Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Sep 10, 2016

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBiVg2MgDKs First off I really Like factorio and I enjoyed playing Big Pharma. Yes you are going to hear alot about how this is a Factorio clone because the conveyour belts and insterters look alike. Thats about as far as it goes from what I have played. But if Factorio and Big Pharma had a baby I guess this could be what it would sorta look like. So far ive only got a couple hours in, would play more but very sleepy and need some rest. But in my couple of hours of play I have really enjoyed it. It is not super easy which I like. I went broke my first time. I like how you can saturate the market and makes the price go down and how you lose points for research if you keep using the same product. If you enjoy planning out lines and actually make a product to sale then this is a good game for you. Which is how I feel it really differs from Factorio. In Factorio you would create things and only use them to create more things. Here you actually create something to sell. Now of course you will have to create some things in order to combine them with other things to create the finished product but you will have a finished product to sale. Cant wait to unlock the storage upgrades and other high tech upgrades to see how it adds to the game. I put a small video on youtube, not my specialty but couldnt find any others for this game. EDIT: After playing for a while I still see the potential in this game. But I feel the layouts are a bit to small to get anything big going. Would be great if there were crossover/ under conveyour belts but the transporter just takes too much research and does not reach far enough for me anyway. But this being early access maybe they will fix this. I would love to see just a big open area to be able to play in or have it so that the areas you can unlock be connected to the starting area.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 11, 2016

  For a game in Early Access it is doing really well in my mind. The game is based off of factorio, Big Pharma and more and I can say puting those games into one was a really good idea and makes for a really fun game exspecaly if you can't really aford the games its based off of. So far play the game I like how you can retrive the mechinery once you remove it and the genaral game play but I don't like how (well for me) rescherch takes a long time and that the tear 2 products have the same rescherch value as the tear 1 products. This may be a bug or not but my conveyor belts jam up but I think its pretty cool cuz you have to check up on your probuction line. Anyway I really like the game so far and i'd recomend it to you if you like micro management games.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 12, 2016

  Fun game! It's like Factorio except with a marketplace instead of combat. It's a bit limited so far, but what's here feels solid. It seems like the developer has been giving his design choices a lot of thought. I'm looking forward to future updates.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 17, 2016

  This game is pretty fun (yes it looks like a factorio clone, sorta.) but isn't bad. Don't forget this is a EA game, i posted a few bugs which the dev almost immidiatly fixed the same day. The dev also listens to the community for improvements and changes. The game itself is pretty decent, therefor giving a thumbs up. Sure in it's current state it lacks a few things but that's expected from EA. I found this game to be fun to play as is, and worth my money. i have high hopes for this game in the future, especialy with a dev like this. It's a nice and relaxing game to play. (no i did not receive a key or whatever for those wondering.)
• gamedeal user

  Nov 13, 2016

  For an Early Access game, it's in great shape. It's basically a much, much better version of Big Pharma. You'll see people saying it's like Big Pharma + Factorio, and that's true, but it's much closer to Big Pharma than Factorio. The basic layout is identical to Big Pharma: you have some small-ish factories of odd rectangular shapes; you import and export goods at the walls of the factories using special machines; and then inside the factory you route to and from various machines with arms and belts to make products and produce a profit. Like Big Pharma, there's no way for belts to cross each other (like Factorio's underground belts do) so layouts become puzzles. Also like Big Pharma, you buy your equipment on the market (as opposed to making it, like in Factorio) and money is a constant pressure. It greatly improves on Big Pharma in several ways. Selling to market is easier and less annoying. The machines are a bit smaller relative to the factory so you've got more room to ramp up capacity. (And, because the market mechanics are nicer, you have more reason to ramp up capacity). There's much more of a meaningful research progression and research requires actual products rather than money, which makes for more interesting and dense factory designs. Overall -- especially for being early access -- it's a more fun and engaging version of Big Pharma. Looking forward to its evolution.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 4, 2016

  Total lack of meaningful choices. Tech tree insignificant; products undifferentiated; simply a grind. Get factorio instead. If you have factorio, and are looking for things like it, this is not it: there's no depth here.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 20, 2017

  Feels unpolished. Maybe should have stayed in Early Access a bit longer. Tutorial is really bare-boned, I already noticed a lot of lacking things such as I'd like to see processing speed and ratios of each part and I couldn't find them unless they are hidden somewhere. Not being able to adjust import volume is just silly. The sound bugged out, sometimes the machines made noises and sometimes they didn't. I then noticed heavy framedrops randomly and no proper campaign and decided to refund.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 22, 2017

  It currently does not add anyting new to the 'factory manager' genre, rather it feels like a poor blend of Big Pharma and Factorio but missing all the fun parts. To me this game felt like a boring moneygrab. Maybe the future will bring something good, but right now this is not worth it.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 22, 2017

  Let me start off with saying that I really wanted to like this game. It has good potential, but there are some issues that need to be resolved before I'll recomend it. The research system needs to be better explained in the help. The game load and save system has issues: I started a game, saved it, then I was unable to come back to it because it kept loading in sandbox mode. I started another game. The game started on day 30. I started another game and halfway through making plastic bricks, before the bricks were finished, it changed to BB guns, and gave me no research points. I'm always ready to help a developer, but this time I requested a refund. Possibly in the future, I'll come back to it but now I can not recomend it. Sorry.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 23, 2017

  Big pharma + factorio ... but very unpolished. This should be in early access! Tutorial is lacking critical info such as research ... Will refund now. Mayeb purchase it again later when it is better polished.