Rogue Factory

The factory part of this Factory/BulletHeaven can easily dwarf the experience in a tedious way. The good: - Unlocking spells is a fun way to encourage experimentation. - The wide variety of spells feels like there's no filler, everything being unique enough to fill its own role. - The characters seem unique enough to encourage different playstyles. - Byproducts encouraging different spells to focus on so you won't settle into Old Reliable. The tedious: - No cut-paste or copy-paste. - Factories can make items faster than the belt can actually pull them out, so your factories can be capped by BELT SPEED even if there's space on the belt. - The cap of 0.3 seconds per craft is... not very obvious. - No mass-recycle. - The random placement of charms encourages tearing up your whole base to redesign the whole thing. Having to click on *every* tile is annoying and tedious at best. - Recyling costing $2 feels redundant. - In the early game (when its price is felt the most) you don't need it. - In the lategame its price is trivial. - Setting a filter is one too many clicks, there's no reason to have a toggle for it. - Just have "no filter" be the default, you don't need the checkbox. - Also don't leave the spells menu when you click confirm on a factory's settings. - If you place something wrong and try to rotate it, you end up just rotating the item in your cursor instead. You can't place that rotated item on top of the one you just placed, so you have to clear your cursor first. - By the time the 5 golden peices start showing up, I have so many projectiles covering the screen it may as well be hidden entirely. The idea has potential but right now it's more fiddly than fun.

This could have been a perfect game but unfortunately the two halves are incredibly shallow. The factory part will not appeal to anyone that likes factory games and the survivor part is completely underbaked. even then it would have been possible to enjoy it even only for the concept but the ui is riddled with issues that take up time and clicks that really aren't required. Its over all a tedious and shallow experience. I sincerely wish it wasn't.

My gambling addict friend said if I post a review on Rogue Factory and it gets 350 likes and 150 Awards that he will buy me a case of beer, some vodka, and bottle of wine.. So I'm just gonna leave this here

I dont say this often but this game is too difficult. I have quite a bit of experience with factory builders. I calculate ratios, figure out combos, get good totems that synergize with my factory. and dispite all of that I have gotten nowhere. done 5 runs, (runs are insanely long as wel) and havent even beaten the first level. closest i got was 16 minutes out of 20. and that was while getting extremely lucky with totems. I would like to see more of this game, more characters, more levels. but I'm giving up on it.

Masterclass that I hope gets expansions. Elements work together/against one another. Totems are game changing. Later levels add more complexity with byproducts. Characters make you uniquely change your factory. I can't stress this enough. I'm DREAMING of these belts. Please, make more (╹ڡ╹ )

great concept but... feels very unpolished

You get about 3-ish hours of gameplay for your $10 here. You can not do what you can imagen you'd be able to do. They released 1.0 in February and said they would patch it and show us results within some weeks. Well, half of the year is gone now and they are radio silent. Game is abandoned.

Restarting blueprints every time a run restarts doesn't feel too good. As well, progression feels too much regards to spells, there's no flow, were at the very beginning just by testing out different belt paths, got through multiple "fire" spell versions. There needs to be a better/little bit more linear path to get these skills. As well a lot of QoL is missing.

Fun hybrid between Halls of Torment and Shapes. Totem chances and the shop mechanic keep each run feeling different than the last, and while I didn't originally love the T-splitters and refund cost, they grew on me quickly and the "inconvenience" of them define what makes it a fun problem-solving puzzle.

I'm a bit conflicted. I love the concept and the visuals, and the combination of a few different concepts is fun and novel but this game isn't finished yet I think. The game has crashed about 4 times on me now, when I get to about 7/20 minutes into the 'survivours' side of the game, and once just randomly during the build phase, after I had done extensive work in the build phase. The build phase is where most of the game is, which is fine by me, but it makes the surviouring side kind of borning if you've kitted yourself out, you just end up just walking/dashing to the portal to get to the next level. In terms of the actual building, while it's fun theres some quality of life improvements needed: - Recycle an area of the facotry, not just a single bit at a time (If this isn't an intended mechanic, then increase the price of recycling / 10 items or something) - An undo button for placing and removing blocks when in build mode - A much more streamlined filtering system, with an easy way to remove filters. applying a filter shouldn't take 3 clicks. Perhaps middle click and scroll through what the machine is able to make, or what it recently made. - Fix the scaling of Rerolling, don't double it but instead make it incremental but scale with the level, eg +2@Lvl.1 , +4@Lvl.2, +7@Lvl.3 etc. - Add a Splitter that goes forward and sideways as opposed to just left and right, this would open up a lot more opportunities - Make special enemies cleaer / drop loot such as a speed up or production boost - Gain items for X amout of enemies killed or other such sub quests - Copy / Paste or Blue Print Feature - I'm not sure if the build area expands later on, but would be good - Bombs are impossible to see, add a white border around them or give them a lit fuze - Number 1 - 4 select conveyor belts, shortcuts for the other components would also be good - There's a map of the recepies on the website, why not include that in the game? - A Pause in the building mode and an ability to hover over created spells to see what they look like would be good. - A preview of what you'll look like would also be good Overall, it's a great concept and I hope it does well but it needs more polish and a few QOL upgrades to join the two concepts better.