- October 17, 2019
- Mirage Game Studios
- 29h median play time
Little Big Workshop
Little Big Workshop is a factory simulator built for the masses. It gets the little details right while setting up big goals for those new to the genre, even if the little workers can cause headaches at times.
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About Little Big Workshop
Little Big Workshop is a single player tactical city builder game with economy and business themes. It was developed by Mirage Game Studios and was released on October 17, 2019. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and positive reviews from players.
Manage your workers and create awesome stuff as you grow your dream factory!











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Reviews
- Charming and cute art style with relaxing music and pleasant visuals.
- Engaging factory management simulation that balances complexity and accessibility.
- Satisfying gameplay loop involving production planning, worker management, and market dynamics.
- Workers AI is often inefficient or idle, causing frustration with task prioritization and pathfinding.
- Repetitive late-game gameplay with tedious micromanagement and lack of meaningful endgame content.
- Multiple bugs and glitches including crashes, stuck workers, and broken mechanics that hinder gameplay experience.
gameplay
205 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe gameplay offers a satisfying and engaging factory management experience with a solid core loop of planning, building, and optimizing, appealing especially to fans of management sims. While intuitive and charming in design, it suffers from some clunky mechanics, frustrating micromanagement (especially machine repairs), and occasional bugs, with depth and challenge that can wane after 20-30 hours due to repetitiveness and lack of late-game variety. Overall, it balances accessible, casual play with enough complexity for strategy enthusiasts, though improvements in tutorials, automation, and quality-of-life features are needed.
“Bursting with style and with refined mechanics, this game scratched that perfect itch, which drove me to optimize routes between machines and strategize room placements.”
“From its clever aesthetic design to its complex production mechanics, it delivers a satisfying loop of planning, building, and optimizing.”
“The strategy and depth of options are amazing; the gameplay loop is engaging and I feel like I've not yet seen half of what is available either!”
“The concept’s a banger, but it’s buried under clunky mechanics and a design that screams “we ran out of budget.” If you’re into management sims and have the patience of a saint, you might squeeze some joy out of this.”
“As much as I would love to give this game a thumbs up, I grew so frustrated with the continuous need to repair machines that were blowing up all the time with seemingly no mechanic to automate it that I just gave up on the game.”
“The priority system doesn't work properly (or maybe it does? There's no documentation on it, as far as I can tell), which is unfortunately the only mechanic provided to guide your operators, who run back and forth doing more hauling than the employees specialized in it.”
Critic Reviews
Little Big Workshop Nintendo Switch review
Little Big Workshop is an enjoyable entry in the management sim game. It features cute diorama style visuals, but has surprisingly deep systems to tinker with that will keep you focused and strategising for the best way to grow your factory.
70%Little Big Workshop (PC) REVIEW – Finely Crafted
Little Big Workshop is a factory simulator built for the masses. It gets the little details right while setting up big goals for those new to the genre, even if the little workers can cause headaches at times.
80%Little Big Workshop Review (PS4)
Little Big Workshop should be a tremendously fun and immersive experience when the countless bugs are fixed. Currently, the console experience will be just as worthy of your time as the PC version is. Fortunately, the producers seem to be aware of the countless issues, and they are working on fixing them (several patches have already been deployed). Still, the state of the game at launch remains inexcusable, and even after several patches, some major issues continue to plague the game's complex mechanics. If you have picked up Little Big Workshop right after release and got turned down by the technical issues, then wait for a few more patches and give it another chance. If you're considering the game, wait for a discount since Little Big Workshop might be fixed by then.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Little Big Workshop is a tactical city builder game with economy and business themes. Common tags for Little Big Workshop include 3D, indie, trading, automation, family friendly and others.
Little Big Workshop is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, iPhone, Windows and others.
On average players spend around 37 hours playing Little Big Workshop.
Little Big Workshop was released on October 17, 2019.
Little Big Workshop was developed by Mirage Game Studios.
Little Big Workshop has received mostly positive reviews from players and mostly positive reviews from critics. Most players liked Little Big Workshop for its gameplay but disliked it for its story.
Little Big Workshop is a single player game.
Similar games include Good Company, Rise of Industry, Production Line, Blacksmith Master, Blueprint Tycoon and others.










