Indie · May 2, 2019

Rise of Industry (2019)

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Rise of Industry is a strategic tycoon game where you build and manage your growing industrial empire in a living, breathing, and procedurally generated world set in the 1930s that is constantly evolving and adapting to your playstyle. As a budding entrepreneur, you will build factories, construct efficient production lines, move raw materials, produce finished goods, and arrange trade with the world's developing cities, providing them with the resources they need to flourish - for as they grow and prosper, so do you. However, it won’t always be a smooth ride to magnate status. Random business events and stock auctions will keep you on your toes, all while A.I. rivals compete for market share and look for ways to grow and exploit enemy weaknesses - beware of the hostile takeover. Designed with an eye towards both accessibility and depth, Rise of Industry has enough strategic complexity and replayability to satisfy the most experienced fans of the genre, while its simple-to-understand mechanics ensure that new players will love it as well. Experience tailored for every player - Specialise in just trading, production, gathering or any combination and research your way to bigger and better things. Bid for contracts to get the upper-hand over your rivals. Produce over 150 individual products, managing every step along the way from raw material to end product. Only the highly skilled entrepreneur will complete the complex production chains and take items such as cars, computers and other luxury products to market. Build and manage a solid transportation network to enable the efficient transfer of goods via plentiful trucks, speedy trains and high capacity airships. Be prepared for fierce competition – Advanced town and city A.I., make for an intelligent and changing game world so you won’t be the only one looking for the best deal. Town personalities – adapt a suitable approach for every town or face their economic backlash. Huge, procedurally generated maps mean that you’ll always have room to expand your empire, whether in testing scenarios or sandbox mode where imagination is your only limit. Be quick to adapt to the current business climate with contracts and random events keeping you on your toes and cash flowing in. Balance environmental impact with productivity. Churn out the products at the expense of nature, or be a conscientious industrialist, balancing the delicate lay of the land with your hunger for profit.

Indie releases from 2019

38 Indie titles launched in 2019 — top 6 by review volume.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Management · 323
  • Strategy · 300
  • Economy · 287
  • Simulation · 283
  • City Builder · 259
  • Resource Management · 235
  • Indie · 194
  • Base-Building · 180
  • Trading · 169
  • Building · 137
  • Singleplayer · 133
  • Sandbox · 127
  • Automation · 124
  • Isometric · 121
  • Capitalism · 119

Peer Indie titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Indie

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume4.1k Steam reviewsTop 59% in Indie
Positive rating73% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 92%
Metacritic62/100Genre average 77 — top 97% of Indie titles
Engagement hours6 h averageTop 75% for session depth among Indie

Reception Metrics

Steam community

73%Mostly Positive · 4.1k reviews

3.0k positive · 1.1k negative

Metacritic

62/100 critic aggregate

Metacritic user score

8.1/10

Curator recommendations

3.1k

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (8)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Simplified Chinese

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

6h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

3h

Typical completion time

Achievements

27

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateMay 2, 2019
DeveloperDapper Penguin Studios
PublisherKasedo Games
Base price$7.49 -75%
DLC / Add-ons4 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Support · [email protected]

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Cloud

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Editions & Packages

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