STAY AWAY FROM THE BAKERY, BOB! YOUвЂ™VE GOT A WEDDING COMING UP! Project Highrise shows you mechanical people that move to set routines each day, and about the most exciting thing that you get from watching them is when you follow Bob from the accounting firm to see if heвЂ™s going to buy a sandwich or donut for lunch. Often itвЂ™s subtle, but whether youвЂ™re playing Theme Hospital or Cities Skylines, Aven Colony or Rollercoaster Tycoon, the common thread binding these games together as a genre is not that you вЂњbuild stuff.вЂќ ItвЂ™s the underlying acknowledgement of the fundamental systems that actually translate to the real world things that theyвЂ™re simulating, be that the economics behind theme parks, or city building. What has made simulators great over the years has been their wry, dry, often cutting humour. ThereвЂ™s very little personality in the game, either. You should see how well my coffee cart performsвЂ¦ and donвЂ™t you believe I charge them from that premier position privilege. And, on top of that, as your tower grows, youвЂ™ll be able to establish a shopping district on the bottom floors, and with enough foot traffic, you can up the rent to those businesses to really rake in the cash. As long as youвЂ™re not wasteful in how you spend, the rent that comes in will always exceed the expenses that you pay to maintain those services.

That being said, Project Highrise isnвЂ™t necessarily difficult. These services that you provide your tenants are an imposition on the bottom line that doesnвЂ™t earn you revenue, but if you want these tenants to stay, balancing the budget is a mandatory skill. A basic insurance agent only needs a copier service, and a studio apartment is perfectly livable as long as thereвЂ™s somewhere to dump the trash, but as the rents get higher, the quality of the businesses and residents lifts, as too do their demands. Naturally each different tenant is going to have different demands. Thank goodness the base game is inexpensive. But, superficial as it is, the developers know that variety is the spice of life, which is why the variety is locked behind DLC paywalls. This is superficial, since the real skill in the game is not in building a variety of things, but carefully managing rents and the placement of those offices and apartments so everyone is happy. The base game has a small handful of options when it comes to both the businesses that you can attract to your tower, and the kind of apartments that you can build. ThereвЂ™s not so much variety in what you can actually build, though.

YouвЂ™ve got a lot of freedom in how you go about that (create one single tower that functions as a little city that you never need to leave, or perhaps create connected towers so residents and businesses donвЂ™t need to co-exist, but can still commute to work across a high rise bridge). So youвЂ™ll find yourself carefully designing your tower to house a mix of offices, residents, and shops and businesses.

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