Hi GoG! I hope you're all doing well today and enjoying your summer. It's currently about 100 degrees where I am and my A/C is starting to fail so that's fun. Anyway, I'm hoping to get Big Pharma and hopefully that will improve my summer.

I've always really loved puzzle games. I grew up with Mario 64 and Jak and Daxter, which aren't puzzle games, but each have some portions that involve a lot of critical thinking, and I remember loving trying to figure out how to solve a complicated level. I got the first Professor Layton game when I was about 7, and it quickly became my favorite game series with all of it's amazing puzzles (as well as some great stories). This love of puzzle games continued on in many forms. I came to love games like Gunpoint (probable my all-time favorite game), which is very open and allows for many solutions, FTL, which requires a lot of strategy, or something like Game Dev Tycoon, where you have to put a lot of thought into how to proceed without taking a huge loss. Big Pharma is a special kind of puzzle game to me.

Big Pharma is special because it's a factory game, which is something I've always loved. I loved building complicated machines in Minecraft, or playing with Technic mods, but I always ran into a problem of not having any idea of what to do in a sandbox kind of factory game. I would make some sort of awesome cookie factory in Minecraft, then get bored because I had nothing else to do. So when I saw this video of Big Pharma , it looked perfect. It was an open-ended factory game like I wanted, but with a clear goal. It had so many of the aspects that I loved in puzzle games.

In addition, it pulled in a lot of the business management stuff that I liked from games like Game Dev Tycoon and a lot of general strategy. For example, while it might seem like a good idea to get rid of side effects in all your drugs, there's profit to be made in keeping them in and selling other drugs to cure them. Complicated strategy like this in games is something I really love, but don't see enough of.

So that's why I would love to have Big Pharma to play while I'm out of school this summer (and suffering in the heat a little bit). I would be buying it myself but money is tight in my household right now and school and band fees are going to get a little expensive when I go back in August. I really appreciate you taking the time to read this, and I want to thank this whole community for being so generous. Thank you all- you guys are seriously the best.

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Thanks again for reading, I hope you all have a wonderful summer!