Kubifaktorium Reviews

Actually one of the better logistics and economy RTS games I've played. Needs some more ux refinement but plays very well, it's fun and engaging. Villager AI is well above average. No notable game play annoyances for me, just some ux friction. Also, have your autoclicker ready to skip dialog.

In general a very good game, but unfortunatly the earth temple of my last campaign map spawned in a way where i can't charge it with earth extract so I am not able to finish the game and also is a very frustrating when you allready spend 1-2 hours on the map

i hate any game with a "wipe" system but this one is different its like deconstruct everything to the "basic" resources and bring them with you on the next island (its done automatically when you leave an island). you have to restart the factory every time you move to another island but you will need to delete everything to make a new factory completely automated anyway.

A "qualified" recommendation. I was tempted too many times to just write a down review, uninstall and forget it. The game is abandoned by devs (they call it "finished") while there are some serious hurting issues. Some just trivial user mistakes thet could be handled by a QoL improvement adding an extra warning -- but some need a nontrivial workaround. Most important one for me is automated store output not obeying the setup and get stuck so you need to destroy and rebuild the output, possibly even add other tricks -- that one should just work. And changing the produced item in the related factory overrides the filters that will trigger this bug :(. In effect this means you need to use separate stores for the inputs rather than one 3x3 that would do the job and either way likely to babysit the production. Most of the challenge comes from using the land space. For this reason it is more evident what trivialia the game missies like you can rotate a factory but can't mirror it. The inserters are limited to 1-1 and 2-1 but there's not even a 1-2, let alone rotating inserters. With all the frustrating problems I still kept playing on and learned how to cope. And in the campaign the game has good progression: if you play well, then the "start over" is not a big deal as you will build new things mostly and you carry over the materials from previous place. And you have the option to import basic stuff rather than fiddle with it, paying with the high level produce. It's not a survival game, your folks will not die of hunger the penalty is just unhappiness and the result of it is slowing down. You probably need to set your own challenge to keep the happiness up or to finish in lower number of days, the game does not force it on you, in the campaigh at least. (I didn't yet play solo maps, maybe it's different there). Oh yeah, the price and deals are not great compared to some serious competition, especially more recent and actively developed games, but the ~10 bucks I paid alredy provided 42h play, most of it enjoyable, I consider it a great delivery and it will get more play down the road.

i have a hard time reviewing this game. this is another example where a "mid" rating would be best. i got the game after playing the demo, expecting the full game to be a more polished, full version of the demo. but it was disappointing. there is a lot to like in this game but it simply feels unfinished. it lacks several QoL features that would make this a good automation/management game. i played for 5 hours and dont feel like continuing anymore, its just tedious. i regret buying it. it; looked more fun then it actually is. for this reason, i can't recommend it. i'm sorry.