Hey everyone today I want to talk about a new game I just picked up a few days ago on sale from steam. The game is called Gamer Career Tycoon. I love tycoon games they’re fun, simple, and sweet so I couldn’t wait to try this one out. The game comes from raptor claw games and they have done 2 other games but this is the first one I’ve played.

So the game centers around streaming or being an esport gamer which I think is pretty awesome. The start is slow with low energy juggling between working and streaming as you need money to pay your rent and bills which I’m glad they have real life aspects in the game to keep it a bit on the realistic side otherwise it would be boring.

The esports side offers most of what you would expect. You pick a game in the popular categories between fps, moba, mmo, rts, fighting, racing, and the digital card genre. After you pick where you want to make your impact you can play ranked matches for your game and work your way up the ladder and wait until you get noticed by an esport team or you can go out and hunt for a team if you so choose. From there you follow a path you have your try out match and work up from amateur to the heights of being a pro. You get offered contracts to sign with a team. I’m not sure how many teams the game offers since in my experience I’ve only had 4 offers but when you play ranked matches you do see more names so I’m sure theres a lot more then the ones I have encountered. I will say this the only negative I’ve found from trying to do the esport route is that you reach pro contracts and the money you make is chump change compared to streaming.

Now the streaming route I will have to admit is more fun. It gives you choices in the games you play and theres pop ups with different actions that reflect upon your stats which help your stream to be a success or dud. I personally feel the streaming aspect of the game is broken by that I mean way to easy, by the 30 day mark in the game you should have enough subs that you won’t have to waste energy working to make money and by then your making 15 to 20 times what you make working which yes is a big plus because you can finally buy the best computer equipment in the game and the best services for drinks food and internet but at that point I feel it’s pointless to continue for the fact that now your streaming so you can level up and get more resource points to unlock all the other hidden things in the game. Don’t get me wrong I understand the point is to become an awesome streamer, have a huge following, and tons of subscribers but it breaks the game from how easy it becomes I’m on day 75. I have everything equipment and service wise unlocked and now the only thing left for me is to move to a better home but why bother when there really is nothing else at that point.

But according to the steam page there is and it’s as follows below this part is taken directly from their steam page.

Key Features:

Create your gamer and develop your own playstyle.

Develop your own gaming stream channel.

Broadcast your content and gain worldwide fans.

Gain new insights in game trends or research improvements to your stream.

Start your esport career and choose to compete in MOBA, FPS, Digital Card games, MMO, Fighting, RTS, Sports or Racing.

Buy furniture, decorations and gaming gear in the shop.

Work IRL to gain extra credits.

Upgrade your way of life with better food, drink & faster internet.

Special Events – StreamCon and Esport Championship.

Build and manage your own gaming organization, hire staff and sell merchandise.

Now as you see there seems to be a fair more to the game but if all of this is unlocked using research points then the devs really need to rebalance the xp gain as well as how many points you get but it seems that the points do increase as the most I’ve gotten was 21 points but I don’t know if that was a flook or intentional.

This game is a sweet gem and I say with some balancing in small areas and maybe add a small arena where you go to actually do the esports stuff this game is a fun time killer but it really needs some rebalancing so that when you do make it up there in days the game itself doesn’t get boring. Thank you all and have a great day.

Now I’m no stranger to reviews since I love the gaming industry so much. Many people turn to reviews whether they are from a professional or their friends. These reviews help people with the choice of if they want to buy the game or not or any product for that matter, which brings me to my review of a game called Dungeon Crowley. I received an email from the dev team offering me the key for the game. Being a big fan of RPGs I wanted to try the game out and it had an interesting plot idea. In the email I received it said you’re trapped in a delusional world and have to find your way out but the steam introductory for the game is a bit different which I am posting just below.

“Dungeon Crowley blends RPG and FPS elements altogether while providing seamless full multiplayer-campaign where players must cooperate through procedural dungeons. Follow through the delusions and discoveries of a teacher which engages with the occult while facing financial problems.”

I guess it does talk a bit about the delusional aspect but in the email which sadly I’ve deleted it made it sound as if your mind was trapped and your objective was to find a way out but let’s continue. I wanted to try this out being a fan of RPGs and the whole being in first person for a dungeon crawler since the only real dungeon crawler I’ve played is Diablo 3.

So you start in a small bedroom and after walking around a bit you find steps leading above ground. After exiting the stairs you see a house directly in front of you. As you proceed to said house you find a chest with a weapon inside for me it was a sword I don’t know if it will be different for everyone but that’s what I got so after exploring the extremely bare 2 story house I decided to move to the next door which had a lever next to it. The door wouldn’t open so I pulled the lever thinking that would unlock it which it did but it also spawned in all the monsters for the beginning area which were goblins and the bigger ugly human sized versions. I fought wave after wave making my way through finding armor pieces health potions and leveling up. After a few minutes the repeatative aspect started kicking in as I for the life of me could not find a way out or how to move on. I knew it couldn’t be the game files since everything was up to date. Was I missing something? After another lap around I decided to try the multiplayer which for me didn’t want to work. It wouldn’t connect which sucks as I feel maybe that would have been my answer to progressing forward or maybe they should have added a way point or something like any normal rpg. I mean there’s nothing pull the lever and go kill. What rpg does that? There is no item telling you this starts the mission. I mean can this really be called an rpg in the end? No I’m sorry but I can’t call this an rpg.

The game feels very basic. You only have 3 stats: strength, intelligence, and dexterity which depending on your actual weapon you only sink skill points into 1 slot unlike other RPGs where you need multiple and seeing as they tell you what there for underneath them its obvious that if you have a sword you go straight strength. Another issue I found which I’m not sure if it’s a bug or intentional I couldn’t switch weapons during my travel I found a sweet staff that I wanted to try out but everytime I unequipped my sword and moved the staff over it just fell out of my inventory and I had to pick it up again which really started to annoy me as I was more then able to equip the staff. A major thing missing from my experience was there are not vendor shops or a way to dismantle gear you didn’t need. You literally just leave it there in the world which i feel is a problem as that can hinder performance from your CPU or GPU depending on which one the game uses most.

The games file size is surprising coming in at 24gb during install which isn’t an issue considering most hard drives are huge now a days.

I can only think of 1 positive thing about this game and that’s the music. You have some kick ass rock instrumentals playing as you move around which is honestly pretty awesome since they didn’t stick to normal music like other games.

Now comes the hard part for me. After scrolling through the steam reviews and being flabbergasted by every positive review I read I knew that I was missing something but what after being stuck in the same area over and over again what was I looking for what did I miss? I for one can’t find the positive to this game. I don’t see what others see in this game and as of this writing I just can’t recommend someone go and spend the 19 bucks it’s going for on steam right now. Maybe after a few updates it will be worth it but I can’t for the life of me suggest it when it’s so freaking boring and repetitive. Mow I promised I would come back after a month and try it again to see if it will change my mind but for right now tread carefully and maybe someone can tell me what I missed during my time with this game. I hope you have a great day and take care.