Cogtown Tycoon

Cogtown Tycoon puts you in charge of a growing steam-powered town, and the fun is untangling supply lines. Raw goods flow into workshops, workshops feed the market, and every bottleneck you fix creates a new one somewhere downstream.

The interface is clean for a mobile sim, with a smart overview map that shows exactly where things back up. Automation unlocks gradually so you're never overwhelmed, and there's a genuine sense of a machine humming once your layout clicks.

Late game slows down and could use more end-goals, but the middle stretch — when you're rewiring the whole town — is excellent.

What we liked

• Clear bottleneck visualization
• Gradual automation curve
• Deeply satisfying mid-game