Little Big Workshop
Imagine a magical factory, appearing right in your living room. A carefully planned masterpiece, where diligent workers throw together anything customers want. Rubber ducks and dressers, drones and electric guitars, scooters and other wonderful goods can be created from many different materials and sold for hard cash – cash you invest right back into your factory to get more machines, more workers and grow your business. In Little Big Workshop you become a factory tycoon! You are the Big Boss and it’s time to take charge of your very own tabletop factory. Organize the factory floor, manage your workers, purchase machinery, and design efficient production lines – all within the time-limit and to your client's satisfaction! Take it easy, it’s a sandbox-experience where you think, ponder and poke at things until you get it to work the way you’d like. Supply products to clients and an ever-changing market, as you produce over 50 unique product types, built from multiple parts and pieces – all of which can be created with different materials and production methods. No two factories should ever look the same. Start out with just a small workshop and expand to a desk-filling factory. Unlock ever fancier machines, add even more production methods, and most of all, more room. Soon enough you’ll be running multiple production lines, producing hundreds of advanced products each day, and watching with joy as your cute workers do the actual work.
Game Discussion
Steam User 2
I Love this game. Could it be better? Yes. Does it have some bugs? Yes. Doesn't matter. in two weeks I've played 96.6 hours. I played more hours per week then my full time job.
Yes, I found this game addicting. I keep wanting to try new and different ways to make my workshop better.
I haven't been this instantly sucked into a game since autonauts.
It's a time management game with some easy economics. If you find those fun, I highly recommend giving this a try.
Steam User 1
It's really fun building up the business the first 10 hours but there comes a point where it gets too big and you find yourself essentially micromanaging a beehive. I still recommend it if you buy it on sale.
Steam User 1
Fun, cute and surprisingly difficulty plant management simulator. I just wish it went a little further with the management tools at your disposal to enable you to implement implement IRL manufacturing principles.
- You get to select and plan individual steps and subassemblies, can optimize workshop layout and even do some basic stockpile logistics. It is really fun.
- Gnomes are cute and make funny noises.
- Minimizing Work In Progress is really difficult. Gnomes seem they like to work on basic components first. I've gone bankrupt with fortune of unfinished inventory.
- You have little control with workcentre assignments. Frequently one gnome brings one component and then walks to the other end of the factory to work on something completely different.
- Logistics with hauler gnomes is too simplistic and most of the hauling is done by the workers, not haulers, introducing delays. Machines have maybe 30% utilization because of this.
Steam User 1
Rating:7/10
Completion difficulty:3/10
I don't play this kind of management game often, but it was a good way to ease into the genra. You can definitively get into a lot of financial trouble if you mess up, and the game won't hold your hand the whole time, but I haven't had an issue where I was completely unable to recover from a situation and you aren't required to make everything 100% optimal. Also, for whatever reason, going through the whole manufacturing process was satisfying to me.
Steam User 1
It is an ok factory game, and it is not a bad game, but you will probably get tired of it relatively fast. There are some things that get in the way of it being a really good factory game. If you really try to optimize a factory you will likely get annoyed by the things you cannot control. For example the output storage for a workstation cannot be specified, a workstation can have only one input storage. Storage cannot be managed to permit only certain items. So a task which needs to assemble big parts which don't fit on shelves with smaller parts makes it impossible to manage storage neatly. Also contracts do not seem to use export storage, so they do not get moved out of the way.
Steam User 0
Nice little factory sim. Caution: can cause stress when trying to outrun the clock on some orders :)
Steam User 0
Even after playing it again and again and again it is still lotta fun!
Enjoying watching these lil workoholics struggling all day.
The difficulty is decent but not too much for just enjoyable relaxing moments.
I love observing after a stressful, hard workday. Definately 10/10 chill points!
Highly recommended!