this video got me to get your game as well, and as a fellow OCD game dev i can understand your pain, don't worry, in my games all the roads are as straight and efficient as possible. btw, awesome demo, really loved the game mechanics, wish you good luck and much success in your future ^_^

@@ofirnaveh7666 Thanks so much

@@_KnightOwlGames Atually a really fun game tbh - and yes, I understand your fellow dev. Deeply.

This would be excellent game for iPad, do you have plans to release it on iOS?

Us Factorio folks call that "Spaghetti"

I played The Settlers and Settlers 2 and it was nothing like this, it was more of an RTS game. Is there a completely different game also called The Settlers? This looks more like The Colonists to me

@@TitoRigatoni It may be a different title by translation, but the settlers 1+2 had road building, one person per road and ressources being transported the same way. The Settlers 3+4 ditched the roads and used a more organic approach to logistics, as people just roamed and every person without a job could carry things. These parts are rather a RTS. (These games were released by Bluebyte in 1993 and 1996, which was later bought by Ubisoft if I remember correctly. Also such a shame what they did with the series)

@@MrZwergdaniel Thanks, I must've been remembering a different game. Cheers!

@@TitoRigatoni Not a different game, just marketing confusion. The games you played were part of the Settlers series, but not the first or second game; most likely 5th and 6th, by which point the series was completely taken over by Ubisoft and no longer resembling anything about the first two games.

People keep mentioning The Settlers, but this doesn't look anything like The Settlers game I've played (the one that's on Steam). That game is more of a colony builder / RTS game, there's no logistics element to it at all.

@@TitoRigatoni Hey, just saw this comment aswell and looked which settlers parts are on steam. It seems you either mean "Heritage of Kings" (5), "Rise of an Empire" (6) or straight up settlers 7. All these games were designed after the main director for the first and third game left, which split up the already small settlers community. If you dont mind old graphics and prefer a rather laid back RTS approach with a focus on logistic/resource chains I can highly reccommend the first 4 parts. They are on GOG and the Ubisoft Launcher. Id reccomend the GOG version, as the ubisoft anniversary edition isnt any better. Get the Community HD Patches aswell and youre all set. For the Second part there are also remastered editions, which are fine but lack the old settlers flair in my opinion.

​@@MrZwergdaniel"Return to the Roots" is also a very good Community version of Settlers 2 it adds some features that where missing from the original, like naval based invasion, a Charcoal burner and a myriad of options and a Random map Generator

​@@TitoRigatoniand to directly answer your question, There's 2 games out of the what? 10? Settlers games currently released and only the two Original titles are like this, the rest ditched this system for a different one

The Colonists used the Settlers logistics system

This is literally The Settlers, a game from _1993_ . The logistics are completely different. The distinct feature of the Settlers series and the logistics style is the roads that each have their assigned transporter going back and forth. The Colonists (2018) uses the same system (I suspect Ubisoft's destruction of the Settlers series had a lot to do with that). The main challenge is getting stuff to where it needs to go (there was combat in The Settlers, but not as an RTS - it was all about your economy supplying your soldiers to overwhelm your enemies). Masterplan Tycoon was just one of the many games that took all these established concepts and replaced complex logistics with a node-based system - the creator explicitly mentions The Settlers 2 and the Unity Shader Graph editor as direct inspirations, in fact :) It sits somewhere in the overlap of idle games and logistic games. Of course, if you look at idle games in general, there's... a lot of them. Experimenting with a lot of different approaches, levels of idleness, and the visual representation. The important thing is that Masterplan tycoon doesn't really have any logistical challenges. Sure, you move nodes and edges around on the map, but it doesn't really mean anything - longer edges do not have any real disadvantages, edges can cross willy-nilly... You're just connecting inputs and outputs. Heck, it's less complex than most idle games :D It goes beyond "minimalist", IMO... In this game, space matters. Distances matter. Road design matters. It's far more similar to games like Factory Town or even Factorio, but the basic logistic system based on The Settlers instead of free walkers or belts. The only thing in which it is similar to Masterplan Tycoon in particular is the graphical style... which is not really all that distinct in the first place (and seems like a refinement of Blueprint Tycoon from 2016; really, it's a lot like an overly minimalist Blueprint Tycoon). In general, you should be wary of jumping on the idea that one modern game copied another modern game. There's not a lot of new ideas floating around, especially in the relative mainstream of gaming. There's some iteration on old ideas, and a huge amount of just outright doing the same thing we had 20 years ago. And especially in the logistics and management games, you'll find many European (especially Central European) games that "did just that".