Parody game Install Fee Tycoon rips into Unity: "Scam unwitting developers: get rich, and destroy the video game industry in the process!"
The backlash to Unity's controversial install fees has now gone far enough to inspire the ultimate protest: a satirical idle game called Install Fee Tycoon.
The Steam page runs down the setup better than I can: "Chaos3D, the popular game engine, has started charging developers each time their games are installed in a bid to increase their stock price. They have also reached out to you, a notorious software pirate. Why? So that they can pay you to re-install those same games, of course! Scam unwitting developers: get rich, and destroy the video game industry in the process!"
Yes, folks, this is an idle game in the vein of Cookie Clicker or Clicker Heroes, but here you're clicking a 'Reinstall.bat' file in an effort to help a Unity-style game engine to scam hapless developers for piles of Unity-style install fees. While Unity has backed off those fees to an extent, the target of the satire is clear, and the timing of this game's release couldn't be more amusing given the timing of Unity's CEO making his departure.
Maybe the most surprising thing about Install Fee Tycoon is that it's actually pretty good as an idle game even beyond the joke. The whole thing takes place on an amusing recreating of a Windows XP-style desktop, where you pay for the services of chatbots and script kiddies to run game reinstalls through a Silk Road-style dark web portal called 'Cloth Road.'
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