
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
Charts
Each storefront's own chart, in its own country — the closest public signal to sales where none is published. A country missing from a list is one we don't collect there, not one where the game doesn't chart.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 20/day in the week to Aug 28 → 78.43/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,419 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Your bank balance is tiny, but your ambitions are big.
With a little help from your uncle, you get an apartment and your first job. But then it's up to you to achieve success and take over New York City any way you like.
Slowly build multiple small businesses, grow them into huge corporations, or carve your own unique path – the possibilities are limitless in this vast business sandbox. You've never played anything like this!
Go from a small apartment and public transport to luxury suites, fast cars and designer furniture. Put your money into investment funds and real estate. Succeed, fail, rebuild. But remember to take care of yourself, sleep and stay happy on your rise to the top.
Do you have what it takes to build your own empire?

Go from nothing to the most prominent tycoon in New York. Start a business, work smart, make it thrive and enjoy your life. How do you want to be successful? How far can you push it? How long can you make it last?
Start your own gift shop, supermarket, coffee shop, law firm, clothing store, liquor store, florist, and more. You decide what success is - whether it’s a single shop, a chain of fast-food restaurants, a huge corporation, or making millions developing websites.
Take out a loan, rent a building, design the logo, renovate the store, get stock, manage your money, hire staff, and build your infrastructure. Soon, you may have to start importing products from the harbour and distributing them through a network of warehouses.
A bigger business means managers. Hire HR Managers, Logistics Managers, and Purchasing Agents. They all need desks and computers, so you’ll need a fancy headquarters.
Need a delivery truck? Travel to a dealer and buy one. Need food? Go to a supermarket, but make sure you have a refrigerator at home. Big Ambitions is a life sim where your character has to physically interact with the world to survive and succeed.
Enter any building in New York and buy it. Go from a small apartment to a dream penthouse in midtown, a luxurious townhouse in Hell’s Kitchen, or a series of skyscrapers. Fill each with furniture that suits your style and standing. Invest your hard-earned cash in real estate to grow your empire. Take over the city piece by piece.
Spend your wealth however you wish. Buy a big SUV, a speedy sports car, or the new luxurious Mersaidi S500. Maybe risk it all at the casinos or put your money into investment funds and reap the rewards.
As you progress, you always need to ensure you get enough sleep and stay healthy and happy. Enjoy the journey, for as you grow older, you’ll discover that money can’t buy you time... or can it?
Big Ambitions takes what you love about the viral sensation ‘Startup Company’ to even greater heights.
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As it turns out, just like with CGI and humanoid robotics, there is an uncanny valley to the sim genre. Very deep and vertical business sim with an authentic recreation of a portion of New York City to serve as the map. Problem is that with a game trying so hard to simulate such depth the more unrealistic aspects start to really stand out. This is definitely a management sim wearing a more complicated games clothing. There are no management positions or existing corporate ladders to climb and you can't work in an industry in hopes of eventually starting your own enterprise, you can only work in 2 varieties of delivery driver and in customer service. You also can't buy any specialty businesses or try to establish yourself in their industries. It's not the kind of thing I would have registered in a more simple business simulation, but it's pretty glaring to me here. I'd like to see a version of this game someday where the player can work any position or own any enterprise that the AI is capable of, with proper credentials that have to be pursued in themselves. I haven't explored the mod options yet, so this might be a front that the community has taken over but I still think it is worth noting. The customization options are varied but the limited means with which the game and customers AI can interact with them curbs your options as far as store customization actually matters. Only specific chairs, tables, and booths are counted by the AI so your attempts to make a particular vibe may be dashed when all your customers claim there is nowhere to sit. This is enough of a drawback that while typing it out I was surprised I was still going to recommend the game, It's ultimately because there is a lot on offer here, the steam store has been flooded by business sims for a while now but this game approaches the genre from a refined, immersive angle. For everything I have found that I could not do there are a couple of things I was surprised I could. I'll be honest, I think it could do with shaving 6 bucks off the price but I still got my value from it. With the game at 1.0 there's no guarantee of further improvement, so don't feel too pressed over waiting for a sale. Maybe I wish this were more like GTA, maybe I wish GTA were more like this. Weird notion, I know, but I had to write it down. All I'll say is that even if there were some ways that this felt short I still feel like the very existence of this game and others like it are proof that we are getting ever closer to that mythical sandbox immersive sim previously thought impossible. I don't mind the usage of AI content by small teams to fluff the background of big projects like these, I get peoples concerns about the value of human creativity and wanting to support a product that was made by human hands but I also think that AI shouldn't be disregarded as a tool for supplanting content in large scale simulated worlds like these. While not utilized here, the idea of AI generated dialogue trees for the sake of emergent content interests me immensely.
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Languages: English*, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Italian, Traditional Chinese, Czech +10 more
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Hours played at review time, across 1.8K reviews with recorded playtime.
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做了这么久留学中介,最有用的商学院在这个游戏里,不是说学到知识的意思,而是不学不能雇人啊 两个档都360度转一圈了...
One of the best business management games I ever played
Gutes Game! Gerade für die Fraktion Bürgergeldempfänger sehr zu empfehlen. Jetzt könnt Ihr euch endlich einmal nützlich für die Gesellschaft fühlen :)
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!
Leider reichts für mich nicht für eine positive Bewertung. Der Early Access hat vielversprechend begonnen aber letztendlich ist das hier eine sehr flache W-Simulation mit kaum tiefe. Wenn man schon eine Welt in 3D darstellt, könnte man wesentlich mehr draus machen, hier wird sie praktisch nur genutzt um das Spiel künstlich in die länge zu ziehen und es macht auch keinen Spaß da ständig zu Fuß oder mit dem Auto unterwegs zu sein. Im realen Leben scheitern viele Geschäfte, aber hier kann man irgendwie nix falsch machen. Kunden kommen immer. W-Sims früher waren zu Beginn immer spannend und man musste meist herausfinden wie man optimal vorgeht und war auf den Weg öfters gescheitert, leider haben die meisten W-Sims nach hinten raus dann nix mehr zu bieten gehabt. Hier fühlt sich leider die Anfangszeit schon irgendwie belanglos an. Die eigene Wohnung herrichten hat gar nicht motiviert, weil zwecklos. Ich hab einfach immer einen Kühlschrank, Bett und Computer hingesetzt, das reicht dass deine Figur ausreichend zufrieden ist. Gäste kann man in der Wohnung ja eh auch nicht empfangen um seinen virtuellen Prunk zu zeigen. Gute Idee, nicht so gute Umsetzung, aber nettes Experiment. Schade.
fun game.... maybe I'm a weirdo but I literally cannot stand being unable to delete the stupid delivery station that takes up half my house and half my business. I'm actually leaving this review and not playing this game any more just because of that..... let me get rid of that ♥♥♥♥ man
Apparently I don't understand the concept of loans. Took out my first 15 grand loan Bought my business Good job me Pay back 14 grand of the loan same day Realised my business does not come with anything I need for said business Go back and ask for another loan I can't be offered more than 5 grand Take the 5 grand Spend it on a coffee machine Work a side gig as much as possible to try and make money Still can't apply for another loan Car breaks down. Can't afford to repair. So now I do deliveries by scooter and use vans for bigger deliveries 10/10, business still isn't functional
Ich wollte eigentlich nur kurz reinschauen. Jetzt besitze ich halb New York und fahre einen Sportwagen – räume aber um 2 Uhr nachts immer noch persönlich Kartons ein, weil mein Mitarbeiter gekündigt hat. Beste Kombination aus Wirtschaftssimulation und Lebenssim. Wer Bock hat, vom kleinen Kiosk-Besitzer zum Immobilien-Tycoon aufzusteigen (und dabei völlig das Zeitgefühl zu verlieren), macht hier absolut nichts falsch. Kaufempfehlung!
People ride their cars up your ass when you try to parallel park, just like real life!
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