Rise of Industry

Out of all similar tycoon games this game has prime aesthetic, it's quite jarring to see 1880s coalfogged London depicted so bright as long as you ignore the dead trees
The game nailed the Industry part - not many can claim hundred different products to make and somewhat simple hub-and-spoke logistics with the warehouse.
Now the bad part and why this is a bare 'Yes' is the transport part is legitimately awful. Rail is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ useless, Air is too expensive and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ slow, Riverine is unusable in most maps.
The worst part is you are at mercy of town store expansion - planning to make an agroindustry? Too bad the next town expansion stores accepts only oil products and you will be stuck on one town since the idiots thought that it would be swell to limit you to one region unless you pay quadruple your starting money. And if you enable AI, ♥♥♥♥ you buy out AI before we let you sell here compadre.
So is it good? At least it functions well as something you run in background while doing anything else. Buy it on sale.

Rise of Industry may look like a light and accessible management game at first glance, but beneath that friendly exterior lies a surprisingly deep and demanding economic system. Visually, the game is quite pleasant, even if it doesn’t really innovate in terms of graphics. It does its job well and fits the industrial theme nicely.
What the game does particularly well is misleading you—in a good way. It gives the impression of being simple, but once you start understanding production chains, logistics, and market demands, the complexity ramps up quickly. This is where the game shines, but also where it can become frustrating.
Personally, I often wished I could feel more clearly that I was “winning.” On more than one occasion, I had to restart my playthrough entirely before things finally clicked and I managed to move forward properly. While this speaks to the depth of its systems, it can also feel punishing and unforgiving, especially for players new to this type of management game.
That said, Rise of Industry is a well-developed title with strong gameplay foundations and a solid concept. If you enjoy learning complex systems and don’t mind failing a few times before succeeding, there’s a lot to appreciate here.
Recommended for players who enjoy deep management games and don’t shy away from trial and error.

Enjoyable game.
However, challenging for new players. Borderline impossible, you will be bankrupt time after time.
Boring for experienced players. The developers refuse to add multiplayer which would extend the player base and lift game in so many ways. However, as it stands a single player game the AIs give no competition, are bugged and are boring. Theyre isnt enough scenarios or mods on the workshop to make single player interesting even with competitive AI.
I would still recommend if on sale.

I feel unable to either reccomend this game or not do it, yet I feel compelled to talk a little about why I (but that's myself) didn't fully enjoy it.
Didn't play for long.
I first thought it was a straight shooter, where it all was about logistics and setting up production lines. However, the more I played, the more I felt I was lacking information or tools to focus on that. I felt I was spending more time trying to figure out the ratios of every moving part so the system could manage without falling apart instead of using info provided to focus on long term bigger goals. And I felt it was that way by design.
I also felt I had no way of tackling the main bottleneck that would show early on every new game; traffic and delivery.
When talking positives, super clean aesthetic, I liked that very much. Decent soundtrack too.
Not bad. Not what I look for on a economic/building/management type of game. I reccomend you try it if what I said appeals to you.

Fun simple rts, with lots of strategy options.

In general this is a good casual game about logistic, supply and demand ...
BUT -- it crashed once.

Good game even if some particulars are desinged in an unfortunate way. Like it is impossible to find out whether given factory produces profit and how much. Or you have an auction to deliver 25 units of milk to some village, the auction costs 250k but you have no idea how much you will get for the delivered milk! So you cannot really decide whether you earn or lose money. This is quite a basic thing, which should be thought through more thoroughly.
But in fact this game is CHARMING and very interesting despite some of its flaws.
The graphics are charming, the scale is admirable. The possibilities are plentiful. Most of the mechanics are straightworward and require no tedious micromanagement. The GUI is clear and coherent, some parts are even desinged with ingenuity and great artistic craftmanship.
So despite its few flaws the game is actually really charming. I suggest you give it a chance!
8/10
P.S: Chicken is uncountable in english.