Rocket Valley Tycoon

Rocket Valley Tycoon may be considered a game of trains moving goods between factories, but the only genuine skill and interest is in arranging complex production chains such that the factories adjoin one another and thus allow components to flow without trains. The game looks robust, the art beautifully stylised. However, the game does not intuitively explain its less obvious mechanics, and ultimately tends to leave the player hanging. That is a particular problem in incremental games, which can suddenly appear to demand days of progress to reach the next (exponential) checkpoint: If the player can't see a way round such a roadblock, interest in what is otherwise a fairly simple pattern-solving game fades away. Genuinely poor game balancing adds to those woes, for example: * Details not obvious from the tech tree, but difficult to retrospectively accommodate, such as the F1 Rocket Engine production chain in practice requiring 5 times more Limestone mines than everything else in the chain. * Inconsistent rate of progress, for example Earth suddenly requiring vast sums of cash to build a rocket facility, at a time when the best cash-generating (Gold) chain available earns relatively little (even when in the radius of a high level city). * Variables that a player might want to change as their empire develops, such as city-specific power-ups (Smartex), require far more Tech Points to change than would seem to be gained in a lifetime. * Running the game in the background for hours without actively playing, because income when logged off is a fraction of that when logged in. This review is critical, but hopefully not hostile in the way many Steam negative reviews are. The game is the product of a team that clearly knows how to produce computer games technically, but perhaps does not yet intuitively understand how to make them fun or playable.

This game is great, but the developers are either inept or apathetic to fixing game-breaking bugs. It gets a little repetitive towards the end. On starting over, it's annoying that you have to follow the tutorial. However, when I got the infinite loading screen, that ruined the game. Even worse, it now crashes my computer anytime I try to play it. The developers have known about this bug for a long time and have not fixed it. Very disappointing.

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Its Not BAD.... I just play the Game, I aint a critic

Was looking like a great game, but now won't load, uninstalled, reinstalled, restart.... No luck

Abandonware.

I love this game, it's the perfect idle management game. However, it's super buggy! Eventually it just stopped loading and none of the "fixes" online ended up working :( Super disappointing because I absolute love this game.

Rocket Valley Tycoon is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as a cash grab. While the mobile app features vaguely interesting factory/production gameplay, this is stymied by the mobile app microtransaction cancer infesting the game. As with all mobile apps, there's a dumbed down game interface, and simple, lacklustre iPhone level cartoony art assets. You spend the first part of the game learning how to tap on your iPhone screen, and most importantly, you can't play the game until you learn how to send money to the greedy mobile devs and squeal like a little mobile piggy. While you can choose different game resolutions, this just scales up the low quality, low rest mobile phone art assets. There's no other tweaks to try improve the lacklustre visuals. Despite the mobile app level of shallowness here, the game requires and always on internet connection, ostensibly so you are always connected to their toxic cash shop, but this indicates the mobile devs here may be data harvesting/spying on gamers. Not an acceptable risk that I could present to other gamers, stay safe out there! This isn't free, you're expected to spend exhorbitant amounts of real world money to buy in game currency that "boosts" the numebrs going up. The game is infested with nasty mobile app style microtransaction monetisation as the developers try to gouge/scam PC gamers in the same way mobile devs gouge mobile gamers. This isn't acceptable on PC. If you want an actual, serious factory building game that isn't mobile app cancer, try Factorio.