Factory Town

The idea of automation is just as addictive as factorio. Until the obvious glares back at you. And thats the headache that is the logistic system. Its way easier than Timberborn, but more confusing in the fact, that its not as straight forward as factorio. I enjoyed the game far more for its relaxing music and gameplay. But it can barely hold a candle to the factorio game, because of how obtuse and confusing it makes it seem to do just about anything. You got the factory portion but with a clunky pickup/delivery system. This game just seems to go out of its way to make it more confusing to automate than the other automation games out there. Still, i enjoyed it for a good hour-2hrs before i got too annoyed and went back to playing rimworld/factorio with a absurd amount of mods for complexity because... its more straight forward. Anyway heres a quick list of pro's/con's. Pros: - Extremely complex (Might say its more confusing than competitor sim games) - Once you figure out layouts it becomes a less grueling experience - Music is super chill - Overall gameplay is fun/relaxing Cons: - Overwhelmingly confusing (doesn't make it seem straight forward, the tutorial seems to be very hard to follow along with, more than say, eve online tutorials) - You can't seem to have your villagers/workers actually go through transportation belts, leads to lots of logistic failures/headaches.

Great game to just relax with

great game, keeeps you on your toes to keep town groing.

Seems fine enough for a budget factory game. There are much better options out there, though. If you are considering this and haven't played Factorio yet, get that instead.

I'm not going to sugar coat this by listing the stuff this game does right. I'm going to, instead, talk about a few annoying points that sorely need imrpovement. - Faster production: Somehow even with fully staffed (and fully boosted) buildings production just doesn't go much faster than a snail. This is aggravating on buildings like the medicine hut and the pasture and the kitchen. I can't get items done fast enough and there never is enough citizens available to just double the production with a second building. - Higher tier research books require too much: I really can't see the logic behind me needing to make half a map worth of harvesters and refineries making random items solely dedicated to crafting a single book, I put up with that for longer than I should have. Just make higher tier books require higher amounts of the tier 1 materials (leather, paper, etc...) instead of ten random items I could be selling for coins and to keep happiness high. Those are my biggest complains, I could go on and on about other things but the review has a limit on how much I can write. It is an enjoyable game but it get needlessly complicated.