Bouncer Story
So if you like light resource management games you will enjoy this game. I played it for almost 4 hours straight yesterday and the time just flew. I did finish my first playthrough in this time so it is a short game but fairly priced around 5 bucks cause it’s pretty fun.
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
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My playtime: 5h (based on Steam, finished the game, Kiss of Death ending)
Intro
Bouncer Story tells a story of you, a bouncer, who suddenly amassed a lot of debts in a single day from gambling. The thing is, you’re in debt to the mafia, and there’s no telling of what they will do if you can’t pay the debt in time. You’ll have to use your wits to earn a lot of money while paying for rent, debt, and skill points to survive the harsh job as a bouncer.
Pros:
- Multiple endings
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
Chronicles of Ash
Chronicles of Ash is a management simulation game where you take the role of a retired veteran hero that decides to open an adventuring guild to train the next generation of heroes.
Be ready to recruit, customize and send heroes on quests piled up on notice board. Receive pleads for help from traders, nobles, crime bosses and mages to name a few. Engage in deep crafting, enchanting and alchemy systems and even dabble in trading and diplomacy.
With six different endings that, when unlocked, greatly change your next playthrough you will be wanting to unlock all of them.
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Pizza Shop Manager
Played it for a little over an hour and am quite disappointed.. I realize the game just released today but it is extremely frustrating from the start. Expectations are set high as the customers want they’re food fast and the machines work slow and they’re is no way to build up an inventory of pre-made dough which takes the longest. I might play it in the future with some updates.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
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Gameplay is slowburn and passive but sometimes it gets overwhelming.I would’ve love if there is more in depth tutorial. There is a bit of a learning curve to this game. I like this game because I like games which give me entreprenurial rush. Game is just release today I hope developer will keep improving game.
PS: Please add an option to go to main menu from setting panel.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
RPG Tycoon
If the words ‘rpg’ or ‘tycoon’ spark your attention, buy this game.
Being one of those that sat for many hours playing hospital tycoon/ theme park/ rollercoaster tycoon/ zoo tycoon etc etc- this game sparked my attention. so i bought it. i didnt play it much at first but recently it updated and i started playing again.
Its much like ‘Game Dev tycoon’ with building aspects, quests to do (epic quests have loot drops), team and captured town management and a dice roll/ text parts of the quests undertaken. Quests give experience, both toward the heros that youve sent out, and your kingdom, that goes toward new building types, kingdom expansion and player stats, that affect your dice roll during quests.
– Real player with 66.3 hrs in game
### Long Story Short Version:
RPG Tycoon is a very promising, solid, good game at its core; with several unique & original twists & variations of the RPG, Simulation, Town Building/Management Genres, that are all nicely & effectively tied together & implemented, to make up an overall, fun & enjoyable gaming experience that youd hope for & want & expect from a game like this, that can keep you glued to it for hours at a time. The game has come a long way since its early days, with continued support, updates & content added at a reasonable pace, with yet more work to be done & bugs that may or may not pop up along the way, but also with a diligent & friendly Dev that has stuck with it since the beginning & continues to update, modify & bug smash along the way & is routinely responsive & listens to his community. End LSSV/lazy/ADD TLDR version.
– Real player with 60.4 hrs in game
Blacksmith Legends
Blacksmith Legends is a RPG management strategy game. You inherit a small workshop from your parents with a dream to become a real legend in your profession. With all your family fortune you set out to: Craft the best items you ever imagined; Build and customize your workshop; Hire other professionals to tinker with your recipes; Create opportunities for greater riches by completing various quests that can get you on a darker (mischievous) or lighter (righteous) path on your way to become the best blacksmith in the Kingdom!
Customize your recipes for each worker to find a way to become a legend.
Manage 3 different hand-crafted professions: Blacksmith, Smelter, Alchemist. Their cooperation will be required to achieve best items.
Precious materials are hard to come by! Be prepared to face epic creatures or savage bandits.
Craft legendary/set items or loot them from powerful bosses! Equip them on your heroes. Serve or dethrone your King!
Comic Book Hero: The Greatest Cape
I like this simulator. I like coming back to it after some time, I enjoy diving in the imaginary world and fight powerful villains. But it doesn’t quite do what the steam page says…
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point first, create a custom hero. Yes, you can do that, customisation options are fairly wide and you can unlock more of them with certain points you get basically for everything. There is no other currency in this game than those points.
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customizing perfect hero by choosing from hundreds of superpowers, abilities and attributes… Not quite. There are 12 abilities that serve as your standard power level and roll checks. There are bunch of attributes, maybe over a hundred, maybe more. But most of them are plain copies of others, or upgrades of existing ones. If you want to count absorbing toxic attacks level 1 and level 3 as two different attributes, sure. I don’t. There are quite repetitive and serve as boosts to rolls, damage modifiers and sometimes even as a travelling means. Superpowers… Well, game allows you to create combat superpowers. Sort of. You choose from a set of attacks, most likely one that will go with your abilities and attributes to get highest damage output. Then you can choose a type of damage, if it is stap or grapple, or impact. You can custom name it and then buy it’s levels and after that upgrade it. Pretty good system in my opinion.
– Real player with 45.3 hrs in game
It’s lacking in a lot of areas (multiplayer, modding, villain mode, etc) but what it does have really allows you to immerse your imagination into being a hero.
I’ve only played as a Custom hero and I can honestly say that the games slow pace and difficulty setting really made me savor every victory against the various villains this game had to offer. Slowly working my up from an obscure hero to a certified legend was exciting! As I increased in strength so did the level of villains I took on, when I got strong enough to take on the biggest baddies and pull out victories against them I literally talked shit to my computer screen roleplaying as the hero, gloating over my superiority.
– Real player with 28.1 hrs in game
Dungeons 2
Dungeons 2 is a dungeon management meets real-time strategy game. You are the Ultimate Evil who tries to rid the world of those pesky goody-two-shoes like elves, dwarves and “heroes” who live on the surface and regularly invade your dungeon to steal your gold. You fight back with your evil horde consisting of orcs, goblins, trolls and snake-like nagas which you first have to train and slap into proper shape while trying to keep them fed drunk and entertained, and mining gold to pay for it all.
– Real player with 86.3 hrs in game
Do you like dungeon builders? Do you like reference humor? Do you like fourth-wall breaking? Do you like defeating heroes and make the world better for your poor evil creatures? … No? Well then, the game isn’t for you, but if you like those things, then the game certainly deserves a look and is worth your time.
Mandatory Dungeon Keeper 2 mention/comparison:
First let us get this out of the way, because it is apparently internet law to compare a dungeon building/management game to Dungeon Keeper. This game feels closer to Dungeon Keeper than it does to the first Dungeons game. The focus is more on the creatures than the actual dungeon lord, and defeating heroes as opposed to entertain them to harvest their soul energy.
– Real player with 43.2 hrs in game
Empire of Sin
Main quests:
- So far two of the paythroughs I have had have game breaking bugs for the main quests.
Police:
There is not enough interaction with the police, they are basically not even a problem. Give them more power, create tiers of police, where there are cops, investigators, feds, etc. Make it so that if you piss the police of by killing a lot of people you get a heat system.
Economy:
There is apparently a non ending need for alcohol, the game would be more interesting if your bar saw less profits and patronage because your neighboring faction has a better bar, higher quality booze, etc.
– Real player with 63.3 hrs in game
Seems like the game has that weird Paradox disease where the game is garbage day one but undergoes radical changes that make it into something really special. I bought it after the precinct update and I’m hooked. I like the combat and gang management elements as well as the almost seamless switching from tactical map to street view to turn based combat. There’s also room for strategy, you can cut off sections of someone’s territory to destroy their supply lines or trade poison disguised as high end alcohol to set some one up for the moment you take out their brewery in an ambush leaving them with nothing to sell and no one to sell it to. I think that it’d be a whole lot better with more room for customization but it’s a solid solid game.
– Real player with 56.0 hrs in game
Rising Star 2
Overview
Let it be known that the developer specifically sought an opinion for Rising Star 2 from someone who enjoys simulation games and is a fan of Rock and/or Heavy Metal. Thankfully ReviewExperts has such an admin in ol' Il Pallino! There hasn’t been many games involving band management in the history of video games, but Rising Star 2 has something imperceptible that many great management sims lack. As expected, the player leads a band by designing the face and body of a musician, and once in game, recruits other band members, buys musical equipment, writes songs, and when enough material is had, the player goes about entering their band in “battle of the bands” competitions and finding gigs in dive bars as a supporting act. With enough popularity, the band can retain a manager who can perform a number of tasks, but the most important in the short term being to find gigs at larger venues, which increases band exposure, leading to more fans and more opportunities to sell merchandise. (Only managers can book shows at theaters and stadiums.) With enough grinding and traveling from city to city starting at the bottom, the player’s band can one day become mega-stars headlining in sold out stadiums.
– Real player with 324.8 hrs in game
EDIT on 7/8/2021 after 2 likes
Originally, I wrote a review after about 50 hours. In a nutshell, I wrote that it would be a good manager if not for two major mistakes and a gameplay, that unnecessarily makes it too much of a timesink. Since I was ready to give up, I gave it a thumbs down.
Well, I didn’t give up and here we are, 60 hours or so later. I still think, that a single manual save spot in a game like this is unacceptable. I still think, that it is a cardinal design flaw, that the player cannot choose, which effects equipment is used. And I still think that the (in-game) daily routine could be handled better. However, what I came to realize is that the progression of one’s band gets faster, once one hits the mid-game. In fact, I very much appreciate it that there is a noticeable step in between game phases. One has to re-think and re-design strategies. This came as unexpectedly as the original realization that the game has a strong strategic element to begin with.
– Real player with 192.0 hrs in game
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– Real player with 9.6 hrs in game
This is half a decade old game that just get ported & translated to Steam, so the reviews here aren’t good because it’s kinda disappointing game for this era’s expectation. But back then It was pretty decent (4.5 star rating on DLsite).
You are Adventurer’s Inn manager trying to mindbreak the female adventurers. The more famous your inn is, the more chance good female adventurers will come to stay. Gather materials to decorate your inn and provide good food & drinks to make people stay and drug them. Slowly break them to make them work for you.
– Real player with 8.7 hrs in game