Gearworks Tycoon

Gearworks Tycoon hands you an empty workshop and lets you turn it into a sprawling little factory. The fun is in laying out conveyor belts and machines so everything flows without jamming.

It's approachable but has real depth once you chase efficiency. Watching an early messy layout evolve into a tidy, humming operation is oddly meditative, and there's always another product tier pulling you forward.

Sessions can run long, so it's more of a couch game than a bus-stop one. A few late upgrades felt grindy to us, but the core building never got old.

What we liked

• Satisfying factory layouts
• Approachable with hidden depth
• Great for longer sessions