BusinessMan Demo

Being a successful entrepreneur requires constant work and quite a few risks, especially in the beginning. It’s a lot easier to start a career in business if you already have some money, because you can turn them into a lot more money by investing in a successful company. However, even regular folk can make it in the field with enough good ideas and a bit of courage.

BusinessMan is a very interesting simulator that allows you to invest in companies, buy stock, or simply try to raise to the heights of success by making good decisions from the position of a CEO. It’s worth noting right off the bat that the game has really neat ideas, but the execution is atrocious at the moment, especially in terms of interface and bugs, so you might want to wait for a few bug fixes.

To begin with, you are given a measly 20,000 euros, which can be invested in the desired company. It’s up to you whether you put this money in stocks or you buy your way into a company as a chairman, since both options can yield high returns in due time. Speaking of which, you can speed up time and see your investment come to fruition must faster than in the real world.

Once you get a position on the board, the game allows you to make managerial decisions, including how to spend your profits. You can pay the investors at the end of every year or reinvest the money into new technology or other resources. It’s also possible to use the money in order to gamble on the stock market, depending on whether you have enough to spare for such endeavors.

Lastly, the game is riddled with bugs at the moment, so you might have a difficult time understanding how everything works. To make things even worse, the interface is incredibly badly designed, which is especially because there are many language issues. Certain panels overlap, and it’s also difficult to find your way around even without these issues, given the lack of proper explanations.

In the end, BusinessMan could have taken over a market that’s very poorly exploited at the moment, but it has too many bugs and issues to take advantage of that. Hence, even if the underlying concept is tantalizing, the execution leaves much to be desired.