Automation Empire

This is one of my favourite automation games. it just sucks it stopped updating with a lot of bugs still in the game. and there isnt a lot of content. This guy had gold on his hand but forgot to use it.

Abandonware

There's no tutorial. Starting out is frustrating because the things that are unlocked by default make very little sense. How are you supposed to move resources? The pipes only move things 1 or 3 tiles then you have to use a structure, conveyors can't turn corners, so you end up with this super janky start of putting storage tanks between pipes to move stuff. Then the first research you unlock requires you to put it inside a building, but it doesn't provide any way to move things inside the building? Going to refund this one. Doesn't look like it's ever being updated again either.

Looks like a great game, and feels kinda okay. But at the time I did buy, i was not happy with the price. In book a game without updates not even bug fix or other minor stuff. Should never go over 10 Euros. So I will wait for to go under, and happy buy again. Now normal price is 25. And sale is 12.5 right now, so we are getting closer. Hopes some day soon we can see it to e.g. 8 Euros.

This is a tough one. For me, this game is barely in the recommend category. This game is more of a puzzle than an automation game. You can't actually do anything by hand, so there isn't really a non-automation way. If you like train(ish) gameplay, you will at least somewhat like this game. However, the game is kind of bare bones and it really wastes the players time inconsiderably. While there are 14 scenarios and they get a bit harder each time, it only does so due to the less buildable space. You end up doing the same thing over and over again and becomes rather tedious. Early on, you'll setup your initial factory and then walk away for 20 minutes so you can actually build something else. This game is almost setup as an idle game... Except when you want to do achievements, you get taxed the longer it sits until you just break even - making you play in order to gain more money. The research also is setup in a way that you need to leave it a long time, but eventually it fills up and you have to manually turn it in... It wouldn't be so bad if you could speed up the game, but you can't. You will be forced to wait dozens of minutes before you can complete one more step to finishing the scenario... And there are dozens. You often want to go for the best resource at the end, but you have to unlock a lot of research by turning in specific resources... So you have to build off shoot factories for the research and then basically destroy them afterwards. The placing of buildings feels fine and the indoor/outdoor mechanic is kind of a cool idea - but getting resources in and out of it is the real pain point. You can't pipe anything from between environments, so you have to use mine carts that only hold 4 resources. You have to open doors, but the doors only allow 1 path, blocking 2 others so the placements of buildings becomes a real chore to get right. The longer the track to get it outside, the smaller amount you can transfer out. It is an interesting puzzle the first few times, but becomes annoying the 100th time. If there were blueprints in this game, I feel like it would be a lot more fun... But in reality, it would be taking most of the gameplay away if you did that. The challenge is building in a way at the start where you don't have to tear it down and redo it later in order to save you time in a scenario. The game becomes a bit more fun if you approach it like that. All in all, I have a ton of hours in this game and am going to try to get all the achievements, but each scenario probably takes about 8 to 12 hours to complete, with really only about 2 to 3 hours of actually playing. That is where the ultimate pain point comes down.

Довольно простой симулятор завода. Игра могла быть намного лучше если решить ее проблемы и отполировать. Проблемы игры: 1. Заблокированные вначале такие базовые вещи как конвейеры с поворотами. Это растягивает начальную стадию и нудно. 2. Отсутствие ускорения в игре. Я уходил по своим делам, пока игра сама в себя поиграет и соберем мне нужную сумму денег и очков исследования. 3. Сама система исследования жутко не реалистична. Я понимаю что в прародителе (Factorio) были исследовательские станции, но там хотя-бы были банки разных цветов (что тоже так себе, но все-же), а тут мы тупо исследуем руду, бесконечно зарабатывая на этом очки науки. 4. Странные условности, когда в начале у нас даже нет возможности повернуть трубу с добываемыми ресурсами и мы вынуждены городить систему складов, чтобы донести куда-то ресурсы (без вагонеток). 5. Отсутствие чертежей. Настроил одну линию, теперь будь добр все повторить N-раз. 6. Скорее всего баг. Производители ящиков не работали, пока не работали агрегаты, потребляющие их продукцию, хотя ленты были пустыми. И вообще странная логика работы шаговых конвейеров - они вроде пропускают 1 товар в секунду за 1 секцию, а на деле сильно меньше. 7. Разные мелкие неудобства. Все вместе делает процесс игры душным. – С изометрической 3D-камерой неудобно строить по сетке. – Нельзя отобразить саму сетку, строим на глаз. – Нет окон быстрого доступа. Постоянно тыкаем по вкладкам, это утомляет. – Неудобно строить рельсы для "когтей". – Погрузочные и разгрузочные конвейеры мало отличаются и их постоянно путаешь. Еще они плохо стыкуются с обычными конвейерами. – Нельзя изменить размер уже построенного заводского цеха

Buyers be-aware! This game was abandoned a long long time ago and never finished

good gaem. dont afk tho taxes hit hard

Nettes kleines Spiel leider am Anfang schwer zu durchschauen aber auf längere Sicht schon interessant

This is a decent game. I don't know why people say the devs stopped working on it. While that may be true, the game looks finished so it makes sense on why the devs would stop updating it. It does have nice graphics and a nice puzzle aspect. It would be nice if there was a tutorial so there is that. To me it also seems to be a bit repetitive on the maps and terriain but that's just me. It's pretty simple. If you like this type of game then get it. But I just prefer something not as boring like Factorio and Shapez.