• Platform: IBM PC Compatible
• Release Date: 1996
• Similar Games: Capitalism (IBM PC Compatible), SimCity 2000 (Macintosh), SimCity 2000 [DOS] (IBM PC Compatible), SimCity 2000 (Sega Saturn), SimCity 2000 (PlayStation), SimCity (Super NES), SimCity 2000 (Super NES), SimCity 2000 (Nintendo 64), SimCity (Commodore 64/128), SimCity Classic (Hybrid Windows/Mac), SimCity (Atari ST), SimCity (Commodore Amiga), Industry Giant (IBM PC Compatible)

Game Description

Capitalism Plus is a simulation of competitive business. Players start out as chief executive officer of their own corporation with the goal being to make as much money as possible without going bankrupt or running out of time.

Highly customizable, Capitalism Plus offers players the option to determine the type of map, part of the world, the aggressiveness and number of competitors, the number of cities, ports, specific goals and the time limit of any given scenario or multi-player game. Players must then make a bevy of decisions that affect everything from purchasing, hiring and advertising to where and when to build new factories. Random events, such as disease, riots and technological breakthroughs, also occur and affect the game's outcome.

Based on the text-only simulations used at many colleges and business schools, Capitalism Plus is extremely complex and does require a certain understanding of principal business concepts. ~ Jim Muntone, All Game Guide

Roots & Influences

Capitalism Plus is the sequel to the original game, Capitalism. The designers have included plenty of real world maps and based the simulation on world economies in several different countries. ~ Michael L. House, All Game Guide

Review: Enjoyment

Need to be interested in economics to enjoy it. ~ Jim Muntone, All Game Guide

Review: Overall

Imagine someone handing you a cool couple of million dollars in cash and then giving you the freedom to do whatever you want with it (well almost -- there was no option to "woo super models"). That, in a nutshell, is Capitalism Plus. It's a kind of monetary SimCity where players assume the role of chief executive officer of a burgeoning new corporation. The objective is simple -- specifically, to make money.

Capitalism Plus is an interesting game. At its easiest level it is quite an elementary process of judging supply and demand. At its most advanced, however, a number of options become available allowing players to decide everything from what employees to hire to where and when to build that new factory. A number of actual and player editable maps exist, allowing players the freedom to see what it would be like to run, say, London for a day or develop their own unique economic world.

As a serious economic simulation it is simply, hands down, the most detailed and thorough package on the market. As a recreational game, as it is packaged, the game is something of a failure. Capitalism Plus is work. Players will soon find themselves lost in menu upon menu of topics such as strategic tools, stock options, personal management -- the list goes on and on.

Though the graphics and sound are pleasant and helpful enough, the entire game plays a bit too much like a sophomore economics course. Documentation is excellent and leaps ahead of what is normally included with some games. But unfortunately, unless you are a business major yourself, you may find the reading quite dry and tiresome. Capitalism Plus may be one of those rare games whose absolute realism has actually hindered it, making it remind you more of your day at work then your way to relax. ~ Jim Muntone, All Game Guide

Review: Graphics

Not bad, but not really important in this type of game ~ Jim Muntone, All Game Guide

Review: Documentation

Superb tutorial and manual ~ Jim Muntone, All Game Guide