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Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game. You’re the CEO of a small startup and are eager to grow your company. With a small investment, you set out to build an amazing website to compete against the largest tech giants in the world and dream of becoming the most valuable company in history. Your company’s success depends on your ability to run and manage a website. You’ll have to continously develop and improve features, while increasing hosting capacity and effectively run marketing campaigns. The city offers you offices in all sizes and shapes. It’s up to you to select the most suitable. It’s your job to organize and decorate the office while keeping your employees happy. Your employees are a vital part of your success. As you grow, you’ll have to continue recruiting more people. Over time, your employees will start demanding more of you and the company. It’s your job to keep them happy, before your competitors sends them a job offer they can’t reject! There’s no website without stable and reliable servers. As your website attracts more traffic, you have to move from virtual servers to your own fully featured hosting center. The goal is obvious: becoming the
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This is an incredible game given the price point
This is an incredible game given the price point. One of the best business sim games on Steam. Here's a summary: - You start your own internet based company. You can design websites with anything from social networking sites, to streaming services, to gaming platforms. - The investment firm will give you a small amount of seed capital, in return for a 40% share in your business. - You rent office space and hire your first employees, while starting to work on your website. - You have to reach specific goals in order to receive more funding from the investment firm, including expanding the number of registered users on your website, running ads for revenue on your website, marketing your website, setting up your own hosting facility, etc. - After reaching a number of goals, the investment firm will eventually ask you to start turning a profit. - From here, it's all about becoming bigger. More staff, more features for your website, bigger offices, bigger hosting facilities, more registered users, and of course more revenue from your website. - You can start climbing your way through the ranks of the biggest companies with a big user base and the revenue that goes with it. - Eventually you can reach the top spot, all the while making sure you're putting some money away for your retirement. - You also have the option of buying out your investors, getting more capital from new investors, starting more websites, selling your website, and more. The game is really well polished and easy to get into. No need to wait for a sale, this is well worth it even at full price.
- Graphics4.5
- Gameplay4.5
- Story4.5
- Value4.5
Frustrating more than fun
You must follow the "milestones" or lose the game, which effectively makes the entire game a tutorial as you are forced into playing the game as the developers intend instead of how you want. Your main source of income is completing the "milestones" for magical cash that you must then spend to reach the next "milestone", which makes doing anything in the game feel forced. There is no room for creativity like in other sim/management games. You have employees create modules for other employees to create modules to upgrade the features of your website. The features of your website are meaningless and only serve to increase the potential amount of users and do nothing to make you feel as if you are making a design choice. There is literally no difference for what type of website you want to make, because there are no design choices. Each employee is just a cog in the machine of spitting out components. You can literally queue up all of the components on an employee and they will endlessly make them. The gameplay you get is waiting for them to make the components so you get to click the upgrade button on your feature. That is it. The game is very unrewarding. I cannot stress enough that there is absolutely no creative freedom in this game both in how you manage your employee production and the features of your website. If you want a simulation, management, or strategy game, this is not it. The video and screenshots for this game do a really good job of making it seem like there is depth, but there is not. After having played the game, the video on the store page is laughable.
- Graphics2.5
- Gameplay2.0
- Story3.0
- Value2.0
Frustrating more than fun
The best way I feel like I can describe Startup Company is that its a game that's simple where it needs to be complex, and complex where it needs to be simple. While I normally enjoy these type of simulation games, after the first day of playing, I found that I was enjoying my time with it less and less. While at first the game appears to be rather vast in what kind of company you can build, when you realize that there is very little customization beyond that point, you find that you're doing the same motions no matter what, and I found that those motions were not enjoyable. You need employees that create assets for you, which you spend like currency to upgrade your startup site. At first this is easy enough to stay on top up, but as you advance you very quickly need more and more things, and those assets require other assets to be made. And sometimes THOSE assets require assets that require assets. It becomes a bit of a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rather quickly. Revenue is also rather easy to obtain after a short period. All you need to do is get banner ads unlocked, split it up into a few different time slots, and auto-renew the highest paying clients you can find and you'll be rolling in cash. It was about that time when I had tons of money rolling in and I was waiting for my employees to create more assets to upgrade my site, that I realized I wasn't really enjoying any of this. I saw no progression other than seeing a few numbers get bigger and at no point did I really feel like I was building towards anything. Honestly, I feel like this game is worth a pass. Maybe, if on a steep discount, you will get a few days of distraction from it, but otherwise I didn't find this game worth much, I'm sorry to say.
- Graphics2.5
- Gameplay3.0
- Story2.5
- Value3.0
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