The Factory — Game Review

The factory is a little simulator game. The basics is that you buy supplies and tap the icons to build things. More advanced items will require using some of the previously constructed items and may require several subassemblies. When you start, there’ll only be a handful of items available to you. As you build items in the game, you’ll discover new items. Once you’ve started building, you can also start selling. Selling things will get you the money that you need for the parts to build the next thing you want to build. The highest margin items will be marked with a dollar bill indicating that they’re finished goods and not used to build subsequent items.

Once you’ve discovered enough items, you can begin automating your factory by constructing various machine parts, like robot arms, conveyors, and so on, combining them into builders. You can also construct things that’ll automatically order material and sell finished goods for you.

It’s a fun little game to play for a while. Unfortunately, once you’ve got your builders maxed out, there’s little left to the game. You can reset and start over, but doing so has no impact on the game and doesn’t further any objectives. It’s worth a few hours of fun, but not sure where to take it from there.