I cannot in good faith recommend the game as it is right now. I was initially drawn to this game as it seems to draw from Kairosoft games (namely Game Dev Story) and add some more wacky elements to it in the form of events. This was apparent from my initial playthrough of the demo. Coming to the full game however, more cracks show in the underlying gameplay mechanics.

You and your employees have a moral mechanic called "Motivation." This ultimately breaks down to how fast you work as well as how much quality work is actually put out - I'm not sure on the latter part, because the game doesn't really intuitively tell you. This is understandable, but Motivation decreases FAR too quickly to be fun to manage, increasingly becoming more of a chore as you get more employees. I got frustrated with 3 employees (2 employees + myself). By the time I stopped playing (getting to one of the game service research branch), the workflow ended up being:
- Develop a feature, create a post-mortem (because the advice given to "read the description" means nothing beyond the first few features as it becomes very vague)
- Send your employees vacation to recover their Motivation
- Train your employees
- Send your employees on vacation AGAIN
- Redevelop your feature, hopefully with better stats since it's hard to derive information from the game
- Send your employees on vacation a THIRD TIME
- Do contract work to get more money so you can spend it on features and more V A C A T I O N
- Repeat until you get bored

The events also end up falling a bit flat in places. They are usually completely unfun and detract from the enjoyment of the game - when I see an event, it's not "ooh, I wonder what might happen," instead being like "ugh not again." To this end, there is an event chain where you get hacked by a threat group which tanks one of your features. This is mitigated (and later solved) by having a Technology stat of 7.0 on EVERY feature you have implemented. The thing with this event chain is that the attack affects MULTIPLE features every time. So you have to go through the above loop redeveloping affects features to have Technology 7.0+ spamming vacations and contract work in between so you don't go bankrupt.

I'm not sure what else to say to be honest, the game isn't fun unfortunately. I hope the devs improve the gameplay look to feel less grindy and repetitive. In the meantime, I would recommend going to look at other games that execute the software development tycoon genre better, games like Game Dev Tycoon, Mad Games Tycoon 2, Startup Company or Computer Tycoon.

I cannot in good faith recommend the game as it is right now. I was initially drawn to this game as it seems to draw from Kairosoft games (namely Game Dev Story) and add some more wacky elements to it in the form of events. This was apparent from my initial playthrough of the demo. Coming to the full game however, more cracks show in the underlying gameplay mechanics. You and your employees have a moral mechanic called "Motivation." This ultimately breaks down to how fast you work as well as how much quality work is actually put out - I'm not sure on the latter part, because the game doesn't really intuitively tell you. This is understandable, but Motivation decreases FAR too quickly to be fun to manage, increasingly becoming more of a chore as you get more employees. I got frustrated with 3 employees (2 employees + myself). By the time I stopped playing (getting to one of the game service research branch), the workflow ended up being: - Develop a feature, create a post-mortem (because the advice given to "read the description" means nothing beyond the first few features as it becomes very vague) - Send your employees vacation to recover their Motivation - Train your employees - Send your employees on vacation AGAIN - Redevelop your feature, hopefully with better stats since it's hard to derive information from the game - Send your employees on vacation a THIRD TIME - Do contract work to get more money so you can spend it on features and more V A C A T I O N - Repeat until you get bored The events also end up falling a bit flat in places. They are usually completely unfun and detract from the enjoyment of the game - when I see an event, it's not "ooh, I wonder what might happen," instead being like "ugh not again." To this end, there is an event chain where you get hacked by a threat group which tanks one of your features. This is mitigated (and later solved) by having a Technology stat of 7.0 on EVERY feature you have implemented. The thing with this event chain is that the attack affects MULTIPLE features every time. So you have to go through the above loop redeveloping affects features to have Technology 7.0+ spamming vacations and contract work in between so you don't go bankrupt. I'm not sure what else to say to be honest, the game isn't fun unfortunately. I hope the devs improve the gameplay look to feel less grindy and repetitive. In the meantime, I would recommend going to look at other games that execute the software development tycoon genre better, games like Game Dev Tycoon, Mad Games Tycoon 2, Startup Company or Computer Tycoon.