Recent reviews by Sleazy Geezer

I feel more comfortable around cars after playing this game.

Great way to waste a bunch of time :D

Fun game, great conceptual model and intuitive UI, lacks depth on many features and gets repetitive quickly. Needs to be developed more, but has good potential, I'm happy with the purchase.

One of my favorite games. Extremely fun for those who like management/tycoon games. The updates have been frequent and added more nuance and quality of life for the player. I look forward to seeing where the game heads in the future and still pick it up from time to time to see what updates have been made. I bought it as a gift for a couple friends because it is truly a charming and fun little game to kill some time.

The game is in alpha so I'll try not to bash it, but it's not that good yet.

Somethings that would make it more strategic are, allowing the user to pause so they can scan the map, allow the user to get a newsfeed of stories on the right side of the map, allow the user to zoom in and out, make the map 3d instead of 2d so that their is more obviousness and it is easier on the eyes, also, allow the user to read the research options before they are unlocked.

One big problem I have is not having a good way of sorting through all of the available news stories and picking the right reporters. If you were to incorporate a news feed and then allow a drop down menu that sorted by the best reporters that matched it and showed how much time it would take to report on that would help. The UI is not very friendly right now, and could really be improved a ton, I don't like having to click through the different employees. If this layout were more like This is the police it would make it more fun, but you can replicate that layout without the complexity, by pausing the game when a user clicks on a news story and allow them to view a menu that has more useful information giving relationships with the reporters that have good fits.

Also, overall the whole strategy of matching the reporters to story that they are interested in and politically related to is not cool or fun, and I wish the stories were more obvious when it's important (e.g. they show a star ranking right on the map before clicking). I like the concept of the game but it is not well implemented, it would just make it more fun to have a UI that was more intuitive and gave more relevant information where it was needed, i.e. show less information all at once and have more compartmentalized information that can be shown when users have to interact. The game is also all randomly generated which is less interesting to me than one with a story that unfolds over time, the headlines are cool, but I don't get to read about the story behind them so it seems really one dimensional, maybe hire a writer (not many coders are also good writers).

I will keep the game but I will wait for some quality of life improvements until I take it seriously and play it through to the end.

The game has potential but from the 115 minutes I played it I was not impressed with some lack of clarity in how to progress. I had to desperately seek investors despite having put in a good amount of effort into the design of my product and marketing. However, I couldn't find enough users to purchase the product. I fealt that it wasn't worth the effort of trying to learn it either because there isn't enough guides in the game to teach you how best to manage your company. If more effort is put into the game I might try it again in the future but for now I'm going to have to pass.

One of my all time favorites, I used a spreadsheet to calculate demand/supply and programmed an algorithm to optimize trade routes based on my calculated values.