Roody:2d

Excellent and devious automation game, where your enemy is space constraints and placement more than throughput. The most direct comparison is a sandbox Infinifactory, where instead of solving specific puzzles you're building contraptions to do tedious tasks for you. Some minor readability issues (sprites blend together a bit in your inventory) and could use more detail in its block info, but still absolutely worth picking up for the engineer inside you. Really glad my friend pointed me towards this game, deserves more attention!

Hidden Gem!

Absolutely enthralling so far. If automation games are your thing, this is a no-brainer: buy it now. The only real downside as of the time of writing is the performance. 23 FPS is crazy low (@4k resolution) considering the 8-bit graphical fidelity, so it's clearly in need of some optimisation. That said, this is not a twitch game, and frame rate is not crucial; the place you notice this is when moving around as the game just doesn't keep up. After the tutorials you're dropped in to the game not quite knowing what to do next, so you slowly begin to work through the tech tree and that essentially drives what you need to figure out next. I feel like the systems have all been seen before but never all together in this format. There's clearly also a lot of scope for the developer to add more and more cunning blocks over time. So far, the only mods I can see are for adding localisation, but if mods become supported, there's no telling where people could take this engine.