Empire TV Tycoon
I’ve been looking for a modern version of Mad TV for a long time, so I was quite excited when I stumbled upon Empire TV Tycoon on Steam. I had a lot of fun with it, but there were also some frustrating moments which I will explain in a moment.
How do the game mechanics compare to Mad TV?
The similarities are immediately apparent when looking at the interface. You are a tiny person using an elevator to navigate through a high building which houses your offices, film studios, a movie library, an advertising agency and so on. There are two AI opponents with their own channels.
– Real player with 48.3 hrs in game
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Empire TV Tycoon is an easy to learn fun simulation where you run a tv channel.
As you increase viewership and make those important decisions on what to play and what ads to show, you can climb the ranks from a simple local channel to the world of satellite broadcasting.
Part of the game is programming your day’s viewing - which sounds more tedious or daunting than it actually is.
You will recognise some movie titles, and the spoofs of well-known award shows and film festivals. This adds to the immersive side of Empire, and it can be quite fun (if not diabolical) to plan a day’s tv viewing based on your favourite films… or least favourites…
– Real player with 21.8 hrs in game
Pollute & Conquer
A strategy about ecology, where players can capture territory and build different buildings; And the choice between green and polluting buildings is important and affects both the world and the interaction between players. If both players make mistakes, then the world dies and both players lose.
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CAPTURE TERRITORY
Buy neutral or enemy cells for the accumulated resources of money or influence. Surround the enemy or go to the other side of the map. Choose and purchase cells with the most profitable terrain: river, forest, desert, hill, snow, ocean.
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BUILD BUILDINGS
Build buildings suitable for specific terrain, using the bonuses or disadvantages of each of them. Adapt to your opponent’s strategy. Build polluting, neutral, or cleaning buildings that use different resources: coal, oil, river flow, nuclear, sun, wind, fusion power, or hydrocarbon cleaning.
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DEVELOP TECHNOLOGIES
Upgrade technologies of different buildings. Use coal with less pollution for the world. Learn to obtain solar energy more profitably than coal. Cleanse the world with advanced hydrocarbon capture technologies. Or open a new era of thermonuclear energy.
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POLLUTE AND CLEANSE
Use the wealth from coal and oil usage, getting rich at an incredible speed, despite the world’s disasters that destroy you and your enemy. Or cleanse the world so you don’t die and gain massive influence.
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CONTEST
Earn as much money and influence as possible to win. Survive the most difficult situations by finding counter-strategies against your opponent. Deal with global pollution. Or take advantage of the world’s chaos from pollution to disrupt the enemy’s plans and capture them.
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PLAY WITH FRIENDS
Play with friends on the same device as a board game. The game provides great opportunities for a complete competition, using many different strategies and adaptations for the map, enemy actions, and disasters.
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DEFEAT EVERY AI
The game has several levels of AI difficulty from the easiest for beginners who started acquainting with the world of strategies, to the most difficult for hardcore players who want to test their skills. Can you pass them all?
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CHOOSE GAME TIME
Choose a map size from several options from a small map for 15-20 minutes to a large one for 40-60 minutes.
WORLD
Long ago, people believed that our world lays on 3 elephants that stand on a giant turtle. Those people were wrong about 2 things:
First - There are no elephants. That is silly. There is only the Turtle.
Second - Our world is just a planet, but there is another beautiful place wandering space, that is similar to Earth and rests on the Turtle.
An unprecedented economic war for territories and resources flares up on the turtle.
Will it and all life on it die in the chaos of pollution?
Or will intelligent beings come to their senses and prevent the end of the world by developing new technologies?
Pollute and Conquer, compromise and cleanse.
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City Game Studio: a tycoon about game dev
City Game Studio
I joined the open beta for City Game Studio a little while ago. Ever since I have seen it grow substantially. The game has been improved so much in a short amount of time and I can only see it getting better and better from here on out. The developer is very active and takes all the feedback and criticism he gets very seriously. Many of my own suggestions have already made it into the game and whenever an issue arises he is quick to fix it.
The game takes place in a city where you can rent, buy and even build your own studios and exhibitor centers. When your company is doing good you obviously want to expand and get even larger teams working on even bigger titles. The result of that can be very satisfying.
– Real player with 198.3 hrs in game
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Overview
First off, on advice from this author’s attorney Frankie “Fine Print” Lymann, copycat games are not a crime. (See Data East USA v. Epyx for proof that copycats do not constitute copyright infringement.) Remember Game Dev Tycoon? Take the awesomeness of the aforementioned game, add interior decorating, an outside world where buildings can be rented, bought, and even constructed, and then add in some nice new ideas (along with a bad idea) and you have City Game Studio. In case the reader doesn’t know, the game is a management sim in which the player starts a game company starting in the year of the player’s choosing, and goes from rags to riches through developing and publishing video games.
– Real player with 43.6 hrs in game
Rap simulator
Rap Simulator is in basically a production with a great deal of humour. The action starts in the 80s of the last century. The player takes on the role of a rapper who sets up his first music studio in a rented apartment. Our task is to break out of the underground and become a part of the mainstream for good, opening our own label or creating the best clothing brand. Beefs, chases, money, green leaves, shootings, gang wars or maybe a softer way to success? The way the player chooses to reach the top will depend only on him/her. At the beginning of the game, the player’s budget is limited, so you have to decide which aspect of the production you want to devote more attention to at the cost of the other elements.
Our musical works are reviewed by the industry press, which affects our sales results. The tastes of listeners become more and more sophisticated every year, so we have to constantly create newer and newer things and use the best possible equipment. As the complexity of our music projects increases, we will be forced to hire more staff and change our premises to larger ones.
Real hip-hop events take place in the background, so if the player’s story goes well, he or she will be able to record songs together with hip-hop legends or start beef with them, which can change the history of hip-hop. Additionally, the players will be able to learn about the history of foreign hip-hop. In the game you will find, among others, elements related to the legends of rap. The rap songs by various artists, which will be played in the background, will complement everything.
Game elements:
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Start a game in the 80s as rapper
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Editor (create new character, edit other npc/rappers etc.)
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Change the history of hip-hop
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Research new technologies etc.
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Move into bigger music studios
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Unlock secret characters
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Multiplayer
Business Tycoon Billionaire
This game was not quite what I expected. It was really a game that let you click some buttons and watch the numbers go up. I put in 7 hours, but it was more of a set it and forget situation. Regardless of the “deal”, this game really was a time waster. If that is what you want, a true time waster, with no actual reward, then go for it.
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game
this game is just a rip off a poor rip off of much better games like Adventure capitalist which is free BTW an has a lot more content. i hope this game comes out with leaderboards A OPTION TO TURN THE DAM SOUND OFF!!!!! and some good content
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
Game Corp DX
Load of hours with fun for very cheap price.
Probably one of the best or maybe the best Economy-Management Game Dev Simulation ever so far. I used to play Game Dev Tycoon few months ago, it was the last good game dev simulation game.
After few months Game Corp DX came out. It was in early acces, I stayed away cuz of bugs and some negative reviews. Just added it to my wishlist and got it on my birthday as a gift. LOL, I am lucky cause this game is totally awesome.
There is three difficulty mode ; Hard, Normal and Easy. Easy is really easy. You can learn the game basics as like as it’s a tutorial. Then you can play normal or hard without getting bored easily.
– Real player with 12.3 hrs in game
I have a fondness for game dev sims, but I didn’t have high expectations for Game Corp Dx. After all, how good could a $2.99 Early Access title be? When I started playing I was pleasantly surprised by it. Rather than a short simplistic game, there appears to be real depth to this title. There’s enough going on this game that I’ve decided to just write the bulk of this review in + and - list form.
Game Corp Dx features;
- Simple and intuitive graphical interface. There aren’t dozens of menus to navigate here, and it’s pretty easy to figure out how to use the ones that are.
– Real player with 12.3 hrs in game
Nuclear Power Station Creator
You can play as long as you do not leave the game … because it does not save the game and generates a bug. It is a game that takes time to interact with it. It would be nice if he rotates in the background to be able to do other things while the game runs, which is not the case because the game stops if it is not in it. I hope the improvements come fast, it seemed relaxing. LOL
Dá para jogar desde que não saia do jogo… pois ele não grava a partida e gera um bug. É um jogo que demora para que tenha interação com ele. Bom seria que ele rodaçe em 2º plano para poder fazer outras coisas enquanto que o jogo corra, o que não é o caso porque o jogo pára se não está nele. Eu espero que as melhorias venhão rápido, pareceu-me relaxante. rsrsrsrs
– Real player with 91.8 hrs in game
Edit to my original review….
This game has not been patched or updated. It is buggy at best but more likely broken. If you load a save and click on construction you get a screen in Russian and cant click back. No point in contacting developer as there are no updates. Game is dead, waste of time DO NOT BUY!!!!!!
Original Review (ignore)
Recommending this on a very thin line, with faith in the devs doing the idea justice. This is my opinion based on the current state of the game and it will hopefully change.
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator
A simulator of a businessman on the Japanese stock market in the 80s and 90s. Chill, catch a retro vibe, and watch your profits grow in the text-based game STONKS-9800.
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Buy stocks, get dividends, monitor the stock price;
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Your actions affect the market;
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Keep an eye on your health and do not overwork, lest you end up in the hospital;
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Take care of a lot of problems;
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Buy your own real estate and cars, increasing your level of comfort;
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Manage the company, having a controlling interest;
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The opportunity to earn not only the legal way;
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Mini-games: pachinko and betting on horse races;
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Many other features and unexpected situations await you in STONKS-9800.
Free background music from MusMus https://musmus.main.jp/
Airline Tycoon Deluxe
Airline Tycoon … my favorite PC game of all time and THE game of my childhood!
I first got my hands on this game at the age of two in 2000.
Before Steam, I’ve spent at least over 4000 hours with Airline Tycoon for 20 years.
An economic simulation that is structured similarly to MadTV, only that it is not about TV channels, but about managing an airline to a lively airport with many rooms, colorful funny graphics, adventure-like elements and sensible management elements.
I’ve never seen a game with so much attention to detail again. It only starts with the original characters like the airport manager Dr. Uhrig, the main characters Tina Cortez, Siggi Sorglos, Igor Tuppolevsky and Mario Zucherro, or even the mechanic Jack from the workshop with the epic Super Saiyan like Son Goku (xD), or Rick from Rick’s Café.
– Real player with 1251.5 hrs in game
I first played Airline Tycoon about 12 years ago. I was a little too young to understand how this game works, so I lost my interest. The old game is not working properly on Windows 10, which off course doesn’t surprise me as the original game is from 1998;). Anyway, as my greatest passion is aviation, I just had to buy the game again.
I can say it still is a fun game! However, you probaply won’t be playing it for very long. I now played this version for about 20 hours and I have done pretty much everything there is to do. So, just like 12 years ago, I lost my interest in it.
– Real player with 181.9 hrs in game
Fruit Clicker
Best game of all time!!!!
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game
PEAR IS BEST FRUIT DONT @ ME
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game