Capitalism is often identified with a system that exploits workers. Workers or laborers often think that capitalism only benefits large capital owners.

This idea seems to be what inspired the independent developer named Most Dangerous Games to create CapitalismCraft. Just look at the introduction page for this game on Steam, they wrote in one of the sentences in the brief description, “Exploit your workers to earn money!” It clearly reveals the truth about capitalism.

Interested in exploring more about this game, the author tried to play it. Thus, this article review of the game CapitalismCraft was born, please read it to the end.

Review of CapitalismCraft

As mentioned above, CapitalismCraft is a game made by Most Dangerous Games. This indie developer is located in New York City, USA.

Most Dangerous Games is quite bold in writing the introduction to this game using a sentence that can be said to talk too much about the facts of capitalism in general and the working world and companies in particular.

The next sentence from, “Exploit your workers to earn money!” is “Recruit managers to demoralize your workers and push them to work harder, then fire them after you achieve your goal!” An introduction to a game that is honestly very different from usual.

Then, the last sentence:

“BECOME A RUTHLESS CEO, WITHOUT MERCY AND FORGIVENESS THEN, WIN THE GAME UNTIL YOU ARE CROWNED AS THE RICHEST PERSON IN THE WORLD!“

That’s enough of an introduction about the CapitalismCraft game. Let’s start the review of CapitalismCraft.

As a clicker game, CapitalismCraft offers something new and challenging, but easy enough to win. Besides the description and introduction that are really bold and straightforward, the story also turns out to be the reality of the world.

The controls are also very easy. Especially with the added music and appropriate sound, players can achieve the game’s objective in just about half an hour.

That’s a brief review of the game CapitalismCraft. Let’s discuss the details one by one starting from the first impression, the interface and control aspects, the gameplay aspect, and then the sound and graphics aspects.

First Impression Capitalismcraft review

The first impression the author got initially was that this game was about someone chasing their dream of becoming an astronaut, starting as an office employee.

Honestly, the author did not watch the trailer or read the description of this game before playing it, just saw the interesting title and played it.

It turns out the author’s impression was wrong. From the beginning of the tutorial, this game immediately shows how cruel the world is, as Wolfie, the top graduate of his campus, is fired just like that by the company.

By firing Wolfie, the player will get one of the achievements. Then, the tutorial continues until all instructions are successfully executed.

After the tutorial is finished, the player receives another achievement. Then, the real game can begin.

Interface and Control Aspects

The interface of this game is very simple. In the main menu, there are seven menus to be opened.

These menus are Start Game to start a new game, Play Tutorial useful for players if they forget how to play this game, then there is Watch Intro to see the opening story.

Quit Game is of course used to exit the game if you are bored or want to stop, then there is Watch Credits if players want to see the people behind the scenes who made this game and there is also Join Discord to join, discuss and interact both with fellow players and directly with the developers on their Discord server.

There is something interesting in the Options menu besides adjusting the resolution and screen mode whether full screen or windowed and the main sound volume, in-game sound, and music volume, the developers also added settings for UI Volume.

One thing that is usually forgotten by many other developers, but for people who pay attention to detail, it is the small things that matter.

In the game, there is an Upgrades feature to make it easier for players from initial capital to employee immunity. Upgrade Points are obtained if the player has reached a bonus objective and or even the game’s objective.

The game can be won just by “click-clicking” the mouse. This is natural because once again this is a clicker game.

Keyboard shortcuts, namely buttons 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 to recruit employees, are very helpful in saving time.

However, achieving the game objective, namely one million dollars, can be done just with the mouse without using the keyboard at all.

Since we have discussed the objective to win the game, let’s move on to the gameplay aspect.

Gameplay Aspect of Capitalismcraft review

The gameplay aspect of CapitalismCraft can briefly be described in three words: fast, challenging, intriguing. That is what describes CapitalismCraft if it can only be described in three keywords.

CapitalismCraft seems to be designed for a quick game because most of the achievements given revolve around time.

Normally, the main objective of this game, which is to get $1,000,000, can be achieved in a time span of between 15 to 30 minutes.

However, there are challenges given by the game developers from starting to achieve that objective in less than 10 minutes to the most extraordinary, which is finishing the game in no more than 4 minutes.

This challenge will make players curious and end up playing this game continuously.

This is what makes the replayability of this game high. Players who have pride and a life centered on challenges will continue to play CapitalismCraft endlessly, not realizing they have spent hours playing it.

Even though the player may have finished it many times. But because they have not yet managed to complete it within the challenged time frame, they end up repeating it over and over again.

The fast music reinforces that this game seems to be designed to make players move and think quickly.

Since we have discussed music, we need to move on to the sound aspect.

Sound and Graphics Aspects

Music after several plays does feel fast but, when opening the game for the first time, it will seem boring because the introduction of the main character is like listening to a fairy tale.

The sound aspect of CapitalismCraft is not just the music, but also the sound effects and the UI Sound mentioned earlier for players who pay attention to detail. The sound effects and including the UI sound when the cursor points to the menu and clicks something are very clearly heard.

Typing sounds of office employees, printer sounds, and even grumbling sounds sound real. Thus bringing players into the “real” company atmosphere.

Why does “real” use quotation marks? Because in this game the employees are animals. Therefore, we move on to the graphics aspect.

As for the graphics as a clicker game, CapitalismCraft does not need fancy graphics, just good enough. Cartoon animal images reduce the tension and pressure generated by the game.

Funny though satirical animations often occur such as tired employees who have to be bribed with pizza. Not to mention the depiction of characters that reverse common logic, where wolves work under sheep, making the satirical graphics of this game perfect.

Conclusion of CapitalismCraft Review

CapitalismCraft is a clicker game that not only offers entertainment but also inserts sharp social criticism against the reality of the working world and the capitalist system.

So, is this game worth buying, playing, and collecting in the digital library? The answer is definitely, yes! Especially for players who are challenged to get all the rewards from a game.

How to get the CapitalismCraft game?

At the beginning, it was indeed said that this game is available on Steam, but the link has not been given, here is the link to get the CapitalismCraft game on Steam, priced at Rp82,499 IDR.

This concludes CapitalismCraft review, hope it is useful and happy playing and becoming the richest CEO quickly in the animal world!