factory accident

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Introduction

factory accident, by developer bobon4uto, is a browser-based management game set on an industrial floor where safety rules get broken and the bill comes due in accidents. You drag across the map to select workers, then click a work station to put them on the job; each station can hold up to four people at a time. Fresh workers keep arriving at the rest zone in the center of the map, which is also the one spot where accidents never happen. When an accident breaks out at a station, that station stops accepting new assignments, but you can still select the crew already inside and move them out to safety. A button above the rest zone lets you pay to speed up how quickly new workers show up, so there is a constant trade-off between waiting for more hands and making do with the ones you have. Right-clicking undoes a selection, and the mouse wheel handles zoom. Everything also works from the keyboard: WASD, the arrow keys or HJKL move an on-screen cursor, shift makes it travel faster, E or the spacebar stands in for a left click, Q for a right click, I and O zoom, and P restores the default view. The result is a compact juggling act about keeping an eye on several stations at once and reacting before an accident costs you people.

Games like factory accident

• Overcooked!: Both games are about moving workers between stations in real time while problems pile up.
• Two Point Hospital: Staff are assigned to rooms and must be pulled out when an emergency makes a room unusable.
• RimWorld: Both involve directing a workforce and reacting to sudden disasters that threaten the people under your care.

Similar picks are based on the public description and tags, not playtesting.

Who it is for

Good fit if you are:

• Micromanagement fans
• Keyboard-only players
• Fans of small strategy puzzles

Highlights

• Drag to select workers, then click a station to assign them
• Every station can have up to four workers active at once
• Crews can be pulled out of a station while an accident is happening
• The central rest zone is accident-free and receives new arrivals
• A full keyboard scheme covers cursor movement, clicking and zoom

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