▲ Recommended
6 hrs
Girlfriend:What are you playing?
Me: I dunno, some silly game
GF: So what's the point of it?
Me: I don't really know, earn a bunch of money?
GF: And what do you do when you have enough?
Me: I don't know, buy more stuff
GF: But what happens when you run out of stuff to buy.
Me: I don't know
GF: Well is it fun?
Me: I...don't know
GF: Why are you still playing it?
Me: I....don't......know........but I can't stop
▲ Recommended
12 hrs
Does Adventure Capitalist need a review? Sure why not; I review everything else on Steam, lets get into it. As with most games like this, there are plenty of unfunny joke reviews that will fill up the front store page for this game so I'm hoping to beat the trend and give some points about the game.
First of all, Adventure Capitalist is a game, about, well capitalism. You are an investor setting out to make your fortune. This game is very similar to the likes of Cookie Clicker, which first came to fame in 2010, is still a mega popular game today. You start off buying lemonade stands, each click on the lemonade stand generates money, with that money buy another stand, so on and so on. Eventually you have enough money to hire a manager for your lemonade stand. The manager acts as the clicker, so you can leave the game running (or close it down) and you will still generate money. You then work up to other investments following the same pattern, and no sooner have you started, you will soon be a millionaire. With your millions you can also purchase upgrades to your investments, such as increasing profit by 3% or something similar.
This is where AC is different to other clicker games, you no longer actually need to spam click in order to make progress, since you have your managers working over time for you. What I really like about AC is that you can close the game down, and you will still be generating money, meaning you can let your funds mount up for a couple of days, log back in, spend it all, and watch your money roll in for a bit, then log out.
The UI is so brilliantly displayed, you can work your way around all the menus with ease, and you can find all of the information you could ever need either on the main screen or within 2 clicks. Be warned, this game not only has highly addictive gameplay, the soundtrack is almost just as addictive. Once that song gets in your head, it just will not leave.
AC is not hard at all, it just seems to be a time-sink, and one that keeps you logging back in on a daily basis. You can see just by the amount of hours I have in this game already just how easy it is to loose yourself in a really simple game. I would say I am not in the game for longer than 15 minutes on a daily basis, but it does keep bringing you back just so you can see what made up number of money you have made over night.
The developers are always adding new content to this game as well; recently there was an update which allows you to continue making your fortunes on the moon! This runs along side your regular empire back on earth, meaning twice as many investments to manage and oggle at crazy sums of money.
Given that AC is a free to play game, you have no harm in trying it out. I would say that even if you just load it up every couple of days to check it out, you will still get a lot of enjoyment out of it. There is also an iOS version of the game, but unfortunately it does not link up with your game on Steam; that would of been just too good if it did. Maybe it's a potential possibility in the future.
I really strongly recommend AdVenture Capitalist; its a simple, yet horribly addictive game, that allows you to pop in and hour of the game with ease for ten minutes at a time. Play in small doses to get the full effect!
1) Stay away
2) Only recommended when on sale
3) Recommended
4) Highly recommended
5) This is a must play
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