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• gamedeal user

  Aug 15, 2015

  This is one of the games, that brings the "thumb up or down"-system to its knees. The game itself is not that much of a complex economic simulation. It's a resource-management game that gives you the opportunity to create stuff from resources and sale it in your stores. It's your job to organize the location of your factories and stores, plan lines of productions, set prices, watch surrounding cities growing and plan your logistics. It's a re-release of an older game, so don't expect high end graphics or fancy animations. The only thing you will hear, are some simple effects and different background music, which you will turn off at a certain point. If you like games like Transport Giant, OpenTTD or Capitalism 2 then you should take a look at it. The problem with this game is a technical one. Actually, there's more than one problem. First, like the retail version it seems to have trouble with every graphic processor that is not from stone age and as long as you run a newer modell, the game won't even start. You can prevent this, by starting it in windows comp mode (WinXp or earlier). Second, right now there seems to be a problem with some Win10 systems. The problem should be known by the dev team now and if the publisher wouldn't have a history of non-delivered patches, I could be optimistic. Third, there're some glitches and flickering that may occur under particular circumstances. Best advice to get rid of that, would be closing all programs you don't need at the moment of playing the game. Ok, there have been games with bigger problems and patching a game after release to make it more stable seems to be a common practice at the present time. But this case is different: These problems were known for years, long before the new dev team kicked in. I'm asking: Where is quality assurance? Did they do any Beta tests? If you buy this game now, you give the dev-team and the publisher a big advance for work there is still to do, to make this game consumer-friendly. Question is: Will they do it, if they hadn't done it in past? There is a very high chance, that if you buy this game now, you will have some kind of issue, but the good news is, that these issues are known to the community, waiting years for a stable version of this game. So in most cases there will be some sort of fix. The game itself is a economic goldie. If you get it running on your system, you will have a lot to enjoy. A smoothly rising difficulty, endless maps and maybe they will add a working multiplayer to it, but even without there are plenty of gaming hours to play. I recommend this game to people interested in economic simulation or logistic games, being aware of the technical issues. Waiting a few weeks, taking an eye on possible updates, is also a good idea.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 29, 2015

  A nice optimization game based around producing, transporting, and selling various goods. Pros: - Tons of industries, products, and resources. Lots of transportation options. - Very little guessing with the products. Lots of graphs and statistics tell you exactly how much of a product will be produced and consumed at each factory/store. This really helps optimizing. - In-game wiki describes each product, where it is made, where it is sold, and what it takes to make. Cons: - Graphics are outdated (early 90s sprites). This doesn't really bother me a ton, but it could bother others. - You never miss something until it's gone: the interface is outdated. Specifically, there is no time dilation (faster/slower) or pause. There is no view rotation which can make hooking up roads/rails difficult. - The range of their buildings should be rebalanced. I find myself constantly either kicking myself or just taking dynamite to things because they are just out of range. Often by just one or two squares. Nitpicks: - They skimped on their English translator. You get the gist of what they're conveying, but it is off-putting. Names aren't exact so if you look for one thing, it's often called something else (though similar enough). - Trains need brains. Even with two rails, they often go down the same side and slow each other down. Edit: Found on the forums that + increases speed and - decreases. "P" will pause. Still marking them down for not showing key bindings in the options or something. Who knows what other keys I'm missing?
• gamedeal user

  Aug 14, 2015

  A great tycoon game with a huge amounts of missions to play. Includes the expansion, which adds more goods, vehicles, and missions.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 21, 2017

  Get it on sale. Get past the clunky UI. Watch your maintenance costs. There is a fun interesting game underneath. I bought this on sale and let it sit for several months unplayed. Then when I opened it something about the UI hit me, and I didn't want to bother learning it and asked for a refund. But they told me I had owned it long enough they wouldn't refund it (even though I had only played for 1 hour). So fine... I decided to try it again. And it is fun - but it borders on tedious in places. Hints would have helped this game a lot. Like "Hint: + and - will change game speed." That's a big one. Or "Hint: Just because water looks contiguous doesn't mean a boat can go through it because the graphics are buggy." That one kind of sucks. What would I compare this to? It strangely reminds me of Factorio - some of the same logistics take place here, and some of the same tedium. What is not like Factorio is the possibility of having maintenance costs that overwhelm an economy into a downward spiral. This is a really great feature of the game. Build a bunch of warehouses and a ton of transportation and watch the balance sheet go deeper and deeper into the red with no hope of reversal! This is probably more accurately a precursor to Anno 2017 - although I find this more playable and engaging - maybe because has more logistical puzzles than Anno has (for example the warehouse placement can introduce interesting problems). This is an economic sim. In all I'm happy they refused to give me the refund. This is not a bad game, and it was worth the effort overcoming small learning curve and UI.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 16, 2015

  I was so excited about the "restored" version of this game. After years of waiting this was such a huge disappointment. No trouble in launching it but multiple crashes during gameplay made this old gem unplayable for me, and seen the past of this publisher regarding product support I decided to refund it.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 19, 2018

  This game does simply not work on most modern computers. Especially computers that have a Nvidia graphic card, apparently. I have spent about 2-3 hours searching the web for solutions, but I could find no one that works. There is a Nvidia Modd that say it could make Industry Giant II work, but I was not so lucky. Buy at your own risk. Nvidia owners beware!
• gamedeal user

  Aug 15, 2015

  I'm going to save everyone some time looking through the forums waiting for the devs to respond. If you want to play the game, you have to run it in compatibility for Windows 95. That'll make it work. (Good game if it wasn't for this rather botched launch).
• gamedeal user

  Aug 17, 2015

  This is a great game which was made many years ago, and is one of my favorites once again. That being said there is an error (info below was from launch date; think they may have fixes this now. Compatability mode is often used for older games) which you may get when starting this game, and here is how to fix it: Here is how to run this game when you get the graphics card error Go to where this local game is stored on your computer. On mine it was: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Industry Giant 2 Next rigth click on the file Ig2(underscore)AddOn (It won't let me type underscore on here it looks sort of like the minus key.) Next click properties Click compatability Check run this administrator, and click run this program in compatability mode for: Windows 98/Windows ME. Now run your game. Also once you start a game go to options, and turn off the videos as videos can cause crashes to the desktop. The Good: Very fun game based on transporting resources/products around and manufacturing/selling them. This is one of my favorites of all time. If you like business type games, this could easily be one of your favorites. Cities grow Ok graphics; remember this game came out originally in like 2002. :) The Bad: Have to run this in Windows 98/ME compatability. Graphics a little outdated
• gamedeal user

  Aug 18, 2015

  - Game Starts - Game Works - Playing 1H - Game Crashes - Game Starts - Game crashed again - Game never worked again 1/10 for the HD Remake
• gamedeal user

  Apr 29, 2022

  This is one of my favourite games of all time. I've played through it on four separate occasions, and I'm sure there will be a fifth. As of April 2022, the version you are getting on Steam is the upgraded Gold edition with all the additional content. The "hard" campaign is a challenge, particularly "Northern Sund" and "Christmas Bay". If you like old school management sim games which are not a walkover, then this is highly recommended.