Captain of Industry
MaFi Games · 2022 · Automation, Resource Management, Base Building, Simulation, Economy
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About Captain of Industry
✦ AI summary
Build factories and reshape entire islands to achieve industrial dominance, managing resources, pollution, and your growing population as you work toward space flight and self-sufficiency. What sets it apart is the fully dynamic terrain system that lets you flatten mountains, fill valleys, and reclaim ocean to expand your world while juggling complex supply chains, research trees, and citizen welfare.
Your journey begins on a remote island with a small crew of workers and a ship full of supplies. Mine raw materials, reshape the fully dynamic terrain, grow crops, build factories, and research new technologies. Expand across the island, lay rail networks, trade with distant settlements, and work your way up to nuclear power and space flight.
Mine resources and shape the land
The entire terrain is fully dynamic. Every mountain can be flattened, every valley filled, and even the ocean can be reclaimed to expand the available land. Create open-pit mines to reach deep ore deposits, or dump excess rock into the ocean to expand your shoreline. Build ramps and slopes so your vehicles can reach any elevation.Build your factory
Start simple with iron smelting, concrete mixing, and food processing. As you research new technologies, expand into oil refining, electronics, computing, and eventually rocket and space station components. Manage waste and pollution before they affect your people's health.Move products with trucks, trains, belts, and pipes
Trucks handle general logistics automatically, delivering products where they are needed most. Lay conveyor belts and pipes for high-throughput direct connections between machines. Build a rail network to move bulk cargo across long distances. Use amphibious vehicles and bridges to reach other islands.Feed and protect your people
Grow crops on farms and process them into food or industrial products. Supply fertilizers to boost yields and build greenhouses to grow more advanced crops. Your population needs housing, clean water, electricity, healthcare, and household goods. Keep them happy and healthy, and they will reward you with Unity, a resource that lets you speed up construction, enact powerful edicts, and claim resources on the world map. Neglect waste management or let pollution build up, and diseases will spread.Explore, trade, and become self-sufficient
Send your ship out to explore the world map. Discover new islands with resources to import, refugees to rescue, and allied settlements to trade with. Establish shipping contracts for recurring exchanges, or negotiate quick trades when you need something fast. Your ultimate goal is full self-sufficiency: launch rockets, build a space station, and mine asteroids for rare resources that make your colony independent indefinitely.Your tools
Copy and paste parts of your factory, or save entire layouts as blueprints to reuse and share. Use planning mode to lay out designs before committing resources. Design your own island in the map editor and play it or share it with others. Or switch to sandbox mode where all buildings and resources are free, perfect for experimenting and learning.DLC & expansions
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Base game + 1 of 2 DLC at today's best prices (some DLC unpriced).
$23.70
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
J'adore!1 found this helpful
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One of the best factory simulators out there.1 found this helpful
I'm not sure this game is for me, but it does what it sets out to do very well, so I will still recommend it for those who like this style. [h3] The opinionated part [/h3] This game is harder than others of the genre in my opinion, because there is much that can go wrong. You aren't just building a factory but a whole civilization. You are limited by the number of workers you can support, and they all need housing, food, water, waste management, and then later electricity. Pollution will lower their health and start killing them if it gets bad enough. Vehicles need fuel, both vehicles and machines consume "maintenance". Production chains get more intertwined as the game goes on, so any disruptions can cascade. You built a couple more vehicles? Turns out you are now using more maintenance than you are producing, so your other vehicles and machines start to break down, so deliveries get delayed. Your power plant doesn't get coal in time and you run out of power, your food deliveries don't make it and your workers start dying. This makes expanding a slow, delicate process, which is different than what I am used to. Unlike other automation games, you need to keep an eye on a lot of…1 found this helpful
Fun Game to play1 found this helpful
Game for me in very addictive and has a bit a of learning curve. But once you figure out the game, is really fun. I build a factory setup and will be like yes, this should do fine for a long time, and then 10 minutes later I am redesigning because I see a better way to do it.
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