AdVenture Capitalist
Description official description
AdVenture Capitalist is a grossing game centered around gaining money from running businesses. The player starts with a lemon stand, which is the only source of income, through running the stands (clicking), they can earn income to hire managers to run that stand for them. With this money, they can run more businesses, upgrading them and generating more revenue.
These businesses will eventually, with the aid of managers, run themselves to there is no need to keep clicking. This gives the player a source of revenue which can be re-invested in additional business units. At certain thresholds the player triggers bonuses so, for example, growing from one hundred to two hundred lemonade stands will double the profit being made, or it could double the speed at which the profit is made. Similarly increasing the number of newspapers would have a similar effect but, through advertising could double the profit on lemonade stands or the car wash businesses.
Successful businesses attract investors, or 'angels' as they're called in the game. These accumulate during gameplay and when a player reaches a point where their game is not progressing fast enough they cash in their game and start a new one with the angels from the first business carrying over to the second. Each angel carried over means that profits in the new business will accumulate 2% faster so the game picks up speed once again.
Repeat the cycle a few times sacrificing all progress made for angels and the in-game thresholds that were seemingly impossible become achievable as instead of dealing with millions and billions of dollars the player is dealing with quadrillions and quintillions and the player even starts to see items costing duotrigintillions (that's a one with ninety-nine zeroes) and more.
The player is also able to fund a moon voyage and run businesses on the moon and Mars.These businesses run in parallel to the earth businesses, profits earned in one are not transferable to the other.
Groups +
Screenshots
Promos
Videos
Add Trailer or Gameplay Video +1 point
See any errors or missing info for this game?
You can submit a correction, contribute trivia, add to a game group, add a related site or alternate title.
Credits (Windows version)
64 People (35 developers, 29 thanks) · View all
| Lead Game Designer | |
| Producer | |
| Lead Developer | |
| Developer | |
| QA Lead | |
| QA | |
| Artist | |
| UI/UX | |
| Community Support | |
| Executive Team | |
| Kongregate Publishing | |
| [ full credits ] | |
Reviews
Critics
Average score: 62% (based on 9 ratings)
Players
Average score: 3.2 out of 5 (based on 13 ratings with 1 reviews)
What I thought was a "Pleasant little timewaster" is a really addictive timewaster
The Good
This is the first 'clicker' game I have played and it is strangely addictive. Not knowing what to expect I started out clicking on the first lemonade stand and eventually had the profits to buy a few more. When I had ten business units the rate at which profit was made increased which was a nice surprise so I kept on going.
When you click on a business it starts making a profit and a status bar fills up but with five or six businesses running and the bars filling at different rates it soon becomes a challenge to keep on top of them all so I hired my first manager, then another and so on.
I've been playing for around an hour now, it's running in the background earning me money as I type this and I keep popping back to see how much money I have and re-investing it. In other words the game is pleasant and addictive, even its repetitive music is catchy.
Update
I've been playing the game for two days straight now and by that I mean most of the day and all of the night until midnight and beyond and I leave it running so that when I get up in the morning I've amassed more cash. The more I've played it the more depth I've found and the more addictive it has become. It's like gaming Kryptonite for me - it appeals to my desire to complete things and I can't get any work done!
There are 'Events' and one finished last night, at the end of the game there were prizes for those who finished on the leader board. These events use the same basic game but different products, in the The Event I played was set in the past and had dinosaur shock collars and sabre tooth tiger litter bins etc. Cash accumulates faster and the player had to grow the game, trash it to collect the 'angels', restart, repeat, repeat, repeat. This game ran in parallel with the normal game and the game set on the moon so I was switching between the three all night long. Thoroughly enjoyable
The Bad
It's a fun waste of time and I hate wasting time
The Bottom Line
Its fun, it's free, give it a try for an hour. That's what I did and two days ago and as I type this I'm wondering if I dare just open it up for a few minutes to see whether my overnight strategy worked. If I do then I'll probably end up skipping breakfast
Windows · by piltdown_man (236388) · 2019
Analytics
Upgrade to MobyPro to view research rankings!
Related Games
Released 1978 on Mainframe
Released 1978 on Mainframe
Released 1979 on Mainframe
Released 1977 on Mainframe, 1987 on DOS
Released 1979 on Mainframe
Released 1987 on Atari ST, 1992 on Amiga
Released 2003 on Atari 2600
Released 1979 on CP/M, 1979 on Heath/Zenith H8/H89, 2007 on Windows
Released 2018 on iPhone, 2020 on Blacknut, 2021 on PlayStation 4...
Related Sites +
-
Wikipedia: AdVenture Capitalist
Article about the game in the open encyclopedia
Identifiers +
Contribute
Are you familiar with this game? Help document and preserve this entry in video game history! If your contribution is approved, you will earn points and be credited as a contributor.
Contributors to this Entry
Game added by ProGamerX56.
iPad, iPhone, PlayStation 4, Android, Browser added by Sciere.
Additional contributors: MAT, Kennyannydenny, Evolyzer.
Game added August 14, 2015. Last modified December 21, 2023.