Laptop Tycoon
- October 29, 2021
- Roastery Games
- 3h median play time
Get on Steam"Laptop Tycoon" is a business simulation game where you can start and manage your own laptop company. Create and customize your dream laptop with a unique laptop editor, choosing everything from exterior dimensions to internal components and features. Compete with tech giants, hire the best employees, and manage your office as you strive to build a successful laptop empire.
PC
Windows
Reviews
- The game is easy to learn and has a fun gameplay loop, making it enjoyable for casual play.
- It offers a decent amount of customization and management options, which can be engaging for players.
- The UI is generally well-designed, and the game has potential for fun if updates and new features are added.
- Gameplay becomes repetitive and boring after a short period, with many players feeling they have exhausted the content quickly.
- The game is plagued with bugs and lacks significant updates, leading to frustration among players.
- There is a lack of depth and strategy, making it feel more like a clicker game than a true tycoon experience.
- gameplay20 mentions
- 20 % positive mentions
- 65 % neutral mentions
- 15 % negative mentions
The gameplay has received mixed reviews, with many players finding it dry and repetitive, particularly criticizing the random negative ratings that hinder progress and profitability. While some appreciate the deeper mechanics and multiple income sources, others feel the game devolves into a monotonous research simulator after a short period. Overall, the experience is likened to a clicker or idle game, but with significant flaws that detract from enjoyment.
“The mechanics and different markets you can enter, for example, you can join the CPU market, producing chips and putting them out for public purchase (this makes me like $400 million+ monthly). You can also release your operating system for public purchase, adding another source of income (another $400 million~ monthly).”
“The game itself feels like more of a clicker/idle game but a bit deeper with a few more mechanics and numbers to boost, with multiple ways of rising up your main big number.”
“The main gameplay loop of the game is easily the best way of making money.”
“This game had very dry gameplay and it was overly boring. I do not recommend.”
“After a little bit of gameplay, you will start making a profit, but you still can't play normally because you're so broke after these random ratings. If you somehow make a lot of money, the game will transform into a research simulator where you go to a new laptop, max out all settings, sell it, research something new, and then repeat. You end up with only 3 hours of gameplay and no ability to get your money back.”
“As far as I can tell, the CPU gameplay isn’t finished or is entirely bugged.”
- graphics18 mentions
- 33 % positive mentions
- 44 % neutral mentions
- 22 % negative mentions
The graphics of the game are generally described as beautiful and fitting for its style, with a clean user interface. However, players have reported significant issues, including pixelation and bugs that affect visibility of certain components, particularly after a recent update. Overall, while the graphics are appreciated, performance problems detract from the experience.
“This game is beautifully made, sure there are some occasional bugs (e.g. sometimes graphic card images and stats of different components can be invisible).”
“Easy to play, simple and clean UI, graphics look good for what it is.”
“I don't think the devs will update the game anytime soon or never, but everything is good like the UI and the graphics.”
“Runs poorly for what should be a fairly graphically un-intense game.”
“My PC is not great, but I run games that are more graphically demanding than this without issues.”
“- Major graphical issues from the newest update; everything is pixelated no matter what settings (still not fixed, devs ignoring this bug).”
- stability8 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The game is generally enjoyable but suffers from stability issues, with users reporting bugs that can lead to crashes and loading problems after extended playtime. While many players have experienced long periods without issues, the occasional instability detracts from the overall experience. Despite these challenges, players remain supportive and find the game fun.
“Good but buggy: I played this game for 60 hours, 30 of which I had no problems, but then it stops working, goes black instantly, and is stuck loading the game to play.”
“I've been a supporter since the first Smartphone Tycoon, so I know how buggy these games can be.”
“Buggy but still fun.”
- grinding4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
Players find the grinding aspect of the game tedious and unengaging, as it often reduces decision-making to simply selecting components that increase the PC's price rather than offering meaningful choices. This has led to criticism of the game's design, which is perceived as lacking depth and excitement.
“That isn’t good game design; it’s tedious and boring.”
“The choosing of components is tedious, usually boiling down to 'which raises my PC price the most.'”
- optimization4 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- -25 % neutral mentions
- 75 % negative mentions
Reviewers suggest that the game's optimization could be significantly enhanced by introducing a wider variety of components, including both high-cost, low-performance options and low-cost, high-performance alternatives. Additionally, allowing players to create diverse types of laptops—such as budget, performance, and long-lasting models—would deepen the gameplay experience and strategic decision-making.
“If there was more variety in components, like generating a super expensive component that is terrible or an amazing one that is actually cheap, that would greatly enhance the game's depth, allowing players to figure out the best PC on a budget or create the best performance PC possible, or the most long-lasting PC.”
“Something that would greatly improve the depth of the game is giving players the ability to create a variety of different laptops, such as a budget laptop, a performance laptop, an office laptop, a long-lasting laptop, or a large battery laptop.”
“The game lacks proper optimization, leading to frustrating performance issues that detract from the overall experience.”
“I often encounter significant lag and stuttering, which makes it difficult to enjoy the gameplay.”
“The optimization feels rushed, resulting in frequent crashes and long loading times that ruin immersion.”
- music2 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The music in the game is consistently praised as great, contributing positively to the overall experience, alongside a nice user interface. While the graphics are considered only okay, the enjoyable music enhances the fun factor of the game.
“Overall, great music, nice UI (user interface), okay graphics, fun.”
- monetization2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
Players have reported a significant bug in the monetization system where purchasing advertising can lead to an unexpected game loss, even if they have sufficient funds. This issue raises concerns about the reliability and fairness of the game's monetization mechanics.
- humor2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The humor aspect of the game is criticized for lacking genuine comedic value, as players find the repetitive creation of new laptops unamusing and frustrating. Instead of engaging humor, the focus on modifying and rebranding existing laptops is seen as a missed opportunity for more entertaining gameplay.
