A factory sim in which every pixel has physics is the latest from Manor Lords publishers Hooded Horse

Sandustry joins the stable

"Factory builder with Noita-style pixel physics" is simply a transportation adjacent much calculated to marque maine fly screaming than "game successful which you dice successful precise tiny caves", but I'm penning up Sandustry anyway, due to the fact that Dune: Awakening came retired this month, and arsenic such, each sand-based games summation +20 property appeal.

We've covered the crippled before, with Ollie selecting the demo for 1 of our Steam Next Fest round-ups. Today's quality is that Hooded Horse, fans of moderately weird strategy games, person signed connected to people the thing, overmuch to solo developer Lantto's delight. Here's a trailer.

Sandustry lets you escaped upon the aboveground of a procedurally generated world, successful which each pixel "is a assets waiting to beryllium mined, mixed, processed, oregon destroyed". Expect "countless chemic and carnal reactions" arsenic you assemble a planet-gobbling logistics web from conveyor belts, pipes, pumps and elevators. Absolute chaos. I already suck astatine gathering symmetrical accumulation lines successful games that don't simulate things similar h2o turning into steam, which past returns to the world arsenic rain. Don't adjacent get maine started astir the imaginable of self-combusting slagpiles. Naughty slagpiles! Enough of that now.

Volatile terrain materials aside, you've besides got to interest astir past threats lurking heavy beneath the crust. This is problematic, due to the fact that those forbidden depths besides harbour caller technologies for your factories. This being specified a Dwarf Fortress-ass portion of work, I ideate 1 solution would beryllium to painstakingly excavation a transmission from the aboveground and capable the caves with mill byproducts, frankincense incinerating 2 birds with 1 deluge of white-hot slag. But it besides looks similar you tin conscionable caput down determination with a rocket launcher and instrumentality attraction of concern successful person.

"Partnering with a steadfast means I tin yet absorption 100% connected making the crippled without worrying astir each the indirect tasks that presently devour up a batch of time," enthuses the developer connected Steam. "I'll clasp afloat originative state portion having a squad to enactment maine with everything else. I can't deliberation of a amended location for Sandustry, and I'm stoked to commencement revealing aboriginal plans for the game, including details connected playtests and merchandise dates."

You emotion to spot it. That demo is inactive unrecorded connected Steam, if you fancy giving it a go.