currently on sale on steam 20% off. anyone played this? one of those rare “overwhelmingly positive” reviewed games. like factorio but apparently more inspired by stellaris and The Wandering Earth and an indie game developed in the Good China.
the lead developer is named Mao Mao which is based as fuck.
It’s good. It’s all about setting up and balancing different resource and component pipelines and that scales up to multiple factories on a single planet, then on multiple planets, then in multiple systems. It does get a bit overwhelmingly after a point, although more in the hurdles you have to clear to progress getting a bit harder to wrap one’s head around than in having to go back and actively manage old assembly lines.
Yes its pretty amazing.
But your enjoyment will depend on whether you actualy enjoy sandboxes, setting your own goals beyond just getting to a certain point in the tech tree.
But in short yeah, it was a big hit… 2 years ago. They announced the combat update which is pretty hype. Once it hits it may just be one of the best games of the decade easily. But they must make sure it wont kill performance. Anyway you can read the latest blog post.
Would I recommend it? If you enjoy sandboxes, then yes absolutely. If you are the kind of person that absolutely needs hand holding/directions/narrative then maybe pirate it instead then buy it for the updates. If you can’t pirate it then maybe try a pirate copy of Factorio first and see if you enjoy factory games before buying this on steam honestly.
If you want pirate games I’d start on https://cs.rin.ru/forum/
Not to go off topic but in terms of sandboxes Cities Skylines 2 is coming soon, so may consider saving for that instead.
I played it a while back. It got a little overwhelming for me, but some friends really liked it.
hmm. yeah like i really want to love all these central planning/factory games but only workers & resources clicked (because it was grounded in city building/real world), while factorio was too much combat and satisfactory was too 3d.
Just so you know, you can turn off the combat in Factorio (I’m also not a huge fan of it).
Factorio is easily my favorite of the “Big 3” (Factorio, Satisfactory, and Dyson Sphere Program), so I’d recommend playing it with combat off before Dyson Sphere, but in case that doesn’t vibe with you I did enjoy my time with DSP a lot. Seeing the scale come together is the magic of the game and it’s a generally good time. Also has a multiplayer mod that’s quite good if you’ve got fellow comrades to play with.
does turning off combat take away from the progression at all? i know much of the production chain involves making ammo/weapons/etc do you feel it takes anything from it?
and satisfactory would be really cool but i just can’t get a “big picture” mental image of my factories in the 3d space. the towers don’t help. they go off the rails quickly and i say this as someone that used to do all the minecraft factory/pipe mods
It’s a good factory game, if you like those you’ll love this one. Personally I don’t have the patience for these games and usually quit in the first 5 hours or so but up to that point it was pretty fun.
