Helixteus 3

Helixteus 3

Ever wondered how it feels like to manage and exploit entire universes? Start small with only one planet. Construct and upgrade buildings to produce resources. Explore caves to find treasure. Send ships to other planets to fight enemies and get more building space. Conquer other star systems and start building Dyson spheres and other megastructures. Do research to unlock innovative ways to expand your megafactory.

Done conquering the universe? Send probes that look for other universes and get ready to uncover all sorts of new, exciting and weird things in them, where the speed of light can be 35c, and the gravitational constant such that it affects how galaxies and planets form.

Features

  • Procedurally generated planets, caves, star systems, galaxies, clusters, superclusters and universes for replayability

  • 50+ types of resources to juggle with, divided into many categories: materials, metals, atoms, particles etc.

  • 16 types of infinitely upgradable buildings with varied functionalities: resource generation, resource conversion, vehicle construction etc.

  • 6 types of megastructures where their costs and power can depend on the star or the planet they are on

  • 40+ researchable technologies that unlock features and boost gameplay

  • Incremental gameplay. Almost anything you do (including not doing anything) helps make numbers go up even faster. Offline progress. No or very little penalties when losing a battle.

  • 2 skill-based minigames that help accelerate things a bit


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Helixteus 3 on Steam

FOUNDRY

FOUNDRY

FOUNDRY is a first-person factory building simulation set in an endless procedurally generated voxel world. Mine resources, craft machinery and automate your research to progress through the game. Face logistic challenges by planning and building a conveyor belt and pipe network. Manage a complex power system and expand your constantly growing production lines.

Automate Everything

While you start small by crafting your first items and machines by hand, you will soon find yourself surrounded by a large sci-fi factory doing the work for you. You need to expand your factory by building more production lines, conveyor belts and pipes while keeping a stable power supply for your growing energy demands. By conducting research, you will unlock more advanced, complex and faster technology to optimize the design and maximize the output of your factory.

Expand Worldwide

Every new game starts with a different procedurally generated voxel world. Each block can be destroyed and new blocks (terrain or buildings) can be placed to shape the worlds to fit your desires. Build your sprawling factory on a mountain, in the jungle or inside the deepest mine - everything is possible!

Play Together

FOUNDRY can be played alone or cooperatively with friends. The multiplayer mode works over the internet as well as offline through LAN networking. There are currently no player limits for multiplayer, but we think the game is best played with 2-4 players.


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FOUNDRY on Steam

Learning Factory

Learning Factory

As a big fan of simulators (especially building-type simulators), I was excited to check this game out from the second it popped up on my gaming feed. It’s still in Early Access so it’s not quite complete, but you’ll still be able to put in quite some time to getting your factory up to tip top shape.

PROS:

  • Nothing really costs too much money, so as long as you keep your researchers busy learning new things, you can make a large factory/shops with ease.

  • Once you craft something, it’s yours forever. If you place it down, you can just pick it right back up.

Real player with 20.9 hrs in game


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Highly recommended, I bought it the moment the lovely Discord staff said it was up on Steam for sale.

Keeping in mind, this is an Early Access game, so some features will be inevitably changed, but so far, the game is so reminiscent of Factorio. Within the two hours of me playing this game, it had me do some quests that get you a little taste of the game.

Fair Warning, this game is buggy. It just got released a few hours ago. Have some faith you people.

I personally have beef with that delayed crafting bug.

Real player with 10.2 hrs in game

Learning Factory on Steam

Mall Craze

Mall Craze

Have you ever walked into your local mall and started thinking:

“How cool it would be if I could build all of this by myself?!”

YOU CAN! Mall Craze is a shopping center management game where you Build, Customize, and Manage your very own mall.

Build

The first step to becoming a successful businessperson is to actually start building your mall.

Do you want to recreate your local Mall, or would you rather craft your own design

and make the mall truly unique? Go for it!

Shops, Department Stores, Restaurants, Movie Theater, and Fitness Center are just a few among many types of facilities that you will construct.

Customize

Your experince in Mall Craze would be rather dull if every single mall looked exactly the same.

Visual customization is the next step in assuring that the mall you build is trully yours.

A piano made out of gold? I’ll take 2, please!

Manage

Now it’s time to roll up your sleeves and get back to business! (quite literally)

Managing a whole shopping center is no joke and there is a lot that needs to be taken care of.

Hire staff, fulfill customer’s needs, advertise your mall, research new products, and set better prices. All of these are very crucial steps that ensure maximum profit, and are helping you to reach that big dream of yours – becoming a tycoon giant!

Features

Types of Shops

  • Classic Shops/Showrooms

  • Small Stalls

  • Services (barber, fitness center, …)

  • Fast Foods and Restaurants

  • Movie Theater

Mall Craze on Steam

News Tower

News Tower

News Tower is a news and resource management simulation game. Your goal is to build a newspaper empire in 1930s New York that is economically profitable, independent, and, most importantly, that covers trustworthy news. Check your sources, or don’t.

Manage your tower from printer to toilet. Hire new employees, discover the globe and stumble upon the world’s latest news. Assign the best reporters to the job. Search for exclusives, scoops and advertising deals. Keep an eye on your readers’ needs, increase subscriptions and earn big bucks.

News Tower is a game filled with tales of cultural and economic struggles, intrepid adventures and sporting victories. It will capture the interest of any simulation game lover.

New York, 1930. The USA is in depression. The biggest economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world and another World War are imminent. Newspapers are struggling throughout the country, as many of their customers are having to pinch pennies like never before. In this turbulent time, you are trying to become one of the nation’s most trusted newspapers, and to create one of Brooklyn’s most iconic buildings: News Tower.

  • Build and manage your own News Tower, from printer to toilet

  • Hire the best employees for the job

  • Send your reporters all around the globe

  • Put together your own newspaper – you choose the news

  • Go for truth or spin the news and earn those big bucks

Studio Nul Games, founded in 2019, is a young video game company from Rotterdam,

The Netherlands. We love making games that are smart, welcoming, and immersive.

Everyone in our team shares the same ambition:

to have a good time through friendly gaming experiences that will test your skills

and let you forget anything else.

News Tower on Steam

Prison Tycoon: Under New Management

Prison Tycoon: Under New Management

Good thinks first:

  • 2 point hospital style is great for this, UI and control is great

  • Actually difficult eco, it is not easy to balance thinks…

Thinks which must be updated:

  • Nobody cares about building cells. Allow copy/paste of buildings (just like 2PH have room classes across games. This is must have). To build one, two is fine, to build 40 is just a waste of time.

  • Cleaning of the rooms is broken. Sometimes items in the room cannot be cleaned for what ever reason (fckng toilet seat cannot be cleaned) and the maintenance guy looses all his stamina on one item. Then he goes to the rest and another one comes in and spend his stamina on the same item. I have to manually move the item - then it is fine. This could be “fixed” using magic trick - maintenance cleans the room as a whole, not per item.

Real player with 22.0 hrs in game

I love these kind of games but there could be improvements such as:

1. It would be good to have workshops that prisoners can learn new skills that will help them get a job after they leave prison. There are therapies available that treat their disorders but Workshops are different and is there so they can learn new things in order to adjust to the society once they go back. Such as cooking classes, learning a new musical instrument, learning foundations of business and finance 101.

Then you will be able to hire professional chefs, musicians, lecturers to come and teach.

Real player with 13.2 hrs in game

Prison Tycoon: Under New Management on Steam

Bear and Breakfast

Bear and Breakfast

Bear and Breakfast is a laid-back management adventure game where you play as a well-meaning bear trying to run a B+B in the woods. Hank and his friends find an abandoned shack and, equipped with their teenage ingenuity, turn it into a money-making bed and breakfast scheme for unsuspecting tourists. As your business expands so do the mysteries of the forest, and Hank soon finds himself uncovering a plot deeper than the wilderness itself.

  • Build and personalize your inn with dozens of guest rooms, bathrooms, parlors, and entertainment.

  • Each room can be individually customized completely from furniture to fixtures.

  • Bring guests into the forest to stay at your inn. Keep ‘em happy to maintain your reputation, earn money and attract new customers!

  • Complete quests and story lines to collect new items and perks for your inn.

  • Uncover a world rich in lore, side quests, characters, and secrets.

Moving through the story-rich world of Bear and Breakfast will have you stumbling on dozens of interesting folks and weirdos, much like yourself.

Most of them have something to say about your endeavors and if you take some time out of your day to listen, they might help your build your shack to new heights!

Not everyone is as helpful or as needy though. Are you bear enough to search deep within the forest and your soul to find the mysteries that lie within?

Bear and Breakfast on Steam

Advancity

Advancity

hi there

congratulations on the game, im loving it. for people who like build an empire and have to think strategically to defeat the monster i really recomend this game.

Real player with 25.1 hrs in game

I’ve been playing the game for about 14 hours now and while it was fun at start, some things started to annoy me:

  • First off, a dev who claimed (in discord) this game is worthy of a full release, which obviously is not the case).

  • Too many plots are taken by bandit camps and mining plots

  • Boats are buggy and can break sometimes (not allowing you to load resources on it)

  • It needs more optimization, i have a great pc but even for me the game started stuttering (ingame and sound)

  • Bandit camps need balancing. I have them with only kings, which requires a max level training field. By the time i can defeat them i have no more need for such resources you can get from them.

Real player with 15.0 hrs in game

Advancity on Steam

Hippoboar Rancher ~かばいの牧場物語~

Hippoboar Rancher ~かばいの牧場物語~

Super cute farming simulator game with a little bit of magic sprinkled in~! It’s not super complicated- you build buildings, raise animals, grow crops, talk to towns folk, maybe complete a quest or two every now and then. Still, the game manages to be very fun, with a hilarious and lovable cast of characters~! I especially like some of the subtle callbacks to other OTUSUN Club games thrown into the script~ I’ve only been playing a couple of hours but I’m excited to see what else the game has in store for me~! ^_^

Real player with 5.6 hrs in game

Hippoboar Rancher ~かばいの牧場物語~ on Steam

Malmyr

Malmyr

I stumbled across this recently, and have been enjoying working through the campaign. I give this a thumbs up primarily because of the enthusiastic and helpful developer responses to questions I had, and I feel I got my moneys worth of entertainment value. These guys deserve some more attention for their efforts. It is a game that I “like” but don’t “love”.

Malmyr offers some quite different mechanics to what you would normally expect, though not all of those are necessarily positive things (it is very mouse clicky) and can take some getting used to. Kind of revealing is the lack of a lets play series out there - people tend to bounce off it after a few hours I think. Fundamentally the game is more of a puzzler than a true building game - space is limited and the randomly generated tiles can require some planning before you commit to building. I am hoping to finish the campaign, I am always a sucker for trying to “finish” a game. I haven’t tried the sandbox mode though I may give that a quick shot once I knock off the last two missions, we shall see. I just have too many other games that are begging for my time and this just doesn’t have that magic X factor or depth of strategy tp keep coming back to.

Real player with 77.2 hrs in game

Malmyr is THE game you’ve been waiting for a long time! What a pleasant surprise!

Malmyr is the perfect mix of real-time strategy and puzzle game. Because in Malmyr building your city is not made as easy as in other building games. Instead, you have to ensure an always sufficient flow of raw materials through increasingly complex road systems. but malmyr always remains clear, fair and, above all, relaxing. Relaxation is the perfect word to describe malmyr. You have no time pressure, you can correct mistakes at any time without losing your progress.

Real player with 23.8 hrs in game

Malmyr on Steam