TL;DR = This game is fun. Buy it if you like "Tycoon" games.

I've played for 2 days and racked up 26h so far. This game is going to be a time sink. Time flies by and planning on going to bed at midnight turns into going to bed at 3am instead.

The start of this game is a lot more difficult than the middle or end game. Your first few games will not make any money. After a while though you will be rolling in cash. I am at the point now in the game where it is about time to start over. I have the largest building. I have 5.4 billion in cash. The year is 2026. I have 4 MMOs and just make addons for them. I produce my own games (that is where the money is). My servers hold over 30 million users. Every game I release is 95% or better. I can't remember the last time I didn't win "game of the year" during a year in which I released a game.

This game is insanely fun. I like it more than Game Dev Tycoon. It is slightly shallow right now though. Early game is fun because making money is difficult. Mid game is fun because you can FINALLY buy the stuff you have been wanting in early game and start rolling in cash. End game? It's fun trying to see how efficient you can become and how much and how fast you can make money, but gets boring pretty quick. There is nowhere to put the money. It just piles up. I am hoping when the "console" dept becomes unlocked (It is not available yet, they are working on it.) that it might take care of the end game needs.

If that is true. I believe some balancing is needed. Perhaps decrease the flow of time while keeping the same production speed so that your "years" move more slowly? I have all that money in 2026. If consoles are the endgame, why would it be so expensive to produce one for me? when atari, nintendo, sega, etc all started around the same time I did...I want to be able to be nintento. Consoles should be affordable early in the game so I can choose to focus on game or console or engine development. That way the endgame will become investing in the other avenues that you didn't focus on previously.

I'll update this when it isn't in early access. Hopefully you can choose to focus on game, engine, or console development at that time and all of them would be a viable choice to specialize in.

Buy this game. It's awesome fun.

TL;DR = This game is fun. Buy it if you like "Tycoon" games. I've played for 2 days and racked up 26h so far. This game is going to be a time sink. Time flies by and planning on going to bed at midnight turns into going to bed at 3am instead. The start of this game is a lot more difficult than the middle or end game. Your first few games will not make any money. After a while though you will be rolling in cash. I am at the point now in the game where it is about time to start over. I have the largest building. I have 5.4 billion in cash. The year is 2026. I have 4 MMOs and just make addons for them. I produce my own games (that is where the money is). My servers hold over 30 million users. Every game I release is 95% or better. I can't remember the last time I didn't win "game of the year" during a year in which I released a game. This game is insanely fun. I like it more than Game Dev Tycoon. It is slightly shallow right now though. Early game is fun because making money is difficult. Mid game is fun because you can FINALLY buy the stuff you have been wanting in early game and start rolling in cash. End game? It's fun trying to see how efficient you can become and how much and how fast you can make money, but gets boring pretty quick. There is nowhere to put the money. It just piles up. I am hoping when the "console" dept becomes unlocked (It is not available yet, they are working on it.) that it might take care of the end game needs. If that is true. I believe some balancing is needed. Perhaps decrease the flow of time while keeping the same production speed so that your "years" move more slowly? I have all that money in 2026. If consoles are the endgame, why would it be so expensive to produce one for me? when atari, nintendo, sega, etc all started around the same time I did...I want to be able to be nintento. Consoles should be affordable early in the game so I can choose to focus on game or console or engine development. That way the endgame will become investing in the other avenues that you didn't focus on previously. I'll update this when it isn't in early access. Hopefully you can choose to focus on game, engine, or console development at that time and all of them would be a viable choice to specialize in. Buy this game. It's awesome fun.