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Mindustry – Action Game Review
Mindustry is a Action game from Anton Kramskoi, first launched in 8th June 2018.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 957+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Mindustry Stand Out
Mindustry is a factory-building game with tower defense and RTS elements. Create elaborate supply chains to feed ammo into your turrets, produce materials to use for building, and construct units. Command units to capture enemy bases, and expand your production. Defend your core from waves of enemies.
Gameplay Features:
- Use production blocks to create a wide variety of advanced materials
- Defend your structures from waves of enemies
- Play with your friends in cross-platform multiplayer co-op games, or challenge them in team-based PvP matches
- Distribute liquids and fight constant challenges, like outbreaks of fire or enemy flier raids
- Get the most out of your production by supplying optional coolant and lubricant
- Produce a wide variety of units for automatic management of your base or assault on enemy bases
- Set up assembly lines to construct armies of mechanized units
- Use your units to square up against fully functional enemy bases
Campaign:
- Conquer the planets Serpulo and Erekir as you advance through 35 hand-made maps and 250+ procedurally generated sectors
- Capture territory and set up factories to produce resources while you play other sectors
- Defend your sectors from periodic invasions
- Coordinate resource distribution between sectors via launch pads
- Research new blocks to fuel progress
- Invite your friends to complete missions together
- 250+ technology blocks to master
- 50+ different types of drones, mechs and ships
Custom Games & Cross-Platform Multiplayer:
- 16+ built in maps for custom games, in addition to two entire campaigns
- Play co-op, PvP or sandbox
- Join a public dedicated server, or invite friends to your own private session
- Customizable game rules: Change block costs, enemy stats, starting items, wave timing and more
- Full functional map editor with scripting support
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Mindustry is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th September 2023
Recent improvements include:
- Fixed a variety of issues with unit & block cost multiplier rules
- Fixed many various crashes
- Fixed pathfinding not being able to path through solid enemy blocks
- Fixed naval units sometimes attempting to pathfind through land
- Fixed water tiles with space background resulting in a black background
- Fixed internal legacy blocks being logic constants
- Fixed power node double-click leading to interaction rate limit triggering
- Fixed units sometimes being unkillable
- Fixed units with long paths sometimes recalculating forever
- Fixed serious issue with player units getting bugged in certain maps with puddles
- Fixed Neoplasia reactor sometimes not exploding
- Fixed units randomly dying when hitting corners
- Fixed piercing bullets permaturely hitting blocks "under" bullets
- Fixed missiles dealing double damage to units
- Fixed FPS not limiting accurately
- Added setting to disable all lighting
- Added logic unit autoPathfind command (default wave pathfinding)
- Made logic unbind command set
@unitto null - Made "any" environment accessible outside of sandbox
- Made payload loaders no longer accept inputs from payload unloaders
- Added logic sensors for shields, content ID (inverse of lookup command)
- Added logic particle effect instruction
- Added logic sync instruction
- Setting factory output points now updates "last accessed"
- Disabled team switching menu in multiplayer outside of sandbox/PvP
- Decreased canvas block silicon cost slightly
- Scathe ammo usage decreased to 15
- Buffed Precept unit
Download & Availability
Mindustry is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We don't really care about the campaign a lot, we just love the game for its content (and mods) alone. For a guy like us, it's something we can't (and don't want to) get away from. We love it ( :] Yeah that's kinda all we have to say, we love this game :3.
Just playing the first level and noticing placement bugs where it wont let you place single bored and instead you have to lay a row of them and delete the extras, quite annoying. Otherwise fun.
If you are complaining about this game being hard or that one guy complaining about his impact reactor just figure it out this is a great game.
For the price you just cant beat it. Ive sunk so much time into it and it feels rewarding.
Muy completo el juego, es una locura, miles de horas en lan le hemos dedicado yo y mis amigos, espero que este comentario ayude a alguien, es una excelente via para jugar en lan, saludos.
Game hay nhng khng c update nn chn.
Ive played this game for several years! Ill hit it hard, take a break, and come back to it again and again. This game requires some patience, but we find it rewarding and fun. The multiplayer on your home network is a nice touch, makes playing with a small group easy and fun. Its a nice twist to solo play.
Just hands down, the best factory game on mobile (are there any others?). Extremely well polished with a fairly good progression. Only two real complaints 1. Setting up. Every sector/game you need to basically completely restart, sure you have more starting resources but you spend a lot of time setting up basic production over and over again, honestly the weakest part of the game. 2. Map editor is extremely hard to use on the iPhone, especially older ones (we have an iPhone 8), although we never had issues with building like some reviews have stated. Overall, we highly recommend this for anyone who likes management sims/factory games, the learning curve may be a little harsh, but when you get a good handle of the game its a blast.
One of the best games Ive ever played its so worth the money its got 2 factions that you can play as and each one is completely different its like a whole new game when you play a different faction and the pvp is great so is the campaign overall just a great game.
This game is a great balance of mining, crafting, and tower defense and actually feels like there is a goal and purpose unlike Factorio.
Id really like this game go to console. We would immediately buy it for 60 70 the moment it comes out.
We love this game, we've been playing this for a very long time. There is one problem Ive encountered though, at the moment of writing this there are no camera borders. If you scroll off the map, you can just keep going. We lost where the playable area was and couldnt find it so we had to restart the app.
Bought this game randomly. We thought, it's just a dollar, so it can't be that good, but we'll try it. Fast forward a few years and we have hours and hours and hours on this game. So much to do, so much fun to have, so many deep rabbit holes of crazy innovations to fall into. Worth every penny. We'd do it again 1000 times over.
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Although its really hard all of a sudden and we start losing, we love this game. We code for a living and the automation is really in-depth. Great game.
Thank you for bringing this to iOS! Always great to have factory games on this platform. Keep up the great work.
We gave it 4 stars, not because its not a good game, but because we think its amazing and would love to see it keep improving. Would love to see some type of dashboard to be able to track power/resource production/usage.
We love the game, but in one of the tutorial levels it wont let us build any more of anything so now Im just stuck:(.
Look at any screen shot and youll know if you like this game. All the base building and supply line stuff is top notch and very fun The RTS elements are weaker, as is the campaign mode. But they dont detract much for how good the other parts are.
Can you please update the game to more current patches we want to play with all the mods but they require higher patches.
Started a new game on the old planet and the game crashed. Now it wont even open the game lol.
Theres a bit of a learning curve but its a great factorio lite for mobile or iPad. Fun and easy concept. However, Ive made it to a fourth landing zone and even after beating it no mater what we do next, the game crashes and reverts us to the halfway point of our third landing spot. We physically cannot progress. Ive even reset our data and started over. Its like once a game save reaches a certain size you cant progress farther. Hopefully this gets addressed in a future update we would love to keep playing.
Great game except for the impact reactors sudden and inexplicable failures – we had 3 reactors that ran fine in the impact map in campaign and for an hour or so after capturing the sector. We had 9k blast and 9 tanks of cryo in reserve and 500k battery power. The sector was attacked again and all power fail for no reason right before a guardian showed up – and yes we checked the forums and our design was solid and ran without issue for well over 5 hours of actual gameplay. Its too bad, we really liked this game but this is a fatal flaw that makes it not worth the frustration of being screwed by the programming, unless you just want to mess around in creative.
This game could be great and seems like the gameplay is pretty good. The biggest issue however, are the controls. We spent maybe 3 hours on this game trying to get the hang of the controls and leaving room for the possibility we were partly at fault but it is incredibly aggravating trying to do anything, especially building. For example: Some buttons dont work on initial clicks. Theres an annoying dragging mechanic when building that we cannot figure out what is causing it, resulting in all of the buildings Ive placed to all be shifted x tiles to wherever we dragged it and since we cant replicate it, we have to start over. While this dragging mechanic wouldnt be a huge issue, the best way of placing conveyer belts is via dragging. You cant place the laser drills unless they are facing towards the ore. At that point, why not just either: let us place it anyways or auto correct the direction. This is especially irritating when youre trying to just plan out distances and where you want to place things. Theres also another issue Id run into where the highlight of a building Im trying to place disappears. The UI itself is questionable, our issue with it being that it just feels clunky and unresponsive at times. We also still have no idea what the wrench icon does although, we didnt finish the tutorial, which was passable but couldve been much better. We were really hoping for a replacement to games like Factorio and such but for mobile and while we definitely think it could be, we couldnt keep playing while wanting to bash our head in trying to use the controls.
Ever since the Erekir update, the app will crash >95% of the time when trying to join specific servers. It works sometimes, which gives this bug so much frustration. When trying to address the issue to the actual community, they ask for crash logs- which arent available on iOS. The dev cannot be reached through GitHub due to lack of crash logs which leads to an extreme lack of communication and outreach to iOS users, of which 100% of them donate and fund the game, which cant be pirated or downloaded for free on this platform. We love the game but these game breaking bugs have been around for far too long and ruin the multiplayer experience.
We SPEND HOURS ON MAKING MAPS AND BUILDING BASES AND THEN IT ALWAYS CRASHES AND DELETES THE SAVE AND EVEN THE WHOLE MAP FROM MY CUSTOM MAPS SECTION! ITS HORRIBLE AND NEEDS TO BE FIXED. IT CRASHES 90% OF THE TIME! We CANT PLAY FOR MORE THAN 15 MINUTES WITHOUT HAVING TO SAVE SO MY STUPID SAVE DATA DOESNT DISAPPEAR! We SHOULDNT HAVE TO SAVE THAT MUCH. Other than that good game.
We really wanted to like this game but the UI holds it back. Everything is tedious and hard to do.
If this game had even 5% more notifications about what was going on or a less insanely frustrating ui we would give it a higher review. Lots of fun but youre either winning or your arent. No close calls its either completely untouchable or you have 0 defense whatsoever.
Cant even get through the tutorial. Was not able to place the first building it asks you to place. It says tap on the resource to ours it, and it doesnt ours. Ive gamed our whole life and really WANT to like this game but the controls and tutorial were unplayable.
This game is not fun. We couldnt progress that far without getting irritated. It was so frustrating. Not relaxing or entertaining. Just no. We want a refund.
We would love to play this on console plus we think a lot more people would find this game.
One of the best games on App Store. Great take on the tower defense genre. Good for a challenge.
We love this game. This is a legitimate review coming from a customer. But yea, we love this game. We wouldnt stop playing it.
UI problem at the bottom of Apple 14por.
Some suggestions and improvements: It is precisely because of these reasons that we can not give five-star praise, this game itself is already excellent, create a folder dedicated to this game, similar to the archive mobile version of our World, so that the mobile version can truly realize the loading and unloading of modules in order to better combine multiple factors. Now the mobile version of the module is just a decoration, can not be imported at all, hope to solve these problems as soon as possible.
So stupid that the enemy will just out of nowhere mass produce everything despite having little to no resources and destroy absolutely everything.
The problem of our screen becoming tiny, like one fourth of it is tiny and the game is there but the displays are not where they are supposed to be, pls fix this is issue! Ill send an image and a video for reference.
Why not update 144?we cant join the server game , lots of server are 144 now and we are still in the 143.Please update.
Came back to complete the campaign again and this is still the best RTS for mobile Ive seen. Absolutely 5/5 every time. Replayability is insane.
Our friend called us retarded because we remade the great wall of china. 10/10 do recommend.
Auto save doesnt create any save history and there isnt a way to save mid level. You are forced to go back to the start each time.
We would like to say that it would be better if there was a way to play with friends that didnt have us looking for a server, that we could host a game then just join the other one.
The controls just dont work very well on mobile in our opinion. The tutorial is very confusing and the ui doesnt make much sense. We eventually figured out how to do things but even after understanding how things work it was torture to try and build. Seems like a game that would be fun on PC with the current controls, but building on mobile is frustratingly difficult. We think they could update the control scheme and things would go smoothly. Its sad because the game itself seems fun but we cant really play it.
We cant get the update so we cant play online.
We were blown away by how much we enjoyed this game. We see a lot of complaints online about it costing money on iPhone. Not sure if it does on other devices but imo its well worth the money so many hours of fun packed into one amazing game. Also to the guys who are saying fix this or Ill delete the game delete the game! This community doesnt need entitled cry babies.
Its a great game it is really fun we love that its on our platform but it has so many bugs like for us some of the ores we cant get in our base and also we cant have guns on our ships anymore apparently or any of our units at that its a great game. Please fix those bugs though.
Good game, and would play it all the way through, if we didnt lose our save. Please somehow support Game Center.
When we saw the update we shot with excitement but when we went into mindustry and played it we figured out that the 100+ blocks were only in the new worlds then the old blocks were only in the old worlds exept a few blocks. MAKE THE OLD BLOCKS USEIBLE WITH THE NEW BLOCKS MAKE THEM TOGETHER NOW OR IM DELETING THIS PERIOD.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 7.146.0
- Size: 165.92 MB
- iOS: 9.0.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Anton Kramskoi
Last updated: 4th September 2023 | Genre: Action | Developer: Anton Kramskoi