Big Ambitions
Prologue
_“It’s been 3 months since grandma died. I know that I’m an adult now that I’m 18 years old, but still… It feels so scary that no one is there to take care of stuff.
There’s one good thing though. At the funeral, my uncle Fred asked me for my phone number. He said he wanted to help me get on my feet. I don’t really know him, but I guess he’s family after all.”_
Game Description
Big Ambitions is a roleplaying business simulator situated in the open-world city of New York. You start the game as a young kid surviving in the big apple. You have big ambitions for money and success, but you’re starting with absolutely nothing.
Gameplay
In Big Ambitions, you control a single person in the middle of the bustling metropolis of New York City. Your goal is to achieve financial success in various ways. Starting at the bottom flipping burgers or collecting garbage to eventually owning and running big businesses and real estate throughout the city.
As you progress, you always need to make sure that you’re getting enough sleep, keeping up with your health, and making sure your happiness is sufficient. Increasing your capital can be trickier than you think. As you will learn, money can’t buy time.
Money making opportunities
We’re still in the process of adding content to the game, but to give you a better understanding of the basics, we put together a list of ways you can make money:
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Getting a job (cashier, warehouse worker, garbage collector, etc)
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Running storefront businesses (clothing shops, restaurants, gift shops, etc)
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Running office-based businesses
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Buying buildings and renting them out
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Real estate investments (buying and selling buildings strategically)
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Investment Funds
Sandbox
Even though Big Ambitions has an interesting story featuring Uncle Fred and other characters, it’s up to you to decide how much you want to listen to them. Everything is available right from the beginning.
Day to day objectives and tasks
In Big Ambitions, you go through days just like in real life. Every day is different, and you’ll have various tasks to handle such as:
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Sleeping, eating, and exercising
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Educating yourself with courses and school
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Recruiting and managing employees
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Managing business warehouse status (buying and transporting goods)
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Expanding into new business areas
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Renovating buildings
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Managing your vehicle(s). Filling up gas, maintaining the vehicle, etc.
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Paying taxes
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Talk to Strangers
Where can I start with this Quirky little game. Talk To Strangers aka(Door To Door Salesman Sim) is one heck of a charming game with quirky characters hiding behind each door each with their own little challenges when you face them, The soundtrack is eerily catchy especially the main menu music and I cant seem to get enough of it, The game play is super challenging but fun and the game is super replayable especially as there seems to be no end of achievements to grab and endings to find! all whilst making sure you dont get either killed,too depressed or angry and rage quit oh and dont annoy your boss!
– Real player with 13.5 hrs in game
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Surprisingly entertaining and even challenging casual game, if you are eager to make a sale at every house, learn about the different stories and endings, and maybe get all achievements.
I would describe it as choice-driven rouge-like drummer (*door-to-door salesman) simulation. I was quite flummoxed when I tried this for the first time and fell for some cookies from a nice old lady. Instead of quitting, I learnt the ropes, became an artful barterer, and can even count the Death to my customers.
– Real player with 12.8 hrs in game
Timeflow – Time & Money Sim
TL;DR
9/10: The greatest board game ever? Will gladly go many laps around the board trying not to lose money and waste time before I make money and perfectly manage time… Even if many of the achievements appear to be bugged and the English grammar and syntax give the game an unprofessional feel. Thank you for the important life lessons in time management.
Overview
Hooray for this being ol' Il Pallino’s 100’th. review! Take the best features of money-making board games and remove the attrition-based nature of Monopoly, and add-in some great concepts that couldn’t be worked out in a physical board game, and you have Timeflow. The objective is to work towards one of many types of ambitions while using a pre-made character with all sorts of strengths and weaknesses. (Or custom-made character if one chooses.) One to four players may play, and the player who achieves their ambition first is the winner. Time is everything! without enough time on their hands, players cannot start new businesses or get some education, and if a player doesn’t have enough time at the end of the month, the player has to pay a financial penalty proportionate to the income that they earn.
– Real player with 434.3 hrs in game
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It’s like the adult version of the Game of Life. Played for hours on normal version yesterday. I have to say while it’s in it’s early stages, it’s a pretty well thought out game. I do think there could be more random instances, but it kept my attention for hours. I am still working on buying that dream home.
Now I am less inclined to enjoy the stocks, it seemed for a long time they never got high enough and then when I was finally interested in really buying and selling most of them were way too out of reach and never came back down. Perhaps it’s realistic. It would be real interesting if you could make character changes as lifes ups and downs come at them. I am surprised there isn’t a Win the Lotto or play the lottery option.
– Real player with 129.9 hrs in game
Man of the World
It is possible to become a famous musician, take part in medieval battles, earn a fortune from trade, become a thief of women’s hearts or an avid duelist. The game allows you to do all this.
Goalgetter
The first First-Person Football Manager gives you the chance to make your dream, of becoming a top striker in one of the major European leagues, come true.
You are a young and very gifted football player. Now you are getting the chance to play in the first league. Fight to achieve an essential position for yourself in your team, either by intensive training or by winning the sympathies of the fans and the trainer by other ways. Give interviews, make yourself seen in TV broadcasts and read your performance reviews in the papers.
Your private life is also an important factor. Do you want to get married, have kids, and buy a house? Do you want to buy fancy cars and try your luck in gambling, or do you rather want to fill up your bank account? Buy shares and monitor the stock market developments. Sign advertising deals and grow your popularity on social media.
Be careful not to make the wrong friends and keep concentrated on football.
Achieve the sympathy of the national team coach and be part of the World and European Cup. Participate in international and local cup matches as well as matches within your league. The game includes all major competitions. Transfer to other teams and employ your personal fitness coach.
Do you want to play fair, or do you prefer to cheat during the match? It is all up to you!
In addition to your career, you can also replay historical World Cup and European Championship tournaments.
Much content:
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Simulate the entire career of your player from the first professional contract at the age of 17 to the end of the career
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Replay historical World Cup and European Championship tournaments
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More than 50 leagues around the world can be actively played
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All national teams in the world can be played from you
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Includes all major leagues and cup competitions such as World Cup, European Championship, U20 World Cup, U17 World Cup, Club World Cup, Olympic Games, U19 European Championship, U21 European Championship, Nations League, Champions League, European League, Conference League, and much more.
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More than 1000 teams
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More than 10,000 players
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Play with up to 4 players on one PC or via Steam Remote Play
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Full control over the game world. Edit players, leagues, countries, referees, and teams according to your needs!
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Exchange your self-created editor- and community-content with other players via the Steam Workshop
Great presentation
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Beautiful 3D graphics in realistic locations such as stadium, training ground, office, casino, living room, doctor’s office, etc.
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Detailed statistics
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Intensive 3D conversations with fellow players, friends, consultants, trainers, etc.
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Action-packed football matches in first person perspective
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Many realistic and sometimes funny events
Infinite possibilities
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Make the right decisions in the live game and use the right shooting technique
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The possibilities in the live game cover all facets of modern football
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Improve your 15 skills in training - do you want to follow the instructions of the trainer or prefer to set your own priorities
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Demand favors from your teammates or help them to win their place in the team
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Give interviews in the newspaper and on TV
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Organize fan festivals and parties for your teammates
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Improve your popularity with teammates, fans, coaches, national coaches, the press with various conversations and actions
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Get tips from legendary strikers and thus increase your scoring skill
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Become a member of the team council and team captain and lead the national team onto the field as its team captain
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Do you want to negotiate contracts yourself or do you hire a consultant?
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Hire a private fitness coach or mental coach
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Enjoy your private life, go on vacation, organize parties, have children, and make friends, but always make sure that your fitness does not suffer as a result
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Keep your girlfriend happy, negotiate advertising contracts and donate money to charity
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Become a social media star and increase the number of your followers with posts
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Buy cars, houses, and other luxury goods
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Visit the casino and play roulette or blackjack
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Take care of your health to avoid injuries and conclude an appropriate insurance
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Buy stocks and follow their development or do you want to invest your money differently?
Subsidized by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.
Animation Studio Manager
My friend made this game and gave me a copy to play prior to release, and I’ve really been enjoying it so far. I completed levels 1-8 on both easy and medium mode. The easy level had enough guiding to help me through the game without being overly hand-holding, and it’s been nice to switch to the medium level for more of a challenge. The game moves at a nice pace but there is a pause button in case you need to stop and evaluate your next steps, which I appreciate because it keeps the game from becoming overly frustrating. I started out playing to give the creator some feedback from the perspective of someone who loves to game but doesn’t recognize herself as a hardcore gamer. Despite this, I have definitely found myself playing this game simply because I enjoy it and it helps focus my mind after a hard day of work. I can’t wait to see the next levels! I would definitely recommend this game and I will continue to enjoy it :)
– Real player with 48.5 hrs in game
I’m hooked. I’m truly feeling the excitement and stress that a real animation studio manager would feel. It has cool mini games, an annoying producer, a sarcastic mother and a myriad of production and corporate employees. It’s a fun challenge as new demands appear at every level, like keeping employees happy making webisodes, episodes, and films. Try doing that while making enough money not to go bankrupt. Loved choosing the titles and genres of my TV seasons and watching them go viral. It was also exciting when one of my seasons got renewed. Next level, I get to compete for awards. Can’t wait.
– Real player with 21.4 hrs in game
The Trolley Company
Actions speak louder than words.
Welcome to The Trolley Company, founded on helping people travel safely across the nation.
Your job will start by looking after passenger safety, making sure there are as few casualties as possible while trying to keep the moral high ground.
Later, if you can make it past basic training, you will be faced with lives toughest questions, not knowing who to trust when you are put on the spot with difficult choices to make in only 60 seconds.
But don’t fret, throughout your moral dilemmas you will have me by your side, helping you stay on the path of the righteous.
An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
In ‘The Trolley Company’ players are pitted against many philosophical questions, varying from some well known in pop culture to others usually only found in textbooks, packaged in a comical and thought-provoking journey.
Each ethical conundrum will give you the choice of two outcomes, not only will these test your moral fibre but you will also have the judgement and commentary of your conscience at all times helping you along. With 60 choices to make you better get started! Peoples lives depend on it!!!
This Grand Life
Overview
This Grand Life is the ultimate game in the niche of casual management games where the player works to earn money, satisfy needs, and ultimately towards living a, well.. Grand life! Games can take place in either New York, Amsterdam, Berlin, or Sydney with the first game only being focused on earning money. Once the first game is successfully completed, players can start new games in which categories of lifetime happiness, education, and collections can also be designated as criteria for successfully completing games. This Grand Life also has a “zombie mode” in which players have to find time to make it to the hospital and undergo treatment (while playing an ever-increasing fee) in order to keep the game going.
– Real player with 179.9 hrs in game
This is an intesting take to the simulated life genre. I’m only a few hours into it and I find it intriguing but I do find some things frustrating:
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Why do I have to travel to a park to run for free? Can’t I just do that at home?
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Why is the only important social dynamic dating? Can’t I meet and hang out with friends?
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Why can’t I buy a burglary system and stay in a cheaper location?
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Why can’t I offer the 2nd bedroom in my apartment as a sublease?
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Why is my computer only useful for games and can’t help me study, check stocks, bank, etc.?
– Real player with 83.9 hrs in game
Moonlight In Garland
Moonlight in Garland is a cozy, open-ended, life-sim that sees you making a life in the bustling metropolis of Garland. Find an apartment and make it perfectly yours, befriend your neighbours, grow your garden, solve community problems and experience all the weirdly wonderful stuff that city living offers.
Of course, city life isn’t all farmers markets and fancy coffee. Will you step in to stop the heritage building from being torn down and preserve a piece of history? Build a sense of community so more residents will stick around? Figure out which Jerk is stealing packages from the mail room? Be swept up in a whirlwind romance along the way?
Find your feet, make a positive impact and live your best life in Garland!
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Move in! - Each apartment has unique challenges and community projects. (1/4 buildings currently available)
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Explore the city! - Complete 6 mini welcome quests over 5 suburbs.
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Daily tasks - Run errands, recycle trash and clean up graffiti.
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Find friends or romance - 22 NPCs with 2 full friendship levels of dialogue.
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Friendship events - Deepen your relationships with narrative cutscenes and mini quests. (2 currently available)
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Building Upgrades - Cedar Court Lobby upgrade currently available.
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Gardening - Get your green thumb ready!
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Animal Photos - Take photos of local wildlife for your diary, that seagull is just walking around like he owns the place.
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Manage your time and energy - Keep an eye on your physical and mental energy to make sure you can hit your goals.
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Character customization - Be yourself or someone else!
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Also… - Shop, clean up the city, and lots more.
And coming soon… Part time jobs, mini games, marriage, crafting, calendar events, more apartment and garden upgrades, mysteries, and more!
A solo dev project by Violet.
Nyako: Restaurant Tycoon
A restaurant, a small local cafe, or a van with glowing hot dogs? In Nyako Restaurant, you can create your own business empire and conquer the restaurant world. Challenge the Restaurant of the year title holders and take the top spot on the unspoken leaderboard.
Key Features:
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Individualization. Choose your start in this challenging world. Are you a businessman, a teacher, or maybe an ordinary homeless person? The choice is yours.
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Development. Learn new recipes, participate in cooking battles, face the unknown in the world of dreams.
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Cooking food. Prepare food like never before. Combine the ingredients, cut them and use all the kitchen utensils you can find.
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Construction and purchase. Build your own restaurant or work as an employee. Buy equipment, upgrade it, attend sales and follow the latest trends.
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Emergency situations. A homeless raid, a fire, an invasion of a horde of zombies, or maybe aliens who decided to drop a cow on your restaurant? What else could go wrong?
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Employees. Hire new employees, develop their skills and take them with you to the illegal disassembly of the restaurant mafia.