1/2/2023 0 Comments Deep sea tycoon soundtrackRailway Empire, Surviving Mars, and Cities: Skylines are all games that could potentially be grouped into the tycoon genre, but none of them feature “Tycoon” in the title. That’s not to say there aren’t any good tycoon games recently released. One of them is free.Īnd, I’m going to be honest, here. A full 18 of the “most relevant games” sell for less than $10. Of the top-25 games, only 1 sells for $30 or more, 2 more for $20 or more, and 4 more for $10.99 or more. The first page includes Rollercoaster Tycoon 1, 2 and 3, Railroad Tycoon 2 and 3 and a few expansions for those games, meaning that these games released a decade ago, or longer, make up more than 20 percent of the games that you’re likely to be recommended, which seems a little odd, and suggests a lack of innovation within the field.īut, more problems start to show up here. Others suggest that the field is flooded with shovelware.Īn easy way to test this theory is to search for the term on Steam, the popular online game store/service. One thing that some posters suggest, however, is that tycoon games aren’t gone but don’t have the appeal that triple-a games have today. Looking around the internet, I’ve found a couple of forum posts that suggest we’re not alone in this feeling. So, what’s going on with the industry? Were our feelings justified? Combat is absent from the games, and in many cases, there may be no way to “win,” and satisfaction is instead derived from always trying to build a bigger and more successful company. To be clear, when I’m talking about tycoon games, I’m talking about games that simulate running a business, with an eye towards expansion. Today, looking through my Steam collection, I can count just three games that fall neatly into the tycoon game genre: Prison Architect (43 hours), Game Dev Tycoon (11 hours), and Parkitect (2 hours). I can name a number of games that fall into this category from my childhood, including SimGolf, various members of the SimCity family, Locomotion, Railroad Tycoon 2 and 3, Sid Meier’s Railroads, Zoo Tycoon 2, Restaurant Empire, Ski Resort Extreme, Mall Tycoons 2 and 3, Mall of America Tycoon, Deep Sea Tycoon 1, School Tycoon, Moon Tycoon, Construction Tycoon, and so on. My knee-jerk reaction was to agree with him. Namely, it doesn’t seem to exist all that much, anymore. The other day, a friend commented to me that something seems to have happened to the tycoon game genre.
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