Little Big Workshop Review (guilder13)
I like this game but don't recommend to buy it. There are better games similar to this one. And looks like this game is not supported by developers any more.
Good points:
1. Interesting concept. Despite having complex possibilities it has funny vibe, close to old games like Gadget Tycoon or Transport Tycoon, Theme Hospital.
2. Funny mini games: catch a spy, kill rats, etc.
3. Starts pretty easy, but has more complex features.
What I don't like:
1. There is nothing but company, you can continue after you finished. But after you end the plot, there is no point to move forward. May be DLC will help, but I don't want to buy it.
2. Annoying mini games. Catch a spy is funny when you have 10-20 workers, but when you have 50-100 and most of them including spies do nothing most of the time. And you have to notice odd behavior somehow... Other games okay, but pointless.
3. Work parallelization. As a professional software developer I insulted by that kind of multi-tasking :) Well, you don't have many options for paralleling work. So mostly when project is close to the end, we have 1 person doing task and 10 people watching. There is batching, but it divides tasks by 5, it doesn't matter how complex this task. Assembling 5 robots or sawing 5 planks, all the same. So unless you have hundreds of items to produce, it's not very helpful. Considering that usual challenges are 10-15 items, it's almost pointless. They produce a little bit faster with batching, but still lots of idling.
4. It is not a factory. You have projects, but you can't sell produced items until project is fully done. Also you cant just establish production line and automatically sell produced items.
5. Bugs. For example export zone is not suitable for most of the large products. I don't understand why there are small shelves, they don't use them.
6. Strange things. Don't know if they are bugs or not. Like 3 people required to move object: pack, carry, unpack. They just don't do next part, even though any worker can do all of those parts. Or workers falling tired even if there are plenty of rooms to have rest.
7. Poor optimization, I have 1060. On medium quality it heats up to 80 degrees. Had to set to low. Sometimes game freezes for 1-2 seconds when truck comes to the loading bay.