Sandship: Crafting Factory

Love the story and the factory building, is satisfying and interesting. Unfortunately several bugs are INCREDIBLY frustrating, namely the inability to complete contracts (as they sometimes get stuck), and the level 4 underwell pit expands the space inside but doesn’t let you place any more structures, making it impossible to gain everstone with the higher enemy spawns. The in transit and storage menus are too small on the phone and it’s difficult/near impossible to scroll or drag resources around. Without these few issues this game would easily be 5 stars, I’ve been playing a long time and you’ve got a great thing going. Keep up the work devs! You made a great product, it just needs some love. Edit: The newest update is fantastic. Splitting up individual storage limits for each resource was a great idea, though it does mean you have to spend credits to increase those individual caps. However, being able to drag the transit and storage box out and maximize it to see each of the mentioned resource storage caps makes it so much easier to see what you have. It also seems as if the contract bugs have been fixed! There are still some minor crashing and optimization issues, but I love that you guys are still working so hard on this game. I’ve updated my rating to 5 stars.

I don’t usually rate games but this game is very well thought out and impressive. I’m and actual engineering student and I love this game because on the surface it is quite simple but in order to make hyper optimal factories, it really makes you think and there are a lot of ways to be clever in this game. Also the dev team is super helpful. I had an issue, submitted a support ticket, and within the hour they had responded and resolved the issue. I wish all customer service was that good! Of course there are some bugs that still need working through, but this game has a ton of potential to be way better than it already is.

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I’m on iPad Pro 12.9”, (2nd generation), 512 Gb memory. I have enjoyed playing Deep Town so thought I would give this a try. It seemed to install ok. I started into the tutorial. When I got to the point where Harvey is telling me to “claim the science”, I could see only half of the the yellow arrow at the lower left screen. Apparently I need to tap something down there to proceed but can’t see or tap it. If I tap Harvey’s dialog bubble, he disappears but I still have no function. I closed out but it reopened back to the same scene. I uninstalled then reinstalled the game but it again reopened to the same scene. There doesn’t seem to be anything I can do to get past this point. I’m disappointed because from just the few minutes I spent in the tutorial, I was very impressed and was very much looking forward to playing this game. I enjoy games that have some complexity and require some thinking. I also enjoy good detailed graphics and pleasant music and sound effects. This game seems to have all of the qualities I enjoy. Perhaps even more than Deep Town. I think this game was released only a month or two ago so there are some bugs that need to be worked out. I plan to check back every week or so hoping that the developers will get this bug worked out. Until then, I still have Deep Town to keep me occupied.

This game has potential to be awesome! The concept is fun, there’s a TON of things to construct, and the logic to construct them (mostly) makes sense when you stop to think about it. That said, all of the bugs don’t seem to be worked out as of yet. For starters: - The game crashed the first time I started it, before linking to my Game Center account. It hasn’t crashed again though. - Sometimes, the screen will go completely orange except for the “unlock at building level 4” window to the left of where the factory is supposed to be. Closing down and restarting seems to fix this. - Getting the red exclamation point to go away from the Collectibles tab is a chore. You have to poke around a lot to get it to go away. Also, there could be a little more explanation from Harvey about temperature requirements for some of the machines and how many tiles of conveyor belt you need for hot stuff to cool down. Additionally, machine product ratios could be more prominent. Much like real life, the machines will make weird noises and continue to work visibly fine, and much like real life, those noises can be super annoying. This game could easily be a solid 5 once these issues are addressed and I’ll be happy to amend my review at that point.

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Because of some glitch I can’t seem to make it through the tutorial, for whatever the point I’m supposed to click on is off the screen (as far as I can tell from the half visible arrow) and the entire rest of the screen is unresponsive. I understand that in a more complicated game like this it’s important to have a tutorial so players don’t start the game with no idea how to play and give a negative review because of their failure to understand the game. However, if you are going to force a tutorial it is unacceptable to make the game unplayable when the tutorial doesn’t go right. For now my rating will be 1 star because I can’t reasonably give any other rating. As soon as this major issue is fixed I will revise my rating in accordance with the actual quality of the game. All the best