Lemonade Tycoon Review

Lemonade Tycoon Review

Review by Dylan

Lemonade Tycoon is a simple game that achieves its goal of being an easy, sit down and play simulation. This tycoon allows you to fulfill your childhood dream of opening a successful lemonade stand, while learning that a lemonade business can be more complex than you realize. Become (like the title states) a lemonade tycoon, complete with state-of-the-art stand, appliances, staff, and various rental locations. The game is simple, yet packed with a lot of fun.

Start Small and Upgrade

As you begin the game you are given a small amount of start-up money to buy your first ingredients and get your business rolling. It becomes your job to formulate the lemonade recipe by combining sugar, lemon juice, and ice correctly, while simultaneously scouting out the correct locations to set up shop and make money.

As your business and popularity grows, upgrades like ice machines, new stands, and electric signs that attract customers become available and necessary to buy. These upgrades will set you back at the beginning of the game, but the efficiency they bring builds your capital and eventually makes the initial investment worthwhile.

Rent Stands in Strategic Locations

Apart from the cool and helpful upgrades, the various rental locations bring a strategic element to the game. These 10 differing locations can be expensive, yet lucrative business ventures. You can set up shop at places like the park, the suburbs, the mall, baseball games, and at a theme park.

The more populated locations require more initial money, however, they draw the most people and present the possibility of reaping the greatest rewards. For example, the most you might make in the free of rent suburbs is at most 70 dollars; however, if you spend 150 dollars to rent a stand at the baseball game you can make upwards of 850 dollars. The initial cost is surpassed 10 fold.

Also, the game offers clues that cue you in on where to rent. These cues, which might be a dolphin spotting at the beach or a convention downtown, guide you to the most populated and money making rental locations.

Not the Best Looking Game

As far as drawbacks, this game has a few. The most noticeable is the game's simple aesthetics. The audio and visual qualities of the game are lacking. This may initially deter you as a player, however, the game play is not dependent on these factors.

Can Get Repetitive

A critical flaw of the game is the repetitiveness. Once you've played three hours and beat the game, starting over may feel like more of a chore than a good time. There are only so many lemonade formulas you will want to try and playing the same levels over again will probably get boring. Lemonade Tycoon may become repetitive, which takes away from the re-playability.

Conclusion - More Complex Than Meets the Eye

Although the simple graphics may make you think the game is of poor quality, you will begin to appreciate the game's greatness once you experience the complexity of the business mechanics. Lemonade Tycoon does not try to be something it's not. The game is simple, as simple as selling lemonade on a hot day, which is what makes it great. It doesn't require a lot of time and it is fun to watch your stand grow.

This game is for anyone interested in an easy to play and complete simulation game, or for anyone who has or had hopes of making it big as a lemonade entrepreneur.