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APICO is the latest game in the sims genre, combining elements from Stardew Valley, Graveyard Keeper and Animal Crossing. Join your grandfather's beekeeping business on an island and craft, build and breed bees to discover extinct species. Experience a chilled adventure as you create your own unique world.
What we like:
Crafting and building features are easy to pick up on
Chilled experience which allows you to complete the game at your own pace
Incorporates science into fun gameplay
What could be improved:
Initial NPCs lack personality compared to similar games
Tasks can be time consuming once you have a rhythm going
My Lovely Empress is an empire management sim inspired by Asian mythology. As the Emperor of the Crimson Empire, you will build relations with neighboring rulers, balance internal factions, and ensure the prosperity of your people, all before you reap their souls to resurrect your beloved empress.
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Stranded: Alien Dawn drops you into an unknown alien world, where you'll lead survivors, build a high-tech outpost, and make tough decisions to survive. With engaging gameplay, a variety of planets, and a peaceful non-combat option, you'll experience a unique, unpredictable journey. But beware, time may slow and crafting can get repetitive in this thrilling survival sim.
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Welcome to Minami Lane! Build your own street in this cozy, casual management sim! Unlock and customize buildings, manage your shops, and maximize the happiness of your villagers to complete quests and fill your street with love!
Hey human, we've got problems! This town is crawling with troublesome spirits, and you're the only one who can see them. You'd better get that old bathhouse up and running, maybe that'll help them chill out!
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The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
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Unleash your creativity in Let's Build a Zoo! With over 500 animals and 300,000 unique combinations to discover, you'll design the zoo of your dreams. Manage your staff, breed rare creatures, and even splice DNA to create new species. Your choices matter - will you run an ethical zoo or bend the rules for profit?
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Imagine Earth is a thrilling real-time planet simulation and strategy game that lets you explore and colonize distant planets. In this game, you play a space colony manager tasked with building profitable colonies while preserving living conditions for your people amidst corporate greed and environmental concerns. Dig for resources, build power plants, farms, and factories while fending off threats like asteroids, wild fires, and hostile colonies. You can trade resources and technologies to enrich your colonies, build towers, and research for advanced technologies. Now, it's time to expand your colony and dominate the universe!
What we like:
Well-polished game with unique art design and relaxing gameplay
Heavy emphasis on competitiveness with multiple ways to hinder AI competition
Great fun in multiplayer games
Continual and meaningful updates from the developers
Unique approach to a tile-based system
What could be improved:
Lack of micromanagement may disappoint city-building enthusiasts
Voice acting could be better
Limited countermeasures against weather effects
Unintuitive resource gathering and pollution mitigation
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Evil Genius 2: World Domination is a simulation-strategy game that puts players in the shoes of a supervillain seeking world domination. Players can challenge criminal masterminds for henchmen recruitment, build their own secret lair and manage minions, run schemes and enact plans for world domination. The visuals are vibrant and colorful, with great options for adjusting graphics and sound, perfect HDR support, and entertaining cutscenes with voice acting for the characters.