Vegas: Make It Big™ Reviews

A small tycoon game based on building a lot on the Vegas strip. I originally bought this game at Big Lots for $5, and sunk many hours into building lots and casinos. Its a nice casual game with a nice sound track. The game features multiple themes to keep the builds interesting and unique for certain buildings such as paths, casinos, hotels, and other misc decorations. Overall I would recommend to have a nice chill time.

How I wish that there were more than the twenty-four hours in the day. Even if there were forty more I wouldn't sleep a minute away. Oh, there's black jack and poker and the roulette wheel. A fortune won and lost on ev'ry deal. All you need's a strong heart and a nerve of steel. Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas

Runs just fine on a modern operating system without the need for any third party patches or downloads. This game is a surprisingly good: - Feels very chill to play. - Was made before ESG ruined everything. - Absolute bargain if you get it on sale. Nitpicks: - Placing paving feels janky because the selected square doesn't line up well with the mouse pointer. It's still - perfectly usable, & you don't spend much time placing paving, but it's a little annoying. - Clicking 'view casino', while in a casino, during the tutorial, crashes the game. - If you save the game in a paused state, it will sill load in an un-paused state. - Not the end of the world, just a minor annoyance. - No rebind-able keys.

This is a really easy builder game. But the visuals are pleasant and the game is quite relaxing just to see how you turn a meager gambling den into a massive compound of mega hotels and casinos packing every game of chance with different areas for a different level of risk. There could be more decorative items, but it's possible to get more creative by using what is on offer. For being a low price game, it's totally worth it, give it a chance.

Yes Yes YES!!! I recommend this game! OK normally I could not be bothered to write a reveiw on a steam game but this game was so good it deserves one. Those who are looking for a high quality graphics game should not buy this game! However the graphics are decent enough and I picked this game up for £0.74 (about $1.10) and it was worth every penny. It is very in depth and is a proper tycoon game. Employ staff, buy lots and build casinos. Once you have done that you must build water and generator centres to make sure the lot is powered and water supply is maintained. You can also build hotels and shops. The engine allows you to go into the casino itself and design everything from where you put the tables and slot machines to decoration and lighting! For 74p I am very happy with this game and those looking for a tycoon game with a flexible difficulty from stupidly easy to very hard should buy this game! Marvelous piece of work, well programmed and well configured!

This game stretches all the way back to my childhood and during that time I enjoyed the game thorougly. Being young, I didn't notice the faults and imperfections in the game (which there are) such as the short campaign, informative tutorials, and poor graphics, however if you love managment and tycoon games, you can't really go wrong for a price of $0.32, and there are some really good things to take away from the game. The casino builder is really enjoyable and has alot of depth to it, more than the actual lot desiging. The campaign could prove challenging to people who have just picked up the game. The sandbox mode offers great fun, trying to collect the most money and build a good reputation on the strip. Overall, the game is not perfect, however it has many more postives than negatives, so next time a sale pops up, you can't go wrong with spending some pocket change on a fun and entertaining game!

$0.74 of Summer Sale frustration... ;) Honestly, if you're going to buy this, get it on one of the big sales. I personally like little crappy tycoon games like this (Lemonade Tycoon, Fish Tycoon, ect...) It's not a hard game, just has a lot of micro-managment that isn't explained well, and the interface isn't great. I kind of enjoyed it once I figured things out. Graphics aren't a big deal for me, but if they are for you, then definately stay away. I reccomend you at least get through the tutorial and a few das past before you give up on it. Bottom line: Good, so long as you don't mind figuring things out on your own and some bad graphics. But once you understand it, it's not too horrible.

Shows its age unfortunately. Having to invidivually maintain each and every thing with no notifications that it needs to be done save for when it breaks, and no way to automate it, really cripples the game for me. Do not reccomend.

This game isn't bad tbh and if you keep your strip small its actully very fun. The game becomes a chore however when you decide to expand your strip, you'll find yourself mashing the repair button every five seconds on a strip with more than 3 medium casinos and from there it just gets progressively worse. Lord help you if you decide to have disasters on becuase then it gets even worse. It wouldn't be so bad if they implmented an autorepair mechanic that let you assign your staff to certain parts of the casino but sadly, it lacks this.

This game has so many negative reviews and I've played enough hours now that I feel I should write my own review: a positive one. Although the visuals are not as fancy and modern as other city-builders, I found this game was far more complex and detailed than Sim City Societies while having the same kind of fun aspect. You have different screens to monitor things like income, reputation, which demographic of people a certain building or lot appeals to, the state of repairs of buildings and gambling machines. You can click on some staff buildings and see the employee's skills, speed, attention and charisma and how much their wage are, you can hire more employees and fire them. You can upgrade certain buildings so that they more attract the people you wish them to (e.g. you can add a bell boy to the hotel so that the VIPs are happier to stay there) . You can click on each individual visitors and see their line of thought, this will let you know of things like if your restrooms are too hard to find, if the place is dirty, if your guests would like to do some drinking while they are gambling etc. Clicking on the visitors also allows you to see what they prefer (gambling, activity, rest er whatever) and what demographic they belong to (family, tourist, high roller or else) and you can build your lot to target certain people specifically because you can't please every one (people who are looking to relax will not like a lot that has many loud buildings such as casinos and circus' that appeal to people looking for activities). The game has the option of sandbox or campaign. You set the difficulty in the sandbox to be as you are comfortable with and it is useful for practicing in preparation for the campaign which gets pretty challenging. The campaign includes the tutorial which is a bit annoying to go through. Also, the game doesn't save automatically and you can't save before finishing each campaign chapter it seems, bit annoying. The second campaign is not a tutorial at all and has events that require actions that were not covered in the tutorial, a bit of digging and trying things out is required to win. The third campaign chapter is more challenging even and I haven't been able to win it but as I'm learning it's getting closer and closer to beating my competitor neighbour. A few things I dislike about the game: there is no undo button, when you accidentally place a staircase a square away from connected to the upper-level floor, for example, your only options to correct the mistake is to sell the staircase for regain of a percentage of what it cost to place or to leave the staircase there. This makes it so you have to be very careful where you put down things and it's kind of hard to gauge where they'll go because there is no truly visible grid inside the casino. Also this game seems to require a lot of management: Buildings will get in very poor state of repairs if you don't tell the mechanics to go visit them, slot machines will get nonfunctional because the cashier hasn't gone to empty them and this is on top of you having to monitor each building's reputation, income generation (which you can control by choosing within a range of fees charged and, on casino games, house advantage among other things). Overall, I like the game. Quite a lot actually. It's definitely not a game everyone would like though but if you like city-builders and management-heavy games that have only okay graphics I would recommend this game. I got it on sale and I have no regrets whatsoever 7.5/10