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broken; ESC - SPACE+G for all achievements; nice music
4.9/10 - Not Enough To Make Sweat Shops Cool Again... I received a discount so I decided to check this one out! I wasn't totally disappointed. I don't know why, but I'm embarrassed...I played at least 7 active hours all yesterday. I completed the game the first time in 6 hours, at this time you can 'reset' or ascend to the next factory; which is the exact same except you earn coins faster. I was disappointed in this for sure! You are responsible for the effective management of a small upstart business. (Sweat shop). You will have to purchase desks, platforms, sewing machines, cloth and workers; this stuff doesn't come cheap either! Aside from adding new equipment and workers your only job is to collect the clothes once the worker is ready. If you wait too long your worker will fall asleep and wait until you collect the clothes. This game really had some potential for a monotonous clicker but let me down in a couple of areas: 1) When I ascended there wasn't anything new or different; just a coin bonus. I worked extremely hard for 6 hours waiting on a payout that didn't come. 2) Some of the achievements don't work. I maxed out everything in the first ascension so I should have received at least a few more achievements. This immediately made me want to quit playing. 3) The "collectors" bug out and vanish without a trace. These units are so important because they collect cloth automatically. Unfortunately, they start to disappear once you hire more collectors than you have rows of workers. This really sucks when you are trying to auto and take a break from actively clicking. Overall, I would give thumbs up if these 3 issues were fixed. At this current state I don't recommend, but I did have some fun with it! ACCIDENTLY REVIEWED Was this review helpful or maybe even not helpful? Either way join this group for more. Free Keys and Reviews weekly! Steam Group: AccidentlyReviewed [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Accidently]
this game is terrible even as a 1 dollar clicker game. First of all the game is buggy as hell. I barely played an hour, if that and already encountered 2 gamebreaking bugs (after the patch where dev claimed he -quote: 'fixed all bugs'-. Secondly, nothing in this game has tooltips. You are buying and upgrading things without knowing what they do. Some upgrades are actually downgrades. I bought expensive sewing machines for some of my guys thinking it would improve their output (again: no tooltips anywhere) but to my surprise they performed WORSE after 'upgrading' them (my non 'upgraded' guy would produce 5 shirts in the time my 'upgraded' guys produce 3). The music is a monotonous short obnoxious loop. Trying to buy new stuff I constantly only get a big message on the screen. Not actually a message that tells my WHY I can't do certain things. There are leaderboards in the game which obviously consists of only hackers (people with 99999999999 scores etc). Overall this game seems like a first project from an amateur scriptkiddie. It seems like a very first early alpha build of something someone put together in 3 days to test their newly learned coding. There are plenty of incremental/clicker games out there which are polished, and free to boot! Refunding now despite it only being a buck out of principle. Avoid this garbage.
This game is very buggy. I accidentally pressed "New Game" when I was launching. I feel like there should be another message before executing that command. Something to the effect of, "Are you sure you want to start a new game? All current progress will be lost." I'm not sure what going on with this game, but not only did it crash, Steam crashed too. I haven't had this before. After launching and loading an existing game, I had two of the walkers end up in the same aisle, and no matter how many other walkers I purchased, an empty aisle remained. So I had to manually click all of those shirts to collect them. I had spent all my money before the successful reset, so it was a long road back to $75,000 (the amount required for a 2nd reset.) I was never able to reset a second time. The message on the screen kept saying Error1. There were instances when I had to click other places on the screen before I was permitted to make my purchase. I tried that. I tried reloading the game, and I still counld not get the reset to work. I had the proper amount of money. The button was lit up. This game needs some work. It's definitely not worth a dollar. Like other reviewers mentioned, there are much better free games out there.
I like this game, really. But currently it's impossible to play it - it's buggy in all possible ways: multiple crashes, broken runners, problem with reset and even progress erasing. If you like Idle\Incremental genre i would recommend to wait for fixes and only then buy it. For now - not.
Game looks fun, but it's broken. Don't buy in current state.
crashed thrice, constant little bugs like buttons not updating without you clicking stuff to update the information, and a soft lock when i upgraded the amount of table spaces. does it sound like a fun time?
If you ever buy this game make sure to press space+esc and g at the same time to get all achievements because my save gets wiped every other time i even tried to play this garbage product but i will give it a positive review for giving me this fast 100%
This game makes Steam crash. When playing, it will occasionally freeze up and kill itself and the Steam process. It's definitely this game specifically, because I have NEVER had anything else on Steam cause a similar issue.
Very sad when good idea and concept have terrible realization. Game is just unplayable due to huge amount of bugs. Concept, graphics, music: 10 out of 10 All the rest: 0.5 out of 10 Summary: 2 out of 10 P. S. Maybe I will change my review to positive if developer will fix all bugs.
::TLDR version:: ~~~Avoid till game breaking bugs are resolved~~~ --- I am rather sad, on one hand, I like the idea for this clicker. It seemed to be a more dark toned theme for such type of game. You are to run a sweatshop, make some shirts, control the work environment of your measly peasants as they slave away for your personal profit. On the other hand, the game is currently broken. Like. All of it. I don't mean one or two particular things, I really mean all of it. You will be lucky if your save game file survives the night (Hint: It will be devoured.) The most prominent issue with the game, is that when it crashes, it will very likely take the Steam client with it. Yeah. That is one serious bug there. No other game I have played has ever managed to take Steam out with it when it crashed. There are also many, many...many minor bugs, as well as serious game breaking bugs, all documented on the forums and other reviews. And not much news on progress of any fixing, which the devs say they are working on. So there may still be hope. If you like clickers, and are interested in the theme, keep an eye on it, but until these major bugs are dealt with, you may want to pass for now.
An extremely buggy piece of work. In fact it is so buggy, the game cannot be played as should and it's impossible to obtain more than half of the achievements. After the first game reset, which should upgrade the Hall, the Hall isn't upgraded. Sure, you can make 5 additional Walkers but when scrolling up there's no squares and options to build additional tables, workers, etc. After the reset you're still stuck as is, with a useless income multiplier. Once you have enough funds to initiate the second reset, the game does not allow you to. It just tells you "Error". Restarting the game, whether saved/loaded or not, just results in all Walkers losing all their upgrades, this while they are still running at the upgraded speed. The UI is geared towards touchscreen, not keyboard and mouse as is most common for desktop systems. The mouse scrollwheel doesn't work half of the time. The game does not remember any settings whatsoever. If you relaunch the game, you'll have to manually set the video and audio options once again yourself. Over and over again. Plus, as mentioned before, restarting the game just removes the Walker upgrades, whether saved/loaded or not. And what's worst: during the first hour of gameplay, the game managed to hang my PC 3 times. I have no such issue with any other game, ranging from other simple unlicensed Unity-games to AAA-blockbusters. My system is decent and up-to-date. The game's process also does have sufficient security rights. Highscores, not even an hour after release, the leaderboards were being topped with players having scores in the range of trillions. This is simply not possible and most likely the result of cheating with things provided like CheatEngine (memory/code editing, increased tickspeed, etc). In this day and age there's no excuse anymore for games being subject to such things, especially considering online syncing. Regardless, such scores shouldn't even be accepted to the leaderboards, but no attention is given to that whatsoever making the leaderboards fully useless and meaningless. All in all, a terrible piece of work. My advise to the programmer: If you have no clue what you're doing, go do something else. It's sad to know Steam has even accepted this release; so much for quality assurance.
Bugs, bugs everywhere. Game crashes randomly and shuts down steam aswell
I mean, by now everyone knows that the game doesn't work properly. I only paid like 20 cents for it when I got it so there wasn't any expectations, let alone ones that were high. Don't get the game, it's glitchy. Though I guess if you want steam achievements/a badge for it then go ahead and pick it up and enter in the "cheat" the developer of the game patched in (rather than fixing the game) to automatically get the achievements if you truly want to. I'm really just leaving this review for a steam badge anyway.
10/10- really captures the shoddy quality and low price of products made in a sweatshop. The gameplay is also just as tediously unejoyable and repetitive as the name suggests.
Reasons Not Recommended: 1. Boring 2. Hours of clicking 3. Time-consuming Reasons Not Completely Bad: 1. Well-made 2. Cheap Comments: I got the game super cheap with a coupon from badge making. The only reason it was worth it was that it is an easy perfect game with a cheat you can use in the esc menu. The game starts out slow but gets progressively better, but never really reaching a state that I like.
Unfortunaltey it's an extremely buggy piece of work, upgrading just does not work at all! Stay away, reconsider only after major bugs have been fixed.
I thought to myself "It's a clicker game for only a dollar." but I was wrong. It starts you out with a minimalistic UI that is not only unintuitive, but open to interpretation, as there is nothing to say what is and what isn't a button or what said buttons do other than a cryptic one word description like 'material' and pricetag--much like being thrown into a job that you know nothing about, but have accepted out of desperation. Once you grasp the basic concept through trial and error and discover that half of the screen scrolls with your mouse wheel, while the other you have to click and drag, still confused by 'max 5/10' which means seemingly nothing, you ever so slowly inch your way up to 20 workers and begin furiously clicking away. With the imitation of success, you look at your funds, but find that your income doesn't seem to actually increase any faster than when you had one worker. In fact, it might be increasing slower. This accurately reflects the hourly job model where more work does not equal more pay. "This game makes snails look turbocharged," I joked to my wife who had aged 20 years in the time it took me to purchase sewing machines for 10 of my workers. I wanted to see this game through to the end so I could write a fuller, more complete review, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I may have encompassed the entirety of it though. Tell me if I'm wrong. I was wrong, this isn't a game, it's an ironic satire on the idea of running a sweatshop wherein you slowly realize that *you're* the underpaid sweatshop worker, and that you are now minus one dollar, and 8 hours. Just like when you spend more on food in a day than you make at your job.
Even when I look past the remarkable number of bugs in SweatShop, I don't really see anything fresh about this idle clicker. Yeah it's only a buck, but that doesn't excuse anything. Particularly when creating an idle clicker game (because they are fundamentally sooo simple), it is imperative to do something novel that the others don't have. You have to stand out in a saturated market. I suppose the only novel thing about SweatShop is the actual theme, or skin, of the game. Otherwise it's just any other idle clicker. I'm not going to refund in hopes that the iron out some bugs and maybe things will get better, but I certainly don't recommend the game to friends.
its fun but glithcy as fuck i played for 4 hours getting to the upgrade hall point and #1 it didnt give me any new desks which it said it would #2 when i tried to restart the game to fix this it deleted all my data so now i have to go back to sqaure one