Recent reviews by grzyboj

pretty good

vanripper pls make more of this gameplay loop i beg you

Captain of Industry is a very interesting game. It combines typical features from factory-builder games, like the classic conveyors, with a city-builder aspect of a population and their needs. However there is one feature that defines the game: terrain manipulation. In combination with a complex recipe chains with many side products and waste products it makes this game what it is. Mining ore makes holes in the ground, making it difficult to navigate, do you invest in retaining walls to contain the holes? Refining ore produces slag that you can dump in the ocean, giving you a bit more room, or you could grind it down and mix it into concrete. Your settlement produces waste, do you burn it for a slightly healthier option or dump it for a bit more building area? I feel like all of this makes the game worth checking out if you have any interest in factory-builders.

Unfortunately I think it also ties in with one major complaint I have about the game. It often feels like everything is constantly on fire. On multiple occasions I killed my entire mining area output by having a dumping designation that fell down to a mining designation, and I often only noticed when I realised my maintenance depots no longer work without spare parts. Or when I ran out of advanced maintenance parts because I wasn't producing gold because I wasn't disposing of the toxic slurry waste because the treatment plant wasn't functioning because it was clogged with slag because the automatic slag disposal was filled. I thought this was mostly just a noob feeling, but it never really went away in the 200 hours I played. This is different to Factorio, where you always have something to expand, here you always have something to fix because it stopped working.

If you like Factorio, then Dyson Sphere Program is worth trying. The game has a lot of original and cool ideas, don't worry about it being a Factorio clone even if it can look like it on the surface. It's also very ambitious in scope, so it's worth keeping an eye out for the game to see how it evolves, even if you don't buy it.That being said, the game suffers from performance issues. My PC might not be the top of the line, but the game regularly dipped below 30 fps and past the first 30 hours my gpu usage was stuck permanently at 100%. So avoid for now if your hardware is on the slower side.

pretty fun