Posted on: September 9, 2016
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A management game with many flaws
Project Highrise is a modern take on a form of game established years ago by SimTower and Yoot Tower. It’s a skyscraper or tower building manager, where in the player builds and manages offices, apartments, shops, restaurants, services and utilities within a large building that can focus on being a residential home for hundreds, an office space for the business world, a shopping paradise or a mixture of the aforementioned. Sadly the ambitious attempt at resurrecting a unique genre of management games is marred by poor gameplay mechanics, over-complicated controls and an obfuscating interface. Playing the game the first thing you’ll notice is that there are no hard goals. The game will present “contracts” to the player which reward money and sometimes prestige, but they’re not required to play the game. It is very much a sandbox game like the games that it draws inspiration from. The second thing one would discover playing the game is that the interface is very arcane and the controls are frustrating. Building apartments and offices in large amounts is a complete clickfest. Measuring distances is left to the player, manually counting every rectangle. If a utility or service is running overcapacity, the first sign the player finds is often angry residents as the Project Highrise lacks a proper method of warning players that they’re over capacity. The services only let the player know that they’re overwhelmed with a small icon over their room and the exact number of residents a service room can service is completely unclear to the player. Then there are all the gameplay mechanics that managed to rub me the wrong way and will undoubtedly rub many others as well. You start with 2 construction workers and can upgrade up to 5. Yet that is far from enough as construction projects will drag on and the game speed does not go high enough. Sadly the character limit does not allow me to completely explain my opinion, but clearly enough, I cannot recommend Project Highrise.
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