Underplayed Gems

Final Upgrade (2022)

Final Upgrade cover
Developer
TaosX
Platforms
Windows
Genres
Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Rating
3.8 of 5, 458 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 12 hours
Where to get it
Steam

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How it feels

You methodically build and expand a sprawling factory in space, carefully managing resources and logistics to support a growing colony.

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What players say

Players split on this automation game. Many praise its creative take on logistics and gravity, but a larger share finds it underbaked with a broken tutorial, a convoluted UI, and fake enemy bases that just spawn units rather than build them. Long-time players say development stalled and the auto-logic for ships is buggy, making the endgame tedious.

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