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What is your favorite tycoon game? (ani.social)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

OpenTTD

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

OpenTTD is the best tycoon game. In second place there's TTD.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

RCT will forever be GOAT for me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Zoo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Game dev tycoon. Such a fun little game that goes through the history of games while you try to make it big from the 80s onwards. Super simple gameplay loop but fun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Try Mad Games Tycoon 2 if you like Game Dev Tycoon, it's a far more fleshed out (and involved) version of GDT.

The first Mad Games Tycoon is solid too. 2nd one is an evolution of the 1st one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Cities in Motion 1, while it's not my most played tycoon game, it's one of those game I keep coming back to.

I love the euro-focused scenarios and time-period selection. The visuals have their own distinct style. The game is also pretty hard and requires you to think about the core model of the game (which is a decent approximation of reality).

Runner-up: SimTower/YootTower, one first tycoon and gaming experiences. Gameplay still holds up very well even 30 years later. I wish there was remaster. We already have re-makes with games like Project Highrise and Mad Tower Tycoon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Railroad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Does Drug Wars count?