When it comes to city-building sims, Highrise City definitely sets a new standard in terms of depth and freedom, but the downside is that the game isn’t very accessible for newcomers.
Highrise City
Fourexo Entertainment · Sep 4, 2023
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About the Team & Game
Obviously, you as a player will compare Highrise City with other games. If you are comparing the game with other city builders, keep in mind that the focus of Highrise City are the production chains - the results of these will lead to an ever growing city. The game is more than a traditional city builder and has a strong influence of economy simulations. It was developed by a small team as a passion project during the last 8 years while 7 years the game was a one man project.
Let's grow a city!
Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system. Highrise City combines two genres in new and interesting ways: City Builders and traditional Economy & Resource Management Simulations. Highrise City offers you challenging gameplay and gives you all the possibilities and tools you need to create a living and breathing city. Take care of your city and make it grow and flourish into a giant Metropolis!
Plan your Megacity
In Highrise City you do not only build a city, you also actively manage it by handling the economical supply for it. Organize and build supply chains in an efficient way and make sure your economy is well balanced to guarantee a steady growth. By doing so you will be able to create true megacities.
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- This ain’t it. There are good ideas in Highrise City, but the game is just plastered with nuisances that result in it not being as relaxing or accessible as other city builders. It is too deep in its logistic mechanics, almost to a fault. The beginning of each new save is also painfully slow, poorly explained, and convoluted, meaning that this game also lacks the “pick up and play” aspect seen in Sim City or Cities. It tried, and I respect that, but it needs an extra phase of fixes before I can call it a city builder worth hanging out with the other big boys.
- 7.8Overall, Highrise City is an incredibly immersive city builder with a sharp learning curve for those who expect it to just be a normal city builder, as a lot of the mechanics come from economic and resource management simulators.
- 5.5Graphically, Highrise City looks fair but not outstanding. On both high and epic settings, the lighting and object quality look good. Lowering the settings to medium or low quality turns things more blurry and jagged. During actual gameplay, a stable 60 FPS is common. However, load screens and menus can sometimes glitch. While outright crashing is rare, the game can hard lock when placing down new buildings, requiring a forced quit and loss of saved data.
- 7.0Highrise City non è il classico city builder da giocare con le marce automatiche e pretende sempre molta attenzione dal lato della produzione, con richieste sempre più esigenti da soddisfare. Questa attenzione sulle catene di approvvigionamento è una piacevole svolta rispetto ai canoni del genere, una meccanica che però non sempre viaggia con lo stesso passo della città virtuale.
- 6.0Highrise City síce pôsobí pomerne komplexne, ale súčasne akosi úsporne. Akoby tvorcovia šetrili v každom smere a báli sa jemnejšieho spracovania, ísť viac do hĺbky, vytvoriť väčší komfort pre hráčov, ako aj krajší vizuál a príbeh je vyslovene odfláknutý. Ale to môže byť skrátka aj tým, že na hre pracuje malý vývojársky tím a je to nad jeho sily. Môže to stačiť, ak sa uspokojíte so solídnou, i keď trochu svojskou výstavbou, ktorej určité špecifické prvky sme už naznačili a neočakávate od hry nič iné ako vytvorenie funkčnej infraštruktúry mesta bez väčších príkras. Ale obávam sa, že sa pomerne rýchlo začnete nudiť. Na dlhodobé hranie a zábavu to veru nie je.
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