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Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
Big Ambitions is a early access, management and economy game
developed and published by Hovgaard Games.
Released on March 10th 2023 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Italian and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 10,712 reviews of which 9,952 were positive and 760 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. š
The game is currently priced at 22.99ā¬ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel i5 or similar
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 960 or similiar (Minimum 2GB vram)
- Storage: 12 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: macOS Catalina
- Processor: Intel i5 or similar
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 960 or similiar (Minimum 2GB vram)
- Storage: 12 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Dedicated GPU is required
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There is a lot I could say about Big Ambitions as a game. It's fun and addicting, frustrating at times, deep yet understandable, and overall a good game. Not great, that title will have to be reserved for 1.0 when it comes out. But if you want a more in depth review of the game, continue to read. Otherwise, that is my rating. The Tutorial is honestly great. I heard they revamped it and I can say it's probably one of the best tutorials I've seen in a game. It lets you do it at your own pace, it teaches you mechanics I NEVER would have understood without it. Overall, it's a solid tutorial and I recommend ALL new players to give it a shot. It's not annoying like the tutorials in most games. :) The game loop is interesting. Because though it's an open world game, it still has one. Though you can do a lot of things in the game, none of them are substancial like the main aspect of the game. To have Big Ambitions and create your empire. Example: You can get a gym membership and work out. It increases your happiness but you can do that with a PC and a Book. Likewise you can go to the park and see all the motionless people... for happiness. But you can also do that with a PC and a book. There are a lot of mechanics in the game that are more roleplay in flavor but there are better things to do with your time. The main aspect of the game, your Big Ambitions, is to move away from working a job and making your money without the middle man. Literally you start working under someone just to get a few bucks. But then you get a loan and start your business. Then you make money using wholesalers. Then you pay off your loans. Then you get employees to work for you. Followed by more businesses, more employees, making a headquarters, making a office based business, having warehouses to cut out the middle man again (wholesalers), and eventually getting a factory (more on that later). You are doing all this while fighting your 'rivals.' To be honest, they are annoying. They are your competition and in the spur of a moment, they can destroy 1/3 of your income because they feel like it. It's an interesting mechanic that overall gives you some set back while you grow. Slowly, you work to make things cheaper for you, more money for you. Get a bigger home, get a nice car, own a dozen delivery trucks. Everything feels like progression and that little bit of happiness you get from seeing number go up is ADDICTING. This game is addicting. But there is bad, which will be addressed, and that is factories. It's basically end game and unfortunately, as they are now, they feel more like a chore and a money sink. You spend tens of hundreds of thousands of dollars on machines. You get people to work on them around the clock. You hire dozens upon dozens of employees. All for you to... not get enough resources to supply your shop. Everything else felt good. I could stockpile on thousands of materials if I had the money and if I so wished. But with factories, no, you're lucky to get enough for a large store. Don't even think about stockpiling thousands of items. You're struggling to get 100 at roughly 100 employees. Factories and the flavor mechanics are the only downsides to the game in my opinion. Everything else is super fun and addicting. The world feels alive and as we're getting closer to release and maybe even more content beyond that. All I can say is... this game has some pretty Big Ambitions. :)
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I have found another game to be addicted to. I have logged 50 hours of play in the first 4 days of having it. For an early access game it is very well polished. I don't know what else to say or compare it to so I thought I would share my experience with this game. I started out with a humble gift shop. Eventually I opened a fresh food shop right up the road from it. Followed the tutorials some. I like how its done. Its like oh you need to open a business. It doesn't tell you what to do it lets you make the decision. I can be an impulsive person which can be great in a game like this or it can be terrible. I was sick of constantly restocking my fruit store. It ran out fast. I rented a larger location up the road and took out a 400k loan. I couldn't even barely afford the payment on the loan and was too broke to give a hoot how much more broke I got. Well I opened up this gym and got it manned 24-7 and suddenly it was printing money. I went from being broke to making 15k to 20k in a day. I quickly paid off my loan and took out another for 800k. Lawyers make stupid money in real life so....to hell with it I will open a law firm. Rented some massive building that was pretty much next door to the bank. Struggled to get it online for a bit but once it was I was making 150k to 200k daily. This opened a lot of doors for me. I could just throw down businesses wherever I wanted to. Well the law firm is making stupid amounts of cash so I will open another. It was not making any money though. Come to find out my rival was messing with it. I decided I got something for you. I rented every building in Hells Kitchen that was open. Then I picked out a few of her businesses and went after them by opening my own with insanely low prices. She was making 2 million a week and now shes down to making only 1 million per week. If I was her I would be mad that I got taken down by a guy whos only making 500k to 700k a week. Anyways success in this game feels really good. We will see where I go from here. I have almost every major property in hells kitchen. I whole heartedly recommend this game. I bought it on an impulse thinking the concept was cool I will probably get hundreds of hours out of this. Its an awesome gameplay loop and on top of that the music in it is pretty good.
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NEEDS MULTI PLAYER! Local and online. this game could have so much more potential if we could play with or against our friends. Also we could do Role Play with severs if they were added.
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A great mix of The Sims and business management ā perfect for fans of entrepreneurship. The gameplay is deep, addictive, and gives you real freedom to build your empire. Iād love to see more industries added (like healthcare, tech, or automotive) and a 2ā4 player co-op mode where friends can run businesses together with different roles, such as RH, Finance, Marketing, etc. Overall great game!
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This game made me want to start a real business which I did. Thanks Big Ambitions!
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Frequently Asked Questions
Big Ambitions is currently priced at 22.99ā¬ on Steam.
Big Ambitions is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 22.99ā¬ on Steam.
Big Ambitions received 9,952 positive votes out of a total of 10,712 achieving an impressive rating of 9.03.
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Big Ambitions was developed and published by Hovgaard Games.
Big Ambitions is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Big Ambitions is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Big Ambitions is not playable on Linux.
Big Ambitions is a single-player game.
Big Ambitions does not currently offer any DLC.
Big Ambitions is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.
Big Ambitions does not support Steam Remote Play.
Big Ambitions is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Big Ambitions.
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Hovgaard Games
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Hovgaard Games
Release
10 Mar 2023
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