Mad Tower Tycoon

The spiritual successor to Sim Tower. I <3 it.

I picked this up to scratch a SimTower nostalgia itch but I don't think the game does a good job of emulating the experience or respecting my time. The game has a tower "star" system which provides new buildings, but there's also a leveling system which ALSO has buildings, and stars will have level-unlock buildings as prerequisites. You can only get EXP from daily tenant income and challenges, so there's a lot of waiting for leveling up just to get the buildings to advance and get more buildings. It's a slow drip and based on the number of skill tree unlocks, there are a LOT of levels to wait for. The daily challenges are also not that fun, mainly amounting to "build something you have unlocked" or "wait for a number of visitors to do an activity". I played one of the scenarios and started to understand some of the design ideas, but I mainly think the elevator capacities are a little too constrictive to make something fun. I also needed to re-design some elevators when the 2X shaft was unlocked and the cost + experience of rebuilding a 25-floor elevator shaft was miserable. The "3D" camera is also sort of laughable; you have about 5 degrees of rotation to view the building from "different angles". The soundtrack is also a few short songs on loop (one of which is from the game trailer) which doesn't give a lot of emotion... I ended up muting it about five hours in. Mostly I looked at a lot of stuff this game was doing and wished that it was more fun. I wouldn't say it's a new SimTower.