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Shares market competition with Startup Panic.
- $12.99 (Price checked Nov 4)
- Deck Verified
- 2020
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Also Programming and Economy, like Startup Panic.
- $19.99 (Price checked Nov 4)
- Deck Verified
- 2021
Rank 03- $14.99 (Price checked Nov 4)
- Deck Playable
- 2016
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Laptop Tycoon
Why this: Also Isometric and Economy, like Startup Panic.
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Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet
Why this: Also Isometric and Time Management, like Startup Panic.
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- Released: 2022
- Developer: Algorocks
- Price: $14.99checked Oct 31
- Steam Deck: Deck Verified
- 49% of 79 reviews
- Genres: Strategy, Indie, Simulation, Casual
- Metacritic 65
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Compete by dominating regional markets
- Cute art style and ui shine
- Different endings provide replay value
- Challenging
- Contemplative
- Funny
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About Startup Panic
The closest matches to Startup Panic: Startup Company, City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins, Mad Games Tycoon, Laptop Tycoon, and Little Big Workshop. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Startup Panic is your kind of game, the closest matches are Startup Company, City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins and Mad Games Tycoon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as challenging, contemplative and funny, and single out its employee motivation and ghost quests. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
About Startup Panic: 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...
Is Startup Panic worth buying?
Players are split
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 49% of 79 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Price: $14.99 (checked Nov 7).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 11 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 12 h before their negative review.
- Steam Deck Verified.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Compete by dominating regional markets
- Cute art style and ui shine
- Different endings provide replay value
- Employee motivation matters more than work
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“So much repetitive and tiring, the menus are not optimized and we don't even have keyboard shortcuts. I met myself clicking the whole time to open the menus and to repeating the same tasks that my right wrist was starting to hurt. Also…”
“You are told basically nothing and just have to figure out on your own over and over again what you should be focusing on. Constantly interrupted by pop ups that mean nothing to you half the time but force you to stop playing every minute…”
People who play it also play: Startup Company, City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins, Mad Games Tycoon
Frequently asked about Startup Panic
Can I run it?
Is Startup Panic verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Startup Panic is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Startup Panic cost?
Startup Panic is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Startup Panic?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Startup Panic are Startup Company, City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins, Mad Games Tycoon.
Who developed Startup Panic?
Startup Panic was developed by Algorocks and published by tinyBuild.