Porno Studio Tycoon Review (AlterEgo45)
This is almost a good game, but not there. One of those.
First off this isn't a porn game at all. It's a business tycoon game where you make movies and that's fine with me, it is what I expected, but I know some people feel misled by that. The tycoon stuff is actually quite good, where you have to match up actors/actresses, their looks, and their specialties with certain world regions and fit it in with the type of movie you want to shoot. It's well done.
There are some irritating bugs, things where a button will disappear and you have to reload a page. Irritating but not game breaking.
But the way this game introduces itself and its mechanics is the worst I have ever seen. It is as if PST is actively trying to prevent you from learning how to play.
First, the tutorial is divided into two parts, the second of which doesn't work. Absolutely nothing is explained, you just have to wing it as you play.
Then the game attempts to unlock different things as you gain more hours, in an effort to get you into it. That sounds reasonable, but it completely changes up the mechanics on you and you don't know what's going on. First game, I got figured things out the hard way, lost, but then understood what I was doing. The second game? Everything looked and played differently despite me picking the same gaming options. I didn't know if this was because I'd played a certain length of time, or if I had a different random seed, or what the hell. That game ended with me filming something, I didn't know what since it just started
running without any prompt from me, then having my shoot interrupted by some people living next door to where I was shooting. I had no clue what I was doing.
I checked my time at that point and saw I was at 2 hours. Due to the complete lack of instructions and bizarre mechanic changes, I realized I had no more idea how to play it than I had 2 hours before. I decided to be prudent and refund it, and if I were you I'd look for a more polished title.