Shop Manager : Video Game Tycoon

This game is just all over the place. It doesn't know what it wants to be or what it is about - half of the mechanics don't make any sense at all. So... you start out and pick the tutorial, where it throws 15 screens of text at you explaining the buttons instead of walking you through gameplay like most titles. No biggie though, the game mechanics aren't too hard. There's an intro. A guy is leaving you in charge of his video game store for a month. If it earns enough money, he'll give you the store after that. Then the game starts out and you pick the merchandise you want to sell. It's a resource management type of thing. You have to physically put that stock on the shelves, too Next you open the store. It puts you behind the cash register and throws as many customers at you in one minute as you'd see in a real Gamestop in a day. You've got to scan stuff, answer customer questions from memory about the review scores on your games, and at the same time make sure no-one is stealing anything. This seems to be the primary focus of the game, such that it has one, and it was far too fast moving to be fun for me. I know I wasn't going to catch any thieves. All that might be personal taste though. You can hire employees. So if I don't like working the register, I can pay someone to do that, right? No. The employees are not for your shop. They're for a video game development studio which for some reason, you are running at the same time as you manage a brick and mortar gaming retail business. I don't know what the deal is with the video game development part. I know how to hire employees for it. I know how to assign them. What I don't know is why I'm performing tasks like that as a video game store manager, or what happens if I do well or poorly at them. You also have a family at home. Each of them have heart symbols representing their love for you. You need to continually pay them or their heart symbols drop and eventually they leave you. As someone who actually has their own family, I can assure you that it doesn't work like that IRL. But even if the family does leave, it doesn't matter as the game still goes on and those family members play no role in winning or losing. AFAIK it's all about impressing that one guy who talked to you at the beginning of the game. So I don't know what the whole point of the family is either. I'm assuming this went through some playtesting before release. Any tester worth his salt should have said, "Look. The family doesn't add anything. Get rid of that. The whole game development studio aspect doesn't make any sense and has nothing to do with managing a store. Get rid of that, too. Make the financial part deeper. Keep employee hiring a thing but make it so they can help you with the register and/or stocking if either of those things aren't fun for the player." If this game had actually kept to being a shop manager, it might have been OK. But it didn't. It tried to be more and became less.

This game very much makes you feel like your working in a store. You have to do it all. Keep the store clean, wait on customers,order inventory, bust thieves. At some point you can also develop games. If you wanna feel the struggle of what it is like to make money in a business this is a pretty interesting game. Really didn't run into any bugs but then again only played for 1.2 hours. For the current price I have to give it a thumbs up.

[h1]Overview[/h1] [i]Shop Manager : Video Game Tycoon[/i] is the most ironic game encountered by ol' Il Pallino that can be purchased on Steam. The player is expected to run a video game shop in the day and age of [i]GameStop[/i] going into decline. (Due in large part to online video game retailers like Steam!) Apparently the main character's uncle must perceive the player as a savior, because certainly anyone with enough sense to be running a game shop in this day and age is best off closing down and liquidating the inventory, and getting a tax write-off as a result! The gameplay is a mixture of casual management sim and simple simulation that involves keeping an eye on the store and keeping shelves stocked (unless the player failed to do so before opening for the day) all while clicking on trash, clicking on potential shoplifters (unless the player splashes the cash to hire a security guard), checking-out customers at the register, and answer phone calls from parasitic family members hitting the player up for money. To help with making money, the player also has a game developer at their disposal where people are hired to develop games to sell in-house, which is cheaper than having to purchase games from third party developers/publishers. [h1]Graphics and Sound[/h1] The graphics are nothing special, but lean towards being aesthetically pleasing despite their simplistic look. Sorry no screenshot can be provided at this time, but the designated screenshot key isn't working during the time of the writing of this review. (It's possible [i]Shop Manager : Video Game Tycoon[/i] is one of the games which the player needs to have special powers implanted into their brain by Marion Dale in order to take and upload screenshots to this game.) The sounds are purely basic with various loops of music which tend to be a bit too upbeat for such a game. This may be because all of the good tunes of lounge music have already been taken by makers of the many anime tiddy games that pervade Steam. Despite the music being somewhat-unsuitable for [i]Shop Manager : Video Game Tycoon[/i], the songs are nice and aren't too short of loops. [h1]Positives[/h1] [i]Shop Manager : Video Game Tycoon[/i] is the game that's a perfect example of a game that represents value for the money. Having played the disastrous [i]Arcade Tycoon[/i], the differences in fun, quality, and price between each game are night and day! If the player were getting any more of a bargain, they would be playing [i]Space Pilgrim Episode I: Alpha Centauri[/i], which is now free to play on Steam. [h1]Negatives[/h1] Apart from the outlandish idea of trying to run a video game shop in the here and now, there's only the possibility of having one other person work in the store, and that's the security guard. Certainly the player would think that one of the few real life game shops still in existence (at least in America) would have no trouble finding a teenager willing to work for minimum wage in a shop they view is the greatest place in the world. The single biggest problem in [i]Shop Manager : Video Game Tycoon[/i] is that there are no Steam achievements at the time of the writing of this review. Apparently the developer doesn't know how to flatter the player beyond selling an economically-priced game. [h1]Conclusion[/h1] Luckily [i]Shop Manager : Video Game Tycoon[/i] sells for cheap enough to where the player won't have to wait for the game to go on sale to spend that last dollar in their Steam wallet when purchasing trading cards from the Steam market doesn't bring any satisfaction. Grab your pickaxes and shovels, 'cause this game is indie gold! [h1]The honest word of Il Pallino.... OR ELSE![/h1] This review made possible through the generosity, consideration, and contribution of [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/25150682/]REXCurse (REXnetwork)[/url] and the developer/publisher. Email contact@dnbmedia.co for requests & promotions.

Finally, a good shop management game. You manage a video game store. The game is easy to learn and the difficulty is good. It's a pleasure to manage your own shop. You can also develop your own video game company, recuit staff and firing job. It's addictive, funny, you get quickly used to it , you don't actually see how much time you have spent on it. I find that the programmer suceed his challenge. You have to manage well not to go bankrupt. It's seldom to find a game who deal with shop management. I recommeng it to people who are keen on this kind of game. We need to support these independents who provide a lot of energy, time and resources to make innovaties games, not always perfect but quite interesting.

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Me queria ehcar un cubata y tarde media hora, no digo mas.... adictivo como el alcol

Very potential game, personaly i love managing games as i'm accountant. This game could use some more features though, and changes. Family changes and features i would like to see: ° Family spending reduces to around 100 max 200 dollar a week, makes it more realistic. ° Buying from furniture keeps their meters filling over time to 100% ° Family members can be ordered to help in the shop with cleaning and keeping racks filled. Shop changes and features i would like to see: ° Buying and selling from used games and aditions on reduced prices ° More space in the racks to place more items ° Options to expansion the shop or buy bigger shops to sell more ° Bills reduced to once a month with more realistic amounts of money Game Development part changes and features: ° Option to choose or write title, box pictures and console type ° Sliders for different genres, settings ° Option to sell the game to larger companies or produce yourself and sell to shops Keep up the good work, love the game.

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Great little tycoon game with the added bonus of the little side quests. Not only are you managing your uncle's shop but you have to take care of your family's needs PLUS the developing and staff management of your own video games! Played a number of hours on this and love it so far!

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