Happy Thursday!
I played another mobile game. Video Game Tycoon. This is a game that exists.
I don’t have much to say about this game, but I bet this post will be a decent length. I enjoy simulation games and I loved my time with Game Dev Tycoon on Steam. For whatever reason I looked up video game simulation games in the app store. I was surprised to find a handful of these kinds of games. I downloaded all of them, but let’s just talk about Video Game Tycoon for now.
This is a tapping game. You point your finger and continuously tap the screen. This is it. But I guess I’m getting ahead of myself.
If you head to the Menu, you can do one of three things. The first is to create games. Now, you have zero control over these games. First, you pick a “Tittle.” By that, I mean “Title.” But the game has a typo and actually says “tittle” instead of “title.” So, name your game, choose a platform (PC, console, mobile, arcade, or portable console), then choose a story, which is the genre. There’s horror, a slice of life, fantasy, sci-fi, action or endless. Finally, your category: RPG, adventure, sports, strategy, simulation, MMO, shooting, puzzle, casual, or arcade. There are five graphics you can choose from and then you choose a game icon. These icons are parodies of actual game icons from the app store. I wish I was joking.
Then your character creates the video game and… that’s it. You don’t do anything else with it. It makes you money all the time, sure, but there are no stats or any way to really “progress” in the whole game-making. The game will make you a certain amount of money in the game per second real-life time. You can spend more more to update the games which is just you tapping a button.
The more games you make, the more money you’ll make. For example, my first game is version 2.0 and makes 11 in-game dollars per real-life second. My 11th game is version 1.1 and makes 144,000 in-game dollars per second.
Your games will get reviews. Good or bad, you’ll get a tip. In other words, the reviews mean nothing and it’s just an extra way to make a pinch more money.
You can hire employees as well. These people specialize in various areas such as SEO, programming, artist, and more. Of course, these are just fancy titles. Hiring these people don’t boost the quality of your games at all. You can spend a boatload of money to level them each up to level three (which is the max) and each time you hire someone and level them up, your money per click will increase.
What’s money per click? Well, that’s the main point of the game. You’ll receive a certain amount of money per second from your games but if you want to make more money (which may also be the majority of your money) you need to repeatedly tap the screen. I have six employees – five are level three and one is level two. I get about 200,000 in-game dollars per click. So, yeah. Mindlessly point your finger and tap the screen repeatedly while you watch something on TV. That’s the only way to go.
Finally, there are operations. This is basically buying supplies for your video game company such as paper, your website, studio rent, and more. Buy these, level them up for more money, and your money per cap or per hour will increase.
The money earned per hour is what you make when you don’t have the game turned on. The money per cap is what it sounds like. If you have the game turned off and your cap is a million dollars, that’s all your game will make when you have the game shut off. You could make two million per hour but if the cap is one million, you’ll only make the one million for one hour and that’s it – even if you have the game off for six hours.
This was something that bothered me because you have to strategically buy what you need. Most often than not, the cap would be less than the hourly. Not to mention, that money per second you make from the games? That’s only when the game is turned on.
It makes sense, yes, but if you want to make any money in this game (because honestly, hiring and leveling up employees, buying and leveling up the operations, and creating and updating the games takes a lot of money) you need to have this game on all the time. You also need to be tapping that screen quite often as well.
Well… that’s it. That’s all there is to it. I don’t want to play a game when I have no control over anything other than tapping the screen. I also don’t want the game to be turned on all the time. I have other games I need to play.
As soon as this review is done, this game is getting deleted from my iPad.
Video Game Tycoon gets a rating of…
Play It | Download It | DELETE IT
Overall, Video Game Tycoon is not fun. At first, I thought it was cool because it was a relaxing mindless game. But it got old very quick and everything became so expensive quickly. There’s no saving money in this game and there doesn’t seem to be an overall end goal either. It wasn’t worth the time.
