Rise of Industry 2

Rise of Industry 2

Released Jun 2025

Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!

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Evaluation

Rise of Industry 2 launched on June 3, 2025 and quickly established a strong post-launch update cadence. Three major free content updates shipped in the months following release: a contact management and construction overhaul on July 24, 2025, a contracts and international trade expansion on September 4, 2025, and the "Home and Away" update — adding six new sandbox maps, a city rework, and pharmaceuticals — on October 20, 2025. This amounts to a major update roughly every 6–8 weeks. A quality-of-life and bug-fix patch followed on January 13, 2026, the last developer communication of any kind. As of October 1, 2026, more than 8 months have passed since that January 13, 2026 patch, and over 11 months since the last major content update. This silence significantly exceeds the developer's established 6–8 week update rhythm — well beyond what the historical pattern would predict. The developer has posted no announcements, roadmaps, or statements explaining the quiet period, and has not indicated whether further updates are planned or whether development has concluded. All three store DLC items (soundtrack, artbook, Deluxe Edition upgrade) shipped on launch day and are cosmetic additions; none represent unshipped gameplay content. Given the strong prior update history and the absence of any "development is complete" statement, the game cannot be considered definitively finished — but the extended silence is a meaningful departure from what the developer had shown.
Evidence
Third major free update 'Home and Away' launched, adding 6 new sandbox maps, a city rework, and a pharmaceuticals production chain.
news post · Oct 20, 2025 source content shipped
high
Second major free update added domestic and international contracts, critical events, and UI improvements.
news post · Sep 4, 2025 source content shipped
high

Content

3 of 3 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Kasedo Games
Achievements
50
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

80’s USA… a time and place of rapid innovation, globalization and unprecedented profits. To dominate this competitive industrial landscape, you’ll need to build a cutting-edge manufacturing powerhouse and cultivate a rolodex full of jet-setting business contacts. Welcome to the land of opportunity!

In pursuit of unprecedented profits, you’ll need to seize every opportunity to innovate and grow each business you’re tasked with managing. Ever dream of running a hub of automotive production? A world-class winery with sweeping vineyard vistas? A sprawling mining operation extracting and refining valuable minerals? Or an aviation enterprise that assembles airplanes that will soar through the skies of an increasingly interconnected world?

You’ll need to optimize your production chains, import and export goods within the global market, keep up to date with the latest and greatest technologies, maintain strong relations with the local government and expand your business network to stay on top. Make all the right decisions along the way and you just might be able fulfill your American dream.

Conquer 15 unique and exciting scenarios in campaign mode, each with a different challenge. Alternatively, define your own path to success in sandbox mode.

Set up specialized complexes containing factories, power plants, industrial furnaces and farms! Establish utility networks to power your industries, making use of the natural resources around you. Provide the media industry with televisions, cameras, vinyl records, cassettes, computers, and video game consoles. Get distilleries and breweries up and running to create drinks such as vodka, whiskey and beer. Churn out candy, toys, dyes, batteries and so much more!

Capitalize on the emerging global market by signing contracts with executives around the world. Import goods and resources to accelerate your production chains and export your products to make the big bucks!

Build labs and set research strategies to help you acquire new technologies that will broaden your horizons and improve your production chains.

Your social connections are vital – to stay on top you’ll need to know the right people and stay on their good side. Network with CEOs of other companies to trade in materials and finished products, and get introductions to their powerful friends in the industry.

Satisfy your board of directors by keeping your profit margins high and completing goals to ensure further investment. Don’t worry, you’re not alone out there – hire integral executives to expand your business and increase efficiency.

Invest in the local town to keep your workers happy and ensure a strong relationship with the local government.

Last evaluated Oct 1, 2026
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