Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure

I was getting annoyed with the game for a while but tried getting through it out of pure spite. Don't get me wrong the game is not without charm or promise, but it just doesn't work properly. Progression is pretty arbitrary and stops giving you relevant or useful things, at some point it's just unlocking a bunch of nonsense for no real purpose. A lot of system are also fighting themselves or just don't work properly, everything from available space, elevation, path logistics is fighting each other leaving you with no good options to actually deal with the challenges that it presents you with. I don't want to create complicated logic systems to solve traffic jams, that are created through overlapping paths, which i have to build that way because the elevation or space forces me to, but which also don't solve the problem half the time. Not to mention the quality of life things, no i don't want to collect all sparks in an area when i remove logic wiring, why does it even do that? No I don't want to collect logistic sparks when collecting sparks when fighting near a factory. Or when removing a building and a train passes nearby at an awkward angle and now you removed either t…

This game is very charming and I really enjoyed my first 10-15 hours or so, but somewhere in there, it doesn't do enough to mitigate the drudgery, and getting anything done just starts to feel onerous. Which then gets you to a point where you don't want to play anymore, even if you were excited to see more progression. Some examples: - You have to run EVERYWHERE in this game, and the running isn't that quick. However, what starts to get exhausting: -- The ground is cluttered with obstacles. In early areas it's the occasional bush or thick stand of trees, in a later area, entire plateaus you need to traverse and build upon are COVERED in small patches that stop you from running. -- The game uses height on the terrain. Early on this means a slightly annoying slow-climb, but very quickly you start engaging with the "mountain" biome, and this means a ton of annoying up and down traversal. You eventually get a few tools to handle this, but it's still a huge pain to just run from A to B if there are a few canyons inbetween, and did I mention every plateau is covered with obstacles? - The game's equivalent of conveyor belts are "paths" on which your sparks run and carry things. Coo…

Fully released game still feel like game in early access. And also game is boring

Most factory games tend to be reskins of each other, but this one is truly novel IMO and well worth a try. I'm not a fan of cosmetic DLCs, and Oddsparks's might be a bit excessive, but I highly recommend the hats. They actually add a dimension of gameplay by enabling a kind of filter-based flow control above and beyond what's already (complete) in the base game.

While Oddsparks isn't the most intense factory game, it's the most casual-friendly multiplayer version I've ever seen. Building a spanning base with cute li'l guys is a blast!

Do you like automation games? Do you like cute little dudes that help you? Do you like lore? Do you like trains? Then you'll like this game. Its an automation/factory game that doesnt bog you down in minutia. Satisfactory fan? This has something for you. Shapes fan? This has something for you. The last 5% can be a slog if you let it. It has a hard shift into tower defense, but it isnt as hard as it seems. Definitely has replayability. Fully worth the 300 hours I spent on it. and probably more in the future.