Boppio

Wow. i thought people just didn't give the game a chance before making a review. But that's not it at all. The game is simply not finished at all. The first thing that happened after i started it up, was i tried to move around, and everything was just lagging all over. So i tested my fps, and they were 60, so the game is just really laggy and clunky. After that i got some automation going, and everything was really slow. It turns out it was slow because it only stacks 8 ingots, and then stops. So i connected it to my Habitat that has a storage indicator, but that didn't work. For whatever reason it didn't want to autostore ingots. Also whenever you press any building, it selects and wants you to build tubes. If you then go to any menu it will build the tubes wherever your mouse is hovering. It doesn't matter how many windows are on top. So after placing 50+ tube-connectors all over the base, i fiddled around for some more moments before making the choice to return the game. From what i have seen, i personally don't think this game has a place next to Factorio or Satisfactory.

Look, this game has potential. But it does feel very much like knockoff of a lot of other games. I'm definitely afraid that since this is "released" the person making it got bored and is just going to stop developing it. It is NOT a finished game, not even close. It's in alpha at best. I'm going to keep it because it has potential, but the smell of abandonware is STRONG.

*Update March 4th, 2022* I've reported many bugs since but no indication the dev works on anything related to the game. In fact, he seems to be doing and streaming about anything but the game's development. I now strongly advise against buying this game. Original review below: ---------- Promising factorio-lite game I enjoyed up until the last tech tier were the game just broke. I'm unable to progress further. Version 1.0.0. Many say it has potential but I have yet to see how the single developer fixes bugs. Until then, it is a wildcard. I liked the idea of the simplified material transfer via tubes and automatic routing. Unfortunately, the larger the factory grows it becomes less and less efficient at selecting routes. For example, I have a building producing rubber, full, next to a building that is starving for rubber, yet the latter requests rubber across the map. The idea of three sub-maps is also nice, but it took me hours to recognize there is a building to travel to the second map which has unique resources needed for progression. I'm yet to figure out how to travel to the third map, given that the related buildings and tech are bugged in the release version. I can't say much about the music and audio; I reduced their volume to half which essentially muted them. I had to lower the visual quality to low across as it barely run 30 fps on my underpowered laptop. It looks acceptable but has no apparent vsync option and got quite a lot of screen tearing. I recommend waiting for major patches.

Not a bad alpha demo, but certainly not a complete game yet. I would say it should still be in Early Access for quite a while yet. Most people would be dissapointed with this as a completed game. A similar idea to Factorio but no where near as complete or featured as Factorio. I don't recommend this as a completed game at the current time. If it were still EA I might give it a thumbs up as it has some potential.

Abandonware

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many bugs, and honestly the game doesn't really have much of a point -- it's just a grind up a tech tree. Not even a flimsy story to make you care. Do not recommend.

The game seems to have been released in a alpha quality state and abandoned despites given promises by the developer

Basically a simplified Factorio with a few of its own little things thrown in. In principle not a bad game since having something less complicated is definitely valid. However, it's simply not a release quality product. To many issues and crashes. The further you get along, the worse it gets. It didn't help that I had to be on the beta branch because the main one had game breaking bugs that blocked progression. I was trying to get at least the full tech tree (assuming there is only one) done, but the crashes became too problematic. It's definitely a game to keep an eye on if you want something not too complicated, but after it's had some time to mature.

The game haven't got any updates from 2022-01 and it's most of it are bugged... And it's not that fun as For Example "Factorio" so, don't buy

ABANDONED creator WAS helpful until the 1.0 release. Then they ran at top speed away from this.