Krystals with A K

[b]2/10[/b] A shapez clone that feels like an early prototype, a proof of concept of what the game could be after a few years of development. What is it? A large scale factory automation in which you use drills, conveyor belts, and different machinery to turn crystals (with a k) into stuff. If you’ve played shapez or Factorio, you know what this is trying to be. Unfortunately, this looks and plays like a half-baked prototype trying to copy shapez without any of the things that make that one fun to play. The UI looks like a quickly done mock-up, there are no goals, no achievements, no plan to follow guiding you in your factory building. You just get a few prompts at the start explaining that you can pan and zoom, draw and erase. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3359922171 As you collect crystals, new items unlock, and clicking on one shows a little help text describing what it does and a little screenshot of how to use it. You can place these items on the map to make new things, which make new things, which make new things. That’s it. You make things to make things. Starting with the basic red/blue/yellow crystals, you can combine them into purple/green/ora…

Krystals with A K is a factory/building game along the lines of Factorio or Satisfactory, but with a much worse technical implementation and extremely poor presentation. The game seems closest to being a direct ripoff of Shapes.io, perhaps hoping gamers might be confused into buying this instead of the arguably superior Shapes game. Gameplay consists of laying out conveyor belts to harvest materials, then spending what you harvest on more sophisticated components until you have a nice, complicated factory set up. Other games have done it better. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The implementation here is of such poor quality, the developer couldn't work out how to make the game display in fullscreen, it only runs in a window. The ga…

This game is addictive, it looks simple but there is so much to it.

I really love this type, I think I have so many games kinda close to this, and my favorite types for sure :-)

could use a little polish. crashed frequently but also auto saved frequently enough that I never lost more than like 10 seconds of progress.

This game is incredibly addictive. It's satisfying and relaxing to play even though there's so much to do. I really hope it sells because it's cheap and will provide hours of entertainment. I 100% recommend this!