Roody:2d

There's a joy in this game that you don't get from games like Factorio. Factorio is a LOGISTICS simulator, it's about getting ingredients from A to B without tangling conveyors or crashing trains. Roody is an AUTOMATION simulator. You automate stuff, and not just building grabbers and conveyors from A to B. No, you have to design the smelter and the grabber and the conveyor yourself. The game is pretty simple, but the limitation of 2D and not being able to pass blocks through walls means you have to get creative with it. Most materials present unique challenges in how you have to make the factories. I hope the dev keeps updating.

A weird and wonderful game. A mixture of Modded Minecraft, a dash of Terraria, and assorted machine building games. Went into it expecting complication and ended up pleasantly surprised with its simplicity and depth and having a lot of fun just trying to build weird things and accomplish goals. Highly recommend.

Truly a fun automation game, a real hidden gem. Played a lot of the free demo from an Itchy place, so my hours presented are not accurate. If you enjoy automation type games paired with Terraria-lite gameplay, this game is for you.

This game is super cool for the price. Playing it is really fun, and simple platforming makes speedrunning easy. Plus, modding is really easy, including custom researches, blocks (I think), and recipes. Definitely would recommend this game to anyone. Updated review :) No block modding yet, but a ton of potential with the expanding current variety of blocks. Still reccomend.

Couple bugs but loving the game. It scratches the engineer itch.

a really neat 2D contraption maker

[NB. my playtime is ~20 hours on the pre-Steam version] This is one of the most interesting and unique games ever made. It's basically a 2D factory game where your resources are infinite, but it's up to you to automate their extraction, and production. You're encouraged to try and design complex contraptions with moving belts, pistons, light beams, magnets etc., to automate more and more difficult tasks. There's incredible depth here, but it comes with one frustration: it's really hard to guess in which order and direction the physics engine will apply forces, so intuition or a real understanding of physics is not enough to design many types of contraption - you need to rote learn *exactly* how the physics engine behaves.

I have to say that the game itself is worth a buy. Big probs for having sort in inventory. Thus far i haven't noticed any problems or bugs. The way you craft items is quite unique. At least i haven't seen this method used anywhere else. Its like if you would put all the resources on top of crafting table from Minecraft and when you use redstone to power the crafting table you get the item. 6 planks and you get door. So far my largest craft has been 6(?) items. Cant wait to see how complicated it might get later on. Does the game have chests? Would love to have one earlier in the game if they are in.