Startup Company

In Startup Company you have the role of entrepreneur and CEO and a mission to start your very own tech company from scratch. The goal is to compete with titans like Gugle, Friendbook and Amazine - the names are just recognizable in the game universe without causing the copyright bells to go off.

Your level rises and opens up new employees, such as managers that set work rates for one's employees, designers who can produce graphical modules and HR managers that can regulate your employee's working hours.

One element of the game is that your employees get sad and unproductive if they work for a long time without holiday or if their contract does not include things like healthcare and free drinks or if the office is not equipped with meeting tables in heavy oak and a pair of unbearably expensive sofas.

As the game progresses, you move on to more website features and server hosting centers. The marketing functionality is like the real world, where your campaign’s success will be based on your ability to correctly target the relevant audience.

You’ll also have to improve features based on user feedback. The total satisfaction is based on the average of all features. Satisfaction will directly impact your conversion rate when running marketing campaigns. Running a website with just a landing page won’t be very interesting. Marketing campaigns can be Text Ads, Banner Ads, Video Ads and Subscriptions.

I love the aspect of running your own company, and this is one of the best polished and thought through games I have played in the business simulation game genre.

THE GOOD
- Nice tutorial
- Reflects real life business
- Different types of website services
- Easy to learn / Hard to master
- The music is nice

THE BAD
- Can get repetitive
- When your business is getting successful you really don’t have much to do

9/10

DISASTER | BAD | MEDIOCRE | OKAY | GOOD | GREAT | AMAZING | MASTERPIECE

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The best way I feel like I can describe Startup Company is that its a game that's simple where it needs to be complex, and complex where it needs to be simple.

While I normally enjoy these type of simulation games, after the first day of playing, I found that I was enjoying my time with it less and less. While at first the game appears to be rather vast in what kind of company you can build, when you realize that there is very little customization beyond that point, you find that you're doing the same motions no matter what, and I found that those motions were not enjoyable.

You need employees that create assets for you, which you spend like currency to upgrade your startup site. At first this is easy enough to stay on top up, but as you advance you very quickly need more and more things, and those assets require other assets to be made. And sometimes THOSE assets require assets that require assets. It becomes a bit of a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rather quickly.

Revenue is also rather easy to obtain after a short period. All you need to do is get banner ads unlocked, split it up into a few different time slots, and auto-renew the highest paying clients you can find and you'll be rolling in cash.

It was about that time when I had tons of money rolling in and I was waiting for my employees to create more assets to upgrade my site, that I realized I wasn't really enjoying any of this. I saw no progression other than seeing a few numbers get bigger and at no point did I really feel like I was building towards anything.

Honestly, I feel like this game is worth a pass. Maybe, if on a steep discount, you will get a few days of distraction from it, but otherwise I didn't find this game worth much, I'm sorry to say.

Game is still early access, but support devs like Jonas.
I encountered a bug in the game yesterday. Messaged on the discussion board to let the dev know, dev asked if I could send through the save file. Did this too. Dev not only patches the bug SAME DAY, but sends me back my save file, with the bug fixed, so I could continue my game.
The game is still a work in progress, but it's enjoyable today, and it's in great hands.