Roughly 5-6 hours of gameplay.

Gameplay is self explanatory, you start with two different paths, being in e-sports or a streamer (you can do both as well). You can upgrade your internet, PC, mouse, headset, webcam, ect.

Once you've saved up a lot of money you unlock the option to open your own e-sports company, you can have up to 5 teams and send them off on tournaments, hire/fire players & managers.

Character customization is limited, overall, for $9 CAD, and being a sucker for tycoon games, I'd give this a 5/10 as it stands, on launch day.

Oh yeah, and there's a game crippling bug once you get to end game and surpass a certain value of money & fans, they start decreasing and go into a negative value, which then forces you to go bankrupt and makes you lose the game. Until this gets fixed, I can not, in good conscience recommend people buy this game.

On the surface this is a very simple game. Looking underneath the hood and you'll find a game that is so complicated it is constantly breaking and hitting it's own self-imposed limitations to the point where it's just amusing.

Pros:
- Good way to waste some time
- Not much different from any other "influencer" tycoon game out there
- The Price (currently on sale for 90% off)

Cons:
- List of bugs and issues too long to mention after 6 months of full release
- Can be finished in under 12 hours
- List of playable video games limited to 15 (the first 15) and can only view stats on the 10 most recent VODs

Bugs (cause I'm gonna list them anyways):
- once your streams get popular enough the counter "rolls over" and reports a negative number of views
- this deeply impacts your income to the point where you go from a couple million a week to only about 82k a week
- purchases of games is limited to 15, period.
- doesn't matter which controller you use with any given game (no affect on stream or ranked play)
- if you play your custom game type (the one created for Ranked play) as a stream it layers the ranked interface on top of the stream interface giving you no report card for the stream and you gain or lose Ranking based on the outcome (almost always lose)
- will let you continue to work out to earn Endurance even when the stat is maxxed out
- will let you run a poll to see what game your audience prefers even if you have 0 energy (costs 20 normally)
- can blow through second part of game in under half an hour since you earn so much money as a streamer before you get offered the new digs
- skill checks for stream events will sometimes both pass and fail the stat check at the same time giving you more hype but also removing morale
- toggle for use of webcam became reversed so that if you checked off use cam on dashboard it would become unchecked when launching your stream (would have to recheck the option there)

They're not going to fix these at this point, this is why game is currently on sale for 90% off. But for what it's currently worth it does the job. I would never buy this at full price ($10.29 CAD) so if you're at all curious wait for it to go on sale again if you miss this current one.

Overall a nice idea but the game is very unbalanced in terms of scaling (I was earning half a million a week from just streaming just after like 2 hours of gameplay) and the game startup is poorly optimized.

Far from being on par with Game Dev Tycoon.

I don't often chide a game for being too easy... but this one really is.

Played for less than 100 in-game days... and I already have just about everything that money can buy (living on a luxury yacht! after three months as a youtoube game vlogger! okay...), and more cash still keeps pointlessly rolling in. There's little incentive to keep playing, and replay value is near zero.

I got this for under 1 € on a sale... honestly, that's about what it's worth, I'm afraid to say. 3-4 hours of okay entertainment, then it will just sit in your collection and likely never get touched again.

Unfortunately there aren't a lot of positives I can say about this game. The only reason I think anyone would ever play this is for the gaming theme, there's nothing else that makes this game stand out.

To begin with, there doesn't seem to be any end goal to this game, you just keep earning money until you get bored or earning money I guess. You stream games to gain subscribers and the more subscribers you have the more you earn at the end of each week, and that's about it. There's more to do in the game, but everything else is just kind of filler. You can spend money on better equipment, but you don't NEED to, it just increases how fast you earn subscribers.

Everything you do just controls how fast or slow you earn money. There's no actual risk to anything you do because the only way to lose is to fail to pay your rent, which is almost impossible to do unless you do so intentionally. You have a 'Work' option which earns you a good amount of money at the start, you just sit there and watch your character move boxes with no way to skip. The Work option makes paying rent so easy that rent might as well not be in the game.

Another thing is the huge lack of info in the game. I bought two kinds of webcams and a better computer but for some reason I was never able to actually turn on the face cam during the stream... or maybe I was? It says at the start of each stream that it's not turned on, but it still tells you the quality of your face cam at the end, why would it do that if it wasn't turned on? You also have certain stuff like streaming "style" locked at the start, but the game doesn't tell you how to unlock more styles. When you start streaming eSports you can drag sliders around and it changes percentages of difficulty and stuff, but the game doesn't tell you what any of it means.

I don't know it's a weird game. The devs don't seem to have done playtesting properly, because if they had I'm sure playtesters would have addressed all of this confusion. Gamer Career Tycoon is basically YouTubers Life with more buttons but less content, unless they make some major changes to this game, I suggest you go play that instead.

If only a career in gaming was that easy.
Fairly decent game with fun progression and a polished feel.
Similar to other tycoon games about gaming.

First Impression Gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF9i_Fg-iR4

You start out without even a mic or headset. You balance work and play, upgrading your gamer rig and paying pills.
Leveling up allows you to assign attribute points to help pass skill checks while streaming.
Music is catchy and not annoying.
Artwork is very simplistic, but the core game-play is there.
After a while, you can start playing games competitively aside for streaming.

For $8, it is a decent game. I wouldn't pay more for it.

The game has a core mechanic to it which works and is fun to play. Still has some bugs but nothing to big.
I mostly enjoyed the part and this was when the game most surprised me, once you achieve the "Olymp" of the Gaming Career and the game provides you a event animation, still that was not surprising, but what followed was surprising.
A whole new game, so to speak.
Really like that the developers did not solely focus on one aspect of the game but rather on the big picture.
Would wish that more developers would develop their games this way.
In conclusion, i definitely recommend this game.
Thumbs up.

Career Mode Goals:
[✓] #1 Ranked Streamer
[✓] #1 Ranked Competitive Player
[✓] Earned All Trophies

Manager Modem Goals:
[✓] #1 Organization
[✓] Win a Major Championship

I feel like I completed the game, there is nothing more to achieve except maybe a few goals I threw away. For example: Maxing out my gamer stats, reaching 999999 fans on all teams, winning a major for every team, whatever. I can always take an extra two hours and finish those, but for now let's talk about Gamer Career Tycoon.

I was a fan of a game by the name of Pro Gamer Manager. It was the first of it's kind that I found, at least. It had it's problems and had a long way to go in developement but it was still enjoyable. Eventually, developement stopped and someone else took over. Since, they've developped Pro Gamer Manager 2 which I was not impressed with. It didn't capture the appeal I had for the first one. Also, Gamer Career Tycoon uses the same sounds and music as Pro Gamer Manager. The game is also very similar in design which leads me to believe the same developer(s) worked on this.


Game Progression:
It's better than Pro Gamer Manager, so that's a good start. I want to get that out of the way. Anyways, the game is simple, stable (for the most part) and enjoyable. I felt that the game progressed smoothly at first, but became somewhat explosive. I started out by just scrapping by to pay rent and slowly but surely I managed to pay up every month and afford some goodies. But then, as I was slowly building up, I randomly found myself with what seemed like one hundred times more money than I would usually make. I looked at my streamer stats and all the numbers skyrocketed overnight. I went from "Nice, I managed to pay rent this month with 100$ extra" to "Well, I guess I'm rich now.". The money follows to the next stage of the game, manager mode, so you are set once you blow up. I'd like to see the pace of the game get touched up.

Gameplay:
The main pleasure factor in this game is the sense of achievement. It's pretty good at rewarding you for hard work, but again, it becomes a bit too easy once you become rich. The tournaments are pretty cryptic, you just put up your team and you have a percentage chance of doing good depending on your team's skill level. It tells you how you did and that's all you get. No scores or stats, which makes tournaments pretty boring and uninteractive. Teams/Players are also a bit dry. I would have loved to recruit players individually by skill, career history, personality, etc. I want to be able to build my team. A world ranking for every player would be cool as well, you could know if one of your players is number one for example. The ability to view other organizations and their stats, teams and players would make the manager mode more interesting. There is no specialties, tactics or stats other than skill for teams and the only way to train that stat is to play in tournaments. The team preperation takes too long, in my opinion. You can get a manager to make preperation faster but it's only 30% tops, still takes a few months in-game just to prepare. I have a problem with tournaments as well, I feel like random events and majors should be seperate and one of each tier should be always available. The major championship is a big deal, it should be already determined and not random. Majors shouldn't be immediatly accessible, I'd prefer if you would need to be invited to them by doing good. Here's my advice, replace majors with pro tournaments. Once you win a pro tournament, you are eligible to be invited to a major and it's always the same time of year. Major championships are the "cherry-on-top" of this game. It's the final challenge, the grand prize and you get nothing. No trophy to display and no champion status. It's like it never happened. I JUST WANT A ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ TROPHY CASE. One for every team room, one that actually gathers trophies as you win them, trophies with information such as event name, when it was won and who the players were. Turn the shelf into a chest if you get too many and be able to view them as a list at that point. Don't even need to award amateur, semi-pro, pro, just displaying major championship trophies would do the trick. Alright, moving on. I'm not going to be as critical for the gamer career mode since I enjoyed it a lot. My criticism is pointed at the player stats primarily, it's pretty bare-bones. I don't mean the stats you assign, that's pretty good. Could be expanded more, but I liked it. The skill, mentality and knowledge percentages are messy. They go over 100% and I'm not sure if having more than it helps in any way. I'll finish by offfering a few lighter ideas, I'd like to have the ability to edit furniture in the room, wallpaper, flooring, new places to live, more haircuts, hair colours, clothing types and team logos.

Bugs:
I'm only including the ones I came across. There were a few but those that come to mind are how my major championship wins never got counted in the organization info. The percentage skills going over 100%, not sure if it's intentional or not but it definetly seems like a bug. My sliders during competitive games sometimes all display as 100% for the difficulty and such even when I set everything to 0%, but he ends up playing as I'd expect so it just shows 100% when it's not actually.

Do I recommend this game? I admit that some of my criticisms were a bit critical, but yes. I recommend this game. However, I'll admit that content dries up pretty fast. Like I said, I only put in 5 hours and I don't really want to play my save anymore. I did everything already, I have nothing to achieve anymore. I also heard the game has a bug that bankrupts you at the end, putting your money and fans in the negative values so yeah. I'll probably end up playing a new game and put in some more hours, much more if they update it. Play the game a bit differently and see what comes from it. I'm recommending this game because I enjoyed my playthrough and I'm hoping more will be added. I'm fully aware that this game isn't for everyone and not everyone wants to pay 10$ for such a short game. To those people, I'd say just wait for a good sale.

The same company made both Pro Gamer Manager and Gamer Career Tycoon,
so my suspicion was correct. That being said, the individual team building is definetly possible, it was in the other game. Many bugs that I've mentionned are being worked on, kudos to the developer for listening us.

Definitely a neutral review overall.

• First two hours or so are pretty fun as you explore the game, try different strategies and start to drop your day job as your streaming grows.
  
  
• The following two hours are much less fun, as you have chosen your optimum strategy and simply stream over and over and over and over again until you become number 1. The game really needs more content here - random events, maybe interesting interactions with the media, fans or other content creators.
  
  
• The last 2 hours turn into a completely different game where you manage your own esports organisation. You now pay salaries to esport teams and help manage them by organising tournaments, selling merchandise and creating marketing content. This was a welcome change from the grind and let's you explore all over again but was also really easy to go bankrupt.
  
  
• Overall there were some good and bad periods in the game, but there wasn't enough depth. There are lots of options and things to upgrade, but to actually achieve the game's objectives you just do one thing over and over again. You become no.1 streamer by just playing a gazillion games, you become no.1 team by playing a gazilion games as a team, and you become the no.1 esports organisation by playing a gazillion tournaments. There's lots of options to optimise what you're doing but they aren't necessary at all, it's just the grind.

I got this little game on sale for £0,99 and for that price it is good value. But at full price I dont think I would recommend it. I love management games and it took me 3-4 hours in-game to get everything the game has to offer. There is nothing left for me to do.

To improve this game the developers should add:

• More end game items
  
• More houses to buy like a studio or something
  
• Employees that can help you and be in your studio
  
• Steam achievements
  
• UI improvements for buying and upgrading gear

If it is on sale get it. If not wait and see if the developers add more stuff to the game.