Adventure Capitalist
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| Developer(s) | Hyper Hippo Productions |
| Publisher(s) | Kongregate |
| Engine | Unity |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, Adobe Flash |
| Release date(s) | March 30, 2015 |
| Genre(s) | Incremental |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Adventure Capitalist, stylized as AdVenture Capitalist,[1] is an incremental video game developed by Hyper Hippo Productions and published by Kongregate first for Windows and from March 30, 2015, for iOS,[2] Android,[3] OS X, Linux and Adobe Flash.[4]
Adventure Capitalist allows players to live like a capitalist, and invest funds into certain products to generate revenue, by starting out with a single lemonade stand. The more revenue generated, the higher the player's cash is. A player can receive an angel bonus when resetting their progress, which provides a boost in all products' revenue for the next progress timeline.[5]
Gameplay
There are three areas: Earth, Moon, and Mars. The player starts out on Earth. You start with a single investment: a lemonade stand. Tapping it gives you money overtime. When you earn enough money, you can buy another stand, or a different investment at the cost of more time until the payout. Once the player has purchased the manager for said investment, it will run automatically, which means you can successfully idle, even offline. Upgrades can be spent to add multipliers to any investment. When the player reaches 1 trillion dollars on Earth, they can start investing in an area. Once invested, said area will unlock in 200 hours, but can be sped up using more cash, angel investors/mega bucks, or gold. Gold can be bought via in-app purchase with real money, and can be used for things such as a non-reset way to gain angel investors, instantly earn money for a day's worth of idling, and more. Mega Bucks are bought starting at 1 decillion of an area's currency, and will be multiplied every time by a fixed increment (the game describes this as 'inflation').
When one player has at least 10 Mega Bucks, they can purchase a golden ticket, which when used on a single investment boosts its profits permanently by x7.77. After one has boosted a whole planet, they will gain an additional x10 boost, which adds (not multiplied) to x17.77 multiplier.
Players can also play during special event periods, which usually are around holidays and other annual events, such as Halloween or Black Friday. These events are like the three main areas, but are only available during that correlated event. If a player reaches at least one of the objectives of that event, they will get a badge shown in the 'Swag & Stats' page. As the player progresses in some events, they may acquire free gold or Mega Bucks based on unlocks.
Since The Love of Money event update, the 'Swag&Stats' section is now renamed 'Career', with a revamped stats page, support, swag, and news section. Along with this, there now is an option to make your capitalist a female.
Reception
The game received mostly negative or mixed reviews from critics. The game has an average score of 40/100 on Metacritic.[6]
Pocket Gamer criticized the game for giving little reward for progress, and stated that the achievements were dull.[7] The review also found the in app purchases to be too expensive, calling the game "a pointless waste of time" and "not much of an adventure".
A review from 148Apps had similar opinions, calling the game "upbeat", but "a waste of time".[8]
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References
- ↑ "Play AdVenture Capitalist, a free online game on Kongregate". kongregate.com. Kongregate. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
- ↑ Kongregate, Inc. (19 February 2015). "AdVenture Capitalist!". App Store.
- ↑ Kongregate. "AdVenture Capitalist - Android Apps on Google Play". google.com.
- ↑ "Kongregate gamepage". Kongregate.
- ↑ "Steam Community :: Guide :: AdVenture Capitalist - The Ultimate Hacking Guide!". steamcommunity.com. Retrieved 2015-08-06.
- 1 2 "AdVenture Capitalist". Metacritic. 2015-03-30. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
- 1 2 Grannell, Craig (2015-02-24). "AdVenture Capitalist! review". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
- 1 2 Minor, Jordan (2015-02-26). "AdVenture Capitalist Review". 148Apps. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
- ↑ "Adventure Capitalist - Review". Multiplayer.it. Retrieved 2016-04-29.