Adventure Capitalist

This article is about the video game by Hyper Hippo Productions. For money provided to growing companies, see Venture capital.
Adventure Capitalist
Developer(s) Hyper Hippo Productions
Publisher(s) Kongregate
Engine Unity
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, Adobe Flash, PlayStation 4
Release date(s) March 30, 2015
Genre(s) Incremental
Mode(s) Single-player

Adventure Capitalist, stylized as AdVenture Capitali$t!, and abbreviated as AdCap[1] is an incremental video game developed by Hyper Hippo Productions and published by Kongregate for Windows and on March 30, 2015, for iOS,[2] Android,[3] OS X, Linux and Adobe Flash,[4] and on August 16, 2016 in North America for PlayStation 4. Adventure Capitalist allows players to live like a capitalist, and invest funds into certain products to generate revenue, by starting out with a single lemonade stand. The more revenue generated, the higher the player's cash is. A player can receive an angel bonus when resetting their progress, which provides a boost in all products' revenue for the next progress timeline.[5] A spin-off, AdVenture Communist, was released on Steam on May 2016.[6] It is also made by Hyper Hippo, and is currently in open beta.[7]

Gameplay

There are three areas: Earth, Moon, and Mars. The player starts out on Earth. You start with a single investment: a lemonade stand. Tapping it gives you money overtime. When you earn enough money, you can buy another stand, or a different investment at the cost of more time until the payout. Once the player has purchased the manager for said investment, it will run automatically, which means you can successfully idle, even offline. Upgrades can be spent to add multipliers to any investment.

When the player reaches 1 trillion dollars on Earth, they can start investing in an area. Once invested, said area will unlock in 200 hours, but can be sped up using video advertisements, angel investors/mega bucks, or gold. Gold can be bought via in-app purchase with real money, and can be used for things such as a non-reset way to gain angel investors, instantly earn money for a day's worth of idling, and more. Mega Bucks are bought starting at 1 decillion of an area's currency, and will be multiplied every time by a fixed increment (the game describes this as 'inflation'). When one player has at least 10 Mega Bucks, they can purchase a golden ticket, which when used on a single investment boosts its profits permanently by ×7.77. After one has boosted a whole planet, they will gain an additional ×10 boost, which adds (not multiplied) to ×17.77 multiplier. This multiplier can be upgraded using Mega Bucks.

Since October 2015, players can also play a limited time special event, which usually are around holidays and other annual events, such as Halloween or Black Friday, and occur once every month for several days. These events are like the three main areas, but are only available during that correlated event. If a player reaches at least one of the objectives of that event, they will get a badge shown in the 'Swag & Stats' page. As the player progresses in some events, they may acquire free gold or Mega Bucks based on unlocks, and even a special badge that when equipped can provide investment specific boosts.

Since The Love of Money event update, the 'Swag&Stats' section is now renamed 'Career', with a revamped stats page, support, swag, and news section. Along with this, there now is an option to make your capitalist a female. The Adventure Capitalist update notes for 4.2 state the monthly events will re-occur, with the same past events being in random(?) months of the year. (Specifically, The Love of Money event will reoccur in October, with more gold and Mega Buck rewards for unlocks.)

Reception

Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
Multiplayer.it5/10[8]
Pocket Gamer3/10[9]
148Apps[10]

The game received mostly negative or mixed reviews from critics. Pocket Gamer criticized the game for giving little reward for progress, and stated that the achievements were dull.[9] The review also found the in app purchases to be too expensive, calling the game "a pointless waste of time" and "not much of an adventure". A review from 148Apps had similar opinions, calling the game "upbeat", but "a waste of time".[10] Despite this however, it holds an overall rating of "very positive" on Steam.

References

  1. ↑ "Hyper Hippo on Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  2. ↑ Kongregate, Inc. (19 February 2015). "AdVenture Capitalist!". App Store.
  3. ↑ Kongregate. "AdVenture Capitalist - Android Apps on Google Play". google.com.
  4. ↑ "Kongregate gamepage". Kongregate.
  5. ↑ "Steam Community :: Guide :: AdVenture Capitalist - The Ultimate Hacking Guide!". steamcommunity.com. Retrieved 2015-08-06.
  6. ↑ "Update! Close Beta Recap! AdVenture Communist Closed Beta :: AdVenture Capitalist General Discussions". steamcommunity.com. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
  7. ↑ "AdVenture Communist".
  8. ↑ "Adventure Capitalist - Review". Multiplayer.it. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  9. 1 2 Grannell, Craig (2015-02-24). "AdVenture Capitalist! review". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  10. 1 2 Minor, Jordan (2015-02-26). "AdVenture Capitalist Review". 148Apps. Retrieved 2016-04-29.

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