Project Highrise

As someone who hasn't played Project Highrise before but appreciates tower building sims, I am loving the game so far. I'm still just in the shallow end of the game, but I'm enjoying it greatly so far. The visuals are great, the music is delightful, and the controls are optimized for this kind of thing. I can easily see myself picking this up whenever I have some time around the house and just losing myself for a few hours just building my dream tower.

Despite its clean presentation, Project Highrise is a bit of messy management game, and I mean that in the best possible way. You don’t just get to minmax your way into huge profits that let you build whatever you want. There are real challenges here, and ones that you have to be smart about solving. This is all to say that Project Highrise is a pretty amazing game, and it’s only made better in a mobile package. Pick this one up straight away.

What Project Highrise really does best is to occupy a bulider niche that hasn't really been filled despite many previous games that have made the genre a mobile favorite for years. By keeping the focus tight but exploring a number of different facets within the single-building constraint, it's a really entertaining way of proving that bigger isn't always better. It's the type of game that can easily have you starting to play, looking up later and seeing that way more time has passed IRL than you ever suspected, and that's a nice compliment for any sim.