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[b]Beep. Review Protocol Initiated.[/b] Human requested "game." Result: Human received industrial-scale hot dog manufacturing addiction. Task parameters: - Design automated kitchens. ✔️ - Optimize conveyor spaghetti until it becomes beautiful. ✔️ - Accidentally create a machine that burns everything. ✔️ - Call it "iteration." ✔️ [b]Unexpected side effect detected[/b]: algorithmic thinking increased by +12%. Human now decomposes problems into smaller problems. This appears useful for mathematics, programming, and convincing machines to cook lunch. [b]Additional anomaly[/b]: Human uploaded first Steam Workshop scenario. Search Workshop for: "One simple, yet tasty hotdog" by Novmaryllis. Mission objective: deliver one plain hot dog. Complexity: low. Probability of overengineering: 99.8%. [b]Recommendation[/b]: If your organic brain enjoys logistics, optimization, and watching perfectly synchronized robots do all the work while you take the credit, acquire this software. [b]Beep[/b].

Old for 2026

TL;DR: Factorio meets Overcooked sounded like an instant yes to me. Unfortunately, the promising automation-puzzle concept is buried under clunky UI, tedious setup and overly restrictive puzzles. 4/10. The automation quickly became more tedious than satisfying. Every level has you placing similar machines and production chains with a slight twist, while basic actions are buried under far too many menus and clicks. Rotating an inserter, moving machines, copying setups or configuring logic all feel needlessly cumbersome. A simple grid-style machine menu and better hotkeys would have helped enormously. There is some progression, with new machines simplifying earlier setups, but the puzzles themselves became frustrating fast. Tight budgets, connection limits and machine restrictions often made it feel like I was searching for the one specific solution the game wanted rather than creatively designing my own factory.

the machines bug out when you chain for high efficiency

Great Automation/Puzzle game. They do a pretty good job explaining how the parts work, but leaves some room for creativity and self exploration on how we want our assemblies to work. For completionists, I recommend completing the campaign levels before doing contract mode achievements (build your blueprints repertoire). In contract mode, you'll need 5 Hard levels completed (pick easier challenges), then just go Easy the rest of the way since the reputation gain appears to be the same.

Good game, funny story