This is honestly a pretty fun game for a mobile. I’ve already completed two 20 year runs and will likely do it a third time because there’s still opportunity to do even better the next time with what I learned the last two times through. I also appreciate that the aesthetic changes you buy with bananas carry over (even if you have to wait until you make it to a bigger office for some of them). Speaking of the bananas, however, I have had some trouble with getting the quests to actually go through. More than once now I’ve done what the quest says (release a game of a specific type) and it hasn’t delivered the bananas. I’ve tried it both in developing and releasing a new game and a sequel. A couple of times it’s acknowledged it maybe the next time I loaded in and said that it had delays (accidents, traffic jams, etc.). I wish there was some sort of acknowledgment to say that you completed it and they’re on their way, but whether it recognizes you’ve completed it or not, the “confirm quest” button just reiterates what the quest is asking for. Even when I have completed the quest and later get bananas delivered, it doesn’t acknowledge the quest as complete. This is really just a minor side detail and doesn’t impact gameplay which is why I’m still giving this game 5⭐️ because the game itself is a pretty fun one and you can experiment with different combinations and directions.

The basic premise involves choosing a platform, a genre, and a thematic category for the game. The development process is broken up into three phases, Story-writing, Graphics, and Sound. It takes the basic premises described above and pile on a ton of strategic elements that really make the game a joy to play from a management standpoint. Outside of improving individual employees, each individual aspect of development has its own experience/level that can be developed, as your team becomes more experienced. A lot of the fun involves balancing making games, with training, with research while making sure there’s enough money until the next big hit. There’s also a very strong appeal to wanting to “make just one more game” or making new engines just to experiment with how new features impact sales. I had no issues with the basic control scheme, if the game hooks you in as it did with me, make sure you allocate enough time for play. It’s the perfect sort of game for mobile devices and there’s so much to do here in terms of developing personnel, researching items, and making games that there’s loads of replayability for quite a long time.

I’ve played this game for many weeks, and I have to say it has a hard learning curve. There was a lack of direction at first and I wasn’t sure what some of the various stats of my characters actually accomplished. After trial and error, however, I began to find my success with the game, and grew a sudden appreciation for the challenge. It took time, but I got there.I enjoy the game for its simple complexity and its progression. The concept is fun and engaging. The moments I have where something clicks and I find ways to advance my company’s progress is exciting to experience. I just wish there were better instructions about the game. Sometimes I wish I could click on character stats and get details about it, or understand if some of the job titles of characters matter at times or not (for example, I have characters who have higher stats in sound than my sound engineer. Does them being a sound engineer carry more weight than the fact that their stat is lower? If not, should it?). I know there is a ‘manual’, but it’s 29 pages of short messages. Kind of clunky and vague at times because of the format.Overall, the game is fun, but can be challenging at first. Don’t give up, and try not to browse the web for quick answers. Makes the grind worth it.

The game is fun up until you understand how to play the game and/or get to the end game and depending on how good you are at the game that could be in a hours time. Once you get to the end game and start cranking out “Hall of Fame” games consistently there’s no real challenge or reason to keep playing. In fact once you start making Hall of Fame games it becomes more of a challenge to not make a game that goes into the HoF. And once you get to a certain point money becomes a non factor because there’s nothing to buy. You are just making money with nothing to really spend it on. All of That being said the real end goal is to make a “Game of the Year” game and that seems almost impossible. I have made 29 straight “Hall of Fame” Games, 15 straight games that have scored a perfect 40 rating all of which have made #1 on the top sales chart and I have yet to make a game that has gotten “Game of the year” instead the award is constantly given to a game with a name that’s a pun to a real world game. At a certain point it just felt like the game was against me and even if I would “beat” the game it just feels like it would have no substance to it. This game has potential to be addicting and great but it just falls on its face toward the back end when it should be more challenging and rewarding.