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
Amy’s Greenmart
This has everything that you would expect in a time management game. A cute little story and relaxing. Its nice that you don’t have to purchase anything else to fully finish the game. Really the only issue that I have is that I am needing updates. I would like more levels to keep playing this great game. without distractions and straight play though it would have probably beat it in like 25 to 27 hrs. I do hope to see more!
– Real player with 33.2 hrs in game
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A delightful throwback to the golden age of the Time Management game
Amy’s Greenmart takes on a Time Management format that is rarely seen in today’s casual games world, one that reminisces classic hits such as the Dash series. However, I sincerely enjoy the little relatable details of how a elderly who need assistant in seeking certain products or a celebrity who is too cool to shop by themselves, and even helping the mothers who are separated from her child during the shopping.
– Real player with 29.6 hrs in game
Capital Island
Simple but good trading game.
If you’re not looking for a ‘cozy’ trading game, though, definitively go with ‘Challenge’ mode. Being able to visit shops multiple times (in ‘normal’ mode) means you eventually end up able to sell basically any excess resources you’ve got, which kinda takes the ‘trading’ out of this game. Just becomes logistics. Don’t get me wrong, I still had fun, but I like ‘cozy’ games sometimes. Probably pretty easy with Challenge on too.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
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This game takes a bit to get into and requires some patience to continue. There’s a lot of repetitive actions but after about 30 minutes of playing you’ll notice the game advancing.
I’m sure this game is deeper than what I’ve initially seen so I will go back and continue to play.
The music is amazing, so peaceful and calm with an island flair. I can tell the dev worked really hard on this game.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Fifefer Island - Terrena’s Adventure
Fifefer island is a micro-economics game. This game offers a very unique and incredible way of learning economics. The story, music, voice-over,the art of the game and unique puzzles are well synchronized, which makes learning and game-play even more fun. This is the perfect game if you are looking for fun and learning in one thing. After playing the game you will not be disappointed. Highly recommended.
– Real player with 26.0 hrs in game
Great game to utilize for differentiation. This game offers an excellent overview of new concepts that can be used as an introduction or to reinforce learning. Love it!
– Real player with 10.5 hrs in game
All-Inn
I like it, and the dev is very passionate and active! Its fun to pass the time and i think the art style is lovely!
Eu gostei do jogo e recomendo pra todos que gostam de um desafio com gerenciamento de tempo! Eu amo a arte!
– Real player with 19.4 hrs in game
Got me hooked, seems overwhelming at first but it’s incredibly simple once you keep going for literally a few secs. Can be a bit hard but I’m still trying to get better at it the more I know and see. Curious little game to chill for a quick run.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
Wildlife Camp
This is an awesome game! When I first opened the game, I thought it would only be about healing animals. Which, most games like this are. But no, you get to care for the animals (feeding, watering, petting, grooming, and cleaning hooves if applicable) and you also have to train them! Once you trained them all the tricks possible (you have to unlock them all, first) you can release them to either the Savannah, the Songutu Forest, or the Kingo Swamp based on where the animal lives. I recently found out that you can name the animals and even dress them up or give them ‘haircuts’. Wildlife Camp is more in depth than I thought it would be. I’d give it a 10/10! I totally recommend this, the game is way underpriced and it should be worth about $20! If you love animals and/or you would love to be a veterinarian and an animal caretaker, Wildlife Camp won’t disappoint you!
– Real player with 25.5 hrs in game
Cute game and easy to get achievements too.
It gets a bit boring and repetitive when you try to get the achievements.
The game is buggy sometimes and training the animals break my arm. There’s too much of that…
But if you like to take care of animals, try this. It’s suitable for kids too, since it always tells you what you need to do next.
– Real player with 21.3 hrs in game
EquiMagic - Galashow of Horses
I was going to recommend EquiMagic after about four hours of play, but the further I went into it the less I liked it. The overall idea is neat and probably appealing if you find stuff like Cavalia or the Lipizzaner horses interesting, but what you’ll get is something more akin to the lowrider minigame from GTA: San Andreas - yes that irritating, rage-quit inducing one. You MUST get very good at “steering” your horse via mouse as well as timing key presses to the second if you want to finish this game.
– Real player with 15.5 hrs in game
I recently got this game for free from a curator connect offer in my group 100% Achievements Events group. This 3D simulation game with arcade reaction-based action gameplay by b-alive gmbh features a custom avatar that decides to own up to 5 different horses, train and perform in a variety of up to 8 different horse show events, each with a different theme, variety of movements and a musical accompaniment.
The game has a good tutorial system to walk the player through how to keep the stats high for the horse and perform in each show well to score a large number of points needed for achievements, a nice glossary that will demonstrate and describe each special horse movement or each horse breed and the choice of background music played in each show are great by matching the themes featured in each show very well.
– Real player with 10.5 hrs in game
Space Colony: Steam Edition
I really like this game. It has been described as The Sims in Space. I have never liked The Sims games as I find that they are far too repetitive and boring. Space Colony is a good building game, The Sims element is that you do have to be aware of the needs of your operatives to improve production. This does give an extra twist to the game that you have to think about and some of the challenges are based around ensuring that your crew are reletively happy or they won’t work.
Any Building Sim worth it’s salt should have an element of ensuring that you are providing basic things, such as food, so I don’t find this particularly strange, as some have mentioned. Making sure your crew does not go mad while on an abandoned planet does give the game an additional challenge.
– Real player with 102.4 hrs in game
well i dont know what to say, i really want to like this game but its more about mini managing all of the peoples quirks than it is about building a colony. the maps are very small so building is limited even in sandbox mode. there are numerous objects on maps that cannot be removed (maybe by bombs in free mode ?) forcing you to make odd looking and crappy base layouts in most cases.
alot of the quests are just kind of gimmicky, in a previous scenario you will unlock items for the quest, yet the very next quest acts like you never used them before just to make certain quests “seem” harder. although there is an option to download user made content so thats a plus.
– Real player with 40.5 hrs in game
Startup Panic
living the Dream
Manage your time as a bedroom programmer. Pick projects, contract-work and vacation days to get by, then start to build some passive income through your startup.
Beware though: Once you start hiring your first employees and upgrading your office, you’ll attract the attention of competing businesses…
don’t Panic!
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You decide how each project goes and what to focus on
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Spend a week training your staff, or earning money, or building features… but choose wisely!
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Upgrade your company in the skill tree: Will you take longer vacations or cheaper air-co?
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Hunt for new employees and hire the ones that fit your style: Social butterfly? Marketing expert? Lone Wolf?
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Compete with rival CEOs for new users in your region, and then expand out by building new headquarters on a world map!
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Hurting for cash? You can take out a loan or search for investors, but don’t think it’ll come for free…
Final Profit: A Shop RPG
You are Biz, former Queen of Faeona.
An organisation called the Bureau of Business has pushed your kingdom to the brink.
Starting from scratch, can you earn enough money to take them on and save your people? Or will you lose sight of your goal on the way?
Run your shop as you try to become a Lord of Business!
AN RPG WITHOUT COMBAT: Earn XP by making money!
FIND OPPORTUNITIES: Seek out new products and customers to expand your shop! Some will take more work than others.
UPGRADES: There are many ways to improve and even automate your business!
DEBT: The Bureau of Business will try to keep you down, prove yourself by overcoming many challenges!
CHOICES: The decisions you make might lead to an early end, or different opportunities!