Rise of Industry is a strategic tycoon game that puts you in the shoes of an early 20th-century industrialist. Build and manage your growing empire in a living, breathing, and procedurally generated world that is constantly evolving and adapting to your playstyle.
As a budding entreprene...
Rise of Industry is a strategic tycoon game that puts you in the shoes of an early 20th-century industrialist. Build and manage your growing empire in a living, breathing, and procedurally generated world that is constantly evolving and adapting to your playstyle.
As a budding entrepreneur, you will build factories, construct efficient transport lines, move raw materials, produce finished goods, and arrange trade with the world's developing cities, providing them with the resources they need to flourish - for as they grow and prosper, so do you.
Designed with an eye towards both accessibility and depth, Rise of Industry has enough strategic complexity and replayability to satisfy the most experienced fans of the genre, while its simple-to-understand mechanics ensure that new players will love it as well.
Experience tailored for every player - Specialise in just trading, production, gathering or any combination and research your way to bigger and better things.
Use PR & Marketing to gain favour (or repair damage) with your business partners.
Choose from over 100 individual products and manage the manufacturing process from harvesting raw materials all the way to delivering the end product to local stores & townspeople
Build and manage a solid transportation network to enable the efficient transfer of goods via plentiful trucks, speedy trains and high capacity airships.
Be prepared for fierce competition – Advanced town and city A.I., make for an intelligent and changing game world so you won’t be the only one looking for the best deal.
Town personalities – adapt a suitable approach for every town or face their economic backlash.
Huge, procedurally generated maps mean that you’ll always have room to expand your empire into whether in testing scenarios or sandbox mode where imagination is your only limit.
Be quick to adapt to the current business climate with contracts and random events keeping you on your toes and cash flowing in.
Balance environmental impact with productivity, trying to meet your neighbouring town's demands.
It's a fun game that gets extremely tedious the longer you play. You have almost no control over your logistics other than "this goes from here to there". No way to sort by resource or destinations or anything. The windows are tiny and you have to scroll for forever to eventually find that one trade route you were looking for.
It's not unfixable but for me the game still needs more work to be truly enjoyable.
Very fun for the first few hours, when you only have a few trade routes to manage.
There's virtually no challenge, but everything in the game takes a long time. It takes forever for towns to grow, it takes a long time to research new stuff, and while you're spending that time fiddling with supply chains, you're constantly being interrupted by pointless optional task popups.
There's also virtually no challenge in the game, certainly none from the entirely inconsequential AI opponents.
But sure, good for one playthrough.
The aesthetics were attractive enough and the promised depth of strategic options were intriguing enough for me to get the game on Steam shortly after its release. I got about 60 hours of occasionally enjoyable and engaging game play before I moved on and never went back. My enduring impression is that this is the rail shooter of transportation and business simulations, short on options, short on choices and more disappointing than engaging. If you're looking for something to scratch your Transport Tycoon itch and don't need screensaver cute graphics, Industry Giant 2 is a better choice
ROI just doesn't work because the UI is so bad.trying to find information to base your decisions on is clunky. clicking on anything opens windows in random (and overlapping) places on screen. the only way to close them is to click on the small X. no hotkey or right click on the map. so you just spend your time managing the UI instead of the economy.
I've played it for 10 hours which is more than a fair shot and my conclusion is to recommend Voxel Tycoon instead which is 10 bucks cheaper, way more fun and it still gets updates since it's still in early access.
This game lacks depth, and while the interfaces feel stylistic and polished, they fundamentally obscure the information that is useful to the player to meet their objectives.
The tutorial assistant in game is welcome, but could/should have been made context sensitive. I'm less interested in dynamic events when I'm trying to figure out why Warehouse 1 is suddenly completely full of wheat. A simple display of goods coming in and out and at what rates is sadly missing - and are often displayed in obfuscate ways without added information.
