Period, I consider most of these games "Management" Games and not tycoons. There was still focus onĭepth, numbers, and realistic simulation. In the early 90s text based business sims met graphics. Profitability in their niche which attracted more developers and more games.Įventually we ended up in what I call the golden age of management games, the These games were not wildly popular, but they were not hard to make. Simulators were popular such as Wall Street Kid and Wall Street Other than making choices basic and seeing what money comes from it. In the 80s most business sims were practially spread sheet games. To understand what I mean you have to look at the history of business games. So the OP question is: "Is this genre is dead?" My answer is, "It depends on (Old Timer, MotorCity, Air Bucks, AeroBiz?! There is a lot more you I own most of the games listed and many more that are not It might sound egotistical of me, but I consider my self an expert in the field Too many links probably, I stripped the links, and here is the raw text!) (Tried to submit this as anon, but message wasn't approved by admins? Hello everyone, Eric.B here, owner and lead programmer of GearCity. Plus it's been getting regular updates for a long time and I never had any issues with bugs or crashes when I was playing it. Prison Architect is pretty good, I enjoyed that for awhile. I think it's better to wait until you see the game being constantly updated or until it's nearly ready for actual release. ![]() ![]() (Stomping Land being the biggest example, but things like The Forest also up there). ![]() Train Fever looks ok, still in beta I think though.so I'm not that keen on grabbing it at the moment since a bunch of early access on steam at the moment is fucking horrid. Game Dev tycoon didn't seem to have much depth when I got it on steam sale ages ago, it kind of reminded me of a flash game where you find one successful thing and just keep doing that, rotating with other successful things based on market trend/not repeating yourself too often. It's pretty fun, I recommend the demo for sure. It's not typical 'tycoon' style or simcity style but it's about producing a lot of shit to produce even more shit. You could try Factorio, it's got a demo of the 1st few levels of the campaign on their website: War for the Overworld (new Dungeon Keeper?) I didnt play Transport Giant, today is re-release on steam:Īny recommendation of old tycoons maybe? but not openTTD or rollercoaster stuff etc :P
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