What are the best simulation/management games?

I remember playing a lot of Mall Tycoon.

>>389741095
Microsoft Excel 2003

best shitty job simulator, makes macro and crunch the number of your fiscal year.

>>389741095

Open Transport Tycoon and Open RCT2

>>389741095
SimCity 4 if you're willing to search for a mod to make the traffic simulation bearable.

I used to play Zoo Tycoon and Roller Coaster Tycoon 3.

Many seem to enjoy Prison Architect but I could never get into it - it always seems to mess up in some way for me.

Football Manager

>>389742157

I like FM but the loading gets kind of annoying, somtimes feels like a long game of just clicking continue

Which Anno game should I get?

>>389741095
RCT2, I remember making roller coasters crash into crowds of people and getting toilet of the year award or some shit

>>389742569
There's a new one coming out wait for that.

RCT2

I guess Factorio falls into the "resource management autism" category.

>>389742569
1404 or 2070 probably

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>>389741095
Capitalism Plus

>>389742996
Did this age well? Never played it before.

Startopia
The Guild 2
Children of the Nile
Evil Genius

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>>389741720
This, Simcity 4 with Network Add-on Mod is still the most in-depth and autism-gratifying

I used to play a lot of Sim Tower and Dinopark Tycoon as a kid on my Windows 3.1 computer in middle school (best hand me down ever)

>>389743151
Yes. A bit warning, though, it has a steep learning curve.

>>389743523
I'll give it a try. How is capitalism 2?

>>389743225
The Guild 2 bothers me since it lacked a tutorial. I was able to start a clothing business but I feel like I'm missing out.

>>389744517
wait for guild 3, early access on 26th of september.

>>389744621
Though it's a fault in my side I guess. I bought Rennaisance, but not the base game. So maybe the base game has the tutorial?

>>389741095
My old roommate used to give me shit for playing this. He used to see it on the screen and go "Nurse Anon, to ward 3 please!" because apparently it's a girl's game. He said his sister used to play it a lot and his sister is a girl.

>>389744381
Haven't tried that one, was kinda put-off by the change in interface and artstyle.

Why is this genre so fucking dead

>>389741545
2010 > 2003

>>389744690
>his sister is a girl
thanks

>>389744678
I'm still confused about this game. So Renaissance is essentially the "goty" version of Guild 2, but you can still purchase 2 and its expansion separately?

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>>389744690
>his sister is a girl

>>389741720
Prison Architect was disappointing because they created a fantastic foundation for the game, and then a pathetic campaign. I don't need an in-depth story, but give me a scenario pack at least

>>389745142
people play its campaign?

As someone who's autistic for the genre, I think Sim Golf and Theme Hospital are criminally underrated in these threads. They're just a lot of fun.

>>389745208
I like to have goals, it's a lot of fun working through the RCT scenarios

>>389745215
>underrated

they're like one of the top recommended games

>>389745253
Yeah, the RCT scenarios are pretty fucking cool, along with all of the premade parks. How did they get so good at making /comfy/ parks?

>>389741095
Pizza Tycoon

I own Tropico 3-5 and never played any of them. If I were to play 1, where do I start?

>>389745728
4

>>389745008
All you need is Renaissance
Pirates of the European Seas includes a short story campaign, but it's not worth it.

>>389744517
Jobs are very straight forward i the beginning. Buy ingredients cheap, make stuff and sell it when the market prices are high. Sometimes it's best to make all types of wares. Sometimes one is significantly more profitable.

The real meat of the game comes later when you can run multiple businesses and get into politics.

>>389745728

the first one is the best, never played 2.
3, 4 and 5 are the same game

>>389745919
so I was right in that Renaissance is essentially the "complete"/updated version then?

>>389745728
It's between 3 and 4.
4 improves some things from 3 but with a worse campaign.

Play the first one if you can too

>>389746017
yes, it's also the only version that got some updates recently. The other versions still have literally decade old bugs.

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>>389745215
>theme hospital
>underrated

>>389743509
Oh fuck I remember Dinopark. Everyone would play that during computer class, but man we were all fucking awful at it. They upgraded the school computers one year and it was never reinstalled.

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Any thoughts?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/423580/Project_Highrise/

>>389746519
Hell yeah man me too, the game was hard to play more than a few months worry of gametime, visitors would stop coming if you didn't add new atttractions/buy more and more ads, and it was hard to make a profit without slashing in the budget

Haven't played it in years, but simutrans is the best transport simulation game I have ever played.
It's for free on Steam since last year, so it's not like there was a high entry barrier.

>>389746676
Oh nice that's just like sim tower, would play

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Motorsport manager is actually really good, hours fly by and you realize you have only done 2-3 races. Pretty damn satisfying even just climbing from 4th to 3rd on a mid level team.

>>389745728

1 is fun but it's pretty hard, specially since the AI is pretty retarded, having a large island is impossible 2 is much different from any of the games and retail versions from steam and gog have a hard time working on modern systems so I have little opinion of it.. 3 and 4 are pretty much the same but 4 has more stuff. 5 is just terrible so don't even try it.

>>389742996
Wow I remember this.
Great game

>>389746676
It's good now.

>>389744838
Too much effort for the dev and too complex for the players. They aren't exactly dying, but reformed as casual mobile shit like Farmville.

>>389746676
>>389746821
>>389746832

If you loved Sim Tower you will love Project Highrise. Specially now since they added a ton to the game and fixed their stuff up. I can't recommend this game enough. My only gripe is that I hate having to put down lines and pipes but that is a minor problem to the rest of a great game.

>>389746929
>>389746115
>1 is too hard

/v/ has become really casual these days. Back in the day, no one would pull this shit. In this series of games only 1 is worth playing. 3 is just a 3D remake with inferior everything. 4 and 5 just makes everything worse and honestly they're just obvious cash-ins.

>>389744838
It's by no means dead. Games exist, but they aren't mainstream and don't get much attention.

If you want to see an actually dead genre, look at RTS.

>>389746845
Does it do anything but F1?

Oddly enough, school tycoon was pretty comfy. Had a nice art direction that kept it casual and cartoony.

There were moon base and underwater base games too that I remember being decent. The names escape me right now.

To anyone whose bought them, is Parkitect any good?

>>389744838
>requires some intelligence to play, let alone to make
>even if you get past that, you're up against Sim City 4 and the like, good luck making something like that, faggot.

>>389741095
For anyone wondering theme hospital has an open source project running, I believe it's called corsix-th or something similar.

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ROLLER TOASTER COCOON 2 SERVER WHEN

>>389747182
is the expac Vegas worth it

>>389747215
>lumping 4 and 5 together

>>389747215

Well I guess if you have no idea what you are doing 1 has the steepest learning curve. I still stand by my statement that 1 is very anti big city. If you really want to take over the whole island you pretty much have to make a lot of tiny towns in order to keep everything afloat.

>>389747463

For an EA game yes. Coaster creator is top notch and so is prop and building placement. Management wise it's still super rough.

>>389747573

Vegas expansion is awesome. Hotel managment is a bit tricky though. You first pretty much need an entire working tower first before you can start with hotels but hotel managment is super rewarding and being able to book concers and parties are fun.

>>389747727
I do wonder if they made more spacing for towers. I wanted to do a twin tower thing but the sizes are rather restricted.

>>389747651
Nigga I lumped 3 and 4 and 5 together and under one category: shit. Seriously, these guys just got the IP and made 3 games off the first one. At least with 3 they knew that they're too dumb to improve on 1, this is proven by their additions in 4. 5 is honesty a shameless cash-in the result of someone suggesting to make another "game" just to make some more money.
>>389747727
>Well I guess if you have no idea what you are doing 1 has the steepest learning curve. I still stand by my statement that 1 is very anti big city. If you really want to take over the whole island you pretty much have to make a lot of tiny towns in order to keep everything afloat.
If there's no penalty for making wrong decisions then the entire game loses its fun. Why bother when you have so many options to save yourself from disaster that you practically get away with anything. Meanwhile in 1 if you don't plan carefully and make sure you can afford all your moves then you're in for some serious trouble. That's where the fun comes from.

I've been playing THeme Hospital literally since it came out and I was 10 years old and only this year I finally sat down and beat the whole thing.

It's one of those games where I usually got stuck on some level and just drop. Exact same as Caesar 3, which is also great which I finally beat last year.

I feel so fucking free.

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>>389741095
as a kid, pharaoh was my fucking jam.

majesty is not bad either from what i remember.

>>389742569
i enjoyed 1404 far more than 2070, though admittedly i didn't really give 2070 much of a chance since i basically just wanted more 1404.

>>389748148
1 was wonky though and didn't feel like what it was trying to do, honestly felt like a shittier populous and grand city sims

at least in 3 and 4 it found its personality and style, even if a bit buggy

Caesar 3 is really good.

>>389748304
>pristine marble and gold palace surrounded by literal dung huts
feels good to be a god among men

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>>389741095
Tropico 4 if you're after modern games. Stay away from 5.

>>389741095
Reminder that we'll never get another Theme Hospital from Bullfrog cus of EA

>>389748630
So annoyed that Tropico 4 won't run in the background. Pauses when it loses focus.

>>389748304
Majesty is literally COMFY: the simulator. It's a shame that there's very little micromanagement and most of it is up to luck, but once you've got a good kingdom going, it's mad comf.

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>>389748710
Why do you need that? With triple fast forward you can skip a lot of time quickly.

SimCity 2000 is still my absolute favorite

>>389748580
How? What did 3 or 4 add in terms of personality and style? It's all from 1. If you think 1 is shit then you also have to think the whole series is shit because they really didn't change anything serious as they were simply rehashes for money. They're shitting one out every two years now with expansion and DLC. The core gameplay is still the same and wasn't just unimproved but it was made worse and mostly meaningless.

>>389748693
I get angry every time I think of how many devs have been killed by those cunts. Bullfrog's death being the biggest offender for me.

>>389748853
>age 14
my sides

>>389743509
Godfuckingdamnit, Dinopark. I actually had a solidly running park, good enough I was able to buy what looked like a super dino, a singing lounge lizard type. Stupid expensive, like platinum trophy shit, so of course its goofy.

I go to buy it, and the egg fucking breaks. not a game mechanic - its just a troll item.

Rimworld, while more of a base builder game, is pretty good for all the micro-management it offers. Just wish I could find an overhaul to get rid of the sci-fi aspect and make it either a regular post-apocalyptic game or something reminiscent of the Old West.

>>389748853
>religious whore

>>389748693
>we won't get Sim Golf 2 too

fuck this gay earth

>>389748853
>age 14
damn

>>389748853
I like to play games that can run in the background while I work, since my work requires both my monitors.
I guess I could leave it paused in the background, but it'd feel better to me personally if it were running in the background.
Not denying it's a great game though - definitely not.

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>>389749009

>>389749340
Boss, those are just kids.

>>389749464
fatties like that are a damned near exclusively north american issue - the whole high fructose corn syrup thing is really killing us dead.

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I like Prison Architect

I wish there was a game like the Movies but not shit.

Let's admit it, you love it, I love it, you probably want to download it again, but it's shit.

>>389749671

Your prison is shit.

>>389748148
>>389748580
>>389748960

AI for Tropicans in 1 is retarded for starters. It ends up being a chore to manage them because having a house even a block away from their work is too far. Even when you jack up the wage for services you need Tropicans are too stupid to go for it or simply refuse too. Because of this any town with a population over 40 needs a corn farm in the middle of it because Tropicans and teamsters do not want to talk that far to get or deliver food.

Because of all of this, the managment of the factions is actually less about apeasing them politically and more about how to deal with the retarded AI. In my current game for example I'm in dog shit with the religouse faction simply because my tropicans are to stupid to become priests, even though I have 6 apparments right next to the church.

>>389749680
The Movies feels rushed as fuck. Best evidence of this is that every actor and actresses look identical, yet I remember they promised that you could make any famous movie actor in the game yourself before release. Its Peter Molyneux though.

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>>389749680
>>389749909
>"you can do ANYTHING YOU WANT in this game"
>you actually can't

>>389750815
>>389749680
>tfw kept making shitty movies I forgot to train my actors

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Is there a mod to switch the annual budget to monthly, like on SimCity 4? It's pretty frustrating to have to wait one year to get 5 more simoleons to buy a new power plant. I have the original CD, but I don't play because it's boring to wait one entirely year to build something. I prefer SimCity 3000 to SimCity 4.

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Maybe not the best but I fucking loved this game as a kid.

>>389751241
played it a shitton on psx

>>389751241
>>389751623
didn't it get an "upgraded" version in PC?

>>389751725

the PC version was the real version and yes, it even got a semi expantion that came with like 10 new rides and a bunch of new objects.

>>389751725
i only had the PC version of theme park world, what were the differences? i was fucking trash at it though let me say that.

>>389752178
The PS version didn't have a visitor mode and had fewer stuff. It wasn't like TH which managed to be semi-accurate.

>>389752129
Ah figures.

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>mfw Gangsters: Organized Crime will never be remade

>>389749340
They grow up so fast.

>>389752298
>visitor mode

the PS version had that

>>389749834
>implying that's my prison

>>389748304
Work walkers ruined the fun in that game honestly, having to build ghettos just to spawn a walker

>>389747387
Let me guess, scholastic catalog? I got that tycoon pack too anon, the others were moon tycoon and Underwater Tycoon I think. School tycoon was fun as fuck, but I remember thinking the moon and underwater games were almost reskins of each other

>>389747387
Now there's a game I never see get talked about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTdHQNuY30k

is this the school tycoon?

space colony (HD) is decent

>>389752840
That's the one. I still remember the intro cinematic, with the old principal just fucking off and telling you that "you rule the school". fucking next level back in the day

>>389753375
well now I'm curious

does it run well in modern pcs

>>389742569
1602 if you're not a pleb.

>>389753468
I haven't tried it, I lost the disc a while ago, but I remember it running fine on win7 from when I reinstalled it a while back.

how is Hotel Giant

>>389752840

I fucking love all the old activision tycoon games like Ski Resort. They where all pretty much trash but they where still fun.

>>389753754

Shit.

Also there was this eidos tycoon game I think, it was about a beach

>>389749671
>Drains at every entrance of your cells and showers, yet your shower room will still flood
>Unnecessary Cameras watching the hallways around the cells, why not get a couple of patrols going around the area
>21 fucking security monitors, you only need like 4 at most, if that
>No door servos
>Common room is small as fuck
>3 Electrical Generators, I dread to see what your wiring looks like

>>389748304
Re-playing it now. It's kind of tedious once you play later games like Emperor, but it was great at the time.

>>389749835
take care of education and increase wages for priests

>>389749835
Also, what do the other games do to improve the AI? Seems to me they just made it less demanding and didn't actually make more intelligent. In the end, 1 is more challenging and fun.

>>389751241
JESUS CHRIST that 90s UI. Still a good game, but holy fuck.

>>389751139
Just sell some stuff.

>>389749340
Damn, kids grows up very fast these days.

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>>389757762
>kids grows up very fast these days
>Mar 1961

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>>389749680
best game

Dream House days
I wish I had somethng comparable on PC

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>>389749671
>That entire upper right of the prison