Little Big Workshop

 Xbox One
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  1. Kri5p13
    Sep 29, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand 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.    … Expand

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Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. Xbox Tavern
    Nov 2, 2020
    61
    Little Big Workshop is a decent workshop simulation game and fans of this genre would enjoy it. However, I feel it could have done with a lot more hand-holding through the game for beginners. There are a lot of tools and tweaks that could be implemented to increase the efficiency of your workshop but with such a brief tutorial a lot of these will be missed and it will cause you to struggle.
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  2. Malditos Nerds
    Oct 13, 2020
    75
    Little Big Workshop, in general terms, is a great management game and it offers very well optimized version on consoles, with very well applied concepts and a simplicity in controls that makes it very friendly for any type of player.
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  3. 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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