Captain of Industry

 
Captain of Industry drops you on a storm-torn island with a beached cargo ship and a handful of survivors. Your job? Turn scrap metal and coal dust into a self-sustaining industrial powerhouse before food, unity, or diesel runs out. The loop feels familiar to Factorio fans, yet the 3D terrain, digging physics, and fragile population force fresh planning. Every excavator scoop reshapes the map, so careless strip-mining can flood mines or starve farms—a welcome layer of risk for seasoned builders.
How the factory fever unfolds
Early hours revolve around simple chains: coal to power, iron to construction parts, potatoes to rations. Research unlocks diesel cracking, copper smelting, and automated logistics. Trucks handle first-mile haulage until belt spaghetti and pipe jungles demand bulk loaders, cargo docks, and a refurbished destroyer that scours the world map for oil rigs and derelict reactors. The pacing stays taut; maintenance drains threaten shutdowns while pollution boomerangs as health penalties if scrubbers lag behind output.
Why it hooks strategy die-hards

Terraforming logistics: Dig canals, dump slag, and sculpt plateaus to fit megafactories.
Closed-loop economy: Convert waste heat, exhaust, and sludge into energy, fertilizer, and cement.
Crew management: Population supplies workers and unity—overshoot housing and strikes follow.
Naval exploration: Refit the fleet, raid ruins, and trade with distant settlements for rare tech.
Failure with teeth: Ignore food, fuel, or maintenance and the colony collapses—not just a soft reset.

Quick facts

Fecha de publicación: 31 May 2022 (Early Access)
Promotor: MaFi Games
Género: Factory-builder, City-builder, Strategy
Entorno: Post-collapse island colony in a near-future world
Características: Research tree, dynamic terrain, global trade, realistic supply chains, population simulation
Características especiales: Full terraforming, ship combat on the world map, hard failure states with colony wipe-outs