Factory Engineer

Total lack of meaningful choices. Tech tree insignificant; products undifferentiated; simply a grind. Get factorio instead. If you have factorio, and are looking for things like it, this is not it: there's no depth here.

Feels unpolished. Maybe should have stayed in Early Access a bit longer. Tutorial is really bare-boned, I already noticed a lot of lacking things such as I'd like to see processing speed and ratios of each part and I couldn't find them unless they are hidden somewhere. Not being able to adjust import volume is just silly. The sound bugged out, sometimes the machines made noises and sometimes they didn't. I then noticed heavy framedrops randomly and no proper campaign and decided to refund.

It currently does not add anyting new to the 'factory manager' genre, rather it feels like a poor blend of Big Pharma and Factorio but missing all the fun parts. To me this game felt like a boring moneygrab. Maybe the future will bring something good, but right now this is not worth it.

For an Early Access game, it's in great shape. It's basically a much, much better version of Big Pharma. You'll see people saying it's like Big Pharma + Factorio, and that's true, but it's much closer to Big Pharma than Factorio. The basic layout is identical to Big Pharma: you have some small-ish factories of odd rectangular shapes; you import and export goods at the walls of the factories using special machines; and then inside the factory you route to and from various machines with arms and belts to make products and produce a profit. Like Big Pharma, there's no way for belts to cross each other (like Factorio's underground belts do) so layouts become puzzles. Also like Big Pharma, you buy your equipment on the market (as opposed to making it, like in Factorio) and money is a constant pressure. It greatly improves on Big Pharma in several ways. Selling to market is easier and less annoying. The machines are a bit smaller relative to the factory so you've got more room to ramp ...

Big pharma + factorio ... but very unpolished. This should be in early access! Tutorial is lacking critical info such as research ... Will refund now. Mayeb purchase it again later when it is better polished.

Let me start this review off with this: I never write reviews. This game is so terrible I had to tell other people not to buy it. The problem is that the graphics and the price are rubbish. If you want a good game, get factorio. Only a bit higher in price but way better. This game isn't even a 50p game let alone £6.99. It is way to easy to win and isn't fun. So if you have a brain, please don't buy this game

This game is unplayable in it's current state. Really obvious things like the tutorial doesn't work because you don't start with money. Also it is possible to hit a dead end in sandbox mode because there is a bug that won't let you place machines. The game has promise. It could be a different take on Factorio but since the dev is make these really simple mistakes I doubt the game will ever get finished.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBiVg2MgDKs First off I really Like factorio and I enjoyed playing Big Pharma. Yes you are going to hear alot about how this is a Factorio clone because the conveyour belts and insterters look alike. Thats about as far as it goes from what I have played. But if Factorio and Big Pharma had a baby I guess this could be what it would sorta look like. So far ive only got a couple hours in, would play more but very sleepy and need some rest. But in my couple of hours of play I have really enjoyed it. It is not super easy which I like. I went broke my first time. I like how you can saturate the market and makes the price go down and how you lose points for research if you keep using the same product. If you enjoy planning out lines and actually make a product to sale then this is a good game for you. Which is how I feel it really differs from Factorio. In Factorio you would create things and only use them to create more things. Here you actually create som...

Let me start off with saying that I really wanted to like this game. It has good potential, but there are some issues that need to be resolved before I'll recomend it. The research system needs to be better explained in the help. The game load and save system has issues: I started a game, saved it, then I was unable to come back to it because it kept loading in sandbox mode. I started another game. The game started on day 30. I started another game and halfway through making plastic bricks, before the bricks were finished, it changed to BB guns, and gave me no research points. I'm always ready to help a developer, but this time I requested a refund. Possibly in the future, I'll come back to it but now I can not recomend it. Sorry.

i had fun with this game for about five minutes, after that i realised there is absolutely no original content, nothing is fun, you dont even get any form of satisfaction from playing it, save your money