Factory Town

時間を忘れてプレイできる。ゆるい感じの工場系シム。 ただストレスに感じるのは地形の凸凹で輸送の接続に調整がいること。そのへんはもうちょっとファジーでよかった。小さな凹凸は本当にいらない。 列車に関連する技術がたくさんあるが、のんびりプレイするなら海運が強い。80個（パッケージを利用すれば320個）を1ユニットで輸送できるのは強い。

This has become my favorite factory games. The graphics, the chill music and the game play are all fantastic. Game controls are simple but exceed expectation for navigating the map and building. I am really blown away at the level of detail and complexity that a factory can have and you can build your factory almost however you would want to. 10/10!

If you like turning stuff into other stuff, this game will send you into hours of delight. The depth is impressive and the discord is super helpful if you end up with any questions about stuff. Could do with a little more tutorial to show some of the things that the discord showed me, but it is impressively satisfying and a damn good buy if it's your kind of game.

Factory Town is a low poly "Minecraftesque" looking factory/city builder game with a charming urban theme and the kind of deep and rich gameplay that factory builder game fans love. As always the most difficult reviews to write are for the games that come so very close to greatness but fall short by the smallest of margins. Factory Town made me wish that Valve offered a "maybe" option for reviews, but I understand why they don't... pretty much every game on Steam would be a "maybe", and that doesn't do a great job of informing gamers choices. One important note is that even though this is an amateur project, it does seem to be sincerely and genuinely made. I couldn't find any flipped assets, plagiarism or any other kind of insincere actions from the developer, but unfortunately genuine intentions alone are not enough to produce a brilliant PC gaming experience. While one of the factors that fails this for me are the lacklustre retro graphics, they are polished and do look charming, I just feel they could be much better. Many aspects of the game are reasonably well polished. Despite not being in Steam Early Access (where this arguably belongs), the game is missing features and is apparently incomplete. Due to the lack of meaningful progress from the developer, it's unlikely the game will be completed at all, yet the developers reprehensively have their hand out for money for an incomplete game. This is a good reason for gamers to avoid this. On the upside, the game does feature customisable controls and resolution, so at least some of the basic, minimum requirements have been met. Unfortunately there's a number of other technical defects and shortcomings which contribute to the game being difficult to recommend to gamers. The game features lazy low-polygon voxel "Minecraft"-like "art", making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the 1990s. A lot of amateur developers see Minecraft's success and assume it's because it looks bad, not because it had unique and appealing game mechanics, and they try to emulate the success without understanding it. It also happens to be easy, and doesn't need any proper talent in terms of game development/graphic artists etc. That's why reviewers are faced with so many of these terrible games with confrontingly bad graphics. Developers must learn that Minecraft succeeded despite the bad graphics, not because of them. Ultimately the very marginal deciding factors here are the graphics, the somewhat incomplete nature of the game, and the eye watering pricetag for a game that is far from perfect are what tilt me away from giving this a thumbs up. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? Factory Town has the laughable price of $20 USD, for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. For comparison, the $20 asking price for this game could get you games like "Dishonored 2", "Subnautica" or "Mirror's Edge". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this. Unfortunately Steam reviewers aren't presented with a "Maybe" option... if they did, that's what I'd choose. This isn't a completely bad game, but it's also not one of the best. As always, if you read my review and you can overlook the negatives I've called out, or they just aren't important to you, then by all means go ahead and buy this.

Long story short, skip this if you intend to play with a controller. Controller support is atrocious, opaque, and poorly documented. The fact that this is flagged as "full controller support" is really misleading. It's unsurprising really, as this type of game is much better served by m+kb input, but the promise of controller support actually made me buy. What I've played of the game itself looked OK but was very rough/indi and rather fiddly/tedious. There are many entries in the genre, I'd say just play something else.

I bought this game ages ago and just never felt like playing it. Well, got the Flu as a Christmas gift this year, so had some time on my hands and played the heck out of this. It's absolutely incredible, I'm surprised I haven't heard more hype about this game. This game is WAY deeper than I thought it would be, and 34 hours in I'm still trying to work through the campaigns, forget about sandbox. The part of this game I love the most is, there are several ways of moving items around in this game, workers, wagons, caravans, conveyor belts, boats, trains, etc. Late game, I'm still using ALL of them strategically. Normally in games like this you just max conveyor belts and throw them everywhere. While you CAN do that in Factory town, the map is huge and each mode of transportation has pros and cons. So, instead, I end up building small settlements here and there with wagons, conveyors, etc. moving things around locally, then boats and trains shipping bigger batches around the map. Absolutely loving this game. Only real downside of this game so far is that it's a bit of a learning curve. Definitely buckle in and be prepared spending some time learning the mechanics. That said, the tutorial and campaigns do a GREAT job of getting you most of the way there.

This is a great low-pressure, yet complex game. Very much like Factorio only without the threat of alien attack; you can leave this game running and nothing bad happens. The campaign is well-designed, each level building on knowledge from the last, and there's a huge variety of ways to achieve your goals. This isn't so much world-building as factory-building; your villagers won't die from hunger, for instance. It's more about streamlining and automating your production lines to achieve just the right balance of supply and demand. The only thing that has been frustrating is the tutorials: the info provided is pretty sparse, and though the tutorial maps do help a lot (once you realize there are "signs" with additional info!), I've still had to go online to figure out how to do a few basic things, like switch out which items you have in your hotbar.