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Recommended
44.8 hrs last two weeks / 9,524.9 hrs on record (465.8 hrs at review time)
Posted: 21 Aug, 2020 @ 11:37am
Updated: 27 Nov, 2020 @ 10:01am

Early Access Review
This is a simple to play guided sandbox factory game. It also has hints of the effects of Gaia, her gifts to sentient creatures, the beauty of the environment, riches, happiness, accomplishments, and how you could abuse them if you so choose. You're a pioneer sent by a major conglomerate known as FICSIT, you are obligated to explore, research, and produce products at your own pace without deadlines. You are rewarded by completing assignments with better, faster, more diverse equipment and buildings to help accomplish more complicated tasks.

You will learn how to turn rocks, wood, leaves, and a few other natural resources into computers, machines, electronic devices, and transportation vehicles. It's not completely accurate, but it's inspirational ideas that might just spark enlightenment for the player, moments of inspiration that they might use in real life. You will have fun doing whatever you like, and over come various challenges to complete your own goals, and the guided goals already installed into the game.

This is an early access game, with works in progress that will keep you interested in order to spend hundreds of hours having fun and enjoying the game, I highly recommend it, now go build a factory!

EDITED - I've got almost 1K hours playing this game since the beginning of the pandemic, and there have been a few patches which have made the game smoother and better. The fan base is very active on the discussion boards, some great ideas have even been implemented into the game, and the developers have responded to their feedback.
There are over two hundred mods available, so you should be able to "modify" the game to almost anyway you want it, even those that the developers will probably never put into their "gem", the player-base is huge and very active in the community, so why not join us in the fun, begin building a factory, die a few times, and find out what you did wrong on the discussion boards, you're going to be really glad that you did.
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3 Comments
C4pM 10 Apr @ 7:41am 
Haha - that's weird - I only got notification of your reply today, 2.5 years later! Wow - you've clocked nearly 8k hours now - that's insane! (I have about 700hrs). At least I know who to call if stuck, lol - you must know all there is to know about this game now! I'm still being patient, waiting for the final release.

I have been playing Captain of Industry - also a cool title. Have you tried that?
Vegas Doc 17 Sep, 2021 @ 9:53pm 
Yeah, I'm failing at staying away from this game because I have so much stuff to do in it. I say to myself, "Well I'll go work on this building , fix a few things up and make it look better, or I know where a good node for that resource is, I 'll just hop on over there in an explorer, it will be faster that way, and then four hours later.... so on and so on.

It's a very fun game, that's for sure. Thanks for you comment, Happy Pioneering! If you want to take a break, peruse the discussion board to help out other players, it's sort of like playing!
C4pM 17 Sep, 2021 @ 9:33pm 
Good review and a great game! The hardest part for me, is trying to stay away a bit, so as to not burn out before release. I see you're failing at that worse than I am :D