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Tropico 6 is a city-building game that offers an engaging mix of elements such as ruling your own island dictatorship, sandbox mode with customizable goals, missions, and easy controller support. You can be a big picture person and make decisions that impact the entire island or get into the minute details of urban planning.
Pros:
Engaging mix of elements
Sandbox mode with customizable goals
Missions
Easy controller support:No need for mouse and keyboard or touchscreen
Project Highrise is a management sim game that allows you to build and manage your own tower. You must manage basic needs, desires of tenants, take on contracts and loans while making sure to turn a profit. The game offers two modes - Sandbox Mode, where you are given total freedom; and Scenario Mode, where you are given specific tasks with certain constraints.
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Construction Simulator is back – bigger and better than ever! Take charge of over 70 machines, dozens of them brand new to the franchise, and build to your heart’s content on two huge maps – on your own or with your friends!
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Prison Architect is a management/strategy game where you must manage an unwilling and unruly population in a prison setting. You must establish order from cooperative parts, feed and house prisoners, and even "get rid of them" them if necessary. There is also an economy of contraband that you must manage, as well as a metagame of making your warden rich by selling the prison to others.
Take on the role of a tester at the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and help guide the little stick folk - Bendies - in their vehicles from their starting point to the nearby exit. Use scaffold planks, strong cables and triangles to create an appropriate structure for them to traverse each test chamber. Enjoy GLaDOS' dark humour as she guides you through your missions!
Pros:
Authentic feel with Ellen McLain's voiceover
Fun and challenging puzzles
Easy-to-use controls
In-game handbook of best practices for constructing structures
No punishment or limit to money spent on materials
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Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors. Choose from 60 detailed, historic locomotives that you can customize with your preferred colors and company initials. Huge and detailed game world covering the whole of the USA and Europe in one single map each. More detailed regional maps with more than 300 towns spread all over the US and Europe.
Constructor Plus is a building simulation game where you design cities, manage tenants, and sabotage other developers. With 147 buildings, 65 city scenarios, and a humorous British atmosphere, this game offers plenty of content and entertainment. The game combines RTS and city-building genres, adding fun gameplay hours. Although the game has steep learning curves and limited freedom in missions, Constructor Plus is a well-constructed sim that's worth the entry price.
Pros:
Plenty of content and gameplay hours
Campaign mode with narration and additional missions added
Fun and unique mix of RTS and city-building genres
Humorous and charming British cultural atmosphere
The game has been improved and polished in Constructor Plus release
Cons:
Buildings are difficult to build and a lot of micro-management is needed
Missions have strict time limits and limited player freedom
Test your engineering and improvisation skills in a puzzle game where the stakes are as high as they get.
Game features: - Different materials to build from - Wood, Metal, Cables - 36 levels of increasingly difficult puzzles - Varied, detailed environments full of interactive elements - Multiple cars to test out your constructions - Realistic physics engine - Beautiful, stylised art style - Available in 13 languages
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Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead combines the legendary and challenging puzzle gameplay of Bridge Constructor™ with the post-apocalyptic zombie universe of AMC’s The Walking Dead.