Startup Panic

Startup Panic (GOG) + The art and art style are awesome. - It's never specified what the start up even is. I thought I could go straight to having a company that makes games, but the game forces you to do forum/website design first for no reason. You don't make a jack of all trades company and not sink, no market allows that. - The basic rule of safely approaching investments is: "Am I generating enough to cover the costs and have enough left over?" E.g. You won't rent something if the rent is higher than your monthly income. This game HATES the idea of stable monthly income. 1 Even if you design a feature well, it'll get a lower score over time and your monthly income will fall. 2 You can do one time contract work to get money for investments, but that's not how sustainable planing works. It's like saying your monthly paycheck doesn't matter in favor of your savings being high - this is what the game favors and it's stupid. Plus, a lot of the time, you won't be paid the agreed upon amount in the game anyway, sometimes way less. 3 You also need to fund employee vacations and training and that's expensive due to the morale system - the more work someone does, the lower the morale score and they perform worse over time. This cycle gets expensive fast. 4 The game thinks loans are normal and mandatory, while it's actually best to avoid any and all debts and invest or save instead. But again, this game doesn't do smart financial management just because. 5 Your company is randomly hacked all the time and that lowers features scores, making needles revisions necessary for no real reason. 6 Your employees may be randomly kidnapped by pirates and ransoms are high. Yes, somehow something this dumb is in the game too. 6 There's only 1 save file and runs are not at all related. Each time you fail, you can only repeat ALL precious steps all over again with NO CHANCE WHATSOEVER. The exact same dialog, steps, everything. You can't skip dialog either.

Having played games like Startup Company, Software Inc and others This one seems to be the most simple one, but it is having its way to entertain by keeping it simple in some of the actions like not having to do "Building/Placements", in this you simply upgrade and it handles that part You still have to mix your team with different types to accompany each other in their skills and coordinate Training and Vacations In the beginning it has a straight forward tutorial and limited options which opens as you progress Takes about 30 minutes with small tutorial instructions but not as intrusive as other games (it is possible to skip)

A good title to pass the time if you like tycoon like games like Game dev tycoon, Game dev studio, Mad games tycoon, etc

It is a pleasent game to play...