"Some people like it, some people are annoyed by it": Substructure may look like Factorio, but it changes the automation game in some fundamental ways

Substructure, developed by Dubious Design and published by Hooded Horse, lets players dig beneath an alien planet's surface into multiple cavern layers and move resources between them using lifts. Dubious Designs CTO Stu Taylor, creator of the Ultracube mod for Factorio, says the lifts enable a scheduling and constraints puzzle that would not have been possible in the Factorio engine. The team aims to make that kind of gameplay approachable for players who are not already attuned to Factorio's complexity.