Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure is a blend of Automation and Real Time Strategy for both the die-hard fans of the Automation genre and the Automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorabl...
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure is a blend of Automation and Real Time Strategy for both the die-hard fans of the Automation genre and the Automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Oddsparks is a great entry point into automation games, but with a fresh spin for those who’ve already played thousands of hours in the genre. You’ll design automated workshops and put your Sparks to work in carrying and crafting everything you could need - including more Sparks!
Without conveyor belts, you'll have to manage the Spark traffic to optimize your designs. Use your wide toolbox of options to solve the logistics puzzles you'll face as you tackle distance and elevation.
Take your Sparks for an adventure into procedurally generated worlds! Face unusual enemies like Spunnies and Beelephants as you explore diverse and distinct biomes. Find resources amidst forgotten ruins. Clear up the way to build and connect your workshops. Bring your newfound knowledge home.
Help your cozy village grow, share with, and learn from the folks you’ve grown up with. With this new technology and the secrets of the past, what changes will you spark in the world around you?
FEATURES
Play in single-player or online co-op (Up to 4 players officially supported, uncapped) with a simple host & join system to jump in and out of any friend's game.
Build massive automation & logistics networks to carry your items and Sparks places.
Use an advanced logic system with tools for logistics management, including sensors, wires, gates, actions/events, and switches.
Build a comprehensive elevated Spark train system to overcome the greatest distances and the highest mountains!
Complete quests from your fellow villagers to unlock new buildings for your workshop and watch your village grow.
Construct a base defense system to protect your workshops from waves of corruption with new defense tools.
Explore procedurally generated worlds with diverse and distinct biomes, unusual enemies, and forgotten ruins.
Unlock new customization options for your character to show off your fashion style.
Customize the world settings to tweak challenge levels, unlock automation features, or use terraforming tools.
Designed for both gamepad and mouse & keyboard play.
Designed with an accessible core that's further backed up by accessibility features, such as the ability to rebind both mouse & keyboard and gamepad controls.
But I am a big fan of the pikmin series, and I do enjoy figuring out how to set up factories to generate the materials I need when there is an actual reason to do so beyond simply "Automate this".
Oddsparks has enough exploration and excitement in it to effectively counterbalance what I would normally find to be a boring and grating process of setting up machinery in other games. Plus, the style and aesthetic are just perfect, you really can't go wrong with these cute little critters.
I would reccomend this game if you like satisfactory or factorio, its a cute automation game that uses sprites instead of belts with a little bit of light combat thrown in
My first impression was that it would be heavier on the pikmin and lighter on the factorio. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that actually it is the opposite! The pikmin adventuring gameplay is there but not super heavy, the focus is really on how to build your pikmin factory.
I particularly enjoyed their spin on 'belts'. Rather than belts that you can deposit goods on and they get transported, you build roads on which your sparks (i.e., pikmin) walk around. This results in a whole set of logistics puzzles on how to best move the sparks around, for which you get a range of road elements that mirror standard belt objects like splitters, filters, and so on.
I'm having fun with this game, but it fails at the automation part: Most items and sparks you need for one thing only: Quests. For quests you need anexorbitant amount, and later you will never need them again. Also building automatic transportation across the mountains is very complicated, so for the most part it is best to have a small setup for building materials and for the rest simply carry a few stacks of the materials over via waypoint and then wait until the production is finished.
I do like the exploration part and the spark handling, though!
The tutorial is forced at the begining of the game, but it has an issue, it doesn't explain you how to play, it only forces certain missions on you.
It's your job to look on google or youtube how to actually play in order to finish the tutorial
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