Lazy Witch's Factory

Another "thinky" genre turned roguelike. Imagine Factorio with a time limit and a VERY low stock of belts. When the training wheels are off and you enter hell difficulties, the due payments truly start to mount. In this game you get your "level up and choose 1 of 3" after delivering a certain amount of valuables. Which ones, how you produce them and how you transport them are your constant questions and are already decided halfway by your starting lineup of sponsors. Each provide you with one type of "building" and correspond to one resource archetype. Will you branch out to many production types or will you reinforce your mining and logistics workforce? The archetypes also decide the types of upgrades and shop offers you see during your run. Whether delivered goods cash in for money or not, they at least always sell for resources used in crafting or the shop. While the game is still rough around the edges, the developers have frequently released competent balance updates which include new gameplay features that add meaningful choices about how you manage your current production lines. There are currently known overpowered starting loadouts and level up choices, but they ar…

Do you like the [i]concept[/i] of a factory game but get turned off by the prospect of optimizing a vast and complex production chain? Do you like the aesthetic of a factory converting raw resources into refined valuable goods but don't want to open up a spread sheet work out if you're maximizing your profits? Do you like watching cute anime creatures toil for your own enrichment and amusement? Lazy Witches Factory gives you the short term dophamine hit of numbers going up without the huge time commitment. Each game is 30 minutes, you have to set up your production chain ASAP and you have no time to make it pretty. To win the game you have to pay off debt by producing and selling items worth money. At certain milestones you are offered "contracts" which give you different types of buffs. Ultimate success depends on building broken combos to rake in the cash before the timer runs out. While there is strategy involved in picking different contract sets (you can choose different sponsors before the game starts.) on higher difficulties the game can become more luck based because if you don't get the right contracts within the right time you're just not going to win. At t…

I loved this. The voice acting is fantastic, the units adorable (although the seemingly pregnant slime is a little concerning, I guess), and the factory automation mechanics work very well. My only criticism is that the player's ability to succeed appears very dependent on the RNG. On anything above Hell 1 difficulty, I usually only am able to succeed when the stage has just the right things and I roll just the right upgrades that allow me to reach the end goal. This is either because I suck or the RNG hates me. Possibly both. Usually the failure point involves the game not giving me enough conveyor belts, or the map not generating the appropriate resources for me to produce valuable products and the debt-clearing rewards never providing the upgrades that allow me to a generate sufficient income. Either way, I'm really enjoying this, and the difficulty modifiers, too. If you're a fan of A) Anime and B) Factory Automation games, this is definitely one to check out.

i want to be exploited by lucifer

I actually liked this game a lot more than I thought I would! Looking forward to more content in the future

This game is so fun. It's a roguelike factory builder with a small enough set of pieces/recipes that it's not too hard to get a handle on the options available to you, but every run has you looking at what's available on the map and what contracts you're offered and figuring out how to pull them together into a moneymaking machine. I'm 25 hours in and still feel like I'm finding fresh things to do each run, and there are special missions with variant rulesets to add some more variety on top of that. Can't wait to see how it plays once they add the last two sponsors to the game! All the art and flavor is absolutely adorable, too. (I never get tired of hearing Momoko's little "bleh!" when she splats down onto the map.)