Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Mar 9, 2022

  Great game, but can we get a multiplayer coop game mode?
• gamedeal user

  Apr 8, 2022

  Autonauts is a lot of fun and deeply satisfying, as long as you accept that you need to automate everything. Gathering resources? Automate it. Using tools? Automate it. Building structures? Automate it. Gathering three stray berries from a field? Automate! As soon as you think, "I only need one steam engine, I'll just build it myself," the game suddenly becomes overwhelmingly complex, with recipe after tedious recipe spread across a dozen crafting stations. No, you automate that crap with an army of builder bots. You don't build one flywheel, because they've already filled a crate with them and you have a bot whose sole purpose in life is to stand around holding a flywheel waiting for a blueprint in need of one.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 21, 2022

  This is a very different take on automation games. Most, like Factorio, Satisfactory or Dyson Sphere Program, focus on building factories and conveyors and whatnot to effectively build a giant machine. This, however, focuses entirely on programming robots, to do the same tasks you can do, which is a totally different kind of puzzle to solve the same kinds of problems, and results in remarkably deep gameplay. That said, the programming UI is awkward. You can't just build a list of instructions, you need to tell the robot to record and do all the relevant actions. Then you can re-arrange them, and put loops and conditionals on them. And you need a LOT of robots, so you need to do this over and over again. Eventually, you get floppy disks that let you copy programs between robots, but this has limited applicability, as if you need a robot that's similar, doing the same thing but with a different container, you still have to record and interact with that container, and re-arrange the instructions, to update it. But if you have the patience for that, this is an excellent game.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 9, 2022

  Game was in early access, still being developed. The devs then had this idea to create another aspect to the gameplay with warfare. But the rest of the game wasn't completed yet. Then they decided to make this into ANOTHER game instead of keep updating this one, and took it out of early access even though it is unfinished and uncomplete. I loved what the devs were making and working on. Now I am unhappy with the devs and do not want to touch any product they make. They do not finish what they start.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 5, 2022

  Wait... so this game was in Early Access with promises to include content which has now been separated into a new, different game that is also up for sale? Steam really needs to crack down on these trash developers who exploit customers and abuse the Early Access system. As requested by some comments (some of which deleted themselves, I never delete), I'll rate the game itself: It's not recommended. The game does not include features that I would consider required for a finished product. I believe you have to buy BOTH of the games, which are almost exactly the same, in order to get a full product. I'm not happy that I paid for a product in Early Access and was "scammed" by the devs as they cut a lot of content and bundled it into a separate game purchase. I don't like the base game because it is missing these features... however the OTHER game from what I can tell is also missing features. With two separate products, they have created two unfinished games and neither of them are something I would recommend.
• Sascrotch

  Feb 24, 2023

  Really enjoy this game! It took a bit to learn but with the new update, they fixed a ton of the issues I had with it. 10/10 recommend for the weirdos like me who love management sims.
• NillaTheGreatOfPojo

  Apr 8, 2023

  a very pretty logistical nightmare with basic programming
• gamedeal user

  Oct 17, 2019

  Played it in alpha state on Itch.io and already had so much fun, then backed it on Kickstarter and was so sad when it didn't gather enough interest. I was then sure that it never would be finished, and now I'm so excited that it is fully released! To me, this is a lighter "Factorio" and chill game which provides the same actual feel of pride and accomplishment of starting out small and then seeing your village and production become bigger and more streamlined. Also, if you want to learn a bit about the logic behind programming or see your kids try it, check this out!
• gamedeal user

  Oct 18, 2019

  im feeling the same addiction that factorio made me feel and im scared
• gamedeal user

  Oct 18, 2019

  Oh god, I've had to force myself to stop playing because if I don't, I'll be playing this game til sunrise. It's super addicting, like Factorio is. In fact it's similar to Factorio except it's much calmer and chiller and you can advance at your own pace without threats from enemies. Definitely one of my favourite games of 2019!