IT'S ONLY MONEY REVIEW - WHEN GTA HAS A LOW BUDGET IDENTITY CRISIS
Ever wondered what would happen if Saints Row and GTA had a baby, but forgot to feed it proper optimization? Well, It's Only Money is here to answer that question with all the charm of a B-movie and twice the bugs.
BROKE TO BESPOKE
The premise is simple: you start with nothing but dreams and daddy issues, then work your way up to owning everything from snail racing clubs to luxury mansions. It's like The American Dream if it was written by someone who's watched too many crime comedies while high on energy drinks.
The progression from street rat to property mogul feels satisfying when it works, which is approximately 60% of the time - the other 40% is spent watching your character T-pose their way through what I assume is their best impression of interpretive dance.
PERFORMANCE ANXIETY
Let's address the elephant in the room: this game's optimization is about as smooth as sandpaper underwear. Even with a rig that could probably launch rockets to Mars, you'll get frame drops harder than your ex's expectations. The developers seem to think "optimization" is just a fancy word for "thing we'll maybe fix later."
BUT WAIT, IT'S ACTUALLY FUN?
Here's the weird part - despite being buggier than an ant farm and less optimized than my work-life balance, the game is genuinely entertaining. The humor lands more often than it crashes, which is saying something. From betting on snail races to running your criminal empire, there's always something absurdly fun to do.
The game nails that sweet spot between GTA's criminal activities and Saints Row's whackiness, just with fewer polygons and more unintentional physics glitches. Though sometimes it's hard to tell which glitches are features and which are bugs - like when your car decides gravity is more of a suggestion than a law.
MULTIPLAYER MAYHEM
Grab some friends and the chaos multiplies faster than rabbits in spring. Just don't expect everything to work properly - your buddy might end up getting infinite items because the game forgot they exist, but hey, that's just part of the charm, right?
CONCLUSION
It's Only Money is like that friend who shows up to the party wearing mismatched socks and somehow still becomes the life of it. It's janky, unpolished, and desperately needs some performance patches, but damn if it isn't fun when it works.
If you can look past the technical issues and appreciate the genuine humor and fun gameplay loop hiding underneath, there's a surprisingly good time to be had here. Just maybe wait for a few patches if you're the type who values stable framerates over chaotic fun.
7.5/10 - Like GTA if it was made by your friend who's "totally gonna learn game development," but somehow actually pulled it off.
We at NLM received a key for this game for free, this however didn't impact our review in any way. Though we might need therapy after watching our character clip through the world for the hundredth time.