I saw a game on there called Big Ambitions, some kind of tycoon game where you're building businesses. The game starts by you having a wealthy uncle who gives you $13k and tells you to get a job for two days before having his friend give you a $15k loan to open a store selling cheap souvenirs from the wholesaler down the street.
It really is a capitalism simulator. I've been taking notes all night and the only one seems to be "Have an uncle".
edit: Actually, everyone should pirate it. It's not a bad game, in the vein of The Guild II, and I like the unspoken message about capitalism. I live in a studio apartment my uncle pays for, drive my uncle's car which I can't afford to repair, and the only economical food option for me is hamburgers from the grill between my souvenir shop and my empty apartment. I bought a business before I took a single course in business administration, and taking that course at the only university means spending $80/hr to sit in an empty room using a computer.
Despite all of that, I fancy myself a capitalist and my uncle is breastfeeding me to greatness. It's so goddamn bleak.
Big Ambitions is such a silly game, watching northerlion play it was a hoot
It's too janky and bare bones to recommend buying, but it's interesting enough to pirate and fuck around with for a couple hours.
Free Demo
Under capitalism, you get five minutes of free propaganda and are billed for the remainder.
WTF I can’t believe this is real. Now I want to make a Project Cybersyn game. #HateDrivenDevelopment
What in the ever loving fuck? Why? Like why would they title a sale as this? Glad I'm back to pirating, DODI and Fitgirl repacks are the shit.
Isn't Gabe Newell some kind of weird libertarian or whatever? I figure that's why
Idk, but he's a business man and built an empire of passive income for himself. Any pictures I've seen of the guy looks like he fits an archetype of a libertarian. Wouldn't be a stretch or surprise.
What's the problem with the title? They have economical and capitalism related games...so it makes sense... Idk what your point is.
Oh god... You're right, they mean it literally!...
Prison Architect is part of the sale.
Rail route doesn’t even have money in the game, as far as I can tell. It’s just a game about making trains run on time … wait a minute.
Its the capitalism and ECONOMY fest. The fuck isnt Soviet Republic: Workers and Resources on here?
Presumably because to be part of these events developers have to opt-in.
I think we can take this as a sign that the dev is not a capitalist. Even if they did cringe support for ukraine stuff back near the start of the war.
I'm starting to think they lied about making a Ukraine DLC. It wouldnt have taken them a lot of time to add a couple buildings and send the money to Zeldisney
I don't hate capitalism/economy simulators, to be fair. Games are precisely where immoral and awful systems should be confined, far away from reality.
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As Ulysset (who once awarded me kelly of the day) pointed out, valve is deliberately doing this at a time when capitalism is increasing the misery it inflicts on the world and causing a mass extinction event.
at a time when capitalism is increasing the misery it inflicts on the world and causing a mass extinction event
Bit of a tautology, was capitalism ever not doing that?
I think everyone was too distracted in the 30s-50s with legalized cocaine pep pills and beating their wives to understand they had signed a deal with the devil
What's the most communist game on sale in this? Maybe Time Bandit?
Edit: it doesn't look like it's on sale, but it's featured on that page for me - weird.
Tropico VI, just make sure you throw all the capitalists in the dungeon
Potionomics is pretty cute, get to play as a post graduate alchemist with a ungodly amount of debt so it feels pretty
Oh and also you're uncle leaves you his potion shop, so yeah there's that lovely taste of cash injection nepotism too
