Automobile Tycoon
Well… it’s not bad… but it’s not good.
I’ve burned quite a few hours in it, and keep coming back because I’m a car junky, but when I want that fix, I’m more often reaching for Automation, Gear City, or Production Line, and honestly I still prefer running Detroit in DOSBox, which this is supposed to be a spiritual successor of (it doesn’t catch the same magic though)
This is a decent spreadsheet simulator (turn off the inflation, or you’ll spend all your time micromanaging prices because costs spiral quickly but there’s no option to scale the selling price with inflation) but it isn’t really a car game. You could replace the products you’re making with just about anything, and change the R&D tree. Feels like it was built to be modular but then didn’t take off so they didn’t push it out with other assets.
– Real player with 43.4 hrs in game
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It is an enjoyable game. It provides different starting conditions which provide longevity. The drawback is that it does not provide clear cut challenges and it feels more like a big sandbox, which should explain some of the earlier bad critics. If you have no need for step by step challenges (like objectives or do this and that), you will find this a very nice game.
I personally dislike these step-based gameplay, where the game leads you through specific paths. so this game is my piece of cake.
– Real player with 42.0 hrs in game
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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Highrise Mogul
I’d recommend the game.
It’s a simple build your tower the way you want kinda game. Graphics are good for the game, simple but it matches the feel. Game play itself is fairly easy to pick up, just a little figuring out what works and what doesn’t for the increase and decrease of either offices or residential as well as the businesses you install.
My only complaints at this time are that there’s kind of a problem with keeping employees happy. I’ve got a bunch of businesses and breakrooms, however, janitors leave pretty much every other day and I have to rehire them en masse when i notice that floors are crazy trashed. I only wish that on that account, either people would use the trash cans more or that there were a way to easily see what employees are missing out on to be able to keep them around.
– Real player with 17.9 hrs in game
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Built a tiny cute tower filled with theaters and shops in the middle of the forest. The visitors were very rude and littered all over the place but other than that it was pretty cozy.
Game seems like a nice relaxing time from what I’ve played so far. Though the tutorial is a bit lacking and it took me a while to figure out everything. Looks like a lot of content to go through with all the researches available. Graphics are simple and cute and fit the game well.
Overall a great time!
– Real player with 8.5 hrs in game
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.
Nova Odessa
A quick retro plunge with a paper-cut deep story. Reasonably fluid controls. A small variety of weaponry keeps repetitive combat somewhat freshy. Secrets were not deep dives into amazing lore, and it was kinda fun when the bum swore at me. I didn’t disjoy myself and thus I recommend.
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
According to the description, I missed half of this game. I killed many demons, but I don’t think I bought a single thing for my house! I wandered into the stores a few times, and periodically bought a coffee, but the shopkeepers never gave me a prompt to buy anything. Perhaps there was a location in my apartment to do this?
Either way, I enjoyed my time with Nova Odessa. I dug the jazzy music loops, although it seemed like they looped a bit TOO fast. I liked the equipment, which offers you new ways to move through spaces in the game. And although I felt like the ammo ran out too quickly, I liked the weapons as well. The enemies that look like rhinos and oozes require a specific strategy, which keeps the player engaged and prevents the combat from getting thoughtless. In addition, the game features some tricky bosses! Raimundo & Lesma, Thor & Belinda, and Mariano all required multiple tries from me to get through.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
One Day of an Insurance Agent
how are u gonna do my boy jim like this, my man plays these dumb fucking child games and u dont give him some victory pussy my guy, sad
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
I like the idea?
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Yerba Mate Tycoon
Overall 7/10 at the current price. I look forward to seeing where this game goes.
This game has potential, but it seems early in development. The core game mechanic revolves around creating yerba mate blends, and functions similar to Game Dev Tycoon. Each production cycle you chose some options and try to find the right mix for the market. The products sell on the market for 8 months and either increase or decrease in sales based upon marketing and how well the market appreciates the current product. There are sliders where you adjust variables within each production cycle like taste, appearance, and aroma. There is some research that unlocks some additional options to add a bit more depth.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
It was either this or two Guaymallén Alfajores.
First off, I want to say that I really appreciate the developer making a game as niche as this. I never thought tycoon games would get as specific as focusing on a South American drink that’s relatively obscure outside the continent save for a few countries. It’s really clear that this was a passion project and that the dev really put time and care into Yerba mate Tycoon and genuinely likes working on it.
The gameplay is very similar to Game Dev Tycoon in some aspects, but it introduces new gameplay aspects as well. The first ones that come to mind are the abilities to purchase rival companies and the fact that the process for making your Mate is more in depth than making your game in Game Dev Tycoon. The soundtrack is pretty upbeat, it’s not the highlight of the game, but it adds enough so that the game doesn’t get too boring.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
Beat Defender
My review may be biased due to my connection with the creator, however I feel confident saying that this game has the potential to become a great and very popular rhythm game. The premise is simple, and the game is quite simple to start learning. Personally I think the learning curve for the first few levels is just about right, requiring a bit of time to learn the basics, and to polish until the final level. Overall I would recommend the game to people that are looking for a new and interesting rhythm game, and especially so if the game continues to be developed.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
Gaem gaem GAEMING!
The game follows a silent protagonist with no known name or history who slashes threats who try and invade homeless camps in the city. Other than that, the game has no real story (though I imagine that a story might be implemented later on.)
The game’s hybrid of rhythm and hack n slash makes the experience unique and enjoyable. However, there are times where the game felt cheap as there was a stun that didn’t allow me to move to another part of the map.
As for the final boss, he is 100% supa sick. However some of his indicators could be more visible as it took me a sew tries to understand what I was supposed to do.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Silicon City
I really enjoy this game! The perfect amount of challenge while still being great fun and just a little bit mindless since I play to relax and not to create more work for myself. I look forward to the next evolution of this game!
– Real player with 26.8 hrs in game
Very nice take on SimCity-style games. I especially enjoy the graphs of various metrics, and ability to really drill down into each silizen’s life. I am excited for continued development and look forward to how this game will evolve!
From a playability standpoint - on my laptop (8gb ram, i7 (4 cores @ 2.20GHz)) at lowest settings, the game plays reasonably when going on the 1x speed. Either of the faster speed options causes the game to become very choppy. Even when using 1980’s top-down style it seems to be quite slow (perhaps because that’s just a different camera angle?). Increasing simulation speed also seems to mess with the power grid distribution: when my network is not super-saturated with electricity, running at a faster simulation speed makes parts of my city run out of power. But if I turn it back down to 1x and wait a bit of time, all of the buildings will come back online.
– Real player with 17.6 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
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