Lobster Empire
Lobster Empire is a game in which you build up your own lobster business, developing better fishing techniques and ways to create long-lasting and profitable lobster resources.
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December 18, 2017
8 years and 229 days ago
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Mixed43 reviews48.8%
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8 itemsAbout the Game
Lobster Empire is a game in which you build up your own lobster business, developing better fishing techniques and ways to create long-lasting and profitable lobster resources.
The game has many other exciting features that are not listed here to prevent spoiling the experience.
Your story as a lobster businessman in this game:
- Era I-Lobster Fishing: Catching the lobsters will be the first step in your business, some of them offering plain currency while the rarer ones give/offer research points that will assist you in kick-starting your lobster empire.
- Era II-Breeding/Hatching begins: Breeding/Hatching begins: Grow your lobsters in a hatchery system and breed your best strain of lobster to carry your growing empire.
- Era III-Expanding your business: Your market is getting bigger; you're gaining more resources and renown so it’s time to expand: Build your restaurant to serve those well-bred lobsters, move your empire into shirts and toys in your very own merchandise shop and take the next step to going worldwide.
- Era IV-Research and Innovation: Now that you have the base of your empire worked out it’s time to delve into the unknown, build up the Lobster Academy and boost your production even more with new inventions.
- Era V-?: You'll have to find out/ It's a secret.
Features:
- Send your team to catch lobsters using your fleet of ships, each with their own unique ability.
- Explore new islands and waters to find rarer breeds of lobsters by purchasing a commercial license, but beware of the dangers of the sea as storms and obstacles might hit you when you least expect them.
- Recruit lobstermen all with their unique stats for durability, stamina, law obedience, mechanical competence, sea-instinct, and navigation skill.
- Catch a wide range of rare lobsters in different areas and increase your research points by finding blue, yellow, calico, split-colored, albino and giant lobsters.
- Use a variety of fishing equipment to gain more profit like the smart lobster trap, the weather radar, and the secret map.
- Upgrade your ship's equipment to improve the amount of lobsters caught and ship efficiency.
Research and develop tools to minimize lobster mortality and improve the hatchery system to sustain your lobster population.
- Increase your profit through other business venues like the sea-food restaurant, the merchandise shop, the lobster sea world, and others.
- Host events like ship races, cooking contests and others to sky-rocket your business's popularity.
The game has many other exciting features that are not listed here to prevent spoiling the experience.
