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The Startup: Interactive Game – Roleplaying Game Review
The Startup: Interactive Game is a Roleplaying/Word/Books game from FL AGENT INC, first launched in 18th May 2020.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 20,172+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes The Startup: Interactive Game Stand Out
Would you like to be the CEO of a new startup company in Silicon Valley?
"The Startup" is a new exciting role-playing simulation game that will allow you to be the head of a huge and promising startup.
You'll have to recruit an awesome team of specialists, create your own exciting product, bring it to the market, find venture investors, and get rich.
You have control of the most ambitious startup in Silicon Valley.
Can your company become successful and be on top?
With multiple episodes and chapters, you'll face a variety of business challenges and have the opportunity to craft your own unique startup story through the choices you make. Play as a business sim, testing your skills in a realistic setting, and feel like a true business tycoon. The Startup: Interactive Game is a perfect blend of business game and interactive story for those who love both story games and role-playing.
Everything depends on you in the new exciting game – "The Startup"!
Features:
- A realistic setting that allows players to feel like a true business tycoon
- Business simulation gameplay that allows players to make financial and real estate decisions to grow their company
- Choose-your-own-story element where players can craft a unique startup story through the choices they make
- Multiple episodes and chapters that provide a variety of business challenges for players to overcome
- Real estate management gameplay that includes buying and selling properties to expand the company
- Interesting and unforgettable story
- The sophisticated role-playing management system of a company
- Micromanaging your own company using your budget
- Multiple endings
- Various role-play mechanics
- Intuitive and user-friendly game interface
Subscription:
Recurring billing. Cancel anytime.
You can subscribe to get ads-free gameplay, no waiting time and all the chapters of the game or subscribe to access in-game banking plans for the duration of your subscription. The subscription is $4.99 weekly, $39.99 yearly and $4.99, $9.99, $19.99, $29.99 weekly. You'll be able to get ads-free gameplay, no waiting time and all the chapters of the game for the duration of your subscription. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off for at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. You can read our privacy policy and terms of use at https://ledgroup.org/terms. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. Prices are equal to the value that "Apple's App Store Matrix" determines is the equivalent of the subscription price in $USD. By using Startup, you agree to our Terms of Use and Community Guidelines available at https://ledgroup.org/terms
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, The Startup: Interactive Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th February 2023
Recent improvements include:
- Bug fixes and design improvements
Download & Availability
The Startup: Interactive Game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get The Startup: Interactive Game on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Asks you to rate the game ~40 seconds into play, then shows an advertisement immediately following the rating. Lol, we were still in the tutorial… 0/100 – it's not even a video game.
Really cool game and helped us know what is like to have a company.
Great game but we got to a timer and it wont let us get off so fix.
There are some parts in the game like if we wanted to design a logo but didnt have enough money for it, then we cant go back and we have to restart the whole game. Please make a back button.
The idea and concept is great, but the fact you need to wait for crucial parts is so annoying. Waiting an hour for something to progress just doesnt sit well with us after playing for like 7 minutes. Theres also hella ads. We got 4 after playing for 10 minutes. You can do better.
The game seems great, but you can only get a taste of it before they charge you $5 a week or $80 for the year. Seems like a great game. Not worth $80 though.
Make the text shorter bro. Nobody wants to read all that text in a mobile game. Try making the text easier to read as well chose a harsh text imo.
We think the game is a lot of potential. Youre trying to help people understand the way of starting up your own business while keeping it in a game format so its more enjoyable. It is in fact enjoyable, except for when it ends up forcing you to buy diamonds. It causes us to not be able to continue through the game and forces us to restart. But eventually the same thing happens over and over again. Once again we think this game has potential, but until then its simply frustrating.
The graphic and story are good BUT THE ADDS. BRO THERE IS A ADD EVERY SECOND. AND AFTER LIKE 5-10 adds YOU HAVE TO WAIT 1 HOUR OR YOU WATCH 5 MORE ADDS!!!!!!!! Or you pay for A SUBCRIPTION. THIS IS THE WORST GAME EVER. NEVER INSTALL.
There are too much ads for the game, as we tried to get through the story, we were bombarded with ads, then on top of that, after a certain part where you have to select the stability for a web host or something, you either have to watch 5 ads, pay for a subscription or something like that, or just wait for like 40 minutes, which by the time those 40 minutes are over youll already have forgotten about the game, despite the notifications, but still, without a doubt, we are sure there are still parts like that where you have to wait periods of time just to play. Which it just gets in the way personally. But we understand for there being ads because after all it is a good game, and might as well have ads to cash in, but maybe they should ease out or chill on the advertisments.
This game focuses so much on forcing the player to watch ads every 30 seconds or having you buy their high price micro transactions, thats its pretty much impossible to play without paying far more than the app is worth in value. Skip it and find a game with actual content.
The game seemed really promising but budgeting in the beginning basically forces you to spend actual money to get started, and we were sort of ok with that but we purchased $9 worth of in game currency and didnt receive it, so we ended up spending $18 to get what we wanted and when we clicked the contact us button nothing happened. To make it worse right after we used the in game currency it read off more dialogue and only gave us one option to choose, and upon choosing that option it takes us to a screen asking us to purchase diamonds which Im guessing cant even be earned in the game.
Looked good at first, but the amount of in-app purchases that it tries to force you to buy completely ruined the game for us. We wish they kept the game for the sake of customer enjoyment without trying to empty all of your funds out of your pockets.
Not worth your time unless you like tapping next a lot and watching ads every two minutes.
This game is fun in theory. The adds we saw for the game make it look like a totally different version of the game. We wanted to do our own development but it would not let us, instead it made us read paragraphs from a dumb bot to do simple things. It made us watch an add every 10 seconds. This game could be so much more. Bro seriously made us pay 4.99 a week for a dumb MOBILE game. Emphasize the MOBILE part. TBH if you are going to pay these absurd prices, you are a spoiled brat. In our opinion, these developers are just making dumb games just to make money. Dont waste your time or money on this game.
Ad after ad after ad, hour long wait to do things in the game, plus its boring overall. Would not recommend.
We got this game to try it out and its a very pay to play game. There should only be a single one time pay for ads. And separate payments for anything else. Its a game with lots of potential just dont use pay to play as your main revenue.
Why they chose to go this route is actually idiotic. We went through a few minutes of making decisions just to get paywalled near the beginning of the game. No option to watch an ad. Whoever made that choice is actually dumb.
There are ads every other panel. Then when you get far enough you have to wait an hour to do anything. No problem, wait it out. Then you run out of money. Literal scum.
We liked it at first till it said we had to wait another hour to play.
To many adds 15-20 minutes of play time then it says pay to play. We personally would not recommend you playing this game if you dont like watching 5 ads to play, or pay 8 dollars a week to play.
We reached a certain point in the game and pressed continue in the dialogue. Then it took us to a place where we have to buy gems. Do we have to pay to continue playing? Why does it just take us to a place where we buy gems when we press continue in the dialogue? And before, we had to wait an hour or watch five ads at some point in the game twice. You can only disable that if you pay $5 a week for premium! Do not play this game unless your trying to burn a lot of money.
We accidentally clicked something we couldnt afford and instead of letting us go back and choose a cheaper option, it just keeps us at that one scene. Unfortunately theres no way to pass it unless you spend 5 bucks, we got a total of 4-5 minutes of play time. We were excited to play but unfortunately never got the chance due to the pay walls.
We dont usually write reviews but the ads are equivalent to spam in a email frequent and annoying.
This game is absolutely terrible. It doesnt let you proceed past development without forcing you to make purchases. And we dont mean maybe you should get this to make the game easier. We mean it actually will not let you go any further. No option to skip or decline upgrades without spending real money. Its the definition on a SCAM.
We saw the game while we were scrolling through the App Store it looked interesting so we downloaded it. Not even 5 mins into the game we get sent to a wait an hour to play screen where the options are to wait an hour, pay $80 a year, or pay $5 a week (this is $260 a year, an outrageous amount for a mobile game). This game is also full with bugs we had to restart our startup 3 times because it would we would click continue on the chat dialogue and it would send us to the shop and it would not stop doing that. We could get around the subscriptions because your not required to pay for them but the way continue sending us to a shop makes the game UNPLAYABLE. Which is disappointing since the game looked like a really fun game to play.
Why does everything you do have to cost money? Like we get you need it to develop your game but if im paying for a game to create a fake business we would expect that we get actual advice on how to legitimately start one. Also who in their right mind would pay $75 a year for a MOBILE GAME. Nobody. You already make bank off of ads anyway so dont be like EA and shove microtransactions down peoples throats.
Youre given an initial in game money amount and then have to spend it responsibly. But you dont know upfront how many purchases you have to make so you run out of in game money and to continue have to spend real money. We realize that theres a certain amount of smart gameplay, so we restarted the game and decided to save some more money. But now we cant proceed without buying more diamonds?? Also theres only playable content every 60 minutes and you can watch 5 ads to skip this. Or you can avoid all of this and pay a subscription for this game. We know subscriptions are the new big thing with apple games, but at least make us want it before trying to make us pay.
Not even 5 minutes into the game and it wants us to spend 5$ a week for 40$ a year to progress further in the game uninstalling this.
This game looks fairly decent, however there are too many adds and after only a few minutes of playing we made it to the point where we were out of options and could only continue if we waited an hour, watched 5 ads or paid money. Immediately deleted.
After being met with paywall after paywall you are rewarded by an extremely anticlimactic ending and no value in replay. We regret every penny we spent on this. Genuinely a complete rip-off.
Theres a game going around your ads, Im not sure how it get here, cant enjoy the ads without this game popping out of nowhere, annoying.
We started off fine with the game although carrying on as we pressed continue, it requested us to pay for either gems or money even though we already had those. It wouldnt let us continue unless we payed so to play the game again, U was required to restart but the same thing happened again and again. We wouldve liked to continue without paying, so we have deleted the game in response to such actions. Thank you for your understanding.
Literally cant play without paying.
We feel like Im watching an ad every 30 seconds. Normally we like management games, but not like this. Nor do we like the pay to win aspect of it. For that reason, Im out.
They keep asking us to top up when we have plenty of money and wont let us proceed till we do.
Browsing through games, not reading reviews we grab this game. Play through the beginning part (7 ads) then let by a pay wall of 4.99 to continue to play or 7.99 per month subscription. Absolutely garbage. Do not by any means download this game. The start up ? Yeah they are starting up their life and living it well off the ad revenue they get off of ppl in the limited play time & we feel sorry for those that actually pay to play it. Absolutely not. Garbage dont do it.
Bad game. Dont waste your time. The very second we saw we needed to watch FIVE ADS to skip the wait time. We deleted it. Go play anything but this crappy game. And dont spend a penny! Please.
Paywalls left and right. We were a sucker and kept paying for additional funds because we were initially invested in the story. Got to the point where we paid enough that we felt we had to keep paying to keep going hoping it would be worth it. Did all of that just to find out the story isnt even complete. Very disappointed.
You have to pay a lot to play and every time is asking to pay money out of pocket to be able to play as well do not recommend.
Its like reading a boring novel with no plots. No sound what do ever except, the random loud ads every 2 minutes. Oh and it limits how much you can play unless you pay a week fee! Straight trash.
We tried pressing continue but it will just go to the dumb as gems without us pressing that. Fix the game dude.
This game is crap. The way they farm ads out of you is criminal. Dont download this game.
Seemed like it had potential. Then we found out we had to wait long periods of time for things to finish. We wanted a little arcade game we can play in lines now and then, not a long grind. Lame.
Not worth it in the slightest. Game heavily incentivizes you to pay. Not worth it in the slightest. Dont support these people.
DO NOT PLAY!! This game is ridiculous. You get so far and then they want you to top up on money that you already have in your budget and on gems that you never spent in the first place! No markers for when youre spending gems either.
Game tries to make you buy diamonds for no reason at all. Cant progress past the marketing stage without buying. Horrible.
We should have went straight to the reviews before we started playing this game. It all about paying in order to play. So if you are not willing to spend money you wont be able to play lol.
Usually we never leave reviews but this game is so bad, crazy how you must spent money to make rhe game a little fun but no matter what you get your self spending more and more. Waste of time and money (0 stars).
We have yet to get through the storyline without having to spend real money even with picking all the cheapest options and declining some options. If you run out of in game money you have to pay real money and there is no way to make it through without having to pay real money. Also the prompts are paragraphs and there is so much reading. It was trying to make us buy diamonds when no prompt came up that diamonds were needed to continue. Its an impossible game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.2.2
- Size: 152.97 MB
- iOS: 11 or later
- Languages: EN, RU
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: FL AGENT INC
Last updated: 20th February 2023 | Genre: Roleplaying, Word | Developer: FL AGENT INC