ConstructEx Reviews

Its early access so still growing but I really like it. Its a peaceful game, bit clunky as the active developer fixes some designs and adds new content but I am still playing it daily and changing how I build things. You start off with the normal hand tools then increase to water or wind powered automation, all the time building something you need to complete a piece of research to expand to more technology, electricity and more complex machines. Whilst it is similar to most automation games, I like it because its not too complex, personally loved satisfactory but making some of the very complex parts just for the elevator to advance did annoy me a bit, maybe this will get close but I dont think that is the desire, single dev so unless something huge happens I doubt its the aim nor do I care, I like this because its not a space game and its peaceful. At the moment the maximum mix is 3 parts, some of those parts do take other parts with two parts which need ore refined, crushed and hammered into one part, but you get the picture, you dont need gigafactories 20 floors high to play it. Map is big enough with room for the dev to expand current zones and add resources, you do need a car to get around once you get to the desert zone for oil and sand, its too far to walk. I recommend, as I said its early access and one dev but its reasonably priced there is enough, ive done about 30 hours and researched everything currently available so am now rebuilding my factories from where they start out as machines you just fill by hand to more automated systems with conveyors, splitters mergers and storage, its time to make it neater and I have improved building materials. Moving my power grid from Coal to Wind building some big wind farms away from my base and setting up power grids to more automation near the resource nodes, so enough there with updates added frequently enough, obviously you want more big updates faster but if you can just settle for what the developer is doing you will enjoy it, if you want it to developed faster and complain about it in discussions maybe stay away from it, or at least buy it as an investor in these type of developers and keep away from the discussions because it is what it is and isnt pretending to be anything else.