Startup Panic

TLDR: there are too many things that detract from gameplay to make it enjoyable. Anytime you get ahead the game chops your legs off and you need to start from the ground again. First things first. The vacation system needs to be overhauled from the ground up. There is next to no time to play the actual game because your employees are too busy taking half the year off to be kidnapped on Mount Everest. Yes you read that right. On top of the fact you pay for all your employees vacations. Like what company on earth gives employees that much time off. There needs to be a better system. The other really frustrating thing is market share; like you didn’t know you were the underdog? That’s implied, so I shouldn’t have all my monthly profits taken away when out of no where I meet a new competitor. The last big thing is the recommended skill level. I can have employees 10 points over the recommendation and still not manage to get 10 out of 10. A few other features that would make the game more playable: •Mass group training(like vacations) •Motivation boosters other than vacations •Ability to hire top tier employees, even if they cost more •Make the advertisement system more streamlined, rather than having to research every place on earth. •the “scalable” skill points need to be removed. Have them a set amount not increasing as the player increases. •if you are keeping the kidnapping which you really shouldn’t, then make it realistic. There are too many logical fallacies within that particular system Overall it’s too much to manage and you never feel like there is a point where you feel successful.

It’s different from others , easy to play once figure it out takes 1-2 hours get use to it. Little tricky, basically just need have all over all perfect level new one . Do big contracts when show up and beat the game, Pretty simple. Took me 2 days to beat the game . After beat it very repetitive, stuff isn’t mixed up or different paths to take. Could did different approach would made it better long run - gaming , media , net work , business , etc in different class for players . Always kind of different mix up skills can research in always the same. It’s kind of basic for a game , like the concept and idea just would of added more content and switched it up a bit to make it better. Over all good effort and fun playing while off.

Very not much choices to do, employees need more vacation than work time, loose their motivation way too fast, tasks are overly repetitive, interface is poorly designed and too small to read. Music is free and horrible feels like a free automated ad. There is no artistic direction, feels like a random empty game with some wording done to match some development concepts and couple jokes. wasted time and money.

This makes me feel like I’m doing something, when I’m in fact doing nothing at all!! It’s great.

It’s a nice concept but it’s barely playable. The game pushes you into getting an office quickly, and then everything is too expensive and your employees lose motivation quickly and are not skilled enough for the growth of the market. I wish there was modes of difficulty like easy, medium, hard to start an easier game to learn the ropes.

The difficulty makes this game impossible to tolerate every time you think you get ahead or stand a chance it throws you a task that’s impossible to beat like the one with that pop star chick or it just makes the competitors constantly steal your users for no reason in a random event.

I have played this on PC for a month and was happy to buy it here at 1/3 the price(screwing PC players I guess). The UI is a bit more problematic on mobile but it's also faster to start playing anymore convenient for most people. The game itself is very well designed and horribly balanced. I truly believe that they failed to apply proper weight to external testers opinions and instead balanced the game based on internal feedback from people who know how the game is structured internally. The result is very awkward game flow that punishes any deviation from the perfect path. This is FAIRLY realistic and deserves praise, but this is a game and should be fun first and foremost. Especially on mobile. There should be two immediate changes to this version(or all!): 1) add difficulty settings. 2) add option to skip tutorial on second playthrough The game is definitely worth $6 if you have any interest in social media startups or business simulations. Think of it as a much more difficult version of Game Dev Story.

Idk if it’s just me but whenever I play for a long period of time my screen just goes blank. I still can can go to all the screens except the office page, plz for the love of god, fix that. I hope this doesn’t just happen to me. But all in all great game

This game has the potential to be great! But somehow it is unrealistic. If you pay attention to the timeline, you send your workers to vacation every month. Some workers demand for higher pay than those who have more traits than they do. And you will always fail during the hosting the celebrity on your server (despite having all of my features 9 or 10). Needs a lot of re-work but possibly addicting if fixed.

Literally all scenarios are designed to negatively impact you greatly if things go wrong. If things go the right way, the effects are small. When a new competitor comes in, you lose almost all users, making it difficult to compete. Motivation decreases like crazy. I have to send employees on very expensive vacation every 3 minutes or so.