Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure

game was fun, but the "forced" placement of too many buildings forces you to really span a lot of the map, but resources you really need get harder to bring together, and things burn wood faster than a fat guy thru cheetos. Everything that can burn fuel, takes a lo fuel very fast, even when not actually smelting items. All renewable fuels come from trees in one way or another as far as i can tell, (maybe you can greenhouse automate fire shrooms? idk, would still require fertilizer, from tree leaves soo...) If i were going to polish this game, i would decrease the cost of making sparks by like half, decrease fuel burn rate by at LEAST half, and decrease quest costs by like 3/4's, especially the stupid quests where you need to make sparks that you can ONLY make at the shrines, instead of your own buildings. Make buildings that require advanced monster parts cheaper, (or make the monsters drop like 2-3 times the mats) AND GET RID OF FUEL FOR WAYPOINTS, they already require quest progress to unlock, stop with everything burning more fuel than american power plants. I know many of these settings can be adjusted, but make these listed adjustments above disables achievements. It's not a terrible game by any means, but if you want a good automation game, this isn't it. far too much that you will be manually hauling all over the place, unless you spend a lot of time with the clunky trains.

Outstanding factory-buildinbg game with a great spin on the genre, awesome UX and progression systems. Only downside I can think of is that the endgame can quickly become a slog, the quest requirements raising substantially.

既不冒险也不自动化，树苗物流速度太慢了，运输机制基本告别远距离运送材料

I got this game just before having my gallbladder removed, and it's so cute I hardly noticed any surgery pain (or anything else). Great on the PC and the SteamDeck, it's cute, fun, has a nice story, reasonable quests, and lovely factory elements, including automation. I highly recommend this game. I had several runs of trains and didn't experience any issues getting items, including fuel, around the map.

This is sooooo cool! It's like Factorio but less complicated and you can play with your controller. I also like the quests, it always gives you a next goal. I also like to throw my minions.

Pretty cool game in concept. Unfortunately it tries to do 3 things (combat, exploration and automation), the 3 are disjointed and slow each other down, rather than supplementing each other. [list] [*] Automation is its own content island whose only connection to other 2 areas are the quests that unlock interacting with something in the world (you can see that thing. It literally tells you to complete a quest to interact). By the way, automation is identical to any other game, except it's not as deep as some AND you need to craft units for the "conveyor" to work. [*] Combat is heavily discouraged (especially early on because units die in one hit and even with full automation take ages to replace). You do need some combat for materials. [*] Exploration is kind of terrible. You can find resources that you can't mine and crafting stations you can't use. Everything is gated behind quests. [/list] I swear, I've doing grind for various junk for 8 hours and the only thing that has changed since 1st hour is that I have access to more stations now. I can't fight stronger monsters. The new area I got access too just continues the same loop. I was initially excited as I got access to units that do certain tasks better, but it doesn't actually change anything. You literally just product stuff a little faster and still take longer because production chain is longer and quests require higher quantities. least not in the initial 8 hours). UI and bindings are surprisingly clunky considering the game wants you to automate EVERYTHING. I won't get into it, but I'll spoil one of them. There are 3 modes of "building": One for moving stations and deleting them, one for placing them and one for placing roads (which do not include road markers that control how units use the roads). [b]Is it bad? No.[/b] BUT it costs the same as the best dedicated automation games and it doesn't hold a candle to them. There are also a few combat oriented picmin style games (off the top of my head [b]The Wild at Heart[/b] and [b]Masters of Anima[/b] that have far better combat/exploration experience.

Excellent game especially with a friend. Game is pretty simple but can be built upon with logic, however even at its most complex I wouldn't say the game is complicated. I feel like the concept of this game is an automation game that can be played with a child as a parent to explain concepts like logic. The game is packaged with a low stakes combat system, bright colors, and fun characters. I just beat the game and have no desire to play more, but the game felt complete and with live service games flooding the market it's nice to just complete a game now and again. Sad to see only 1.5% of players with the completion achievement, certainly worth the challenge. I see a lot of strange reviews addressing UX issues, or inability to automate certain resources. I never once had an issue with the UX, and every resource can be automated if enough effort is spent creating a system. With that said I don't believe the automations required a great deal of thought and could be approached by anyone. Overall fun game with a friend to blow off steam after work, or maybe a good game to play with your child if they have an interest in this kind of game.

First hour is fun, but the game quickly makes itself unfun via fetch quests, etc. I'm still going to finish this because I paid for it, but man. Don't buy. Bought it because it was cute and on sale. I'm tired of transgender crap being forced down my throat when I want to play games. Do not buy.