Tower Factory Review - Factorio meets Tower Defense.

I like the look of this

"Factorio meets Tower Defense"

sounds like a plan

No pause? Pass.

looks like we are billions fog of war is involved

Was expecting Mac to love this kind of game. Well, he does, but still early access.

I guess I'll let this cook some more. Cheers Mack

Hey Mac did you hear about Terror of the Seven Seas?

Unless you are a basement dweller, real life invariably interrupts a gaming session.

A shame the game is let down by…. Well, poor game design.

It doesn't look half bad. I actually dig the simple art style.

No thx

8 days left to review the 2 best games of the year

Dude witchfire is awesome

I always hope that one day, he will end reviews of bad games with "Worth a Bye"

Mack nailed it for me. I want to make efficient conveyor systems and I can't do that without a pause key

"Anyone who likes tower defence and factorio kind of games" Oh Mack I can not get any more er*ct

Highly recommend Mindustry over this one.

Isnt Factorio already a tower defense, just.....broadly placed? :D

No pause or no active pause?

Wood? Mack didn't really play factorio?

Yawn, yet another tower defense game. Looks mobile gamey. Whoever made this deserve a slap

Can't count how many games I've seen you cover that get an immediate "That looks cool", but then it is early access with some fundamental issue that I then never remember to go back to it later.
Oh well.

why in the heck do we have to have "rogue like elements" in every bloody game. give it a rest already

Looks too much like a glorified mobile game to me. Hard pause.

Sounds a little too stressful for me. Been chilling like hell with "TCG Card Shop Simulator." It's like a typical sim game, only made by somebody who can actually make a functional game.

Tried it during NextFest or whatever it was called, it does get frantic, though I wouldn't say pausing is the core issue. The main problem for me was that when resources get depleted you don't get notified, so you only realize that when you can't build the tower you've been waiting for and it'll take another minute to move production, by which time you're dead. Even Anno notifies you immediately, and it's way more chill.

Pass even if it had a pause

I'd love to get in the pea-brained head of single-player game devs who don't implement pausing and just gawk at the emptiness.

Like is this supposed to be "the Dark Souls of tower defenses"? Who is their target audience?

Mac can you review dread dawn next?

Factorio itself is borderline tower defence when the biters get pissed off.

A pause button? IDC! The game desperately needs a fast forward button! It's so slow and easy!

Merry Xmas. Thanks so much for your work this year. Hope 2025 is great for you.

There should be pause. It’s a basic function. If people don’t want to pause, they don’t have to.

But most people want to pause. At the very least, it’s convenient for things like having to let the dog out, get to the door when there’s a delivery, answer the phone, baby waking up on the monitor. No pausing is just dumb and inconsiderate for the consumers time

thanks for the share and that the same thing i been saying for years about games they are not meant to be stressful to the point of frustration and today a lot of RPG and build games, such are all built this way, we just want to sit and have a bit of fun winning without grinding in everything we play.

Another good review from Worth A Buy
The game needs difficulty options. No pause while in the menu screen & resource grind will forever limit the sales of this as a niche game.
I gave feedback during Demo about difficulty options. Hard pass 4 me

Mindustry so much better

Sounds too frantic tbh.

If anyone finds this game appealing, you should check out Mindustry. It's almost the same game but looks better.

When the game has no content or interesting content; make it grindy. -.-''

At least a slowed down time while you're in building menus or yeah some kind of pause to plan a bit.
We all agree on this and now the feedback ball should reach them somehow from people who tried on early access.
It should be a pretty fun little game if they grow it while listening to feedback.

I have been eyeing this game for sometime. The concept seems cool.