Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Oct 22, 2021

  I bought this game when it first came out in early access. It has been a superb game to play. During early access there has been loads of updates. Some are minor and some are major, but every single one of them has improved the game for the better. Some of the major changes have completely changed the way the game runs, but every single one of them improves the overall game. The community here for this game is very helpful as well. I have at times had questions or was struggling on a particular part of the game and there are plenty of other players who offer advice and/or information. A lot of the time Erik (Developer) answers the questions. He is very involved on the community and the Discord. This is a family friendly game that everybody should easily be able to play.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 18, 2021

  For those of you who like the factory-building aspect of factory games, but aren't so interested in the tower-defense or combat components, Factory Town is for you. There are no enemies and plenty of resources to get you started. Not too far into the game, all resources are renewable. If you decide that you don't like how you've laid our your town, buildings and paths (and even most resources) can easily be moved around. The cute low-poly graphics belie the depth of the game. There are roughly 3 major types of transport (worker units, belts/pipes, rails) that are all good at different types of things. Building road access to buildings actually matters, so your town will look like a functional town and not just a mess of buildings wrapped up in spaghetti. There is a pretty powerful logic and control system for transport behavior that lets you add some additional intelligence to your transportation systems. There are various productivity boosts that can be applied to buildings and workers later in the game, at the cost of some late-game products. Town center bonuses encourage you to separate production into specialized zones that exchange goods with each other. The game is properly 3-dimensional, meaning that you can build your town vertically rather than horizontally, if you so choose. The dev is incredibly responsive to player feedback, and communicates with the community often. Balance and UI/UX concerns raised by the players are taken very seriously. Bugs are typically fixed within a couple of days of being reported. Suggestions that the dev likes are acknowledged even if they're not able to be implemented right away. This is a good game, and it will continue to be a good game. As a bonus for all you penguins out there, the game runs on Proton so well that you can't tell that it's not Linux native.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 18, 2021

  This is a tough review. Basically, I could say this game works well, it does what it says it does, and I enjoy playing it. I have had lots of fun tying my little village together. All of that is true, but there are just a couple of things that keep me from jumping up and down and yelling that you have to buy this game. First, the UI/UX is fairly bad. It doesn't overwhelm or ruin the game, but the controls and interface should be completely reworked. Second, I wish there was something that urged me forward, or challenged me. I don't want an army to reave through my village and wreck everything. That would truly suck. But, what if I had to erect walls to keep out masses of undead, or something, and every time I wanted to expand I had to mount a medium-sized military campaign. I don't know that I would ask the dev to add exactly that thing to the game, but I have always felt that there is some deeply video game-y feature that is simply missing from FacTown. Third, you can do stuff that, to my mind, you just shouldn't be allowed to do. You can build super-long bridgespans with no supports. You can stack buildings literally on top of other buildings. A few more constraints might make the game more fun and challenging. OK, some stuff I don't like, but let's not lose sight of the picture. If you want to build a wonky town that requires tons of logistics and supply management, this is a solid and cute little game. If you want a different spin on the Factorio mold, this is probably for you. Despite its shortcomings, I'm not hesitant to give it a recommendation.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 18, 2021

  I counted and at the time of writing this I have over one-thousand, one-hundred, twenty-seven hours between every factory game I've played. So it means something when I say that Factory Town is my personal favorite and in my opinion the best one currently available. The game gives a large number of viable logistics options, you can build as small or as big and as clean or as complicated as you want, and it has some of the most powerful building tools of any game I've played and easily the most powerful of any game operating in a true 3D space. There are a lot of understandable complaints about the UI though, as while powerful it is missing a few features (e.g. a layer view) and is not always well tutorialized. For instance, you can use column select (or tile select with tab for a 3D cube) to select a section of factory that can then be freely moved (with m) or copied (with ctrl+c).
• gamedeal user

  Jan 20, 2022

  I've heard people (including my best friend) say "Why not just play Factorio?" My main reason was that I just liked the chill vibes of this game. I've learned I'm not very good at designing systems, but this game is like "That's okay, buddy. Take your time. There's nothing trying to kill you. If you mess up, just delete it and I'll give you the resources back." Very forgiving game. Biggest complaint is the "education" system point system in the game. I hope you're ready to produce millions of books. I felt like every level was a struggle to get the tech's I needed unlocked... Took me close to 70hrs to complete the campaign mode and get the 100%, so there's plenty of game here. Honestly, even completing the campaign only scratches the surface of the "end game" buildings and tech. For me though...I just don't have any interest in designing a factory for the sake of seeing my numbers get bigger and bigger and bigger.. But maybe that is your thing?
• gamedeal user

  May 20, 2022

  It's a great automation game - let me give you some advice. Do yourself a favour, once you've completed the first few campaign levels, leave the campaign and play a big sandbox. The Campaign is clearly based on early access players playing one new level every time there's an update meaning every level is basically the same as the one before it but at the end there's an extra layer of complexity as new features are added. What do I mean? The levels play like this: Level 1 Level 2: do everything you just did in level 1 with a bit more at the end. Level 3: do everything you did in level 1 and 2 in the same order but with a bit more at the end. This goes on for seven levels, meaning you basically play level 1 seven times, level 2 six times and so on... So don't do that. Play the first few levels to get the hang of it then jump to a full sandbox, it's much less repetition and more fun.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 21, 2022

  At first, I wasn't having any fun. There's a pretty steep learning curve, a lot of "wrong" way of doing things (but not in the same way that a lot of strategy/sim games have right/wrong strategies), And then I watched a tutorial (okay the first 15 seconds of a tutorial) and it reminded me that once-upon-a-time we all learned Banished and then I remember that the FUN of a game is sometimes just in the learning. When I stopped worrying that I wasn't doing things "right" and started playing to learn and discover, I started having so much fun! Now I'm totally hooked. I still have no idea what I'm doing but hey, I made one chain that was about 5 parts long so I think I'm getting better!
• gamedeal user

  Aug 13, 2022

  I see that a lot of the reviews seem to find the game to be a simpler, more relaxing, easier to get into alternative to Factorio thanks to the lack of time or enemy induced pressure and simpler behaviour of belts and relative autonomy of workers and vehicles. But under the cheerful and simple looks hides a level of depth (and raw complexity) that only compares to the most advanced and complex Factorio mods. Yes you can take it slow and steady and just do the minimum needed and you'll easily "win" (as in advance in tech and fulfill objectives) in a way the pressure of biters in Factorio will prevent you, but making full use of all available mechanics to maximise your production speeds and efficiency is on a whole other level (think launching one rocket in Factorio vs building a base for maximum launchs per time) It's not just a matter having a good, easily retrofitted factory layout, enough mines and then just slapping in a few tech cards and upgrading your belts and inserters as you go until it is maximally productive, with the rail network design being the hardest to optimize. Here you have to take into account your factories being able to achieve exponential gains in production speed through various mechanics that will require you both to fit them within range and connected to your town centers and be able to supply inputs, extract outputs and carry items around the map at extreme throughputs. Optimizing factory layouts is absolutely critical to ensure future connections needed by eventual upgrades will be able to be fitted without having to rebuild new factories all the time, and the logistical challenges that result from the combined quite long and complex production chains of advanced items and extreme production speeds that can be reached will require you to make use of every trick you know of. Warehouses, be they barns or train stations are your best tool to untangle knots, the slanted support is non-obstructing, and minecarts can be abused in ways they never were meant to. And you can never have enough coin if you (ab)use it for boosts. This may look like a nice chill factory game but under the calm surface hides a challenge for only the most hardcore.
• Roland

  Jan 10, 2023

  Fun little automation game with plenty of depth
• pdontcare77

  Jan 23, 2023

  When my 1000 plus hours Factoria voyage started hitting a wall. I recently picked up Factory Town in a Steam sale and have been addicted ever since. What looks like a cheapo version with the artwork etc don't be deceived, coz this game plays fantastic and goes really deep in what you can do. I'm 63 hours in already and barely scratching the surface so this is well worth the money. We don't have hunger, death or alien locals to deal with so might put some players off, but if you like a stress free building engineering farming train laying experience you will love this. Would look fantastic if the maps and buildings were made more realistic and we had people doing the grind instead of peg bots!