Computer Tycoon

A fantastic grand-strategy management sim, but the early-game tech categories need a rework. I recently picked Computer Tycoon back up for the first time since 2022, and it’s still just as fun and unique as I remember. Managing the global market, pricing, and fighting for regional dominance while pushing through the decades of computer history is a brilliant loop. The macro-level abstraction of building the absolute best tech of the era to represent your entire lineup works incredibly well for the grand-strategy scale. However, there is one major flaw in the tech progression that really muddles the early game: the redundancy between the Home Computer and Personal Computer categories. You start out in the early 70s with the Home Computer category. The game dangles the Altair 8800 in our faces, but instead of letting us truly live that full Blinkenlicht-toggle-switch-programming life, the tech tree just unlocks Personal Computers in the late 70s/early 80s, where you end up making essentially the exact same products. The game’s main distinction is that the Personal Computer category suddenly allows you to sell parts and upgrades. This is a highly artificial division—real-world early home computers and hobbyist kits were incredibly modular. In-game, it just creates two redundant product lines competing for the exact same market share and clutters the interface. A Constructive Suggestion: Since the game doesn't deal in trim levels and relies on your top-tier desktop to represent your whole consumer/workstation lineup, the Personal Computer category is fully capable of carrying the desktop market on its own. It would make far more sense to convert the current "Home Computer" category into a dedicated Mainframe/Server pipeline. The progression tree for this B2B category could look like this: Early Game: Mainframes and Minicomputers targeting massive government, university, and corporate contracts (e.g., DEC PDP-7 and PDP-11). Mid Game: Enterprise network servers (e.g., the DEC VAX series). Late Game: Blade servers and massive cloud data center infrastructure (e.g., the ProLiant lines). It would be incredible to start in a true PDP world and possibly even sell scaled-down Home PC versions of our minicomputers to consumers as the market evolves. Ultimately, the game should let you decide your corporate identity. You should be able to choose whether you want to build an enterprise behemoth like DEC, HP, or IBM, or a consumer-focused giant like Apple or Commodore. Overall, this is still one of the most ambitious and enjoyable tech tycoon games out there. I’d just love to see the tech tree refined to remove that awkward early-game overlap and possibly give us a true enterprise server pathway!

[h1]SOBRE O JOGO[/h1] O jogo parece ser maravilhoso, existe uma árvore de pesquisa incrível, o computador pode ser moldado peça por peça e ter diferentes públicos-alvo, um excelente jogo no que diz respeito a recursos e complexidade. Expanda sua empresa de hardware, pesquise, inove, engula componentes, ganhe fãs, burle taxas, etc. Coisas que tornam esse jogo único! [h1]PONTO NEGATIVO[/h1] Apesar de ter uma resposta do desenvolvedor sobre o assunto, não é tão fácil quanto parece jogar um jogo tão complexo em inglês, essa análise dói muito em escrever, mas precisa ser feita, já que é preciso alertar as pessoas do meu país sobre a dificuldade de jogar em inglês. Você não vai se virar com um inglês básico, e mais, traduzir tudo no jogo a todo momento é insuportável, a empolgação é grande, mas a frustração é ainda maior. Por esse motivo, eu não o recomendo até que saia a tradução oficialmente, que já está confirmada, entretanto, sem datas à vista. O preço é bom, o jogo oferece muita coisa legal, mas as barreiras linguísticas incomodam, então você pode decidir: compre agora e espere até uma tradução, ou evite o gasto momentâneo e volte no futuro. Se você decidir arriscar mesmo assim, vá em frente, talvez esse aspecto não incomode tanto outros jogadores quanto me incomodou.

THE Ultimate Game for designing Computers and Computer Hardware. Definitely addicting.

Challenging, creativity, strategy, & tycoon. Its a fun game, with cool art. Everything is customizable except the pictures of the computers, witch sometimes can be annoying. There is an early beta available when you buy this game, witch adds a ton of features that the store page doesn't explain to you, with alot of game modes. in the main game, you start with a decent amount of money, it can be hard at the start, but if you make a good strategy, you will go through, [ Remember this is a tycoon, so even tho theres a part of creativity, theres competition so you can't go around and making expensive, overpowered computers, becouse then you will go bankrupt. I recommend that you start doing your creative computers at late mid game. Around 1990, when you have a decent amount of profit.] To get acces to the sandbox version you will need to download the beta. That is currently released. Sandbox has no competitors, that is kinda sad, becouse it would be funny to make a 21 centuary computer in 1977 and see how other companies react. Overall: 8/10 great game, things to improve, but now is a good time to buy it.

Honestly pretty good, I noticed how hard it is but it's easy to get in the hang of. Highly recommend.

Like management sims? Like old computer tech? This game gets both right. It's hard at first and has a bit of a learning curve, but the included tutorials will get you to where you need to be. Don't get discouraged if your first game doesn't go your way--that's part of the process. I have dumped more hours than I ever thought I would into this game and it was an excellent purchase. It also supports a great developer who has made this game single-handedly!!

Its very complicated and hard. not for me

Schönes, tiefer gehendes Tycoonspiel. find ich toll sowas.

It's okay. I think I learned a few things about computer history, but the economics are kind of dumb. I can produce the best computer and sell it for far cheaper than my competitors. I can expand to be the dominant seller in all the markets, then just wait 20 years for them to go bankrupt. The most interesting part is in the beginning when it's competitive. After that, you can kind of just fast forward to the end. I still don't understand how my competitors stayed in business when reasonably, they shouldn't have been able to sell anything. I had a hacker take like 60 billion i had no hope of repaying right before everyone went bankrupt, so lucky me I guess. That could have been a random game over after dominating for the whole game.

If you built your own computers from the 70s through the early 2000s, its a nice trip down memory lane.