Production Chain Tycoon Reviews

Cute, fun game. Would love to keep playing but just can’t. Once you get to the second island there are numerous “swamp”, “trash”, “pollution” tiles in your way which require watching numerous 40-50 second ads to remove. Total ad watch time time to clear all of them on just the second island was 20 minutes. I don’t want to even think how bad the third or other islands will be and won’t be playing to find out.

Game seems really chill, good art etc but immediately being hit with relatively expensive IAPs which are visible offers during normal gameplay is disappointing.

Go look at Technopoly in ProductionChainTycoon Store and then look at this game. They’re the same game made by the same developer but this one is reskinned and lacks newer content. He’s just trying to develop the same game twice but change the title.

This game does its job. It keeps you entertained for a bit and that’s what we all want. But after those first few days of enjoyment, it turns to disgust. The amount of time needed to obtain the resources needed to build a simple ROAD or CABLE is just terrible. In what world does the cost of road MULTIPLY if you end up making more of it? The cost should remain the same. Upgrades should be the only thing multiplying. The fact that one piece of road can cost 200K stone and then the next cost 240K is what I mean btw. THAT DOESNT MAKE SENSE. ROAD IS ROAD. CABLE IS CABLE. A Reservoir is a reservoir. These things don’t change the value of your income. They should remain constant.

This game is really cool and it has a lot of potential but it's also one of the most frustrating playing experiences I've had in awhile. Power and plumbing routes are insane and can't go under roads like in real life. The road system is clunky and tedious as well. The whole battery thing is kind of stupid in the sense that you can be connected to the power supply but magically the power in the game doesn't pass through power sources? Are you serious?

Again tons of potential, there's just a lot of illogical interactions between infrastructure and resources that don't make the game more fun. It kinda makes the game a mediocre messy puzzle.

Hope you fix your game. It was fun until power and plumbing were unlocked, then it became chaos. Just fix the chaos.

Great start. Loved the game at first. It was your general resource management game. You had to figure out how to maximize the space you were given since resources were static.

Once you get to the mid game where you unlock energy, the game kind of fell apart for me because to utilize power, you needed to have resource nodes have two free slots next to them to connect to a road and cable. If these nodes were on the coast, you couldn’t take advantage of the upgraded buildings.

I figured power could be stacked onto the roads or something but you actually needed to make space for the cables. It’s hard to explain but once you get there, I’m sure you’ll see what I’m talking about.

Read the title again

It’s fun enough at first but now 99% of the time and islands are filled with charcoal production and I’m still at a deficit. Every single thing I do is centered around charcoal, I have to upgrade my stone so I can upgrade charcoal more. Which means I have to upgrade stone, which means I have to upgrade wood. And then finally I reach a point where I’m completely even with charcoal and then I buy one upgrade not centered around charcoal. AND THEN I SPEND ANOTHER 3 GRUELING HOURS ON CHARCOAL AGAIN. Buff charcoal and gravel (which kinda has the same problem but i only spend like 1/10th of the time on that as I do charcoal) and maybe the game will be fun.

I understand that this being a primarily free to play game there is of course going to be ads involved, but the fact that one of the islands cost real money “$7.99”, yet it has ad trash like the rest of the free islands? I mean I wasn’t expecting much when I bought it, maybe some clouds pulling away to reveal the island. Slim chance but maybe a new resource node that unlocked some other material. None of that was to be found however, just a regular island and a bunch of ad trash… The game is very fun and I have put many hours into it but this is a real issue to me I feel played it’s not a lot of money but paying for that island and then being forced to watch ads to gain full access to what I paid for is just crazy

This game was amazing at first. Having to maximize resource production using limited space was so fun. The other islands having trash wasn’t a big deal, I spent hours playing this game so spending a few bucks for coins didn’t bother me.

But what does bother me, is the exponential increase of cost for upgrading your supply chain.

The cost to upgrade gets so high that I can only play the game a couple minutes per day because I have to spend the rest of the time offline to get the bonus.

Having to deal with cable, road, and pipes is fine and all, but I can’t even begin upgrading my infrastructure because it’s so prohibitively expensive.

Cement uses too much water, water uses too much energy, energy costs too much, sand uses too much energy, oil rigs use too much water, water costs too much to upgrade.

It’s like everytime I try to enjoy the game a little it slaps me in the face and calls me poor.

Overall, this game has great great potential but it desperately needs a rebalance

It’s so fun you can do anything but the is so downsides it’s takes a loooooooong time to get good but the game is fun😉😉😉😉

Text is too small. Otherwise a fun game.

Great game and a great example of how to do a F2P cellphone game. Ads are convenience, and not forced down your throat. Huge recommendation.

My only complaint is I feel there’s a bit of a balancing issue, namely with gravel.

Gravel is a resource you get fairly early on that is used by a couple of fairly important production plants, namely to make glass and concrete.

You’ll need a LOT of glass and concrete, but glass and concrete use a lot of gravel.

The problem I find is that gravel itself requires an asinine amount of power for relatively little gravel.

I’m at a point where I’m waiting to move onto the final resource, carbon fiber- but I’m still having supply issues with gravel because of how power hungry it is.

I currently have 600k~ per second for energy production, but gravel uses 450k of that, and I still don’t have enough gravel to really make enough concrete/glass to really progress forward. (That’s betting around 60k gravel).

The current gameplay loop for quite a few days has been: log in, up power, up travel. Up power, up gravel. Up Power, up gravel, then maybe upgrade ether glass or concrete, repeat.

Overall, I believe the game is absolutely worth playing if you like city builders for enjoy dames like factorio. I enjoyed the early game a lot. Mid game was ok and end game was missing something.

Forests: only two things you can put on them. One for wood. One for planks with power.

Mountains: have many things you can put on them including windmill.

Charcoal: need a lot to advance but only one way to get it. Needs another option.

Power: I can get behind the power system for the most part until you need fluid pipes to the same building. I wish pipes and wires could stack. Also, some buildings use an astronomical amount of power (sand) to make very little glass for example.

Late game ended up just becoming more of an idle game - waiting for resources for an entire day at times to build or upgrade the same sets of buildings to eventually get an upgrade for the next tier.

Video Ad boosts were essential to get 2x materials

And then the game was over. Just like that. It almost felt like there was no rhyme or reason- it just ends. The only reason I built the last building was to say I did it. There was not even a quest related to it. It left me a bit empty and not really wanting more. Just an uninstalled game - with an empty last island and no bought island.

TL;DR
Fun early game. Mid game was ok. End game - pointless aka idle game status. Power /Pipes needs work. Need ad boosts to progress. No need to buy last island or boosts.

Very fun game, if you like games with factory’s and stuff it’s a nice mobile simple game. Only a few issues, most annoying is trash, I have saved most of my coins that I got for trash and could only clear 3 islands fully when I already unlocked 6. So I’m going to have to watch some ads. There are no ads when playing normally so that’s is literally heaven, so I understand needing some ads so you guys don’t go broke. But, please make the textures for some items different, iron and board look too similar along with charcoal and crude oil. I have barely any upgrades mostly cause they are very weak (so far at least) and cost a lot of coins. Upgrades are really not needed so I’m fine with that. Otherwise I can’t wait to see what comes next! (Fun fact you can change the tiles by holding them for a second and you can pay like 20 coins to make a new mountain or woods or plains.)

So the game is amazing, no forceful ads, and not really any in-app purchases. Something i wish there was though, is a pause button. Multiple times my factory has gone to heck and I had to build things and sell things super quickly. BUT if there was a pause button I would be able to take a quick breather and just sell things and build a few things then go back to my factories running. Something it could also help with is when I noticed how many mistakes I made on my first few islands, and I wanted to remake them but I knew that if I did. My factory would run out of resources quickly. Thank you for this amazing game!

Man when I preordered it it immediately download and I loved it
But can you change the dragon to not have irl money

The first two days of the game is extremely addicting. Leveling up, unlocking stuff and creating your production lines. But then it becomes about grinding for gravel and electricity which gets dull. Then once you are able to start producing the final resource then really isn’t anything left to do and it took me less than a week to get there. Overall I do love the game, but I think it lacks in depth. But at the same time a game that ends is better than a game that always has you chasing the carrot at the end of the stick and making you watch endless ads.

All of the pricing model is exponential which isn’t realistic and prevents one from building cool optimized city-planning designs.

Eg:
The price of non-generating items like roads, wires, and pipes should not increase. Why would block of wire cost 1 million steel yet the same exact wire cost 2 steel per block earlier on.

Those items above are connectors and it makes no sense to have them double in price every square block!

Also, those same items should have a “hidden”/underground layer so that the last Zones don’t end up looking like circuit boards! And prevent one from utilizing all the resources of the land!

Inner-conspiracy thinks this is some sort of anti-capitalist game that teaches land exploitation is unsustainable.

Just sayin,
Exponential growth makes the game near impossible to beat in one or two days.

Other than that, it was a nice way to get the optimization bug scratched!

The game is pretty slow to begin with and the litter that is around the map makes the game pretty much unplayable to a point. As if you plan to fill the whole area you have to spend a fortune of coins on it or remove it by watching videos which I’m not a fan of. But other than that the game is great for first impressions.

Awesome game, minimal ads, none forced. Suggestion: when you click a resource and see what is “income” and what is “upkeep”, if you could just click the production center in that screen to take you to one you have built so you can upgrade them it would be great and reduce a lot of “looking”.

The game is really good and I like it because you set up a tiny factory like island and see it evolve from each island from wood cutters to pyrolysis labs I think. Also if some can reply I need some advice because I can’t make anything since I can’t get energy. But why don’t you upgrade the energy produces, well I need concrete and glass which take lots of energy so I have to wait to get millions of concrete while I can produce 4 k each turn so yeah, the game is great

This is a fantastic game. Ads aren’t overbearing like other games. Most of my time is spent deleting everything and redesigning just because it’s fun lol.

The only thing I wish were different is the delete tool. It would be so much easier if it could delete multiple things at once with a bigger delete area or a selection type tool. And a delete all of X type of building would be awesome.

Really fun, well done puzzle / strategy idle clicker. I love Builderment - and this is like that - kinda. Some of the logic (pricing, supply availabilty) is really smart and well-balanced, but the inevitable bottlenecks are kind of clumsy.

What this game does wonderfully is present all the functions / options / info which are very detailed and complicated - in a super clear, intuitive way - and it makes playing really engaging.

I hope you keep building out the world and adding some additional activities.

If you like production chain games you do not have to look further because this is hands down THE BEST game to do it in. It does not force adds down your throat in the slightest and you could play this game forever without having to watch a single add. Second it does not constantly pressure you to make in app purchases. Last the gameplay is smooth simple and is not outstanding but is perfectly enjoyable and again if you like production chains games this is the place to play

Also please let us stack roads and pipes and all of that stuff or at least give us over/under passes or you could even let us stack 2. Just please make a change to that little thing

Easily One of the best factory esc tile games I’ve come across and I have quite a few and having no forced ads is another huge bonus makes the ads you do watch feel more rewarding which needs up making me watch a lot of ads but it feels a lot better than having them shoved in my face anyways great game and would recommend if you need to waste some time and like strategy and factory esc games

Coal power is nice, but those mountains can be used to farm steel, which is needed direly for wire and batteries. These become very expensive. Hydro power and wind power are probably best. I found less and less reason to chase plastic and especially carbon fiber and the higher industries. Need some rock farming because major upgrades are done through glass and concrete (which requires rock), but not to much, you can get loads for cheap, but it is necessary for upgrades. All that is based on gravel and water, these farm slowly, and gravel in particular puts a huge strain on power grid. Glass is not that bad to get going pretty steady, but concrete is a bit more challenging because water pumps do not pump much and upgrade slow.

I really enjoy games like this - well thought out with good progression and nice graphics.

Couple downsides that I have encountered, you must use every possible plot to be effective but the islands appear to be random and the result is some resource plots are simply not usable. Either they are in a peninsula and can’t be connected to a road or only have access on one side but need access to cables and roads.
Scales quickly. The more of a specific unit you buy (roads, cables etc) the more expensive they become which is fine but it quickly gets so expensive that it outpaces even well established islands especially when it comes to cables. Also - power generators don’t count as wires so you have to use valuable area for none productive cables and often you give up 2-3 possible power generating plots for cables to service a plot.

Otherwise it’s a great game.

Don’t mix up the stone and small steel like I did

I’ve been playing for a bit now and I’m in love but, I wish there were bridges and maybe trucks and trains so you can sea them move around the map.

Honestly, as someone with severe ADHD, this games is a boop. Absolutely a joy to play. IAP aren’t over the top, and honestly, not bad. They’re basically there to help increase your overall output without increasing your inputs.

I like it because you’re gonna build and stuff thanks for making the Game

This is very nice and satisfying for now. Simple tutorial. Music and sound are the best part. The rate of resources get/ idle is very fair. I’ll update my review later on. Thanks!!

Great game, nice to have a game that doesn’t ridicule me with ads or ask me to purchase something every 5 minutes. 🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯✅✅

Super cute and fun game to spend a few minutes on daily and upgrade my buildings. Love the game super fun!

This is really a unique game. you should defently try it.

This game had real care and thought put into it and it’s obvious the moment you start playing. There are no forced adds, which seem to be a common thing these days, and the only adds are optional, not even necessary to beat the game. The optional adds can be worked around with coins that you don’t even have to purchase with real money. Many critical reviews write that this game is a cash grab, that is not the case.
If you are considering downloading the game either for something to do with the extra free time or for something to feel rewarding, all the power to you. Have fun producing!

Yes yes enjoyable, bring joy

Good

I downloaded this game on a total whim last night, but I have been playing it nonstop on my breaks at work. At first when I realized I had to actually think about what I was buying and what resources I needed to use, I got frustrated and closed the game because I don’t want to think. I eventually opened it back up and I can’t put it down! The strategy in the game is stimulating but not so difficult that I feel stumped. I like the lack of ads aside from the trash cleaning. That being said, I wish getting coins was a bit easier so I didn’t have to watch 3 ads to clear one piece of trash.
Otherwise, the game is fantastic! The name is a bit off-putting but gets the point across.

Sequel to Technopoly… this is of course very great. I’m in the top 1% of leaderboard and I gotta say. I’m glad there is an update to the prequel. This game feels a lot easier to play and not as buggy. I have had a few issues here and there but I sent in big reports. Keep up the good work. I’ve already unlocked all the islands… Maybe add more islands soon or different quests?

If your bored and like a simulator that’s not all ads and is not grinding and not a slow paced game this if for you! You can progress at the speed you want ! It requires very minimal strategy to progress but make sure you provide enough materials because adding more shops that use that material to make different materials. No ads it’s one of the best free games for me. The policy is very good and there is no scams I love theses types of games because it develops your mind to think. This is a awsome game and it have good graphic design, gameplay, and currency. I would recommend to try this game as it keeps me from boredom. Developer s can you add multiplayer? Thanks!

Once you start playing its like wow well gotta do this then this and this while doing this and i love it and it keeps you engaged. Well its not much action packed, its a fun game to play while doing something on the side, slowly building your production line and rearranging the cables to be perfection lol. One thing i worry is that this will be all for the game, maybe a prestige and restart thing? or higher advanced technology? Something that will make the players want to play the game for longer. Seeing i got the game on release day and already have had so much fun, im excited to see more updates and content in the future for this game.

Glad this one popped up in my suggestions. It’s strenuous finding good idle mobile games that are f2p.
This is a relaxing and simplistic alternative to Factorio or something like that. Definitely a rewarding f2p if you don’t wanna pay and you don’t get punished with more ads by watching one to get a reward. For the mobile idle game world this actually has a challenging nature. The lack of challenge on f2p is a huge turn off in a genre that is rooted with exciting and complex experiences. Great game. Five out of five.