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• gamedeal user

  Oct 8, 2016

  Don't mind my low number of hours, I have around 9 hours and played around 6 different starts and two starts to decent length (above 100M company value). I'll start this off by saying that the game decently simulates industrial assembly. Most consumer goods(there are a lot, probably upwards of 50) that each take some number of raw input goods, which can themselves be also composed of other input goods. This is fairly interesting and provides a good amount of depth at least in terms of construction. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend the game in its current state despite the thought that has gone into the production side of the game, as it seems the game essentially ends there. There's an economy simulator part of the side with some kind of supply and demand, but it seems like supply and demand does not impact sales whatsoever other than capping the number of goods you can sell/buy a day. Furthermore, the economy for consumer goods can only be filled by the player and the (maximum of four) AI players. This means that assuming that no AI player goes into the same industry as you, you will essentially have a monopoly on your industry of choice and will be able to sell goods at whatever price you will like. The advertising system is unlockable via research(took me a game or two to figure it out), and essentially you spend money to advertise on various platforms in various cities at various levels. Sounds pretty good right? Unfortunately the way it works is that advertising just makes the AI buy your goods at absurd(double) your usual prices. Real example: I was making Silver/Gold Jewellery. I found out that by spending around 50k on advertisement, I could double the price of my goods during the advertisement duration and make more money even after the advertisement costs. This is fine, except for the fact that the INSTANT you end advertisement everything resets to pre-advertisement levels. Now you can abuse the system super hard by stockpiling a ton of high value goods and then starting a large advertisement campaign, which will then allow you to sell those goods for double the usual price until you sell out of goods in a month or two, upon which you just cancel the advertisement campaign and wait for more goods to stack up so you can repeat the process. PROS -Very good manufacturing simulation -Graphics look pretty nice, like Cities Skyline -UI is pleasant to look at. MEH -Some aspects of the game seem redundant, such as warehouses having a storage limit and an upgrade associated with it, but I've never seen my warehouse above 5% capacity. -Audio is decent, but some parts are really annoying (there's this blowing sound in particular that just kills me). -Map settings are pretty vague but you can figure them out with a bit of experimentation. -All city markets are separate, but you have to sell your goods for the same price at every city. -Not sure if this is a bug or whatever, but the "daily limit" on the number of a metal you can mine seems to have no impact, I had an area that only gave 50 silver per day but I was milking it for over 150 with no apparent issues. CONS -Tedious UI, lot of clicking to get to related sections -Missing Information that would be helpful like total sales for an item, total costs for an item, etc. Don't want to pull out a calculator while playing the game but that's just me. -Market simulation needs a lot of work. -Can't seem to find any competition with the AI, it feels like its just me and 4 bots building in separate industries that come together to compare company size once in a while. -Very rare competition due to hard cap 4 opponent AI and huge choice of products. -Advertising is unintuitive and can be easily abused. TL:DR, The game is good on the production side but needs a lot of work, should be early access. The market simulation mechanics in particular need a lot of work.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 6, 2016

  Very Cool game its alot like the Capitalism games if you're old enough to know those. you basicly set up production lanes of stuff you would like to make. its a abit fuzzy at first cause its abit overwhelming what to do. but give it some time (if your a impatient person this is not for you!) when you get the hang of it its a very addictive game!.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 7, 2016

  This is a very nice game. I can see myself playing this for a long time to come. It's sort of like Capitalism II, if you ever played that. You can buy land, make manufacturing chains, research, sell products, buy/sell stock, get loans, compete with other computer players, etc. The reserach tree is pretty nice as well. Not only can you research new products, but you can improve your existing ones along with the maximum production, maximum workers, research lowering costs, etc. There are many upgrades, and products to research/manufacture; I love this part of the game. I do recommend spending about 10 mins watching 1 tutorial when you first start; it saves you a lot of time, and you get the hang of everything fairly easy after that. One tip: on each production and warehouse building you have to tell it to get certain ingredients, or send certain final products to the warehouse. Also from the warehouse you can click on each product, click global market (or whatever it's called), and then sell a certain amount and click 'repeat' to sell a certain amount each day (1st option to sell). The 2nd option to sell (better option) is to click on the construction areas in a city, build a building that lets you sell your products in your own store, and add those products one by one to sell (2nd option; this option automatically sells your products.) The AI (computer players) is the one main area where I'd give a negative right now, but I also know they are working on fixing this as it's in their 'known issues' thread in the forums. As it stands the computer players go bankrupt after a while; they keep it entertaining for a bit, but then they one by one go down. It's still fun to play, but will be much better once they start playing better. Also it'd be cool to see cities develop, but I believe the only thing that changes with them is the population figure, and when corporations build their store in a pre-set area. Outside of the cities though is where all the manufacturing chains are built, and it's a pretty good sized map for you and the computer players to build in. There are random events that happen such as: the bank decides not to lend for a while to anyone, fungus growing on crops causing production to halt, worker strikes, etc. It's a nice touch. Also I just found out in my 2nd game of play that there are random rewards/challenges for example for researching something specific, or producting certain goods. You can also setup winning conditions, 3 map size options, etc. which are nice. This game is extremly fun for me. If you like Business type games with research trees, building upgrades, etc. this is a defnite buy imo. You do have to look at the production trees, etc. to see what is required though for each product, so I wouldn't recommend this for children obviously though (unless you have one of those kids really into these types of games. :)
• gamedeal user

  May 29, 2017

  I'm telling you the premise of this game is awesome. Actual gameplay not so much. I researced everything--that was a long process. When I finally got done researching I tried to develop different products. For example I tried to create a cold vaccine after I set up a flu vaccine. The cold vaccine wouldn't take. Neither would several other products, including silver rings--a not so hard a process. It wouldn't take either. The screen showed the cold vaccine present, as well as the silver ring. It showed no inventory in the warehouse of either. Meanwhile my costs soared because of all the employees I had. As much as I would love to recommend this game, I can't. The game is just broken.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 3, 2017

  I've played this game for a while and would say its worth it. It does have some issues but it is pretty good for a economy simulation. And the devs. keep working on it. Improvements are recognizable. So far if youre looking for a nice little game for some hours Industry Manager: Future Technologies is worth a try. Pro: - Complex - Further development - Versatile - Nice micromanagement - Graphics are ok for this kind of game - Sound is fitting the game but it would be nice to have more different tracks - Price for the game is fine for me because the devs keep working on it Con: - Badly needs an overworked logistical system. I do have way to many unnecessary issues due to lack of intelligent ressource distribution. - You do need a pen and a paper if you're in to micromanagement. If you change sth. you do need to whrite it down which ressources are effected by the change. A tool to compare before and after would be great - It really needs a better overview for your competitors. The further the progress then less youre able to figure out which competitor is selling which goods. - Company overview of ressource management ist also missing. Yet again. The further the progress then more likely youll get lost due to micromanagement
• gamedeal user

  Jun 19, 2017

  Have been playing this game for a few hours and there is no way to balance the budget. First, no matter what you do, there is always more cash leaving than coming in. You can check the demand, produce based on demand, adjust price to off set production costs and allow for a profit, but there is still negative monthly cashflow. 9 products in total, all balanced based on demand, production costs, transport cost, and i even did the math to make a profit on expenses like research, but still negative. Fix this♥♥♥♥♥♥
• gamedeal user

  Oct 8, 2016

  Graphics :8 Sound :8 Simulation:4 Depth :4 AI:4 A polished version of the Cult game Capitalism . Graphics & Sounds are nice however the game doesnt have any depth, this is why it becomes boring after few hrs. unlike Capitalism which i stil enjoy playing. Also AI of Capitalism is more sophisticated compared to this game. I wouldnt reccomend that game
• gamedeal user

  Oct 7, 2016

  A modern version of Capitalism and if you liked that game you will like this one. The graphics are fine for the type of game. This is only for those that like somewhat realistic business sims, but if you do this is a well made one. There are lots of things to make and sell. This will keep me coming back for years like Cap did.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 7, 2016

  Most of the negative reviews are seriously erroneus! Bought it at 6pm, started playing by 7pm cant stop at 1am.... Awesome tech tree / well thought out / everything works for me! Spent 35bar before I started showing a profit.. research research research & development and get the goods to market....and VOILA 28K a day profit. One of my competitors went out of business, LOL. Gonna start again in the morning on hard :) BUT there is undeveloped potential and lots of 'wish they had this' and 'wish it did that' but if you like tycoon economy games and are not too small minded to be satisfied with an evenings worth of solid entertainment thats all you'll get..... You'll enjoy the depth; you can mine or grow simple raw materials, you can produce primary product, you can use that to make components and you can assemble all of that to produce motor cars - AWESOME! WELL WELL WELL 10 hours in I find out the AI competition is not competition at all, it just throws in the towel for no reason at all. there is now no point to the game at all, just start another production line and make some more money and carry on alone on the map. ridiculous and I guess whats worse is the devs dont even respond on steam SO A BIG DONT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THIS PIECE OF JUNK!
• gamedeal user

  Oct 8, 2016

  This title isn't bad. There are a lot of favorable comparisons to Capitalism though and I feel it should be said that this game does not meet the level of depth that Capitalism offers. If you want more streamlined easier to follow game with the same theme as Capitalism this might be a decent choice. This title offers some interesting supply chains but everything else is pretty much decided for you. If you want a much more complete sim of materials and goods production and sale look up Capitalism Lab.