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About the Game
Captain of Industry is a single-player island industry builder where you reshape terrain, run factories, and aim for space flight.
Captain of Industry is an independent simulation and strategy game about building an industrial empire on a remote island. You start with a small group of workers and a ship loaded with supplies, then gradually expand across the map. It is a single-player game tagged as playable at your own pace, with no need for fast reactions.
The core loop is extract, process, transport, and provide. You mine resources and reshape the land itself, since the whole terrain is fully dynamic. You can flatten mountains, fill valleys, and reclaim land from the sea. Early factories focus on iron smelting, concrete mixing, and food processing, and as you research new technology, production moves toward refining, electronics, computing, and eventually rocket and space station parts.
Logistics are handled by trucks, trains, conveyor belts, and pipes, with amphibious vehicles and bridges reaching other islands. Your population needs housing, clean water, electricity, healthcare, and household goods. Happy citizens generate cohesion, which speeds up construction and unlocks resources on the world map, while neglected waste and pollution let disease spread.
Ships let you explore the world map, discover islands with importable resources, rescue refugees, and trade with allied settlements on the way to full self-sufficiency. Tools such as copy and paste for factory sections, blueprints, a planning mode, and a map editor help you design and share layouts. A sandbox mode makes all buildings and resources free for experimenting.
Feature Highlights
- Every mountain can be flattened and every valley filled, since the terrain is fully dynamic across the whole map.
- Research covers more than 100 technologies, progressing from basic metal smelting to nuclear power and space flight.
- Trucks handle everyday logistics, while conveyor belts and pipes create direct high-throughput links between machines.
- Blueprints let you copy, save, and share factory layouts, and a planning mode lets you design before spending resources.
- A map editor lets you design your own islands to play or share, and a sandbox mode makes all buildings and resources free.
- Steam Cloud saves, save-at-any-time support, and Family Sharing are all listed among its features.
Who It Is (and Is Not) For
Recommended For
Fans of factory building and automation will likely enjoy chaining production from raw ore all the way to rockets. Players who enjoy reshaping landscapes, planning layouts before committing resources, and working at their own pace will find plenty to do. Anyone who likes sandbox freedom can switch on free buildings and resources to experiment.
Not Recommended For
Players who want fast, reflexive gameplay should look elsewhere, since the tags specifically note that no quick reactions are needed and the game is paced for planning. Anyone looking for multiplayer should also note that the listed features are single-player.
What the Steam Reviews Say
Captain of Industry holds a Very Positive rating on Steam, shown as 極度好評 in Steam Taiwan wording, with 90% of its reviews positive. That is a strong signal that players who buy it tend to come away satisfied, and the review volume runs into the tens of thousands, so the rating reflects a broad sample rather than a handful of early opinions.
Steam sets review labels based on the share of positive reviews and how many reviews there are, so a high percentage carries more weight when the total is large. A small review count can swing quickly, while a big sample is steadier. Because this is a slow, planning-heavy builder, the rating reflects general satisfaction, so reading recent reviews on the store page can help you judge whether its pace suits you.
Price History & Historical Low
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| Date | Price | Discount |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | NT$396 | -30% |
| 2026-10-27 | NT$396 | -30% |
| 2026-09-16 | NT$566 | — |
| 2026-07-21 | NT$396 | -30% |
All prices here are Taiwan Steam store prices in NT$. Captain of Industry is currently NT$ 396, which is 30% off the regular NT$ 566. That current price matches the lowest price we have recorded, first logged on July 21, 2026, which was also our first recorded day.
We have seen the game discounted often in our records, and the highest price we recorded was the regular NT$ 566. It has not been free to keep on any day we tracked. Our price record is still short, so this verdict is tentative and should be read as an early impression rather than a long-term pattern.
Because the current price is both the discount and our recorded low, buying now is a reasonable choice if the game suits your taste. If you want to see whether a deeper cut appears, a wishlist entry with sale notifications is the safer route, and you can revisit this analysis as more price history builds up.
Analysis written 10/28/2026 from our recorded prices; the chart above is live. Taiwan-region Steam prices.
How to Buy
- Open the Captain of Industry page on the Steam store, using the Taiwan store if you want NT$ pricing.
- Compare the current NT$ 396 price with the regular NT$ 566 price shown on the page.
- Click Add to Cart and complete checkout if you are ready to buy.
- If you prefer to wait, click Add to Wishlist instead of buying.
- Turn on Steam's wishlist sale notifications so you hear about future price changes.
- Check back here for the price trend before you decide.
Things to Know
Traditional Chinese is among the supported languages, and English is supported as well, alongside Simplified Chinese and many others. The prices shown are Taiwan-region Steam prices in NT$ and may differ in other regions or currencies. Discounts and free promotions can end at any time, so check the official Steam page before you buy.
