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• Ultimarok

  Sep 4, 2023

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• gamedeal user

  Nov 12, 2018

  I'm very sorry to give this a thumbs down. I loved the idea of this game and I love the passion these developers have for the work they do. However it sadly doesn't translate to good title. In short..its not really about banking and because the turns lack a real timeline, the goals of IMF and federal reserve aren't very realistic. the game lacks interacton with kings and merchants, it lacks historical content and game world information turn by turn. You do get war information when it happens but even this is lacking. It mostly resembles a phone game where u buy resources, make enough to buy access to new markets and then rinse repeat. The good: The graphics for an indie title are decent. The idea behind the game is excellent. The Bad: Basically its just not what is advertised. It isn't close to being complex enough to be called a bank manager game. You really aren't even banking for the majority of your income. I'm sorry to cut this review short I just don't want to go into all the ways the title doesn't live up to its name. In short the developers are a passionate group and i wish them the best the reality is this was just to ambitious a title for such a small time on the timeline they are on. If you enjoy casual iphone games where you buy resources then wait turns to generate income so you can buy more resources then give it a shot it doesnt cost a lot. the 2 hours steam gives is more then enough time to refund the title if you do not like it. Oh last thing, the tutorial is terrible so if u don't love what it offers right away click the refund button like i did.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 17, 2018

  Asking for a refund for now after 1.5 hours of play for the following reason: I can't tell if this game is trying to be a grand strategy game, and hasn't gotten there yet, or if it's trying to be a clicker game, and is overly complicated for that. I'm leaving a positive rating because the quality of the game is high. It's obviously lovingly crafted. It seems bug free, you can get into a nice flow in the UI, the graphics are nice. But I simply can't tell what kind of game it's trying to be. I personally got this because it looked like a grand strategy game, but it plays a bit like a clicker game. And that's fine, if that's what the developer is going for. I'm going to keep an eye on its development, but right now, I didn't want to spend $10 on a souped-up clicker game. tl;dr As it stand right now, recommend if you want a fancy clicker game, do not recommend if you want a Paradox-esque game.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 14, 2018

  I have mixed feelings about this game. I mostly enjoyed the time I played it. It sort of feels like a grand strategy game crossed with a clicker game with all the weaknesses of both and some of their strengths? A... grand clicker game? It's all kinds of complex, and if you like menus, ho boy does it have menus. It also doesn't explain a ton. Eventually you sort of get to the clicker-y "numbers go up" point, but there's so much *work* involved in it. I think the best explanation might an example turn from ~80 turns in. 1. Click Armory button. Drag slider to spend all my iron on Halberds (which cost more iron and have the same production cost as swords, where production is likely to be your bottleneck after turn 20) and any remaining production on crossbows (ditto above, but with wood and bows). 2. Click my Credit button. I need to pick someone to lend money to (which at this point means browse 15+ applicants to find the one that gives the highest rate of return and lasts as many turns as possible, so I don't need to check back here next turn, if I remember by next turn, which I won't). 3. Click the Exchange button, I have facilities producing about 5-6 different luxury resources, which I'll need to sell if their price forecast indicates that their price may go down later, or stay the same (because I may as well have the money now then) or hold if the price may go up. 4. Check the Ongoing Wars button to see who I'm going to sell the weapons I manufactured to this turn to. I have holdings in 10-15 countries, and if they lose a war in a region where I have land those facilities are damaged, so I need to make sure I sell weapons to any of them in an engagement. 5. If any of my countries *is* in an engagement then investing in them gives me better rates on property (albeit randomly). I can increase the amount that I can invest in them by helping them build better infrastructure, by going back to the main menu, opening my investments category, and seeing if the timer has expired since last time I invested allowing me to do so again. If I can, I need to double check what region was at war, then go back, invest in that region, then wait until next turn to invest. 6. See if any small countries (which are cheaper to buy my way into) are in conflicts. If they are, and the conflict won't be resolved in the next turn, I can buy in now, and repeat step 5, currency allowing. 7. Visit my Spy section to spend political currency generated by the building to maintain or improve relationships with *each* country I am involved in. Reputation degrades over time, and at this point can't be automatically maintained, you have to come back and push buttons every couple of turns or... bad things happen? It isn't really explained. 7a. I can also pay a fee (and wait on a turn-based timer) to force a nation I'm in good standing with to go to war (against a random neighbor). They may go to war with a nation I have investments in, so I need to make sure I invest in countries that are far apart. 8. Click on my Guard building. I can spend any Fear (a currency generated by the building) on missions as it accumulates. 9. If I have left-over money, I can buy an investment (a property) from the Investment menu. 10. I... geez, there's still more. I'm tired. Look, there's a lot. My point is, there's too much stuff to do that could be automated out. I'm spending time doing stuff over and over, and navigating menus back and forth that I *really* don't want to be. If more automation creeps in and the menu system was made a bit easier to navigate this could be quite solid. As is I just kinda feel like it's wasting my time. I do like it though. Wish I could recommend it, or want to play it.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 26, 2019

  I restarted twice to figure out how to play. Now that I know what the game wants me to do to be successful, the game is shallow. I believe the lack of proper instruction is intentional. If you knew how to play right away you would realize this is not a game yet. It took me a long time to play enough to figure this out. Most people work every day. I work. To get 12 hours in it took awhile. I should have read that top negative review. I impulse bought off of a half watched youtube video. My fault. So you get to keep my money even though it is not yet deserved. 1st review ever. Going to review some other stuff that I think of positively because I don't want to just send negativity into the universe.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 6, 2019

  Evil Bank Manager is a turn-based financial simulator where you play as a merchant starting in the late middle-ages and playing for 300 seasons. While the devs had proposed making the game a multiplayer title, they have been backing off from those promises - this review, by the way, is not negative for that reason. I bought this game as a single-player title and I am judging the game now purely on my experience with it as a single-player title. If you are a perspective buyer, however, do not expect the single-player nature of this title to change. The positives: - The music is excellent and era fitting - though there isn't much of it and it tends to loop a lot. - The indirect combat system (whereby you fund different nations via investments or arms deals) is unique. Being a secret power that is influencing much more massive nations into winning wars that they clearly shouldn't is the highlight of the entire title. While many other games allow you to give money to one nation so that it can kill another, very rarely do games directly reward you (via funds or property in the supported nation) for supporting wars that you are not directly part of. The negatives: - The AI is incapable of warring, even on the highest possible difficulty. While I just praised the indirect war system, the AI is incapable of participating on an equal footing with the player. Why? Because the AI does not seem to know how to convert iron and wood into weapons, and that weapons should be sold directly to warring nations for extra cash and war influence... instead the AI will just bulk sale its unprocessed iron and wood to the market. For this reason the player can always overpower the AI by producing arms and selling them to warring nations - insuring that a player with enough arms production will always win every war: even when you are single merchant supporting a one-province Navarra against a massive France supported by many AI merchants. - The AI does not know how to save commodities or luxuries for price increases. Yes, the very basis of being a bank and saving money now to make more money later: the AI does not know how to do it. They have only one gear: sell everything I own. - The UI. The UI in town is slow and clunky, and people on the forums have reported motion-sickness with how it zooms your camera in and out. In addition: AI alliances are completely hidden from the player, not allowing a person to see that Nevers, for instance, is allied to ten other nations - there is no way to know this without someone going to war with them first. The map modes are also extremely unhelpful: not allowing you to see which nations or provinces have competing merchants within them, or allowing you to see what provinces have what resources: you have to click on every single province in order to see what resources it possesses and which merchant owns it, if anybody. - This financial simulator fails at being a simulator. When iron is produced in France, it is instantly taken to your factories in Ming China, which you can then use a type of mana called "work" to instantly convert all the iron into swords, and then you can instantly sell all the swords to a land-locked, surrounded Fez with a couple of button clicks. There is no profit loss when trading like this across the world, or explanation as to how you are transporting resources across the world when Africa and the new world remains unexplored throughout the game and the Ottoman Empire hates everyone. Infrastructure or shipping - possibly the most crucial part of a mercantile enterprise - does not exist in this merchant simulator. Just stockpile your different types of mana and you can do whatever you want whenever you want when the need arises. - Saves are located on the cloud, and only on the cloud (unless you run Linux). Unless you are new to Steam, you probably have experienced random disconnections from the service at random intervals. How would you like those random disconnections to result in a complete loss of all your saved games? Because that's what happens in Evil Bank Manager, as I found out on my first playthrough... which leads me to the final problem... - The devs are unhelpful and do not listen to the community. To give a shorthand summary of my conversation with the devs: The fact that save games are on the cloud is "just how it is," and that I just needed to get internet and deal with it. I said this was a smart-ass thing to say (obviously I have internet - otherwise I couldn't be on the forums) and pushing saves purely on the steam cloud was stupid thing to do and a disaster waiting to happen. The dev then told me that, "I have 140 iq," and that they are an indie team and creating a save folder - by the way it is one of the absolutely easiest things to do - was not on their priority list and I just needed to deal with save-files disappearing whenever the Steam service goes down. I then told the dev that he wasn't listening to his customers complaints - as this is a long-standing issue that you can see for yourself throughout this game's forums - and I told him, "You need to get your head out of your own ass before you suffocate." And for this, I have been permanently banned from the Evil Bank Manager community. Never has getting banned from something made me laugh so hard. In short: do not buy this game unless you like randomly deleted saves, dumb AI, an anti-simulator, or supporting these kinds of indie devs who think they are smarter than you, will ignore your complaints, and will ban you for "abuse" when an argument gets heated.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 10, 2019

  Game is fun, but a bit shallow after early game. However I believe that is reflected in the price as well. It's a completely finance-focused Grand Strategy-lite game. Although you can back a single country, and use your finances to push its conquest of lands, it seems far more profitable to just be the shadow banker behind many countries. Diversify your assets and all that. Once you get to mid-game (past turn 100 or so), it gets a bit repetitive clicking on all your "daily" tasks (things you do every turn, like issuing loans, buying investments, seizing property from defaulted loans, etc). They have included some checkboxes and dropdowns to automatically do things like produce weapons and improve relations with a country you do business in. If they let you automate everything though, to include buying investment property and selling resources on the market, you would basically just be watching the game play itself every turn and intervening just in case of war. As the game currently is, after an hour or so in one playthrough, I just start to get bored with the actual gameplay. It might be nice to include more events, gameplay or just flavor events, like world news, to break up the monotony. That's the only way other similar games keep your attention for so long, is by throwing in a bunch of randomness and story flavor.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 4, 2019

  So the game is fun in concept, I like to optimize my play and this game allows me to do so, I like city builders and country builders this game gives me that same play. However it have problems at this point in time the main one is unfinished tutorial combined with no tooltips so core mechanics of the game can only be found if you make logical leaps and take out an calculator to test it to find out how it works. when one find out how it works it's "obvious" but as an new player they are not. (watched a few youtubers try the game they also do not find it obvious). There are to many clicks, early game this is not a problem, but the longer into the game you get the more clicks you have to do every turn at some point it just bogs down. Yes having to spend 2x as many clicks to do something because of "bad" interface design is ok when one just have to do the operation a few times but when one do it again and again it starts adding up. Posted on the forums about one of the to many clicks problem, the response was "You have to wait for EBM2 for interface fixes". So I guess that tells you what you should do, wait for EBM2 before you get the game.
• travcook

  Aug 9, 2019

  I agree with many other reviewers that while this game was fun to play, it has little replay value. The only reason I might play this again is to max out achievements, but I don't see a whole lot of variance in how I would run my bank if I did it again. Some more role-playing options and character development would make this game incredible!
• gamedeal user

  Sep 3, 2019

  Funny name for the game. As if there were any "kindly bankers" in the world... In fact, there are. And you can be one of them with that game: you can help numerous states raise their well-being with your funds and long-term investments. But... Yeah, that would be boring to do only good things when you have the power, right? So, "Evil Bank Manager" is the financial strategy game where you start in the year 1500, either in Europe or in Asia, choosing one of the 8 sets of perks, and starting to do some speculative business in one of the countries, eventually branching your brand all over the known world map (Europe, Asia, and North Africa). It's a turn-based game, and if you're familiar with global strategies, you'll pick the pace rather quickly. Just imagine a world map with states and provinces, like in Paradox "Crusader Kings" or "Europa Universalis". You can't own the land, but you can control some facilities in every province. Some of them will generate for you gross income, some - resources to sell on the global market (food, iron, jewelry, etc.) Your bank has 4 departments: one is for those investments I already named. Second, obviously, looking for people in need of money and granting loans. The third department enforcing your will throughout the world: collecting debts, doing favors for the official authorities and magnates, sabotaging the work of other banks in the world. The fourth, diplomatic department, is collecting the reputation you make and channeling it to the further bank development, like support from local authorities, lower real estate prices and taxes, assistance in competition with other banks - we call GR now. You can even wage some wars indirectly! The only difference from the real-life bankers is that you need to choose which side you're on in every conflict which you support. In reality, it is not a problem to invest on both sides. Especially if you can sell them your weapons for the gross profit... All specialists in all four departments generating some expertise points, which you can invest in the research tree, which is looking much like we had in Firaxis "Civilization". Also, all your departments, starting from headquarters, can be upgraded, which will allow you to hire more men, with better expertise. Each upgrade will move you closer to the development of the world currency issue, which is one of the game goals. Actually, like in "Civilization" series again, you can win by one of the possibilities: either you build the global reserve all by yourself (like the space program), or you can get the majority in that Global Reserve, by the cumulative influence calculation ("cultural" victory). You can rush into R&D and achieve Science victory. Or you can undermine the budgets of all other banks in the world and make yourself a monopoly and Conquest victory... Any way you like it. Speaking of the game quality, I'd say, it's above the medium, by the strategies standards. There is a tutorial to learn the ropes, UI is obvious enough, the game is stable and if you like the diversity of approaches like I just said, there are at least 4 different paths to ensure the victory, so, replayability is also there. Sure, the game is not that big as the "Europa Universalis" or the "Civilization", it will take like 10-20 hours to earn all the achievements and be done with it... But those are good hours. Sure, there are small things that some players can call downsides. Like some states on the world map are hard to click - especially in Europe, with its total fragmentation of the time where each province was called a state. Some say the tutorial ain't clear enough, and UI is confusing, but that goes from people who are new to the strategy genre. From the other end, some complain that they don’t have enough statistics and graphs - they definitely came from Crusaders Kings or Victoria, or any other Paradox title... Oh, well. I'd say, it's fair 6.9/10. The game is totally worth its price. Decent visuals, decent gameplay (opponents are kinda weak when you know what you're doing, but then again, it is a common problem for global strategies). Good music, especially European tracks - not quite suitable for the time period, of course, but pleasing to the ear. Totally recommend, if you like strategies.