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Rise of Industry

Game becomes unplayably slow on Linux

It's sad to say, but in 2021 this game is still just as terrible as many of the other reviews have said. There is no variation in the types of trucks, trains, and most of the buildings. Many of the buildings can be upgraded to increase production, but that's basically the extent of it. Aside from the quality of the gameplay, the quality of the game itself is... not great. In two instances, I had not built much at all (30ish minutes into a new game), then suddenly the game was over because I had "destroyed the map with pollution", but the game map was not showing any pollution effect at all. Additionally, the game became slower the more I built, to the point where it was no longer playable. When I would click, the game would finally respond to the click 2-3 seconds later. Frame rate eventually dropped to around 2 frames per second. This is on a machine that can easily handle this game: Nvidia GTX 1080, 32GB ram, 1TB nvme SSD, and an i7 CPU. Before I get to my next point, I want to qualify it by saying that I have been a software engineer for nearly 20 years (C/C++ and assembly languages). The software that I make is in a way, my signature. It shows my coworkers and my employer what they can expect from me, so I feel it's very important to put out quality work. Applying that same principle to this game, I would say this is an unfinished product. The fact that this game becomes slower the more you play to the point of being completely unplayable is a critical bug that should never have gotten past QA. To be fair though, it is obvious to me that a decent amount of effort has been put into this game, but they stopped short of actually making all that work into something worthwhile. Considering this game has the same issues that reviews from three years ago talk about, it seems that the game studio does not care. I would avoid games from this studio; they're likely to take your money and give you a half-finished game. They did it to me, they'll do it to you too.

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