Mask of the Plague Doctor
This game is fantastic. I’ve streamed and played this for days chapter by chapter and loved the hell out of each one. I love how each choice effects the dialogue, the outcome, and your stats. It’s so in depth and hits you hard for the consequences of your actions. Not gonna lie I almost cried at one point. I’m glad to have gotten the opportunity to solve the mystery of Thornback Hollow and found a cure along with a very wholesome ending. I highly recommend this game and i’m glad I payed full price instead of buying it when the discount was around because in my opinion the story is worth that and more.
– Real player with 27.7 hrs in game
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I don’t get how people could give good reviews to this game. Don’t you have any good taste? Although there is no problem with writing style itself, the story line is simply dry and boring. Not to mention you often have to get through large chunks of text for the next choice-making, which serious tried my patience and made me struggle to keep my focus. The characters are also so shallow and two-dimension that I felt the writer just decided to throw in some balanced merits and weaknesses, and call them “characters”. Maybe it’s just my thing, but this is one of the few pure-text games which I just cannot make myself get through to the end, because it’s just that boring and dry.
– Real player with 20.5 hrs in game
Pestis
This is a really good game, the best game I ever bought on steam for less than 50 cents. The concept is awesome and executed very well with the atmosphere and the theme it all just sort of gets you into the mood of the game and collecting herbs to make and mix potions is just really fun and interesting and there is so many ways to go about how you play the game from saving everyone, killing everyone, killing rats and making bombs to destroy their nest healing your self with potions and eating shrooms to stave off the plague and death. Just all around a cool indie game that you can play on a potato pc or even a calculator and its so cheap and so affordable how can you not get this game? The steam achievements are easy to get and look cool to.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
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Pestis would be a decent high-score game if it had leaderboards and more maps. Right now it has 1 map and 6 relatively easy achievements, hardly any reason to play it for more than 30 minutes. I think the artwork and animation are decent for what it is. You play as a plague doctor that is trying to cure a small village, and the game certainly captures that sinister atmosphere. The gameplay incorporates the potion mixing mechanic, although the system is very basic. There is some potential for improving your resource management, but without leaderboards I don’t see the appeal. I think if the developer can add at least 2 more locations it would be serviceable (urban area and catacombs perhaps?). It has a partial support for controller despite not being listed on the store page. My F310 works fine, but you can’t rebind it from default state.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Drinks Company Tycoon
Begin your own company story and show’em how to cook and sell.
Combine ingredients and categories to create your product. Vary the price and the taste. Build your image. Advance the technology. Adjust to market and customer needs, but dont forget about your rivals.
This is the time to open up to the world. Show it your heart or your wallet. Orange soda or cherry juice.
Everyone will find something different here.
Key features:
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shoppers with individual needs and requests
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Genuine competition
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Well thought-out price and production policy
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12 specific distribution markets
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Fine-tuned beverages
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48 different ingredients ,24 distinctive categories
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Generated product image with unique selling points
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Creation of a wide variety of combinations
All of this and even more is waiting for you in Drinks Company Tycoon.
Can you survive the competition and win people’s hearts? It’s up to you. Give the world the perfect drink
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Potion Tycoon
Have you ever wondered where all those magic potions in RPGs come from?
Build and manage your very own magic shop in this witchin’ management simulator: acquire resources, build and manage production lines, mix potions and design the bottles to sell them in your shop. Experiment with new recipes, grow your business and become the leading potion business in the Magical Lands!
BUILD, PRODUCE, SELL, EXPAND
Compete for the best ingredient deals or grow your own magical plants and fungi. Meanwhile, build and expand your shop and set up production lines to get potion production going.
But that’s not all: You should present your products nicely to make sure shoppers enjoy their stay. Nice furniture and a lovely smell all help to turn your customers into big spenders!
EXPERIMENT, RESEARCH, MANAGE
Experiment with ingredients and combine them in different ways to create new potion types: healing, summoning, invisibility – create everything that the adventurers need!
Research and construct new furniture and machinery. Uncover new ingredient types or send out search parties to collect new ingredients from all over the world.
Hire new staff and level up your crew to maximize the efficiency of your business. Research, improve and expand your magic shop empire to leave the competition behind!
VIP REQUESTS, BECOME FAMOUS, FIND FORTUNE
Answer risky special requests from VIP customers to increase your profits and build your fame. But be careful: Failing to fulfill a VIP requests can hurt your business just as much!
Build your brand with each potion you make and each decision you take. Increase your brand value to ensure adventurers trust in your potions. Remember: only a highly regarded and prestigious brand can convince them to pay premium prices!
FEATURES
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A tycoon game with a witchy twist: Build and grow your own magic shop.
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Deep management simulation: Manage production, prices and staff to build an efficient business.
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Research, construct and innovate: Develop your potion empire all the way from humble beginnings to high-end store.
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Elaborate alchemy system: Experiment with tons of ingredients and combinations to create new and improved potions.
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Profound market simulation: Dynamic events, market trends and competing companies to keep you on your toes.
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Playful 2D hand-drawn style: Enjoy watching the bustling life in your shop as automated production lines work hard and customers visit your store!
SAELIG
OK this one deserves my 1% of reviewing a game. Mostly because this is better than the Guild, there’s potential if the developer won’t abandon it in the future. I always start as a beggar, grab a couple of abandoned ones and make my money through searching all arround the forest for hiden treasures wich I find enough to repair and start working on my own. It takes 2-5 years maximum to have a decent status and go for the real money - over 20K. Problems start after that - I always and I mean always have a building on fire during winter especially one somewhere in the forest wich cannot have either a watchdog or a well, this totally sucks, I mean I have 20 fckn K why am I NOT able to hire a guard for my building - dev are you listening? It becomes SO boring starting over repairing a building wich I have had over 10 K in material in there - and I’ve lost it burned - waiting to be produced into goods and make my fckn million!!! Game is a lot about gambling cause except of the fish stuff all other business have competition and if you loose your hardly earned products you are in deep shhhiiittt M8s, again dev do something and save my bucks. Game is enjoyable but we need to have some pace in there things get on really slow can’t say it’s boring but IT IS rather slow. More to do especially with our caravans that are naive in gameplay matters (reminds me games back from the ’90s in that area) would be welcome, and hell yeah I may adopt but why can’t I have a mistress with all that money I make? - kidding. Waiting for a future patch I wanna see more to do and more safety for my ingame products and money - it is silly having more than 100K property and not being able to protect it - maybe a castle or whatelse to build or buy with your own private army, stores, moneysafe etch, that people use to have back in 900 AD, can always spend 200 - 300 daily to have 2-3 soldiers of your own as castle guards. Anyway just saying what I think is missing, up to the developer the do or donot thing. Even a DLC would be welcome if it does improve the ingame world and gameplay. I give the game a 7/10 and that’s only cause it has one of the worse save/load system I ever met in a PC game, loading times reminded me Total War Rome II turns before it’s 1st patch - you can have a shower prepare dinner, watch a movie and your save will keep on loading, if it wasn’t that issue a 9/10 for my taste, worth the money and worth the support give this game a try!
– Real player with 227.5 hrs in game
The only other game series I have experience of with a similar storyline/player driven intention is The Guild series, and yet, rather than sink my money into the third (failing) installment of that, I’ve decided to back the solo developer this time.
After having a good dig around in the game for the past few days, I’m really feeling it…the ambience, the gentle pace of daily life, the joy of having made enough money to upgrade something, spending lots of time surrounded by the peacful clucking chickens…er…yes, when you start off as a beggar, you spend a lot of time foraging the eggs at the coops. But, it’s all a means to an end, right? It must have been resonating with me because when I discovered that I couldn’t progress with buying my third building because of my social standing, I felt utterly gutted. (This only because the game has not been developed further than the third social class, being ‘Geneat’, but, I guess we’ll get there in time.)
– Real player with 205.8 hrs in game