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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. 😍
The game is currently priced at 22.99€ on Steam.
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System requirements
These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.
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
User reviews & Ratings
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It's like the earlier GTA games, but with legitimate businesses instead of criminal activities! Your uncle starts you off with a small amount of cash and tells you to rent an apartment. It has a bed with a nightstand and a lamp. He tells you to buy a fridge then stock it, then get a job in the local mini market. Then you hire a retail unit and start a small gift shop. Once that's up and running, you open a burger joint. Then a Headquarters and a warehouse and start logistics...it's quite fun! The best bit is skipping through sleep, unlike Sims 4 which leaves you sitting there forever staring at strangers on your lot waiting for them to do one so the time speeds up again. It'll be great if you could have relationships and have kids who could then takeover your empire eventually. I'm sure all this is to come in the future...it's still being developed but is well worth the money. I've not done anything else since playing and have even cancelled my kids' playdate today so I could play this 🤪🤫 Editing to say that now I've had a few hours on this, it's way more detailed than I thought. I've discovered so much more info within the game - previously never having touched the economy view or market insider; these are incredibly helpful tools! I've also realised that the F1 help menu really could do with some new info and the tutorial isn't that great, so if you have trouble within the gamr, head to the discussions page as there is a wealth of information available from players. The game is still being developed, but the company is no longer a startup trying to survive and have promised to keep developing, but taking their time to really finesse things before release. I'm excited for their future, honestly!
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This is a fun game if you like business simulation. You set up small shops and as you grow your business empire you need to expand into the different areas of management. You need to rent locations, open shops/offices, buy supplies and have them delivered. As you grow you need to stop going through wholesalers to importers and then again to ditch those to manufacture your own goods. You need to make sure you have HR managers with health insurance, logistics and purchase officers, delivery drivers and trucks and your intricate delivery network up and running. This game eats a lot of time but is very rewarding and is great for people who like have excel sheets for their games.
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☑ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10
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I loved it, but after 30 hours I think we did it all. What I think this game is missing : - Contracts, for example, when you have a Web dev business, it would be fun to have contracts and have to actually manage the business where in this game, you basically just hire people and the money comes from the people walking in the street I assume - Product Quality : There is no notion of product quality per say, when you sell pizza, you sell pizza that's it that's all. It is the same one that your opponents are selling and it doesn't matter where the're from and who made it lol. If I compare with other games in that genre, (pizza connection, fastfood tycoon etc), in those games, the customers will be willing to pay more if your pizza/products are made with good ingredients. In this game, it just doesn't exist. That would be a good addition to have product quality and be able to charge more or less depending on that. That would be good to have multiple provider selling the same products but with different quality, I think the game doesn't go deep enough into this. - Map is too small, at first the map seems big but after 30 hours, I could actually purchase everything and it is just a matter of time before I could actually buy-out all the other opponents but since there is no resistance what so ever from them, I lost interest in doing so. - Not enough options to affect the other business owner. I tried to convince every single employee of a business to join me instead but when doing so, I realised that the AI was replacing the people I hired instantly. I would have expect the AI to take a while to recover from this and be affected by that but it is just not possible. - Since the Game is so simple, why not add a multiplayer so we can compete against our friends if the AI alone is not enough? - Being able to hire a Driver would be great, I have millions of dollars but still I am force to drive my own car, what a shame, I would expect to have someone driving me around at that point no?! - Missions, you'll soon find out that there is no point in the game. It would be fun to have missions like "Deliver 1000 Iphones to business "X". There is just no point in the game at one point when you tried all the different business and are making enough money. - Food delivery at home, I don't know if this is missing or just not explain enough but again, being millionaire and having to go do grocery. Comon... Anyway, I'll stop there because I see the potential in this game and can't wait to see where this is going, hopefully the door will be open for more content on the Workshop because it feels more like an extended demo at this point. Good job though, it was fun for 30 hours.
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The game is misnamed. As of Early Access 0.5, this is still a reseller simulator . Your "big" ambitions are limited to only those goods and services that you can buy from someone else. Think stuff you buy overseas and resell in retail stores, plus a handful of professional services you buy from your employees and then resell. The "GROW ANY BUSINESS" line from the game's official site is an outright lie. You cannot own: railroads, airlines, factories, farms, mines, hospitals, pharmacies, theaters, TV stations, newspapers, insurance companies, construction companies, private schools, gyms, R&D labs, PMCs, recruitment agencies, marketing agencies... I could go on all day about all the different types of businesses that this game does not allow you to own. Even among in-game businesses, there are several ( e.g. , auto dealerships, wholesale stores) that you cannot own. Having said that, even as a mere reseller simulator, it is an exquisitely executed one. This game is not for players who dislike to think. The gameplay is very open-ended and demands a certain proactiveness, but that just makes it all the more rewarding. The decisions you make - from the bold strokes of opening a specific type of business in a specific district to the minute details of arranging your employee schedules - percolate through layers upon layers of gameplay mechanics and ultimately affect your bottom line. The combination of open-endedness and deep gameplay mechanics offer a sense of satisfaction when your grand plans unfold to reap a profit. There is also a tutorial that does an excellent job of acquainting you with the game's varied gameplay mechanics, but it is only the player character's uncle offering advice that you are under no obligation to follow. Those with a creative streak may also enjoy the option to decorate the interior of every building you have rented. The game does have its flaws. The rivals' AI could not win a game of tic-tac-toe. They open and close businesses with no discernable method and ultimately become a virtual demonstration of "A Fool And His Money Are Soon Parted." Automatic sorting of employee schedules fails to take into account their individual wants. The logistics department does not leave delivery logs that I sometimes want to analyze. The business "Insight" screen reveals hour-by-hour customer quantities for only one day, even though the last seven days matter. The city is limited to five districts and does not feel nearly as vast and expansive as I would expect from an emulation of New York. Even in its present early-access state, I have been greatly enjoying the game. I started on easy mode to get familiar with it, soon restarted on normal mode and built an empire, and now I am playing on hard mode. Over 120 hours in, I am still enjoying it. My post on the forums was replied to by one of the developers, which gives me the impression that the developers pay attention to community feedback. I highly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys concocting and executing elaborate plans.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Big Ambitions is currently priced at 22.99€ on Steam.
Big Ambitions is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 22.99€ 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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Developer
Hovgaard Games
Publisher
Hovgaard Games
Release
10 Mar 2023
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