Extremely addictive
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“It's 3 a.m. You have no clue how you got there. You spent last eternity placing conveyor belts and battery racks.”
Steam review · 21.9 h played ↗
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Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 96%AnukenDev2019Automation · Base Building · Tower Defense
$9.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A cheap, deep and very addictive factory-building, RTS and tower defense hybrid with mods and co-op. Skip it if you want a clear tutorial, readable UI or the pre-v8 campaign.
Great for
Players who love Factorio-style logistics mixed with RTS and tower defense, solo or co-op with friends
Main risk
Confusing UI and tutorial, plus punishing campaign spikes, can make it feel tedious or frustrating
What players love
Great mix of factory, RTS and tower defense
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“Peak Factory-Building-RTS-Tower-Defense game.”
Steam review · 107.4 h played ↗
Cheap, open source, and free elsewhere
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“considering it's single dev, I would 100% recommend paying the 10 bucks.”
Steam review · 12.8 h played ↗
Mods, community content and big replayability
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“Replayability is extremely high thanks to mods and user content.”
Steam review · translated · 31.4 h played ↗
Runs on low-end hardware
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews
“Game runs very well on low end Pc's and the game is addicting to play.”
Steam review · 1.2 h played ↗
Lighter and easier than Factorio
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews
“A lot less intimidating than Factorio”
Steam review · 28.7 h played ↗
What players complain about
Confusing UI and weak tutorial
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“HORRIBLE TUTORIAL that seems to have been lazily put together as an afterthought.”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗
Unfair difficulty spikes and gotcha bosses
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“Many maps will ambush the player with waves of enemies that can't be defended against without prior knowledge of how the map is designed.”
Steam review · 35.1 h played ↗
Slow, boring and repetitive
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“And this is an agonizingly slow RTS at that.”
Steam review · 8.7 h played ↗
v8 update broke saves and campaign
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“v8 rollout just created massive problems with my saves, I have to fight enemies again in almost every map”
Steam review · 73.1 h played ↗
Freezes, crashes and launch failures
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews
“You can only play for about 10 min before it uses all your ram.”
Steam review · 1.9 h played ↗
Forced programming for unit control
Mentioned in ~1 in 50 negative reviews
“you have to program pathfinding, attack, defense, retreat, you don't control the units in the traditional sense”
Steam review · 44.8 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable200 MB
Minimum
OSWindows 7/8/10
Memory1 GB RAM
GraphicsAny card with OpenGL 2.0 support and the framebuffer_object extension
Storage200 MB available space
OSWindows 7/8/10
Memory1 GB RAM
GraphicsAny card with OpenGL 2.0 support and the framebuffer_object extension
Storage200 MB available space
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