What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?
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Came within 5% of the top-most goal for a level, and failed for lack of time. Went back several saves and looked at everything. Was my choice of drug wrong? Were my production lines a square or two inefficient, preventing me from utilizing another delivery portal? Was I spending too much on Bolivian Tree Frog Saliva? Did I not get the researchers working on new machines fast enough? And then it hit me: my best-selling drug, for erectile dysfunction, beautifully crafted to avoid side effects and have an A cure rating... was devastating the market... for itself. I simply couldn't pull enough profit out of the economy if I cured people. Tried again. Made sure to give the sufferers a side-effect free drug which worked... some of the time... enough to get their hopes up... but not enough to stop buying next month's installment. 10/10 would abandon business ethics again.
This game was a little bit of a surprise.. I don't usually get much into tycoon type games, though I have fond memories of Theme Hospital from a few years back, and I guess Rollercoaster Tycoon, so my experience isn't great to compare this to others in the genre. That being said, I find this game a great deal of fun. There are two core elements to the game; a Logistical puzzle, and, a decent strategic/business simulator. I'll cover these separately. The first part is what you mostly see in the pretty screenshots - you need to construct assembly lines that transform raw biological substances (insect parts, plants, etc) into finished pharmaceuticals. There are a good number of different medicines you can manufacture and each one has vastly different requirements. You need to purchase a variety of machines to transform the product as it moves along the belt from the 'in window' to the exi
TLDR: I wasn't sure about this game, but it was on sale and it had a cute name so I spent the money. I do not regret this purchase - in fact, if I had to, I would happily pay the full price. The tutorials inducts you into the game mechanics without being a chore to complete, and each scenario has goals but still provides you flexibility in how you choose to accomplish them. Being based on "real-life" illnesses, you feel a bit of connection to the products you create. You expend time analysing the recent hypertension compound your company's explorers discovered in the desert; using the machines at your disposal you upgrade it to diabetes medication that isn't on the market yet - you make a tidy profit for being the only supplier and you're sure there's some sufferer out there whose health has improved thanks to your work. The difficulty level ratchets up as you play: it is never to
I am a big fan of logistic-puzzle games and thought that this might take the gameplay of Spacechem or Factorio in exciting new directions. Unfortunately, the logistics puzzles and business simulation don't really play off of each other well, and the game quickly becomes tedious. The two halves of the game don't play well together. The logistics lines are a little bland and mostly come down to twiddling the concentration of a drug up, then down, then up again to evolve its attributes and get them to the right concentration. This might be more fun if you could go whole-hog laying out a complicated production line, but the business side of things ensure that's generally unprofitable. Everything operates at just a 1:1 or 1:2 ratio, so there's no thrill of big, powerful throughput like you get with a massive Factorio setup or a speedy Spacechem reaction. The business level isn't that inte
If you are the type who keeps working at something until you get it perfect, try this game! If you like games such as the Build-A-Lot, Farm Frenzy and Tycoon simulators, this is for you. It's a bit tricky to wrap your head around to start with, the tutorials teach you the bare basics (there's alot to figure out yourself as you go) and I almost gave up - but it is a puzzle game for a reason! Now I have a handle on the game mechanics, it's so addictive I can't go a day without playing. By far the trickiest part of the game after learning how to make successful drugs, is how to handle loans and income streams. You can't really do much without taking out loans (or at least this is how my gameplay works). I've tried looking for a similar game but haven't been able to find one. I'm hoping they release a similar game before I tire of this one! Getting master on all levels is very difficul
As a registered pharmacist, I feel that I am uniquely qualified to speak to this game. While it's not like actual pharmaceutical research and development, it does capture the essence of drug development (evaporation, distilling, different excipients) and does it while keeping things interesting. The minute-to-minute small puzzles of configuring everything in a small space, managing price, pushing for the next-best-thing (or not, if it's more profitable to flood the market with cheap, side-effect heavy medications), and monitoring the competition are all pleasingly done. You're allowed to set your own pace and customize your challenge through a wide variety of options, missions, and randomization of ingredients. The UI and graphics all fit well into this process. Thumbs up for this one, one of the better management/puzzle games released recently!
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