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Table of Contents
What is Pay 2 Win: The World is Mine?
Pay 2 Win: The World is mine is an incremental game where you try to build the most lucrative game studio on the planet. Make sure you check out the demo.
Hook
You are destined to run the most epic game studio, but first you have to build it. With the help of two cute assistants, you must build out different facilities and make the money to expand into infinity. Open up packs to unlock better facilities, arrange them to earn special combos, and sit back as you watch that profit grow. Can you find the perfect build that will maximize profits and create the studio you’ve always dreamed of running, or will you flop into obscurity like some kickstarter scam project.
Gameplay
Pay 2 Win is an incrimental game, which means you sit back as you watch the numbers grow. The game starts players off with a booster pack of basic facilities and an empty grid. Players buy spaces on the grid with their profits to place their facilities. A facility on this grid will generate profits automatically. Players can increase this yield by placing certain facilities next to each other to create lucrative combos, or unlocking useful abilities. As the player progresses, so do the numbers. The goal is to show infinite growth, and possibly unlock all of the achievements.
Review
I like Pay 2 Win for the first few hours until it was clear that there was nothing else to do but wait for the numbers to keep going. The game does have a story, cool animation, but when it slows down, there really isn’t a reason to keep playing. It may not be as bad as Humans vs Orks, but there are better titles that deserve more of your time.
Aesthetic
The art for this game is simple, but it works. There are a few flavorful sprites, but the game tries to bait you with the cute waifu assistants. The character art is fine, and I appreciate the animation. I won’t be commissioning any fan art, but it was a nice break from staring at the same batch of icons all day. Outside of the two anime girls, there really isn’t much to make the game memorable.
Story
The game has a story, but it isn’t the reason you buy this game. It is a very basic, generic story that works as the game’s tutorial rather than to provide any tangible world building. I don’t expect deep worldbuilding from my incremental games, but I do expect there to content. Once you finish the story, there really isn’t any reason to play the game. Sure you can achievement hunt or unlock the more skills on the massive tree, but why bother?
Gameplay
As far as incremental games go, Pay 2 Win is pretty forgetable. Once I beat the tutorial, I really had no reason to keep playing. Sure I could have tried for all the achievements or try to unlock more of the skill tree, but there is no reason to. If you are throwing this on the second monitor to forget, you could be running Trees Inc instead. They are about the same lenghth, but Trees Inc is a little cheaper.
One thing I don’t like about Pay 2 Win is that the game doesn’t do a good job at explaining its mechanics. You are supposed to maximize profits by creating efficient combos, but there is nothing to show you what combos work well. You can easily build wrong and waste your time, and it isn’t worth finding a guide because there isn’t enough content. This game starts off slow and once you hit the wall where the game slows down a lot more, there really isn’t a reason to keep playing unless you want to chase meaningless achievements.
Conclusion
I don’t think Pay 2 Win is a bad game, Humans vs Orks is a lot worse, but it is forgettable. Where games like NeoDuel: Backpack Monsters and Konfronto have cool flavor, interesting interactions, and pvp, Pay 2 Win has cuteish anime girls. I did enjoy the two or three hours it took for the novelty to wear off, but that isn’t enough to justify the price tag. Honestly, if you like incremental games, check out NeoDuel: Backpack Monsters and Konfronto instead. They do this a whole lot better, and you get to compete with other people. If you don’t believe me, at least check out the Steam demo.