Approximate amount of time to 100%: 23h with help from some Steam workshop items.
Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: To be faster with some achievements, you'll start a new map or save file a few times.
Has it been in a bundle: No.
Is there a good guide available: No, the achievement guide that is on the Steam forums is outdated.
How many people have completed this game at the time I'm writing this review:: 4 on Astats.
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: No
Grinding Achievements: Yes, especially the achievement "Gross!" is grindy.
DLC-Only achievements: No
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: Some of them require a specific difficulty option, but I was able to get the one about the roads and about shoplifters on a file with unlimited funds, which made them really easy.
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No.
I had been thinking about trying out this game a long time before I bought it and well after that before I even started playing it.
It looked like so much fun but how long would the achievements take and how complicated would the game be? I decided just a few days ago to give this one a try since it had its full release a few months back.
When I started the game and was done with the tutorial, I felt lost, at first... There are so many options but what should I do and what really works? I'm still not certain, TBH, as I can't understand why some other workshop items make so much profit, while my own build, didn't do so well but I still had a lot of fun with this game, once I started to understand more and more as time went on.
In my opinion, the tutorial maybe should've been a bit longer and explained a bit more, like; how a store becomes a specific type of store (sell over 50% of that specific item), or how opening times impact your sales. They let your hand go really early and only explain the bare minimum. I almost stopped playing at that point because I felt so overwhelmed but in hindsight, I'm glad I didn't and just keep on going.
For me, the hardest achievement to earn was to complete a scenario. I did do well with the first 2 steps but making 100k profit a day was a bit of a challenge and took me a while. I decided while working on that 100k to make all the different kinds of shops, to get going on all those achievements as well, and I got almost all of them before I got to 100k a day in profits.
What I've learned from that playthrough it that I made some of my shops, way too small. I thought since they only sell jewelry, for example, I'd only need 2/3 tables and 1 checkout. However, the one checkout caused a bottleneck and in retrospect, I'd now suggest having room for at least 3 checkouts.
A lot of the achievements are really easy with the help of the Steam workshop items. You can complete this game maybe even in under 20 hours. I took a bit longer because especially for the "Gross!" achievement I left the game running while I was working on my PC in another tab or when I wasn't even at my PC. I sometimes missed a prompt that I had to click something in the game while the game paused automatically until I answered the prompt.
I would highly suggest to first enjoy the game yourself, play around with it before starting to hunt all those achievements. Use the ones for selling items in specific shops as a guideline to discover what kind of shops you can make.
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