Idle AI Factory

Node Factory could be a cool title with some more time in the oven, but right now it feels a bit too rough around the edges for me to recommend. Games like this really want a good UI, and this one has a few struggles. Resizing the game window can leave elements stuck partially off-screen, the frontmost UI element doesn't always capture focus (resulting in inadvertent clicks on hidden elements), and the gameplay area itself needs a few more creature comforts like alignment helpers, etc Perhaps most unfortunate appears to be a buggy save system, though. Finding all your wiring missing when loading a save is pretty disheartening, and ultimately why I won't come back to this one. One can only redo their work so many times. The bugs mechanic is cute, but also becomes just an annoyance more than an interesting gameplay element. Having a "solve" that the player unlocks seems okay, except when you first unlock it the limited range means you're still manually dealing with some of them. The difference between before and after that unlock for me was minimal - i still found myself annoyed at the system rather than it adding a fun element to work around. The tetris-grid upgrade system is go…

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very buggy game, sometimes the node wount connect unless u delete and place them again (the exact same setup sometimes connects/sometimes doesnt). defence tower does not get range upgrade when placed unless you levelup range upgrade once more (after placing). after quiting the game and launching it back all my connections disappeared, as well as all split rations went back to 50/50, so basicly had to rebalance all my factory and reconnect it again from scratch. would not reccommend at current state, way too annoying

This game isn't ready for early release. It's very confusing. The documentation just became available. Unfortunately, there is very little describing the game strategy. It's easy to get bogged down waiting to build enough $ or research to move forward. I've become frustrated and there is no place to go to have a strategy to move forward. Maybe I'm just missing something but if I am, I think lots of other people will too.

Addictive game, easy to pickup and play. I have great time playing it, looking forward to more content and updates, i'm really excited to try the game after the latest update that I think would make the game mechanics well documented.

I've been playing about a day and having fun. It's an easy game to pickup and play. I did experience a bug, but reported it. The Dev was great and had a fix for it that evening. The only thing it is lacking in is documentation, so some of the nodes you have to just figure out. But I bet that will improve over time. I would recommend checking it out.