The Artifactory

This game is good but it's frustrating at times. The recipe mechanics feels tedious and the controls are wonky sometimes. Its fun enough but I would still ratherplay overcooked as a coop game

I've played many Overcooked-like games, and I think this one may be the most rage inducing. It's buggy and the mechanics are frustrating and unfun. The whole package system makes it clunky and discourages last second, clutch preparations because each delivery has to be put in a box and the box has to be closed. And everything just keeps breaking down every 15 sec or so. There's no cooldown timer for having to fix conveyor belts and it seems to break down at fixed times (very often), so you can fix up a belt and it'll break down again 1 sec later and one player may very well end up spending all their time just fixing up stuff and not cooking at all. Recipe system is a downgrade from similar games, You just end up with a ton of unwanted ingredients, mystery recipes are too difficult to figure out and there are no hints, etc. Also, you get rewarded for high diversity in the packages you send, but past a certain point you only have one minute to send your first package if you don't want a penalty for the rest of the level. So you have to restore power, wait for the right ingredients to arrive, cook/craft, pop a box out, fill the box, close the box and send it in less than 1 minute, w…

The game is very fun, especially in co-op. It plays very similarly to Overcooked but in a fantasy setting. There are some small details that could be improved to make the gameplay more smooth and less janky, such as the conveyor belts breaking way too often and also when you try to pick up an ingredient but instead you place your tool down. On the technical side however, the game ran smoothly and I had no crashes. I'll continue playing with my wife and hope for a patch that improves the controls and add QOL features.

the more people you have the more fun it gets, the crafting progression could have been better, but i like it. I guess I was one of the first 10 folks to play the game, The bugs are biblical level though!

There's a lot of really good ideas here, the characters are cute, the settings are nice, it's clearly heavily influenced by games like Overcooked which is a plus, but the problem lies with the controls. The entire game loop wants you to hold a tool while picking up and placing items and boxes, but whenever you try to put a crafted item in a box, it snaps to another spot. After a little while, I found picking up the box first THEN interacting with the item works better, but then you set your tool down. I haven't felt this much frustration in a game's controls in a longtime. This could all be solved if you could remap your controls or if there was a seperate button for equipping and unequiping your tools seperate of the pickup/putdown button. I tried to play with a keyboard to see if this played any better but it felt even worse, don't even try to play unless you're on a controller. This game could've been a really good alternative to fans of Overcooked, but if you can't even get your controls right, it all falls apart. I can't recommend this game in its current state, and based on the player numbers I don't think that will change.

Great co-op game. Managed to annoy my boyfriend with just a few stages 😈 But luckily it's enjoyable in solo as well :) Getting all 3 starts is a bit tricky, but it's a nice challenge.