MoteMancer

If you like automation games then this game is for you. It has come a long way since it first came out. I was able to finish the game at about 115 fps so the optimization has come light years from the start. The research tree is polished and gives you a great since of progression. I highly recommend you try this game out.

An interesting take on the automation/base building style genre, with six (well, kinda six plus one) elements, each influencing available building types and styles for each elemental plane etc. Getting more and more polished over time, but perfectly playable/stable/etc.

Amazing factory game with a refreshing fantasy/alchemy theme. The different elements add a very fun twist so there's a lot of variety in strategies and builds. Plus the dev is very responsive and works closely with the community to make the game better.

Playing as an industrious plane-shifting alchemical wizard provides a fun take for the genre, finding solutions to neatly fit production chains together on a hex grid with often weirdly shaped buildings and a fairly wide variety of interesting rules and quirks makes this game stand out pretty well. The whimsical, (apparently) hand-drawn art for each structure and shader effects in both the UI and world are lovely. If there's one thing that irks me after playing for a little while, it's almost everything to do with infusion altars. Research inputs change constantly as you traverse the branches and that means you're constantly tearing down or tediously cleaning things out by hand frequently, mildly annoying.

An amazing automation game. Non exhaustive list of positives: - The hex grid enables some interesting and aesthetically pleasing builds. - Some unique buildings as far as I know to the genre, such as the ichor slicks which are a 'belt' but are more akin to drawable chests. - The Foundations selectable at the start of a playthrough add interesting modifiers to keep each run interesting, such as a changing your starting plane, various resource, inventory, and crafting options, and even shattering an entire elemental plane. - Semi meta progression per save file in the form of infinite researches you can carry through the end portal into essentially a new game+ that rolls new Foundations.

Magic, hexagons, flower pylons (don't ask me, magic) the bad is that it kind of harms my [SCALE_THIS_THING_TO_9000] section of the brain as the pre-logistics (splitter and filtered inserters, also a bit hard to see each machine's throughput at a glance, and power brown out is not very well conveyed) lasts for a good while and malling etc. isn't the easiest thing to do since assembler-equivalents will just eat whatever they are fed and spat out stuff you might not want there and the lab-equivalents have weird(?) input patterns which kind of compounds with the splitter problem still fun though. Probably gonna give it more time in the over on my end. Response: Well, (factorio comparison again, oh my) I guess you can do some math to see what are the best ratios for buildings but having a consumption/output per second for the current running blueprint would be nice (and also have a more definitive say on how much can an 'inserter' move per second?)