Vegas: Make It Big™

This is a really easy builder game. But the visuals are pleasant and the game is quite relaxing just to see how you turn a meager gambling den into a massive compound of mega hotels and casinos packing every game of chance with different areas for a different level of risk. There could be more decorative items, but it's possible to get more creative by using what is on offer. For being a low price game, it's totally worth it, give it a chance.

Runs just fine on a modern operating system without the need for any third party patches or downloads.

This game is a surprisingly good:
- Feels very chill to play.
- Was made before ESG ruined everything.
- Absolute bargain if you get it on sale.

Nitpicks:
- Placing paving feels janky because the selected square doesn't line up well with the mouse pointer. It's still
- perfectly usable, & you don't spend much time placing paving, but it's a little annoying.
- Clicking 'view casino', while in a casino, during the tutorial, crashes the game.
- If you save the game in a paused state, it will sill load in an un-paused state.
- Not the end of the world, just a minor annoyance.
- No rebind-able keys.

it's a great way to build and understand how casino resort complexes work in las vegas and how much money you make by satisfying their needs

How I wish that there were more than the twenty-four hours in the day.
Even if there were forty more I wouldn't sleep a minute away.
Oh, there's black jack and poker and the roulette wheel.
A fortune won and lost on ev'ry deal.
All you need's a strong heart and a nerve of steel.
Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas

A small tycoon game based on building a lot on the Vegas strip. I originally bought this game at Big Lots for $5, and sunk many hours into building lots and casinos. Its a nice casual game with a nice sound track. The game features multiple themes to keep the builds interesting and unique for certain buildings such as paths, casinos, hotels, and other misc decorations. Overall I would recommend to have a nice chill time.

It's a tycoon game for Las Vegas. Find your customer base, cater to their needs and empty their wallets on the baize on your tables or fill up your slots. If they want to sleep, they can sleep in your hotels. If they want to blow any winnings, they can spend it in your shops. Also, if they want to get in a show or see a blockbuster, make sure you've got one in your empire that they will visit.

Plus, if you play things right, you even get to own a roller coaster!

Shows its age unfortunately. Having to invidivually maintain each and every thing with no notifications that it needs to be done save for when it breaks, and no way to automate it, really cripples the game for me. Do not reccomend.

Oldie but goldie.
Though it's an old game, it's still fun to play. The campaign is quite difficult at some points. The biggest issue is the control with the mouse... the cursor is a "little" shifted towards the center of the screen. If you're patient enough, it won't trouble you that much.

Even with it's flaws, I still can recommend this old game.

This game isn't bad tbh and if you keep your strip small its actully very fun.

The game becomes a chore however when you decide to expand your strip, you'll find yourself mashing the repair button every five seconds on a strip with more than 3 medium casinos and from there it just gets progressively worse.

Lord help you if you decide to have disasters on becuase then it gets even worse. It wouldn't be so bad if they implmented an autorepair mechanic that let you assign your staff to certain parts of the casino but sadly, it lacks this.

It's old. Now that the obvious is out of the way: I have absolutely loved every moment of this game. It's intricate and very challenging. There are so many ways to screw up in campaign mode, forcing you to get your management down to a refined edge. People are attracted by age, wealth, and gender to certain themes and events you build. You even hand make the layout for your freakin casino and choose a theme (Mayan, Greek, Patriotic, Chinese to name a few) for that. Few modern games grant you this many options.

Even when Planet Coaster 19 is hitting shelves, I will be playing this.

This game stretches all the way back to my childhood and during that time I enjoyed the game thorougly.

Being young, I didn't notice the faults and imperfections in the game (which there are) such as the short campaign, informative tutorials, and poor graphics, however if you love managment and tycoon games, you can't really go wrong for a price of $0.32, and there are some really good things to take away from the game.

The casino builder is really enjoyable and has alot of depth to it, more than the actual lot desiging. The campaign could prove challenging to people who have just picked up the game. The sandbox mode offers great fun, trying to collect the most money and build a good reputation on the strip.

Overall, the game is not perfect, however it has many more postives than negatives, so next time a sale pops up, you can't go wrong with spending some pocket change on a fun and entertaining game!

I paid £0.34 for this game. To put that into perspective, a packet of potato chips costs £0.55. I would not spend 164 hours eating a packet of potato chips, therefore I feel I must recommend.

This is actually quite a decent game though flaws with the AI hamper it from reaching its full potential. The biggest upsides are the number of options and how much you can customize the interiors of casinos to your wishes. You can make your casino as lush or barren as you want, make it a blackjack/craps paradise or only focus on slots. With the largest casino, you can do both, but not every customer will like or appreciate all the gambling options. Craps creates noise (ever been near one in Vegas?) while high rollers won't care for your low-limit slots.

The negative/positive benefit system is actually quite rewarding and nice. The trick is that negatives can be offset by positives, once you learn that, you won't be bothered by people complaining about smell or noise, just add fountains or something else that creates positive calm or beauty. Those positive objects though, come at a price, including maintenance, electricity and water if appropriate, but realy once you learn how to play the game, money isn't much of an issue anymore, which is something that could be improved.

Learning not to build everything is another lesson that takes time. Your property and casino can't be everything to everyone. High rollers want luxury and high stakes games, while degenerate gamblers want drinks and your typical family want entertainment and lower stakes. Unfortunately, the best way to make money is to cater to the high rollers, but then that might be realistic since I haven't seen a new casino in Vegas built for penny slot players either.

The flaws of the game are in the AI and will require micromanagement to solve. Maintenance workers won't fix buildings or objects until they break, meaning that you will have to manually direct them to actually maintain buildings and objects before that happens. The worst part though is with the janitors who will just stand around and have to be told to specifically go to an area in order to clean the trash. This becomes tedious and no matter what, you'll have to live with some litter on your properties and inside that lush casino you built.

In all, this game is fun and addictive, but is too easy once you figure it all out. Plus the AI issues make it annoying at times. Still it's easily worth $5, you'll get many hours of fun playing and building your dream casino.

This game has so many negative reviews and I've played enough hours now that I feel I should write my own review: a positive one.

Although the visuals are not as fancy and modern as other city-builders, I found this game was far more complex and detailed than Sim City Societies while having the same kind of fun aspect.

You have different screens to monitor things like income, reputation, which demographic of people a certain building or lot appeals to, the state of repairs of buildings and gambling machines. You can click on some staff buildings and see the employee's skills, speed, attention and charisma and how much their wage are, you can hire more employees and fire them. You can upgrade certain buildings so that they more attract the people you wish them to (e.g. you can add a bell boy to the hotel so that the VIPs are happier to stay there) . You can click on each individual visitors and see their line of thought, this will let you know of things like if your restrooms are too hard to find, if the place is dirty, if your guests would like to do some drinking while they are gambling etc. Clicking on the visitors also allows you to see what they prefer (gambling, activity, rest er whatever) and what demographic they belong to (family, tourist, high roller or else) and you can build your lot to target certain people specifically because you can't please every one (people who are looking to relax will not like a lot that has many loud buildings such as casinos and circus' that appeal to people looking for activities).

The game has the option of sandbox or campaign. You set the difficulty in the sandbox to be as you are comfortable with and it is useful for practicing in preparation for the campaign which gets pretty challenging. The campaign includes the tutorial which is a bit annoying to go through. Also, the game doesn't save automatically and you can't save before finishing each campaign chapter it seems, bit annoying. The second campaign is not a tutorial at all and has events that require actions that were not covered in the tutorial, a bit of digging and trying things out is required to win. The third campaign chapter is more challenging even and I haven't been able to win it but as I'm learning it's getting closer and closer to beating my competitor neighbour.

A few things I dislike about the game: there is no undo button, when you accidentally place a staircase a square away from connected to the upper-level floor, for example, your only options to correct the mistake is to sell the staircase for regain of a percentage of what it cost to place or to leave the staircase there. This makes it so you have to be very careful where you put down things and it's kind of hard to gauge where they'll go because there is no truly visible grid inside the casino.

Also this game seems to require a lot of management: Buildings will get in very poor state of repairs if you don't tell the mechanics to go visit them, slot machines will get nonfunctional because the cashier hasn't gone to empty them and this is on top of you having to monitor each building's reputation, income generation (which you can control by choosing within a range of fees charged and, on casino games, house advantage among other things).

Overall, I like the game. Quite a lot actually. It's definitely not a game everyone would like though but if you like city-builders and management-heavy games that have only okay graphics I would recommend this game.

I got it on sale and I have no regrets whatsoever 7.5/10

This game had potentional but the camera system works terribly, Yes it is quite old now but its insanly hard to move the camera to a nice place and just view the casino nicely , The casino tycoon espect is great and Im postive another game is on point but this game is just unplayable really with the dodgy camera. Maybe its just me who thinks this its my opinon thats why I have to say I don't recommend this game .

This is basically an empire building sim, but a decent one.
Don't expect too much from this and you should be rewarded with a few nice suprises.
The tutorial is straight forward, to let you get into the action quickly, but there is still plenty to pick up as you go along so it stays interesting.
You can play in either Sandbox or Campaign mode, but once you have completed objectives of campaign it lets you keep playing and you can progress to the next scenario when you want.
There is a wide range of attractions you can put on your plot of land, from the obvious hotels and casinos (you get to design the layout of the casino) to the more spectacular movie theatres, rollercoasters and waterparks.
Ideal for attracting the family and O.A.P. demographic, or you could just say stuff that and fill it up with topless bars and showgirl reviews.

Yes Yes YES!!! I recommend this game! OK normally I could not be bothered to write a reveiw on a steam game but this game was so good it deserves one. Those who are looking for a high quality graphics game should not buy this game! However the graphics are decent enough and I picked this game up for £0.74 (about $1.10) and it was worth every penny. It is very in depth and is a proper tycoon game. Employ staff, buy lots and build casinos. Once you have done that you must build water and generator centres to make sure the lot is powered and water supply is maintained. You can also build hotels and shops.

The engine allows you to go into the casino itself and design everything from where you put the tables and slot machines to decoration and lighting!

For 74p I am very happy with this game and those looking for a tycoon game with a flexible difficulty from stupidly easy to very hard should buy this game! Marvelous piece of work, well programmed and well configured!

$0.74 of Summer Sale frustration... ;)

Honestly, if you're going to buy this, get it on one of the big sales. I personally like little crappy tycoon games like this (Lemonade Tycoon, Fish Tycoon, ect...) It's not a hard game, just has a lot of micro-managment that isn't explained well, and the interface isn't great. I kind of enjoyed it once I figured things out. Graphics aren't a big deal for me, but if they are for you, then definately stay away. I reccomend you at least get through the tutorial and a few das past before you give up on it.

Bottom line: Good, so long as you don't mind figuring things out on your own and some bad graphics. But once you understand it, it's not too horrible.

Vegas: Make It Big was produced by a company who thought that "Make It Big" would be a viable trademark. How a tiny video game company managed to trademark this before any fast food giant is beyond me but well done to them. If you've ever been to Vegas you'll see how everything just looks bloody awful. This video game manages to make everything look awful too. The core gameplay is Sims-like management of casinos, so you place furniture and stuff in order to make money. The customers inexplicably vomit/throw red cups everywhere and your staff just refuse to clean it up unless you drag them to the vomit. That's my lasting memory of this game. I literally can't remember anything else about Vegas: Make It Big which really does echo that famous saying: "What Happens in Vegas Is A Forgettable Experience and You Should Only Bother If You Can Get It for Less Than A Quid".

While it is an okay game on offer, and I would really like to enjoy this, I simply can't. It's too easy, and even if disasters are on full, the disasters are more just annoying and don't make sense. It attempted to be a SimCity style game, however ended up too simple and easy. If it was remade to be more complex, this game would be amazing. The idea has potential. The good points of the game would be the high customizability, being able to adjust all the settings, buy multiple lots that work alongside others, different themes and casino customization.

I'd say, if you really wanted to purchase this game, get it on offer, preferably 50% pr greater.

This game is a Tycoon game where you manage a bunch of casinos and amusements to make money and progress in the world. There is a sandbox mode were you can just play around with stats and things like that which can be fun at times. Its fun if you like to manage worlds. Its a very good game to blow time with. The things that can get annoying at times is that you might not always know what to do at certain times. You get to control Vegas which if you are into Tycoon building games can be a lot of fun. I recommend this game to anyone with a open mind and ready to explore the possibilities with Vegas and wanting to manage casinos.