Indie Dev Simulator Reviews

in general it is a pretty easy, relaxing game. You repeat the daily routine of a freelancer. There are more room to improve but overall it is a nice game, the graphic and animation is so smooth, the music is relaxing, this game ease my OCD. Probably gonna play more

Yeah, a nice game. You can repport a bug inside game, just clicking ESC and go to gear and click the button "submit a bug repport". It is a very repetitive game, but it is that game that you always have for half an hour to play. Sometimes you play 1 hour or 2 and you do not realize =)

When i stumbled over this game - it seemed a nice approach to the genre. Even aware that is EA at this point in time it as best a unbalanced - random frustration - due to ingame prices are to high - rent rises to fast - and even after 3 weeks you never started a game development due to trying to stay alive, pay your rent and grinding money with freelance jobs which are giving you almost no revenue to get a decent start. so most time i starve or getting bankcrupt which should be not the case if the patches would target anything of those, even if that would be rebalanced after the game hit a decent point where you could belive it is stable and fine. Until that point reaches there will be no better review.

This game is ruined by artifical diffculty. The amount of sheer grinding to even get to the point where you can just make a game is ridiculous (over an hour for me). Cost ratios are terrible. Rent occurs every seven days or so and goes up ridiculously quickly. You get 45 dollar for a task that takes all day, but pizza doesnt even fill you (65/100 hunger) costs 20 bucks and takes one of your six daily action points to accomplish. Energy never hits 100 percent and is capped at 70. Your playable energy level is between 70 and 50 (for the first two hours for me). Every action points takes energy. Coffee costs an action point to make. Getting to the point where you can actually make a game is tedious and such a terrible grind that it's not worth it. Then, you get maybe 100 or so first your first game. I think I got 112 for the first in total sales and 147 for my second game. The game could be fun, but the unrealisitc grind combined with no difficulty levels makes it pretty terrible at this point. If they continue to keep these ratios for compensation/food as well as the actions points, I dont see it getting better no matter what they do. After about two hours of game play on a very simple game, I'm not much better off than I was when I started. I would avoid this game or look at a video to see if it's worth your time.

In the current state, this game is not worth it. Its $7 for barely an hour of content. If they REALLY updated this game, maybe it would be worth it but not right now.

Although I've given this game a thumbs up, I highly caution people that there is a lot of room for improvement here. The game hasn't really been balanced, there are plenty of errors, and nothing is explained very well. On the other hand, it is fun until you reach a frustrating end. The thumbs up is for the game's potential, and honestly the music and art are right up my alley, and considering they update regularly I'm sure all the gameplay hiccups will get ironed out. If you get easily frustrated by games that still have a lot of room for improvement, you might want to add this to your wishlist and watch it for a while. No reason to buy this game and leave a bad review when you've been warned about the current status.

Competent game with few bugs and the main idea that's enjoyable enough. The game feels like a clicker for a smartphone, though, and lacks some UX polish. It also seems abandoned by the developer.

This game is really laid back and fun to just relax from work. That being said their really isn't much to the game, it is a very basic game.

It's a very interesting game with a beautiful art style, and has a nice game loop. A few small changes would make the existing early access build more managable for me. Especially when playing casually as the game progresses, some of the changes mentioned below would imrpove my experience. I do recommend this game, it's fun, an interesting idea, and I look forward to seeing what the game will become. Hopefully the developer(s) are welcoming of suggestions and feedback as this alone will be the difference in recommending / or not recommending the product in an Early Access state. There are a few issues, such as: when I purcahse books, I can't read them and none of my skills go up, and when I click out of the game to do something else whilst a progress bar is moving up, the game doesn't run in the background. You have to click back in the window to continue gameplay. I would recommend looking into Application.runInBackground, or in Unity build settings, enable "Run In Background" which can be found in the "Resolution section" of build settings.

was a cool game untill the last info in the games feed is about him starting a new game while this one isnt near finished makes me wish i could get a refund