Pillazon: MMO Drug Lord Tycoon

Have you heard of or played a game called 'Startup Company', where you create websites and manage a team of staff with various disciplines? Yeah, this is that game. This is exactly that game, right down to the list of website 'features', potential users limiting growth and marketing. The entire system, just shamelessly ripped off (And arguably made worse, since the near-identically named staff roles don't develop components, they just add 'points' that can be spent on exactly the same junk you'd spend components on in Startup Company.) The 'added features' here are a thematic (But ultimately shallow and meaningless) focus on illicit drugs, a bafflingly odd inclusion of multiple cryptocurrencys (I wonder if the dev(s) are crypto-bros?) and exactly the sort of lazy mobile-tier 'castle crashers' attack/defend mechanics that you'd expect from a company willing to clone a much better game and sell it as their own with virtually no mechanical changes besides adding a crime theme, dumbing down the stolen mechanics and adding extra currencies based on reddit punchlines... Oh right, and they ALSO added a premium microtransactional currency for... Honestly, I didn't stick around to see what it was for. Sketchy, sketchy, sketchy. Nothing here promises anything more than cashgrab laziness from the devs. Save yourself the time it takes to get a refund and keep scrolling through the shovelware: This ain't no gem.

I don't mean to crap on the devs dreams, but a lot of people are saying this game "shows serious potential" but I have to disagree. It's an idler/incremental game at it's core, which is fine. If those are well done they can be genuinely enjoyable, but there's not a lot of actual potential there. But the main red flag I see is that it is supposed to be an MMO, and by that the dev means it's basically just another variation of the whole city builder mobile game. Which... I'm thoroughly convinced if you'd played one of those games you've played EVERY.SINGLE.LAST.ONE.OF.THEM. They're all exactly the same crap with a different skin and different features but they're all pretty much the same and if the dev goes that route I give a month from the full release that it just becomes more pay to win garbage like everything else in that genre. Forgive my cynicism but I don't see a whole lot of potential here and if you want to throw 5$ at a game that's been done a million times before and might not even get finished or be worth playing once finishing be my guest.

This game has potential... but it still needs some work, ended up fighting with my computer because could not move any of my desks properly. I would definetly recommend it to any gamer who has a thing for a tycoon games.