Big Ambitions

I was waiting for a long time for the release of this game hoping for a really good business simulation, but I found it to be too much "Sims" and too little business, in other words it is too much personal avatar management and too little business management. The game ends up being a grind of micromanagement of your avatar which gets repetitive and boring. I was really hopeful for this game, but it's not enough of a good business simulation for me to recommend it.

Highly recommend! Was expecting much less for the EA and was presently surprised by everything to do, and the whole city interactions, including getting a parking ticket when I tried unloading my inventory! As far as the actual game mechanics itself, it does what it says it does. You earn money, start businesses, make more money, buy more businesses, and grow and grow, all while making yourself rich! If your good at it of course. Then take on your rivals. The amount of different types of companies you can make is amazing, and with Mod support announced, the amount of products/decor/themes etc.. will only grow! I just purchased this game a couple weeks ago and already have over 100 hours. I am so excited to see where it goes!

Very in depth game! I am still very new to gaming, so it took me a couple of restarts before I really understood the mechanics of the game, but man, once you get it... it is VERY addicting. I have really enjoyed playing so far and look forward to playing even more!!!

总体上还是推荐的，这游戏可惜的有两点一个是没有烹饪系统，做不了大餐也没什么高档消费场所只能吃快餐冷冻食品。再有一个就是不能玩女人，弄了很多钱除了干产业买楼没有什么消费的爽感。最后一点就是这个开车停车，20小时我就觉得有点折磨了，能忍住不打mod我佩服你。

The game is as billed, but it's just... boring. I spend more time ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around waiting for time to pass while keeping my happiness up through the same tired routine than I do actually managing businesses. It has enough of the elements to be a good-ish game, but it just doesn't put it together in a way that's fun. I imagine part of the issue is how tedious and cumbersome the interface is. Toggle to another screen to get some needed info, and everything you're doing gets wiped away and you need to re-enter it all. Relevant info isn't available via a tooltip or such, you have to go hunt it down. If you're making your employee's schedule and need to manage them, you can... but you can't go back to the schedule. You have to go back to your list of businesses, find the business again, then select it, go back to the schedule tab, and resume. Have fun if you need to manage multiple employees in this way!

Even at $50 this game would be a fantastic deal. I found out I loved deeply systemic simulation games not too many years ago, but I still have ended up playing many stellar titles. Supermarket Simulator, House Flipper, Anno 1800, Two Point games, and Schedule 1 just to name the ones played most recently. But Big Ambitions stands head and shoulders above them all. The only issue I see is that I've explored every mechanic and system offered after 220 hours. I don't think there's much left to learn. But I can start a new save file and this time play on hard mode and try to optimize farther, so I bet in total I'll get 500 hours of fun out of this game.

This game will hook you like the first time you played The Sims and its pretty dang fun, but i unfortunately cant recommend the game as is. Perhaps after early access is over they will have fixed the problem, but as it is right now the game will break and become partially unplayable somewhere around what i assume is about halfway through the game. Your biggest "enemy" in this game controls roughly 25 locations and i was only at 11 locations when my purchase orders to warehouse buildings all glitched out and stopped showing the products except for 275,000 paper bag in every slot and while looking at that particular screen that you can't do anything with at that point anyway the game will lag very hard. I'm not sure if the issue is how many in game assets I have or just a programming issue, but I'm not even halfway to victory and the game even has achievements specifically for stockpiling assets so It has to be an unintended error. Regardless that issue broke my entire supply chain I'd built up over 120 hours of play which disconnects about half of my locations. You could still play the game without using warehouses and purchasing managers i guess, but that clearly isn't what is intended and who knows if the other types of locations will eventually break when you have enough of them even if you are not stockpiling assets. Some of what I just typed may seem a little unclear if you haven't already actually played this game, but very basically if you get this game and really dive into all aspects of it (because it is very fun) you run the risk of having the same issue as me and you are going to be sad about how much work you put in by the time it breaks. I spent a little time trying to fix the issue myself with a few tricks I have learned from other games over the years to no success, sent a bug report, reluctantly turned off the game, and said "well, I guess I'm never playing this again." It's still early access, but a problem that large needs a disclaimer! If they don't specifically release something that says they have fixed the supply chain issues I would not buy this game. This game was about an 8.5 from me and if they added player leveling, building leveling, a bit more difficulty, and a little more variation in daily operating hours from place to place and types of items you can place/interact with it would be at 9.5. They could squeak out the last .5 with some minor tweaking to the menus you have to shuffle through and better data tracking. Being able to see more than one page at the same time via a split screen or window would be a godsend, and business data should save for at least 7 days not just "yesterday" I ended up having to take pictures of the screen with my phone so i didn't have to cycle through an entire week of game time to get back to something I realized I needed to look at. Super fun game, the pressure eases up a bit after you have a couple places running, but you always feel a little bit under the gun so there is still some challenge. If you like it in the first few hours you are still going to like it at hour 100, but without them fixing the purchasing order/warehouse problem it might as well be 0/10. Hopefully they have addressed this by the full release for the rest of you, but i'm pretty bummed that my game broke and if a fix comes out and doesn't apply to old saves then i probably will never play again.