The Startup: Interactive Game

Name: The Startup: Interactive Game
Rating: 3.88659 (19364 reviews)

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The Startup: Interactive Game

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3.9

19.4K ratings

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12+

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FL AGENT INC

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$2.99 – $99.99

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User Reviews for The Startup: Interactive Game

Not worth it

I run a startup. This game is good in theory, and obviously interesting: but not in practice. Like the other review mentions there is too much focus on the user paying $ too early. I’m sure their churn is high because of this.For example, I hired the best designer available then was required to pay at least $7000 to design an in-house logo that could be made in Word. $30k in web hosting pre-launch, when every startup can easily get $100k plus in hosting credits from AWS, Google, and Azure.IMO they should let the user get further into the game where they are invested in their startup versus paywalls very few minutes. No mental investment in my startups growth = churn within 30 minutes. Also it just wasn’t fun and nothing like how an actual startup makes decisions based on the $200k of angel funding the game starts you with. It says the only focus is on building a product MVP yet forces you to invest in marketing campaigns before the product is built. Doesn’t make sense, not worth it. I’m ok with paying for games, but this one doesn’t give you enough time with the game before bombarding you with paywalls.

5124578899, Aug 24, 2021

Horrible

I saw the ad just like everyone else and thought this would be an interesting and fun game where you can try to build a business from scratch. But it’s far from that, once you get into the game there’s so much reading to get a storyline in. It’s paragraph after paragraph, you never really get to make free decisions either, some npc tells you that you need to make company choices and gives you THREE options that change the entire company, and if you choose the “wrong” one he’ll tell you not to make the mistake again. On top of that my company didn’t even make barley any money at all since I started so once you run out of money after they force you spend it all on office buildings, logos, employees, you either have to wait hours for your employees to complete tasks or you have to end up buying money or a subscription which is $5 dollars a WEEK which includes not having to wait for tasks and the full storyline, so yeah you don’t even get to know the full storyline, the people who developed this game clearly didn’t care about the consumer playing, my guess is they made the game a horrible storyline for every player to go through so that the game is basically the same for everyone and they don’t have to worry about coding the game to let players make moves freely. Then the get to sit down and wait for people to buy the subscription or money so they can get their paychecks. You can definitely find a better game then this one.

auzimm, Sep 04, 2022

Unplayable unless you pay $

Saw this game in the App Store and thought I’d give it a try. It looked like a lot of fun until I started playing it. It is impossible to enjoy this game whatsoever without in app purchases. Unless you make all of the cheapest options, you’ll run out of money too early. When this happens the game will prompt you to purchase more in game currency. The next issue is every time you restart the game, you have to sit through all the in game “waits” which are an hour long! This is of course to get you to purchase the premium version which includes no wait time. And trust me, you’ll run out of money in game and have to restart more than once. Lastly, the game is super short! Without the waiting periods in game, it’s maybe 5 minutes of actual game play which is ridiculous. So unless you plan on paying for this game, it’s not even worth the download and even then it’s not long enough to be enjoyable.

bigboollinnn, Mar 16, 2021

Unplayable

You’re probably like me. You saw an advertisement, though that the game looked interesting, and hoped that it would live up to your expectations. Sadly, that’s just not the reality. The reality is that the game is truly unplayable unless you spend money on the game. Basically how it works, the entire game is based around money. If you overspend (the game money), you either have to restart from the beginning or you have to buy a subscription for the game. If you don’t spend enough money, you are forced to wait hours for you ‘team’ to complete tasks. Or you, can just spend money on the game and not have to wait. The reality is that the game is paywall after paywall, pressuring you to purchase a subscription. And it’s not cheap, $5 a week (roughly $260 a year), or get this, $40 annually. The developers know that you’re not going to spend long that a few weeks/months on this game, so they pressure you to make a smaller annual purchase rather than pay the full amount weekly. In my opinion, the developers are money-hungry animals that do not care about the game or the consumer, but rather on their paycheck.

Diego J Rios, Feb 06, 2021

Misled

I feel I was misled into downloading this game and ultimately purchasing the subscription. I downloaded it from an add on Facebook that essentially made it look like this was a multilayered game where you start at the bottom and can if you make the right choices, ultimately build an empire. The actual add on Facebook was of the player deciding on what type of sports team to purchase. That is no where in this game. I played through once without a subscription, and after my soft launch the game basically ended. I decided to subscribe because it promised that it would include the entire storyline. I then played through again, and except for a few questions I didn’t have to answer the first time and a few extra decisions the game ended at exactly the same place. I feel like I was bait and switched into purchasing a subscription and plan on contacting the company for a refund. It’s a great concept for a game but after you subscribe you can essentially finish it in an hour.

Drews Dad 0503, Jan 14, 2022

Is the game fun? Sure. But the developers really don’t want you to find that out.

The game is fun absolutely but the issue is the developers hid it all. Let’s paint a picture. You just downloaded the game and you’re excited to build your startup. Like every game you realize there will be ads. After every 2 clicks there is an ad ok that makes sense right? Then all of a sudden you let stopped. And you’re told you can continue in either an hour OR watch 5 ads OR pay either $5 a week or $40 a year to skip this You watch 5 ads who cares right? You get back to the game right after the first slide you hit another ad This is the pattern this game follows. It’s unplayable. When you can play it’s fun but the developers really did everything they could to ensure you didn’t even get that chance.

Funnymonkey123, Oct 21, 2021

Horrible

imagirrafe102, Sep 04, 2022

Absolutely pathetic excuse for a game

This is the first and only review I’ve written. This game is created by scum that are only interested in your money. I have no issues with buying games or spending money on in game purchases whatsoever. I actually think that more games should cost money due to the amount of work put in some of them. But this game is a joke. Not even 5 minutes into the game you begin a task where you team is “building something” and it is a 45 minute wait time so it automatically takes you to a screen to show you the options to purchase the premium version for either 5 dollars a week or 40 dollars a year (obviously trying to get you to spend 40). Every single building task or waiting task is 10 minutes to an hour, and they are very frequent. Oh what’s that? You accidentally clicked the wrong selection? Game over, start from the beginning, because the selection goes through as soon as it’s touched. I decided to spend 5 dollars just to see how much farther it would take me. The full game takes probably 20 minutes to beat and you don’t even get to see how well your business does on launch day, because the game ends on launch day. Don’t waste your money on this garbage. The absolute worst use of 5 dollars in my life.

llalaljshdhxhchudieie, Jul 27, 2021

Garbage - Negative Stars

This game is trash. It’s an in your face pay wall with ads. The price to skip time waiting is ridiculous and if you make the “wrong” decisions you just run out of money and have to start over. I tried restarting the game going the cheapest way since even the middle of the road way makes you go broke unless you (you guessed it) PAY to add more money into your account. They even guilt trip you with the “advisor” saying things like, “That may not be a good decision,” or “Your team didn’t like that you couldn’t spend $70k on a launch party when they only give you $200k to start. Even had a dumb scenario about the servers catching fire during a test run because you cheaped out on the servers. So dumb. And to top it off I “finished the first chapter” by getting the app to launch and the game just flat out crashed and wouldn’t let me get past it. This game is terrible, a cash grab for the devs, and a waste of time. This game should be banned from the App Store it’s that bad. Total scam.

Moothster, Aug 11, 2021

Garbage - Negative Stars

muthbaseball101, Aug 11, 2021

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