Factory Town

This is honestly one of my favorite games of all time. I love how it really makes you stop and think instead of simply handing you all the answers. I absolutely love it, and I’m so excited for the second game.

I am both happy and sad. Happy that I finally found this game and gave it a play (it's a blast so far, playing through the campaign), and sad that I didn't know / play this game earlier. The only saving grace is that once I have gotten my fill of this game, the sequel will be out and I can play a whole new factory town! In all seriousness though, this game has been really fun to play so far. There's a lot I would like to see improved (hopefully they did in the sequel though!) like laying down conveyors, seeing under all of the spaghetti, etc., but that may just be my own fault for building a monster town. The campaign maps have been fun so far. I think they provide equal parts tutorial (in that each map slowly ramps up the complexity), and are also sort of challenge maps. Like I JUST finished campaign map 3, and that map has crazy amounts of restricted space that actually give it a logistical challenge. I do plan on playing through the 8 campaign maps, and then doing a freeplay until I get bored or I move on to the sequel, for what it's worth. But I'll tell you what, this game can produce nightmares in terms of spaghetti, with limited to no effort (and I love it).

I love the simplicity it's fun and relaxing. No pressure like enemies or survival stress, the goals are easy to understand, graphics are clear and cute.

This game makes my head hurt in the best way possible! I got this game AFTER playing the Factory Town 2 demo and I don't regret it one bit!! I've been itching for a factory game since playing Arknights Endfield and I'm glad I picked this one. I enjoy that it's not immediately confusing and you have some time to figure everything out. I only did one of the campaigns because I don't really want to start over every time I want to learn something new so I tend to just look up how to do the thing, but things tend to be pretty self explanatory, which has been fun to learn.

Adequate, but inferior to either Factory Town Idle or its sequel. I would not recommend purchasing if you own either of those, though as part of a bundle it works to get a historical perspective.

This game does not have full controller support. There is no virtual keyboard so any text needs a keyboard (e.g. save file names, spliter/merger ratios, etc.). There are some UI elements that a controller will not navigate to. There is a hotbar when the mouse is used but it disappears when using a controller. That said I enjoyed the game play enough to 80+ hours despite the not good controller UX.