Individual Investor Tycoon Reviews

Best game to learn how to invest. You will need a calculator. It is realistic. It is more for investors than for gamers. Thanks for doing this game. The game recomnends important books to learn. You can understand: Stock market: - P/E Ratio - Value investment - Growth of earnings - Trends from the markets (Bull or Bear market) Real State: - Market trends (Bull or Bear market) - Loan interest - You need to wait to sell the property more than a year. - Initial payment, loan, total cost of the property. Bond: - Interest - Deposit, Corporate Bond, Goverment Bond, P2P loan. Life: - Income and expenses - Time you need to learn and invest All of this for just 5 Euros. This game should be played at schools all over the world.

After playing the game for a few hours my initial thoughts are that it's a fun little game, but the devs left a lot of low hanging fruit on the vine, in my opinion. I'll soon launch into a handful of criticisms about the game, why is it so easy to focus on the negative? However, before I do, I'd like to touch on some of the enjoyable features of the game. The interface is fairly simple without a sharp learning curve. Initially I didn't understand the researching method but I soon caught on. A fun game to "pick up" or "put down" without becoming too heavily involved, although it was a bit addictive and I'll admit that I played too long into the night. The books you read to raise your investment knowlege seem to be based off real world books and authors (I recognized a few) and that's a nice touch (even if a bit uncreative). I perhaps am pleased because there were a few I didn't know about and plan to find and read them in real life. Now for the part we all love and adore, the criticisms. There are a few key areas I feel this game could be improved. I'll list them from the absolute most frustrating down to the most petty. There are as follows: 1. While researching, there is no way to sell stock Unless I missed something somewhere, there doesn't seem to be an option for selling stock you hold while performing research. The immense frustration that stemmed from beginning a research session, only to see your long held stock finally begin to arc skyward. Your excitement at realizing large gains turns to panic when you realize you can't sell, nor does there seem to be an option to cancel the research session to quickly effect a sale of the stock. From panic to despair as the price then drops and any sale you make will be a loss. The frustration at having missed the strategic window to sell your stock for a large gain could easily be solved by allowing for the ability to continue to manipulate the stock menu. Even better would be the abilty to set an auto sell off feature once the stock hits a certain high, or low. I used to perform this function in real world when I was trading but alas, those days are far behind me and I can't recall the specific industry terminology. 2. Stock screen values are difficult to read sometimes The chart line indiciating the current stock price at times covers the negative symbol in front of your stock gains/losses, thus making it difficult to determine the true value. On several occasions, I nearly sold stock at a volatile time in the market for what I believed would be a gain, only to realize at the last milisecond (and almost too late) that there was a negative symbol in front of the value. Perhaps the chainging of the text color to red could easily indicate a negative value while continuing to use black for a positive value would, in my opinion, easily fix this issue. 3. Lack of creativity with company names/products in news feed The company names and products in the news feed oftentimes matched that of real world products and names. I recall seeing Dell, HP, Google, and other household names. They released products such as android, MP3s, and other recognizable products. Many times these products seemed to line up with their actual chronological release date. While they did seem to create a bit of consumer nostalgia, especially for older (not teenage) gamers, it felt lazy and lacking creativity on the part of the devs. What follows are just a couple of ideas that may add greater enjoyment to the game but aren't necessarily issues for me: 1. More options for real estate The method for purchasing real estate seems a little dry to me (keep in mind I'm a real estate investor so I wont be easily pleased in this area). The option to buy down points prior to purchasing a property could be a nice touch. Or perhaps the addition of commercial properties. Also, after you assume ownership of a property, the ability to refinance an existing loan when the market rate drops could add some real intersting options to the game, as would the option to pay down the principle on a property. 2. More immersive reading material "Late game" investing seemed to come very quickly. I was able to quckly read all the available books and then focus on optimized investing. While some may find this enjoyable, I felt like it lacked depth. While there is a decent selection of books, I feel the game could potentially benefit from additional material in this area, stretching out the time it takes to reach the "late game" investing gives the player something to continually look forward to. Things got a bit stale sooner rather than later. This is something I feel could be delayed or avoided with more in depth reading available. In all, this was a fun little game that I'll likely play again. Do I recommend this? Well...that depends. I enjoy this because I'm an investor in the real world. If you're not...you may not have the same enjoyment. Then again, an investory could easily become frustrated with the lack of depth to the investing process. For example, a stock trader would probably groan at not being able to buy on margin. If you're a real world investor, let go and have fun with the game. Treat it like your ten year old self treated Monopoly and you'll enjoy it. Happy gaming.

It's a fun game for 5$ but there is a shit ton of english words spelled wrong. Also, it's pretty easy to get rich even without looking at the news feed, I feel like this should be more of a challenge... It would be great to adjust the sound inside the game.... the volume is super high and the music is not that good.... But hey, it's 5 bucks and it killed some time!

Pretty good game for $5. Very engaging, I got very nervous when I bought a stock, and a random event happened a few days later that caused the stock to plunge, putting me half a million dollars in the hole, but eventually I rode it out and was able to break even.

Pro's : It has good potential if the bugs are cleared. Con's: Developer(s) seem to be deceased. Not a single word/update from developer since the release of this game. I would recommend to stay clear of this untill the devs take their heads out of their arse and releasing updates to this game.

I have not seen the need to write a review about any game till I have played this game. This game has so limited options. And within a couple of hours one would be able to complete the game as there were no more options left to click on. There were also like 8-10 types of shares only that can be bought throughout the course of the game. It was the most disappointing game I have ever bought and played on steam.

needs more realism but i enjoyed it. i felt like i couldn't loose at all. i wish real estate accounted for loan pay down and appreciation when reselling. also i wish i could pay off the mortgages.

A decent indie game for its price, considering the market and demographic its trying to tackle on STEAM. I however would like some form of enhancement on the dividend side of things. IDK how i can have 450k in one company with a dividend and only get back around 4000k per Div. yield. This game is more focused on capital gain.

Meh, not the best. There are much better stock market simulators, and a lot of them are free. For $5 it's okay, but I can't recommend it, as again there are many free alternatives. Not to mention the obvious rip off of the game "game dev tycoon". In fact I thought it was made by the same people at first.

This game straight copies the user interface, music, and graphical style from Game Dev Tycoon. There is no depth to the gameplay, the stocks tend to have the same pattern. For example, the Net stock tends to go anywhere from 3-10 dollars, so just buy at 3 dollars then sell at 8-10 dollars, rinse and repeat. You could sink 5 billion dollars into a stock and it wouldn't move the value up a single cent.