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Is a city builder a subset of tycoon game that just focuses on managing a city or some other polity? Is a tycoon game a city builder except it's open to you managing something that isn't a town/city/state?

Crossposted to !tycoon@lemmy.world here. (My instance would not give me the little Crossposted thing when this little bit wasn't edited in and the posts were identical but in separate communities, so I figured I'd just do it myself. Wonder if this is just a my instance deal or if it happened for everyone. And if it happened for everyone, wonder if crossposting only gets auto-shown if it is a link post, and what the requirements are in general to make crossposting automatically show up.)

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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would argue a tycoon game is a game where you run a company while a city builder is a game where you build and run a city.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not sure Americans can tell the difference

[–] Aquila@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'll be honest, I'm very unfamiliar with the RTS genre, would you mind explaining?