If you are a fan of simulation games and love building and managing your empire, you will be excited to know about Rise of Industry. A tycoon game set in the 1930s that has been generating buzz among gaming enthusiasts. Developed by Dapper Penguin Studios and published by Kasedo Games, Rise of Industry allows players to build their industrial empires from scratch and grow them to magnate status. The game is designed to offer players an experience tailored to their style of play and has enough strategic complexity and replayability to satisfy both novice and experienced gamers.
Build your empire and prosper with Rise of Industry
In Rise of Industry, players take on the role of budding entrepreneurs, building factories, constructing efficient production lines, moving raw materials, and producing finished goods. Players are responsible for arranging trade with the world’s developing cities, providing them with the resources they need to flourish. As the cities grow and prosper, players’ empires grow as well.
Random business events and stock auctions add complexity to the game, keeping players on their toes. AI rivals compete for market share, constantly looking for ways to grow and exploit enemy weaknesses, making hostile takeovers a real possibility. With over 150 individual products to produce, players must manage every step along the way from raw material to end product.
Transportation and logistics are key components of the game, and players must build and manage a solid transportation network to enable the efficient transfer of goods via plentiful trucks, speedy trains, and high-capacity airships. Advanced town and city AI make for an intelligent and changing game world, and players must adapt their approach for every town or face economic backlash.
Huge, procedurally generated maps mean that players will always have room to expand their empires, whether in testing scenarios or sandbox mode where imagination is the only limit. Players must balance environmental impact with productivity, choosing between churning out products at the expense of nature or being conscientious industrialists, balancing the delicate lay of the land with their hunger for profit.
Challenges to overcome
Although Rise of Industry has been hailed as an excellent game with replayability, it comes with a few barriers that might turn players off before they learn it. The game has much more in common with a factory game than a transportation game, and players must complete complex production chains to win the game. The automatic behavior of warehouses is also a problem, and players must turn it off or face traffic congestion and skyrocketing transportation costs.
Warehouses default to immediate delivery of items, instead of waiting until they are full, which can lead to sending out lots of warehouse trucks with a single item. Players can make “wait until full” the default, but they need to set a game option to do this. Train pathing has some bugs, and players must create crossovers near each train terminal to prevent trains from treating X-type crossings as intersections where they can turn, leading to train pathing problems.
Despite these challenges, Rise of Industry has an economic model that is quite forgiving on normal difficulty, but the challenge increases significantly on the hardest settings. The AI players may not be a significant threat, but they do act as obstacles, buying up territories before players can afford them, which delays access to raw materials like iron, copper, and coal. Overall, Rise of Industry is a game that strategy enthusiasts will love and is definitely worth a try. Its free!
