River Town Factory

最大的问题就是度量衡不统一，买资源的时候是一天多少，但是用资源的时候是每秒多少，这就导致我没办法精确计算每个进货箱放多少东西 如果你玩过其他的自动化游戏，这个转换下心情，没有问题。 如果你没有玩过那幸福工厂、异星工场、戴森球的话，那么推荐你玩那些

I really want to like this. But the combat isn't fun, and the rest of the game is gated behind it and finding all the places to train combat and remembering to go certain places at certain times to train it. In the end, it's just not worth the headache.

Not recommended for Deck users: Using proton compatibility I had to either accept there being no visible cursor or having the game crash when trying to complete a quest.

比续作江城大赢家游戏内容多一些，但是比起爽快感还是大赢家略胜一筹，这一作升级需要的材料还是太多了，太拖沓了。希望第三作能结合他们二者的优点吧。

[h2]前言[/h2] 作为一名沉迷种田建设游戏的经营模拟game糕手，江城创业记成功用男主穿越古代搞自动化这个设定把我拿捏了。像素风画面搭配开放世界探索，刚开始玩确实让人上头，毕竟谁不想在古代用流水线降维打击，学学武功的同时顺便搞一搞科研呢？ [h2]游戏剧情和玩法[/h2] 本作最吸引我的是自动化生产线的搭建。从伐木到织布，一步步设计传送带、分配产能，看着原料变成成品，确实很有成就感。但爽感的背后则是巨量的重复操作：传送带每节都要玩家手动调方向，以至于后期产能扩张时，布局一改就是几小时的调整，极其折磨。虽然后期有蓝图能让我们抄作业减轻负担，但缺材料时我们照样得当手工仙人。 本作玩法上缝得挺多，包含了星露谷的日历节日、戴森球式的产线、还有武侠功法可以修炼。可惜很多系统深度不足，例如季节变化影响小，节日一忙就错过事件；主角武功练高了却没啥怪可打，纯属是把主角数值养成；在大地图探索时玩家偶尔会被诡异的碰撞体积搞得心烦。另外战斗手感也比较微妙，靠卡位才能无伤，缺乏挑战性。 但不得不夸的地方是NPC剧情是真的顶！每个角色都塑造的有血有肉，可以送礼互动。每一条感情线甚至婚后日常都很有意思。我本来冲着工业革命来的，结果却沉迷攻略全村俊男靓女，连夜安装后宫MOD……制作组在人物塑造上确实用心了。 [h2]总结[/h2] 总的来说，如果你能忍受前期学习成本和后期重复铺线，并且喜欢慢节奏的种田+剧情体验，那这款游戏绝对值得一试。但如果你追求极致流畅的自动化体验或硬核战斗，可能会被一些粗糙的设计劝退。作为国产缝合之作，它有自己的魅力，但有些地方确实还需要进一步打磨。 [quote]欢迎关注 [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45531068/]黑白测评[/url] [hr]黑夜显真 白昼辨伪

有这游戏还有星露谷啥事啊，滚一边去把好吃懒做的星露谷居民，其实我早就是乾人了。

I came into this game with no expectations after having been bummed out by another Factorio + Stardew genre fusion. I left with nearly double the play hours that I expected and had a way more satisfying experience than I thought I would have. [h1]Art[/h1] The game looks rather dated for a pixel art game made in 2024. However, that's only if you're looking at still screenshots of the game. The sprites for these pixels are super lively and while some NPC's use a pretty generic bounce up and down motion, it becomes part of the charm later on. The animations and key frames aren't perfect, but they don't have to be. They all play into the atmosphere the game provides really well. More than anything though, I'm more impressed by the set pieces than I am the character sprites. The set pieces are incredibly well crafted and the machines actually look like machines. [h1]Factory Gameplay[/h1] The factory side of the game is what you would expect from a factory game: you get raw resources, put them on a conveyor belt, send them to various machines to change them into something else, and continue the process until they're ready for shipping. This game does very little to change up the formula and that's fine. I prefer it that way. However, something I was pleasantly surprised by was that the rawest resources aren't mined. Instead, you buy rights from mines, farms, tree choppers, and quarries. They ship them to your base at the start of each day. From there, you use supplier boxes to determine where the raw resources go, and they function as the start of your production chains. This is a pleasant change because number one, it means you won't ever run your resource nodes dry. Number two, it means you have to plan how many resources each supply box gets, thus, having full control of your bottlenecks. Number three, it rewards you for knowing your factory numbers better. I do think one thing the factory gameplay messed up on was the research system. You get research points for putting in certain combinations of items into the research machine, kinda just like any other factory game. However, this takes time to process points for with each pair of items you throw into it. Instead, you can put those items into your inventory, travel to the research temple, and directly convert the items into research points there. The conversion is instant and there seems to be no efficiency loss, too, meaning there's every bit of incentive to use the conversion machine rather than the automated one. What they probably should have done with the automated one is provide 2 research per pair instead of the 1 that you get through the conversion machine. [h1]Town Gameplay[/h1] Way more pleasant than I expected. The NPC's certainly have personalities of their own. Some come off as very hostile to you, unafraid of hurting your feelings at all. But over time, they warm up to you if you allow them to. What amuses me though is that you're sometimes given options at certain friendship levels to either befriend them or remain frenemies with them. This is something you seldom see in life sim games. And seeing that here is very amusing, especially if you're familiar with Chinese Wuxia stories. The other interesting thing is that the some of the NPC's actually have a purpose in both their functions in town as well as the story. They're not just random marriage candidates for you to court because their pixels jiggle at you enticingly. This is one aspect that many life sims get wrong. River Town Factory does get it right. Unfortunately, the number of lines the NPC's have don't have much variation. However, this is an ongoing issue with most life sim games. At the very least, their dialogue remains in character and they're not just always making small talk. [h1]Combat Gameplay[/h1] Yup, there's combat in this game. And it's the type of combat you would expect out of any life-sim, which is hack-n-slash. You run up to enemies, you smack them with your sword, and you tank their damage. That said, I think the combat in this game is handled very well. The combat allows you to equip a special move, often costing MP, and it lets you do things like shoot laser swords. The type of special move you can equip depends on what you've learned through Martial Arts books and scrolls. You don't get mega punished for face tanking. In fact, it's encouraged because that's how you level up one of your stats. The scaling is a bit all over the place at times and the special cooldowns are a little longer than needed, especially since they cost MP already. However, the fights rarely overstay their welcome if you've done your part of the combat training. Here, I'm wondering, "So what does this have to do with factory building?" Well, fear not! There's also a Tower Defense aspect. This is where it combines the factory bit with your Wuxia fighting techniques. The factory produces ammo, gets belted by your conveyors into the towers, and they shoot arrows or cannon balls at oncoming waves of enemies. All while you're on the front lines shooting your laser swords at the hordes of enemies coming your way, too. [h1]Gameplay Progression[/h1] Progression comes in various forms for the game. There's the research system, which is what your typical factory game has (ie get enough Research Points and then unlock stuff with it). There's a few town major quest objectives to complete before continuing forward. And there's a temple with various objective nodes to complete. This is what I'll be talking about more since you're probably familiar with the other two. Most of these stages have 5 or so objectives to complete and you can complete them in any order. These unlock stuff that your research tree doesn't. And I swear, these progression nodes are probably reading my mind. As I'm playing the game, I'm thinking to myself, "This town is huge, would be nice if there was a quicker way to travel around town." Bam, a progression node to let you teleport to various parts of town. "Man, it sure would be nice to have a way to mass deconstruct my factories", bam, a research node to let you mass deconstruct. "Man, it sure would be nice to have blueprints to stamp down," you've guessed it, blueprints ahoy. "I want more land", game goes it's time to buy more land. Needless to say, the temple progression nodes are all very satisfying to complete because of the rewards. [h1]Controls[/h1] Sadly, this is where I need to dock points. The controls are rather clunky and some of the decisions behind them aren't things I'm very fond about. Rotating belts is my number one complaint about the game. Instead of rotating belt directions in a clockwise or counter-clockwise fashion, it goes between left, right, up, down. And it's hard to remember which follows which even after 70-ish hours of playing. I do wish the light step (the burst dash move) would allow you to just hold down the button rather than constantly spam the key, too. Especially at the beginning of the game where the dash distance is very short. Having this as a toggle would have been the ideal. There's control rebinds, but not everything can be rebinded sadly. I find this unfortunate because there's some keybinds that I'm used to from other factory games, but this one has them quite different. Some hotkeys are hard-coded in and maintained. These control issues are not game breaking, but it does slow down how fast I can build and it remains a constant struggle even after a long time playing. [h1]Overall[/h1] Overall, if you're looking for a Factorio + Stardew experience and getting the most out of it, while having a bit of a Wuxia side dish, this is the game for you. The factory aspect is great, the townies are fun to interact with, and progression always feels ultra rewarding. The controls are a bit clunky, but it's not enough to change the review from a very positive one to a negative one. For a $15 price point, this game is definitely worth the money.