod or industrial gear? Who the hell is buying that? (As a side note, there is also the issue that plain cast iron or cast steel is a pretty bad material to work with, and that we are working the iron and steel [i]cold[/i], but I can accept fudging these steps. I cannot suspend my disbelief for a pure gold threaded rod.) There is only "the quest says so". Every product just gets dumped into an output hopper to be sold. You don't use [i]anything[/i] to build machines - you just buy everything - so there is literally no natural reason at all why I would waste my time dealing with the very annoying footprint of the pipe maker to turn plates into pipes when I can still buy absolutely anything I want.

优化太差了，2000的实体限制太少了。产能提不上去后期一个任务挂机挂几小时纯浪费时间

The game is good, please add achievements.

Great game, you burn through the early game fairly quickly and I have redone the factory more times than I can count due to researching/unlocking new things

THE POLISHERS ARE SO LOUD

wait, what time is it?

It's a great factory mining game. It's got a nice progression with quests and tech to unlock. The constraint of having to build in a mine / cave makes for some interesting builds and satisfying spaghetti. It is early access, and the endgame shows it. It's a lot of grindy produce lots of X, Y, Z stuff. However, don't let that dissuade you. It's got a lot of good gameplay before you get to that point. I had about 14 or so hours before I got there and decided to start a new playthrough on another map.

it is a good chill game