Simulation · October 17, 2019

Little Big Workshop (2019)

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Imagine a magical factory appearing right in your living room, a carefully planned masterpiece, where diligent workers throw together anything customers want. Rubber ducks and dressers, drones and electric guitars, scooters and other wonderful goods can be created from many different materials and sold for hard cash – cash you invest right back into your factory to get more machines, more workers, and grow your business. In Little Big Workshop, you become a factory tycoon!  Real factories - made FUN You are the Big Boss, and it’s time to take charge of your very own tabletop factory. Organize the factory floor, manage your workers, purchase machinery, and design efficient production lines - all within the time limit and to your client's satisfaction! An open-ended sandbox-experience Take it easy, it’s a sandbox experience where you think, ponder, and poke at things until you get it to work the way you’d like. Supply products to clients and an ever-changing market, as you produce over 50 unique product types, built from multiple parts and pieces - all of which can be created with different materials and production methods. No two factories should ever look the same. Tiny hands, big dreams Start out with just a small workshop and expand to a desk-filling factory. Unlock ever fancier machines, add even more production methods, and most of all, more room. Soon enough, you’ll be running multiple production lines, producing hundreds of advanced products each day, and watching with joy as your cute workers do the actual work. Features: Varying industries and a wide range of products Focus on practical problems, not on values, economics, or logistics Organize all steps of the production on a blueprint Factories grow as you unlock more desk space Fully simulated Day/Night-cycle Take care of your workers! Work them too hard and they drop like flies Cute model-town art-style Razer Chroma support

Community Tag Signals

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

  • Simulation · 171
  • Strategy · 147
  • Management · 91
  • Building · 80
  • Resource Management · 75
  • Economy · 63
  • Automation · 61
  • Sandbox · 57
  • Singleplayer · 41
  • Indie · 31
  • Crafting · 31
  • 3D · 30
  • Cute · 30
  • Funny · 26
  • Base-Building · 26

Peer Simulation titles

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

Position in Simulation

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume3.3k Steam reviewsTop 71% in Simulation
Positive rating84% positiveGenre average: 79% — this title sits in top 49%
Metacritic77/100Genre average 75 — top 50% of Simulation titles
Engagement hours10 h averageTop 84% for session depth among Simulation

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (11)

  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Russian

Reception Metrics

Steam community

84%Mostly Positive · 3.3k reviews

2.7k positive · 523 negative

Metacritic

77/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

7.3/10

Curator recommendations

2.5k

Simulation releases from 2019

11 Simulation titles launched in 2019 — top 6 by review volume.

Press Quotes

“A must have if you are into you management sims.” 9/10 – The Digital Fix “Little Big Workshop is an adorable slice of capitalism and taking over the market one quality product at a time, provided that you’re willing to work for that dream. Batteries not included in dreams of wild success.” 8/10 – Critical Hit “Little Big Workshop is a factory simulator built for the masses. It gets the little details right while setting up big goals for those…

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

10h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

5h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

5h

Current engagement

Achievements

49

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateOct 17, 2019
DeveloperMirage Game Studios
PublisherHandyGames
Base price$3.99 -80%
DLC / Add-ons1 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Editions & Packages

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