Personalisation isn’t something you do for your creations in Startup Panic, you simply pick the thing that looks like it will give you the most money. When selecting which cool new thing to develop, you’re really just picking from a large skill tree. Which works great in terms of player freedom, however it comes at the cost of losing any attachment to the thing your team is making. You can focus on one, or develop all three, there’s not really a correct way of building these platforms outside the obvious advice of ‘earn money fast’. That premise is an interesting one, giving the player the option to focus on various routes to develop these platforms. From here, the player aims to develop the most diverse platform to take the dominant share of the market from the rival AI characters. The platforms themselves are seemingly similar to things such as YouTube, Facebook or Steam. Rather than forcing you into a specific medium (like videogames, film etc), you focus on creating various platforms to take more of the market share.

It does its best to set itself apart from these, unfortunately it lacks the personality to pull it off. It’s clear that Startup Panic takes a lot from Game Dev Tycoon or the Kairosoft games. A bit like the office job you quit at the beginning of the game, in fact. It’s ironic that 60% of businesses fail in the first three years, because Startup Panic starts optimistically before falling on brainless clicking of the mouse.

In real life, I’m too much of a dunce to succeed on this path, thankfully Startup Panic lets me live life in the head of someone who clearly has more business knowledge than myself. Quitting your office day job to start your own company and be a lovable boss sounds like a great idea. Reviews // 23rd Jan 2021 - 2 years ago // By Adam Kerr Startup Panic Review

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