Wanted to like it but its just buggy and confusing

The concept seems great and I like the overall aesthetic of the game but its really lacking in the gameplay department.

Theres no real sense of time or when the game starts for that matter. You dont know if the game is running unless you set the speed to "1 second" and you have a high burn rate or income. The early game ends up being a bit confusing as you cant really tell when a day has passed.

The menus are a little too convoluted and feel tedious to get through just to do simple tasks like check how close your staff is to adding a new feature.

Overall, I was willing to forgive these minor details as they are not game-breaking but then I started running into bugs.

The most confusing part of this game is that it isnt made clear if youre completely starting over when you lose or if youre keeping your stats.

When you lose, you get to keep your stats so it becomes easier to develop your new company. Makes sense. What doesnt make sense is that your office options reset and everything but the apartment becomes locked again. Theres a bug however that allows you to start at whatever your previous office was. Its just confusing.

On top of that, none of your previous emails are cleared from your last business. Again, this could work fine but instead if you try and hire someone right before you go bankrupt, you can still hire them under your next company. Problem here is that they dont show up on the employee list but are still costing you money. Only way to reassign their role was to go back to an old email linking to their profile. Again, very confusing.

Theres potential in the concept but I would say to wait for the sequel. I would urge the dev to make this version free to gather more feedback to help the development of the sequel.

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