Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which Steve Hogarty explores the wilds of early access. This week, he’s become a titan of industry in retro futuristic factory sim Good Company.
Developer: Chasing Carrots
Publisher: The Irregular Corporation
Release: Out now
On: Windows
From: Steam
For: £20, $25, €23
Ah, industry. You gotta love it. Men with twirly moustaches posing in front of giant chains. Women standing next to teetering piles of code used to send astronauts to the moon. Countless ghosts of mangled Victorian children haunting the greased cogs of matchbox factories. Elon Musk riding atop a tiny submarine like a cowboy to the bottom of the Mariana Trench to rescue his frisbee. Humanity is at its very best when it’s building, designing and producing the vast quantities of plastic garbage demanded by the growling and insatiable stomach of our sexy benefactor and god, global capitalism.