Tattoo Tycoon

Симулятор цікавий. Якщо виникало бажання спробувати себе у особі тату-майстра, то це ваш шанс. Не вистачило для глибшого занурення української текстової локалізації.

Perhaps little bit of an early review, but since not many people have reviewed yet and I'm sure others are interested in reading reviews, so here are my first opinions. I'll give a little info about the performance first and the game runs smooth. I'm currently playing on a 10 year old laptop with a 970M graphics card due to my main gaming laptop dying 2 weeks ago. Despite this old laptop, the game runs smoothly at 60fps (locked). There are no graphic options other than resolution, but considering how well the game runs I doubt anyone would need to lower any settings anyway. I like it so far, it seems to have a nice pace and plenty enough to do on a workday. I'm still on the first map but so far the game has been very easy. I cannot share some other opinions on the manual tattooing being too hard, I find it rather easy and so far haven't failed any tattoo yet. I'm not a fan of being given plenty of free money etc. due to story progress, but I presume it may also be because it's just the first map I'm playing on. The game seems to have a similar map to map progression as Two Point Hospital. You do need to fulfill a list of requirements to move up to the next map though. One negative point is that there does not seem to be any kind of sandbox or free play mode so you are locked into the storyline and linear map progression. There is one 1 last level on the world map that seems to be different as it does not list any rent or cost or available rooms or anything like the other maps, though it seems like it's some type of story related tattoo convention or something similar rather than an unlockable sandbox map. The gameplay (other than building usable items and decoration in your studio) consists of consulting customers to get the right tattoo design for them (which can fail) and to tattoo customers (which can also fail), however both of these can be automated instead of doing manually. Furthermore you can hire staff that will also do this automatically instead of playing mini games. You will gain inspiration points when doing tattoos and can also do brainstorming to get these points. The points can be used to unlock items for building, like decoration etc. (which still need to be purchased for money after they are unlocked) and the points can also be used to design new tattoo stencils. Stencils are used up so you always need to have a good repertoire of stencils available for potential customers. The character customization at the beginning only offers a decent but limited option of clothing, hairstyles, accessories etc. but you will unlock more as you play. Also you can have tattoos yourself which becomes available after you have played about 1-2 (ingame) days. That's pretty much all so far. The negatives (so far) are that it seems a little bit too easy, that there are no difficulty settings and that there is a lack of free play/sandbox mode which every tycoon game should always have in my opinion. The game also comes at a higher price than most other tycoon games nowadays. Despite these downsides, I would still recommend the game as the gameplay loop itself has been fun so far. Again, I'm still on the first level/map and the game made it clear that more game mechanics unlock as you play through the story so potentially there is more to come and/or the other maps are a bit more open with less story and more free decisions to make and hopefully a little bit harder.