Factory Planner: First Sparks

Gameplay is interesting, but tedious. This game needs a lot of QoL. Examples: [olist] [*] Visual representation of resources on cards. Fabricators/smelters need resource icon on them. Currently you need to click on the card to get basic info. [*] Change an order of tabs on cards based on frequency of usage. [*] Visuals for extractors. Currently it's difficult to figure out what extractor I need for specific resource. [/olist]

Very Fun. Good for tickling the itch some of us get for managing systems. One small tweak for gameplay: Adding in a use case for each machine when you select the machine would make choices and planning slightly easier and faster. Not the end of the world and a few extra seconds to figure it out could be by design to create more of a challenge.

It's a demo. Interface is bad. Mouse controls are bad. Logistics are bad. The links between nodes look bad, not satisfying at all.

good fun game

Obviously, this game design hasn't considered that players will use a 4K display to run this game. It has an UI scale function but limited to 100%, which is pretty weird because usually if you don't customize the UI scale for its resolution, it will allow you to go up to 250% or 300%. This makes the game pretty much unplayable on my 15.6 inch display.

Prologue is a demo. This is another demo listed as a separate game, cluttering the store instead of using the services that steam has available. the game is an interesting take on the factory games available, but the decision of the publisher to list this as a separate entity and then limit playability has turned me off of the game entirely.