Little Big Workshop

 Xbox One
Metascore
62

Mixed or average reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

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  2. Mixed: 3 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. TheXboxHub
    Oct 8, 2020
    40
    Little Big Workshop on Xbox One is fun, first and foremost, and if a patch is released that fixes the issues in place I would definitely recommend picking it up. But until then, if you are unfortunate enough to encounter progress-halting bugs then you will most likely be forced to restart. And it doesn’t matter who you are, losing all of your progress to glitches isn’t fun.

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  1. Xbox_Alive
    Oct 13, 2020
    7
    Little Big Workshop is an Open-Ended Micromanagement Sim. In Little Big Workshop, you're running a factory that creates a variety of goods.Little Big Workshop is an Open-Ended Micromanagement Sim. In Little Big Workshop, you're running a factory that creates a variety of goods. You then sell them for profit to expand your workshop and its productibility. The tutorial does a great job of teaching you most of what you need to succeed in the game, but not quite everything. The game doesn't have a story, instead, it gives you contracts to fill. These contracts require you produce a certain amount of product within a certain amount of time. The more of these you complete the more demanding they become, also the more equipped you should be to handle it. There is a lot going on in the management department. If you enjoy micromanaging tasks and seeing it be put into action then the Bluprint is going to thrill you. It's used to plot out each contract in a fair ammount of detail. Each of these contracts take 15 to 20 minutes usualy to complete, and you're going to go through similar steps to complete each task. You have 3 categories of Items, each with their own specialized machines. There are more universal machines, but they take longer to complete their task, they also cost less. Your Workers can also be specialized to specific tasks, making them more efficient, but cost more to maintain and keep happy. Little Big Workshop is a micromanagers dream, with a fairly intricate system.… Full Review »
  2. Kri5p13
    Sep 29, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. Little Big Workshop surprised me. Here I was expecting a fairly straightforward game where I would play for a couple hours and know exactly what I’m doing. Instead, I found myself pleasantly surprised, and often frustrated at myself as I hit bankruptcy (more than once).

    The concept in itself, as I said, is pretty simple. Build a factory, make products, compete to be the best company and beat out your competition. What I wasn’t expecting, however, was planning products that became in-depth, a fluctuating marketplace where one cycle could be the difference between a major profit or loss, and contracts from clients that at first glance are easy but can leave you missing targets or making enough to keep you afloat for another day or so. Honestly, I love this game. The artwork and overall look is wonderful, I really enjoyed the perspective that you’re essentially playing a game within a game. The progression is clear cut and the research tree (tech tree) isn’t too overwhelming. In saying that, there are one or two little things that niggled at me. Every now and then, my workers would just stop working. Every single one of them would go hang out on break rooms, have full energy and still not complete contracts that needed to be finished. A quick save and reload fixed the issue, but it can become slightly irritating after a minute. Speaking of workers, one more thing that irked me a little was my specialists. In the research tab, you can unlock specialist workers for wood, metal, plastic and assembly. I assumed once you unlock them they would only work on stations within their specialisation, but it would appear this isn’t the case. This was slightly irritating as I’d paid extra for these workers and wanted them to make my production times faster. Overall though, the positives far outweigh the negatives. LBW is one of those games too sit down to play for an hour and end up spending a lot more. After several failed starts because I was too quick off the start block, when I finally completed my first big contract the sense of satisfaction I had was unexpected but welcomed. Slowly but surely expanding and buying upgraded machinery was something that took a while for me to figure out, but I never felt like it made the game unenjoyable. If you like business tycoons and management type games in particular. I cannot recommend this game enough. With one or two little fixes here and there this would score higher for me, but overall this is a solid 8/10. Great work by handy games, I can’t wait to see what they work on next.    … Full Review »