I got this game as a free bonus for another pack I bought and was very pleasantly surprised at how fun it was! Fun enough that I played both the main game and transcendence to completion, as well as obtained all badges, token items, and achievements. That said, I can see why programmers and/or players of other automation games might have been underwhelmed by this game. I have some improvement suggestions for the devs that I think would address these problems (though the most recent patch was a year ago so I'm not sure if they're still working on it):

1. Default bot memory should be increased dramatically and made the same for all bots - The low level bots have a very restrictive amount of memory that forces you to focus on very specific, simple tasks. This makes the game a bit more tedious until you get to higher level bots.
   
2. The Bot Database Wonder should be removed and the functionality available by default - It is very frustrating using the disks as you upgrade bots.
   
3. More programming options - Even simple functionality such as ANDs and ORs are missing. Not to mention, there is no way to template commonly used patterns. ie. I have a bot that needs to get a tool when it's hands are empty from X container to perform Y action. Why can't I just build this into a template and fill in X and Y?
   
4. There should be an upkeep cost on the bots to encourage fewer, more complex bots rather than an infinite simply of simple, boring bots - By end game usually 90% of my bots are doing nothing at any given time. I would enjoy the challenge of trying to make the most from a limited number of bots. Or perhaps a different mode for this. There is an option to limit the number of bots to 200 but that is still quite easy.
   
5. Longer end game - I really like the spaceport idea, which takes in random batches items in exchange for tokens. It forces you to expand your infrastructure to accommodate for all of these. However, I was able to get enough tokens for all of the available items within just a few hours.

I got this game as a free bonus for another pack I bought and was very pleasantly surprised at how fun it was! Fun enough that I played both the main game and transcendence to completion, as well as obtained all badges, token items, and achievements. That said, I can see why programmers and/or players of other automation games might have been underwhelmed by this game. I have some improvement suggestions for the devs that I think would address these problems (though the most recent patch was a year ago so I'm not sure if they're still working on it): [olist] [*]Default bot memory should be increased dramatically and made the same for all bots - The low level bots have a very restrictive amount of memory that forces you to focus on very specific, simple tasks. This makes the game a bit more tedious until you get to higher level bots. [*]The Bot Database Wonder should be removed and the functionality available by default - It is very frustrating using the disks as you upgrade bots. [*]More programming options - Even simple functionality such as ANDs and ORs are missing. Not to mention, there is no way to template commonly used patterns. ie. I have a bot that needs to get a tool when it's hands are empty from X container to perform Y action. Why can't I just build this into a template and fill in X and Y? [*]There should be an upkeep cost on the bots to encourage fewer, more complex bots rather than an infinite simply of simple, boring bots - By end game usually 90% of my bots are doing nothing at any given time. I would enjoy the challenge of trying to make the most from a limited number of bots. Or perhaps a different mode for this. There is an option to limit the number of bots to 200 but that is still quite easy. [*]Longer end game - I really like the spaceport idea, which takes in random batches items in exchange for tokens. It forces you to expand your infrastructure to accommodate for all of these. However, I was able to get enough tokens for all of the available items within just a few hours. [/olist]