Modulus

“I can say this game was great fun as someone who plays a lot of other factory games, however be warned that there is not a lot of replayability, the end game can be a little of a drag as you just watch bars fill up once you set up everything, and the performance is not great once you have 10 or so islands with major factories; had my game crash about 3 times, and the save and quit action would freeze the game for over 15 minutes at times, but never lost progress.”

“Only real complaint is it's pretty poorly optimized on Linux with frequent stuttering and crashes even in the early game.”

“Performance - it has about 5-10fps on my handheld where similar games usually have 300+ fps.”

“Little satisfaction in becoming invested in aesthetics - constant need for optimization always takes priority.”

“Now, this shows that I'm playing it on Steam Deck, which to be fair, I am - and I had to drop the graphics settings way down, but that's mostly because I'm using my Steam Deck while connecting it to a monitor/keyboard/mouse.”

“Mind you this was in creative mode, right out of the box with an empty world and on the 'low' graphics option (which didn't really do anything).”

“Because the game completely lacks general statistics and meta-information—like production per minute, efficiency tracking, or total resource counts—the process of optimizing and rebuilding your factory becomes incredibly tedious later on.”

“Progression starts off exciting, but once you hit blue hypercube requirements, it can start feeling grindy fast.”

“There are also balancing issues, some buildings are just way too slow (like painters), which I think they do to push you to finding clever ways around it (like making huge 8x8x8 cubes and painting those) but again, it just ends up being grindy instead of fun.”

“I wish there was some background music, or maybe my old ears just don't notice it.”

“No real music, which is fine because I prefer playing my own music in the background.”

“My only mild dislike is the music, only because I prefer more upbeat music when playing strategy games.”

“"Story" mode is just a short tutorial followed by sandbox with a tech tree.”

“I get the reason they chose to obscure things, to try and add some kind of story to the game, but it isn't worthwhile.”

“My only complaint is that it could benefit from a more fleshed out story, and some humor.”

“I like the idea but it's hard to recommend it for a simple reason: it freezes a lot, and on top of that there is no quick save keybind so you have to keep going into the menu, click save, confirm overwrite.”

“There were some glitches in late game (I have filed reports with the devs), but I enjoyed it for the most part.”

“Not sure in any case I wasn't going to spend time troubleshooting.”

“Overall, I do recommend it for only a single playthrough, so make sure the price you're paying for the game is worth it for a game with limited replayability.”

“I can say this game was great fun as someone who plays a lot of other factory games; however, be warned that there is not a lot of replayability. The end game can be a little of a drag as you just watch bars fill up once you set up everything, and the performance is not great once you have 10 or so islands with major factories. The game crashed about 3 times, and the save and quit action would freeze the game for over 15 minutes at a time, but I never lost progress.”

“I think replayability may be a tad less than that of other games in its genre, being a single handcrafted map where the start feels like it's going through the same motions every run, but the game definitely hits the right spots within its stride, which should last dozens of hours for that one perfect run.”