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Startup Panic

Startup Panic

tinyBuild LLC
Released: 2020-12-03
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$5.990%
Version 3.14
4+
Download on the App Store
$5.990%
Version 3.14
4+
Download on the App Store
Released: 2020-12-03

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Description

Quit your job and build an exciting startup! Survive the tech bubble, compete with rival CEOs and expand your office from bedroom programmer up to the heights of global corporate sabotage! As long as you don't get hacked... or kidnapped...

What's New in Version 3.14

Improved mobile-centric UI elements.

Seller

Name

TINYBUILD LLC

URL

http://StartupPanic.com

Information

Developer

Categories

Version

3.14

Size

2,086.5 MB

Game Center

No

VPP Device Licensing

Yes

Rating

Rated: 4+

Compatibility

iOS 10.0 or later

Devices

iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16, iPhone 16Plus, iPhone 16Pro, iPhone 16ProMax, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (10th generation), iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad MiniA17Pro, iPad MiniA17ProCellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)

Languages

English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish

App Store: Customer Ratings

Ratings & Reviews

3.1 of 5 (31 Ratings)

App Store: Customer Reviews

2023-04-17

Unreasonably difficult

The difficulty makes this game impossible to tolerate every time you think you get ahead or stand a chance it throws you a task that’s impossible to beat like the one with that pop star chick or it just makes the competitors constantly steal your users for no reason in a random event.
Runforestrun3352
Version 3.5
2021-02-09

Great but has plenty of aggravation

I have played this on PC for a month and was happy to buy it here at 1/3 the price(screwing PC players I guess). The UI is a bit more problematic on mobile but it's also faster to start playing anymore convenient for most people.
The game itself is very well designed and horribly balanced. I truly believe that they failed to apply proper weight to external testers opinions and instead balanced the game based on internal feedback from people who know how the game is structured internally. The result is very awkward game flow that punishes any deviation from the perfect path. This is FAIRLY realistic and deserves praise, but this is a game and should be fun first and foremost. Especially on mobile.
There should be two immediate changes to this version(or all!): 1) add difficulty settings. 2) add option to skip tutorial on second playthrough
The game is definitely worth $6 if you have any interest in social media startups or business simulations. Think of it as a much more difficult version of Game Dev Story.
Hemmingjay
Version 1.0
2021-01-17

Blank screen

Idk if it’s just me but whenever I play for a long period of time my screen just goes blank. I still can can go to all the screens except the office page, plz for the love of god, fix that. I hope this doesn’t just happen to me. But all in all great game
himwksjw
Version 3.11
2021-01-13

Has the potential... Needs re-work.

This game has the potential to be great! But somehow it is unrealistic. If you pay attention to the timeline, you send your workers to vacation every month. Some workers demand for higher pay than those who have more traits than they do. And you will always fail during the hosting the celebrity on your server (despite having all of my features 9 or 10). Needs a lot of re-work but possibly addicting if fixed.
keyt s.
Version 3.14
2021-01-03

Almost impossible but fun

Literally all scenarios are designed to negatively impact you greatly if things go wrong. If things go the right way, the effects are small. When a new competitor comes in, you lose almost all users, making it difficult to compete. Motivation decreases like crazy. I have to send employees on very expensive vacation every 3 minutes or so.
Andreww3232
2021-01-03

Pops tar is game breaking

Can’t even get past the pop star even with all features at almost 10
Infuriated buyer
2020-12-25

It’s ok

Has potential but then sets these expectations with unreasonable consequences in a short time period which essentially makes the game unplayable. Unknowingly knocks you down before you can even get on your feet. On pc it may be easier, with quick clicks and shortcuts but this translates terribly on mobile. The consequences for not meeting these extremely high expectations are losing hours of your time that you can never get back. Fun idea, but it really is a waste of time at this point in development. Not memorable or significant in any way, really wish the odds of negative rng events were lowered.
KiNGz X CrEaToR
2020-12-24

Fun but stuck

I’m at a point where as the announce the leap winner, the game freezes and I can’t go on.
shakasanti
2020-12-18

Fun but flawed

The game is fun to a point, but then becomes redundant and loses any fun factor.
Likes: art (really cute), a real effort was made to authenticity of running a business, music is perfect bgm, permanence of decisions is great, multiple endings is fun.
Dislikes: 1. lack of clarity of cause and effect
2. Post-mort is useless
3. Competition is broke
4. Buttons and screen layout is not good
5. Few bugs, like the ‘objectives’ text box doesn’t go away when there are no active objectives, but shows an old one already completed
Overall- I feel like I got my money’s worth, and I am happy to support a traditional pay-game trying to make a sim manger game, which is a difficult genre to create in, but it needs to rework to make it good. It is ok, worth a try if you like sim managers, but I can’t recommend for those who are not a big fan of that genre.
Here I will explain my dislikes for the developers if you would like to address in a future update
1. Lack of cause and effect is related to how a.) how the marketing side works, with connectivity and population, and b.) how to allocate for feature builds., jobs
a.) the marketing side, and how buildings work, isn’t explained well, and how it increases customers isn't evident when performed. For instance, if I build a tower, the connectivity goes up 20%, but what does that do? Why the population is so small? Is that user population or total population of people who can become users? And while on marketing, why can only one building be built at a time?
b.) in the beginning the jobs are described in a way that it is clear to focus on technology or usability, but later on that is difficult to determine. It is frustrating to focus on the wrong thing as it can take almost half a year to try again, or can possibly be a game ender.
2. Post-mort is a great idea, but it completely useless as formatted. This is due to only providing the information based on how the focus was allocated and not on the units performed. That is to say, if I am to try again, it will be with different teammates or different stats. Knowing that I allocated 33% to technology is meaningless because the technology stats are different the second time. But if I knew that I scored a 25 in technology and that is enough, then I would know how to allocate for the other aspects of the job/feature.
3. Competition is only hard because of the broken way they are introduced. When a new competitor comes in, they immediately take about 2/3 of the market, and much of my users, throwing the entire finances of the company off. I then have to stop losses and then continue building features. But competition doesn’t ever really grow their company. By late stage I can just train my staff for an entire year and not lose any market share. They should be progressing more aggressively than that, and introduced without take so much of my users. On that note, there is little customer growth in general which is just weird. By year 9, with 70% marketshare, my users grow about 10% a year even though the world is supposed to be getting more connectivity... the numbers just don’t really make sense.
4. Some buttons are too small, like the yellow triangles in the vacation results dialog box to move between employees. I have to go in and out of many dialog boxes to do vacations and training, where I should be able to train multiple employees from the same dialog box.
I hope this helps and is clear, I tried my best. Best of luck for this game and future developments.
Ps. What is the deal with pirates, almost 1/3 of the time it seems time they kidnapped my workers... it is cute at first and just annoying later.
Mke9634
2020-12-13

gud

gud
Garestructor117
2020-12-12

Could be Great

This game is pretty fun at the beginning but the further you go along the less fun/ harder it gets. For example, I can’t make it past the point when you’re supposed to host the celebrity on your website, but all my technologies were 7 or over. That’s another thing the game isn’t very clear with its instructions. When it says “technologies” there’s no way for me to know if that means I need the ratings on the things I’ve unlocked to be over 7, or it could mean the area where it gives a rating for gaming, social, and the other thing. Additionally, I think there should be difficulty levels. For example, easy would be keep levels above 4 for the celebrity, regular would be 7, and hard could be 10.
ShootToKilz
2020-12-12

Room for improvement

This game is often fun and has potential to be a great game. The employee motivation aspect can be unbearable - you have to send your employees on vacation so frequently that you almost never have a full staff to work on features. The post mortem piece is a great idea but can be unhelpful, which is frustrating because you’ve just spent thousands of dollars to learn that every trait needed more work and now you have to send your employees on vacation 🙃
Foobarwhizbang
2020-12-09

Fun game concept

Great game concept, but you lose money so fast you can barely stay afloat.
kiods1
2020-12-08

UI is bad - challenging fun game

The UI is bad. It is not obvious where the button for the marketing tab is. It is the globe that later appears on the top left. Also the buttons for choosing a recruitment method whether by social media or talent agency is also not obvious. They are the two thin vertical bars that sandwich the graphic. Overall the game is fun but challenging. To win you need to take the $100k loan. Do marketing in Asia India and SE Asia. Do what the investors want. Also don’t bother with training your employees. You need to constantly search for more talented employees. One last thing. I find it odd that when sending employees on vacation there is a good chance they will be kidnapped. What part of the world do the developers love in?
MoziMozi
2020-12-05

Poor choice of main menu order

Old review:
I don't know how my sfx and bgm setting suddenly changed to none and even when I crank it up to max, there is still no sound at all
Recent review:
The update fixed the sound issue but the new game menu is moved to the right screen. I wanted to hit continue since it was the only menu on the right. I unfortunately/accidentally hit new game and removed my save.
skeithcora
2020-12-03

This game has a lot of promise!

I’m having a really hard time getting past a few years. It would also be nice if the tutorial didn’t pop up every time you started a new game.
Looking forward to playing some more, though!
adam.iannazzone
2020-12-03

Game breaking glitch

If I dont win the LEAF contest it just leaves me in the screen for having lost it. Great game, otherwise. Some things aren’t exactly explained well in the tutorial, but you can’t do much if you cant get past that LEAF loss screen.
paulierecords
2020-12-03

Great game! But...

I love this game since watching Raptor’s gameplay of it. I have it on both my iPad 6th gen and iPhone 12. It runs smoothly on both but the downside is, is that the game stops at the Leap Year awards. The screen is just just frozen at that point but the game music does still run. I tried tapping and restarting the app but nothing showed up or changed. Hope this is helpful!
cheonsalu