Are there any belt-tism games that are more like a traditional management/rts game?

[Malkevin]

I.E. you control everything via an all seeing eye in the sky, instead of controlling a character?

I like the concept of the game, but I'd prefer to have minions do all the back and forth for me.

[MechBFP]

PRODUCTION LINE it is a "Car Factory Simulation Game"

[ash]

Yes there's this game called Factorio and it has a Sandbox mode where you don't control a character and you can build robots to do all the back and forth work for you.
;)

[helmey112]

Factory Town

[ERROR_404]

There is map mode and robots. There are mods that get you there faster. I think there is also a mod that only lets you use map view and you start with robots I don't remember the name unfortunately.

[ERROR_404]

Found the mod
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/brave-new-world
"RTS-like scenario for Factorio. Player character is removed, all work must be done by bots"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWEEGJyvCIE

[AlexMBrennan]

Originally posted by ash:

Yes there's this game called Factorio and it has a Sandbox mode where you don't control a character and you can build robots to do all the back and forth work for you.
;)

If you want minions doing all the work from the very start then you would need roboports and robots from the very start which is not the typical Factorio experience where those items are locked behind mid game tech and require fairly long production chains.

You would probably need a moderately complex custom scenario to make that work (at the very least you need to force spawn an oil well in range of the player's first roboport)

[guts2501]

Nano bots is a early game robot mod that work like a weapon and use ammo and function the same as regular robots, tech tree upgrades and all.

[AlexMBrennan]

Nano bots is a early game robot mod that work like a weapon and use ammo and function the same as regular robots, tech tree upgrades and all.

But they don't work with roboports so unless you go around building everything by hand (i.e. the one thing OP does not want to do) they are kinda pointless.

You simply cannot get around the fact that you need to be able to build roboports from the very start if you want to play this game without a player avatar running around building stuff.

[ERROR_404]

Originally posted by AlexMBrennan:

need to be able to build roboports from the very start if you want to play this game without a player avatar running around building stuff.

As stated https://mods.factorio.com/mod/brave-new-world
Gives you roboports form the start and removes the player character.

[Maltar Draco]

There is Knights and Merchants which is medieval. You don't have an actual character and is more RTSey but I like that every item has physical location in the world, your resources simply don't become omnipresent when they reach your town hall. No belts because medieval so items have to carried around by npcs.

[Thuar]

Shapez.io is nice, just nog very beautiful graphics, but it's clear to see :)

[Shinigami]

Big Pharma was pretty much just what you were asking for.

[0restes]

Oxygen Not Included.

And you will love all your dupes. Meep included.

[Ydyp]

Originally posted by helmey112:

Factory Town

This one as well as kubifaktorium works fine with the OP request.

Also a lot of the Settlers games (not all), or The Colonists. These don't work with belts but with a road network that you have to manage to transport goods around.

Then we got the miner role in Dwarfheim, which works with belts and machines. But that is only 1 role of the 3 you have in a match.

[Spill]

The mod Updated Construction Drones might be just what you need. Lets you have rather fast minions from the start