Microtopia

Hate games that purposefully inconvenience you as much as possible This is one of those games , past the initial phase you want to get stuck into factory building ,but you can't Scaling production is pointless , because you need to find resources on other lands , you can't advance , because you're locked by Gyne points , to get gyne points you need loads of ants and 2nd Island resources. Ok Fair enough Only you can't easily mine or transport resources , until you get a bridge ...ok fair enough Why can't I get second queen on another island? and if I can why isn't it explained? You could get a Multi-Island Storage, only it's locked behind gyne points... well ♥♥♥♥ So you somehow have bridge, guys mining on 2nd island , flying ants supporting Build your Gyne Shrine or whatever the ♥♥♥ Well you need a princess ant, What the ♥♥♥♥ is a princess ant? no thanks , that's purposeful time wasting. I'd Rather play Alchemy Factory over again , at least they don't skimp on factory making tools. And it's obvious too: My storage can pipe across the whole map , but my sling can't bridge the gap between two islands.

Held off for a while because i ahd my doubts, but this game is incredible, it gives me the old factoria feeling not because of its similarities, but because of its differences! One of the best buys for me this year.

Electrical engineering homework, the game. Your ants die a period of time after your queen hatches them so all repeated actions are a circuit starting with your queen. 2D with no bridges so the UI for crossing circuits is very clunky. Absolutely no AI, gatherers never expand past a depleted node, haulers never pick up a new load if their storage is full, so you will need to micro resource production. But the game can definitely play itself for few hours without jamming up if you draw robust circuits. It was fun solving some problems once like moving to a new island, but most of the problems felt like an arbitrary "here are your round pegs now you must fill this square hole." It's not a bad game and I wish there was a neutral option, I enjoyed playing the first 10% of the tech tree then uninstalled because the rest looks like increasingly tedious variants of same. If you love automation games or circuit design I think you will like this though.

My new favorite game!!!

An Electromechanical Ant Production Game - what more could you ask for? Dynamics work differently than most production games as ants need to manipulate the objects, and the trails in this game do not act at all like conveyers. Efficiency still matters, but at this point in my play it's much more about managing the ants and their lives, than what they are carrying.

Very cool concept of merging ants and tech.