Everything is new city building game Big Ambitions is the perfect storm of classic GTA, Cities Skylines and House Flipper all rolled into one Early Access experience you won’t want to miss.
Drawing clear inspiration from Rockstar’s 2009 game GTA: Chinatown Wars, players enter an ever-changing, ever-expanding New York City to create a sprawling entrepreneurial masterpiece.
“Go from zero to the biggest entrepreneur in New York, starting a small business or slowly building huge corporations, whatever you like,” reads the game’s official description on Steam, a sentiment echoed in the Early Access trailer.
Guided by a local New Yorker, you are shown the narrator’s first-ever gift shop, as well as his miserable apartment. Then we see his fast food establishment that quickly became an “overnight success”. As his enterprise expanded, he recalls, he “sat back and watched the money come in,” moving on to owning huge swaths of the city.
With the superior camera and vibrant animations of GTA: Chinatown Wars and the challenging money juggling of Cities: Skylines, Big Ambitions is the perfect blend of old and new. There’s even a bit of House Flipper, as you can customize the interiors of your new office space to suit your larger vision.
As someone who spent his childhood wondering which Sims 4 mods will make my house the best, the mix of customization and management definitely makes Big Ambitions more appealing to me than more intensive driving sims. Oh, and there’s a pink sports car, that’s what.
Big Ambitions will hit Steam Early Access on March 10th. This is a product of the development team a simulation game Startup Company, which launched in April 2020 and maintains a “very positive” rating on Steam. You can add it to your wishlist hereand also check out the upcoming silver and gold DLC, which gives you access to several different features, including new cars (maybe even pink ones!)
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