6.5

Rise of Industry 2

Advantages

• Good balance in depth: Enough complexity to stay strategically interesting without flooding players with micromanagement.
• Campaign mode is strong: The structured scenarios offer direction and encourage strategic thinking.
• Active support from developers: The team responds quickly to the Discord. Resolve bugs quickly and release multiple patches in the first days. It was fixed within a day.

Minorities

• Too many systems are ineffective: Classic is almost everything solved with money. Contracts, logistics and production mechanisms are easy to circumvent with a simple exploit (e.g. import†
• UI and level of detail do not feel: The game still has performance and stability problems also it looks more like an open bà ̈ta than a release.
• Too little help: As in the first title, it takes a lot of time and patience to understand all systems properly, even with the textâ€

Technical and design

Although the visual style is maintained and the interface broadly looks functional, it still lacks refinement. The UI is incredibly clumsy at crucial moments so simple actions cost unnecessary clicks. There is also no consistency in information provision; some production chains show incorrect or incomplete data, although the developers are actively working on this. In the current version bugs are noticeable. Performance remains stable with smaller set-up, but is visible when building complex networks.