I don't quite have the words to articulate how fantastic this game is. If you have even the slightest aptitude for engineering, this will scratch some very deep-rooted itches in your brain.
It's an endless sandbox filled with puzzles that you lay out *for yourself* without realizing it, by virtue of how laying out conveyors inevitably will bump into some obstacle that *you* had put there because it was the best spot to smelt iron or something. An infinite 'a-ha!' moment generator, and a bottomless well of 'oh this would be so much more efficient if I just...'.

A lot of the screenshots on the store page look daunting and way too complex to parse, but that's the beauty of the game. Nobody goes in with that mess of spaghetti planned out, it's just a TON of very simple "Drawing a line from point A to point B" smooshed together without regard to anything other than the immediate next step. The most fun I've had with the game came from embracing this, and playing like a five year old with a bunch of highly industrial lego. My factories are nigh unreadable by anyone but me, so they very much are MY factories.

Mods I'd recommend if you ever get bored of vanilla (i.e. after your first several hundred hours):
Bob's
Angel's
SeaBlock

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to haphazrdly slapping down conveyor belts.

I don't quite have the words to articulate how fantastic this game is. If you have even the slightest aptitude for engineering, this will scratch some very deep-rooted itches in your brain. It's an endless sandbox filled with puzzles that you lay out *for yourself* without realizing it, by virtue of how laying out conveyors inevitably will bump into some obstacle that *you* had put there because it was the best spot to smelt iron or something. An infinite 'a-ha!' moment generator, and a bottomless well of 'oh this would be so much more efficient if I just...'. A lot of the screenshots on the store page look daunting and way too complex to parse, but that's the beauty of the game. Nobody goes in with that mess of spaghetti planned out, it's just a TON of very simple "Drawing a line from point A to point B" smooshed together without regard to anything other than the immediate next step. The most fun I've had with the game came from embracing this, and playing like a five year old with a bunch of highly industrial lego. My factories are nigh unreadable by anyone but me, so they very much are MY factories. Mods I'd recommend if you ever get bored of vanilla (i.e. after your first several hundred hours): Bob's Angel's SeaBlock Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to haphazrdly slapping down conveyor belts.