Nell Watson's Founder Life

Interesting business-themed choose your own adventure. I basically made all the choices I do in my actual career and burnt out several times and went bankrupt halfway through, so perhaps there's a warning to be taken from this game. I do think it's pretty corny that whenever your energy runs out, you yeet off to a $1000 "Entrepreneurial retreat", especially since the game hammers home how tight you have to be about your cashflow. If I blew a thousand bucks every time I burnt out, I'd be bankrupt several times over. I get that they need some kind of punishment for when you run out of energy, but the other metrics just give a game over when you bottom out on them, and it does stick out like a sore thumb since the game is generally trying to present a realistic depiction of the startup process. I think there could have been a more believable punishment like having your productivity tank or forcing you to stop work until you're better that would have a detrimental effect while still being more realistic. The writing is a bit Linkedin-core in a "Top 10 habits of Top CEO's" kind of way— this is definitely targeted at people who still believe in TED Talks, but they do a good job acknowledging the doubt and angst that goes into working the small business world and the tradeoffs you have to make are relatable. The game isn't gritty enough to plunge the depths of existential [i]hate[/i] you can develop for certain clients, but I did get [i]invested[/i] in the characters and their storyline, especially once you had to start prepping to pitch to the investor. I definitely want to give it another run and see what happens at the end, assuming I don't just keep piledriving my businesses into the ground by being a sleep deprived gremlin.