Have you ever played an RTS where you get really immersed in building the perfect base, but every new level throws away your hard work and forces you to start again from scratch? Big Pharma is like a distilled version of that.

It has 35 levels, all of which start you near the bottom of the tech tree. Pretty much every level will start the same - 10-20 minutes of building low-level supply chains, trying to get a profit while you wait for research to unlock. To make matters worse, building the supply chains is actually really tedious as you have to jump through the menus to research each stage of the process before you build it. You're constantly fighting to make a profit, and many of the levels have time limits.

Don't let my high playtime fool you - I was afk for a lot of that. Big Pharma is only good for about 3 hours. After that, there's just too much tedium and not enough fun.

Have you ever played an RTS where you get really immersed in building the perfect base, but every new level throws away your hard work and forces you to start again from scratch? Big Pharma is like a distilled version of that. It has 35 levels, all of which start you near the bottom of the tech tree. Pretty much every level will start the same - 10-20 minutes of building low-level supply chains, trying to get a profit while you wait for research to unlock. To make matters worse, building the supply chains is actually really tedious as you have to jump through the menus to research each stage of the process before you build it. You're constantly fighting to make a profit, and many of the levels have time limits. Don't let my high playtime fool you - I was afk for a lot of that. Big Pharma is only good for about 3 hours. After that, there's just too much tedium and not enough fun.