About Retail Tycoon 2:
For an early access game, King of Retail presents itself as a very promising game with features that highlight a typical retail environment while simulating the business side of running a retail store. When you start off, you create a “manager” which is the character that you will use to play. You can customize some aspects of your manager such as hair and face features. Once satisfied, you can jump into either a single story mode or campaign mode. I currently am going the campaign mode route and so far I like it. The goal is to create your own corporation so that you can make and manage retail stores. Before you get to do that, you will need to earn money by taking up contracts with other retailers in town to generate enough money to be able to set up your own stores. The game also goes into depth by allowing you to create campaigns for your store and allows you to view important statistics about the city that you are working in so that you can cater to the needs of the people. I recommend the game if you are interested in seeing how retail management works from running a store to ordering products and hiring staff. I’ve only played campaign in this game, and went immediately bankrupt when I bought my first electronics shop. I haven’t seen any of the higher-level elements of this game yet, but I’ll do my best with reviewing what I’ve played. Great game, for a work in progress. A lot of typos which I hope are eliminated in coming updates. Graphics and animations are okay for a small game like this, but could be better some day. I notice a significant framerate loss when a lot of people are in the store, and while my PC specs aren’t amazing I think it could run a little better than 10-20 FPS. There are some silly gameplay elements, like having to buy cellphone- and computer-specific tables when they both use the same model anyway. Talking to customers is a huge pain, and takes way more time and effort than it should. They never seem to buy anything afterwards anyway, even after a good conversation, so it’s not even worth the effort to try. People also get impatient at the payment counter really fast, which is annoying when you need to talk to other customers at the same time.
