SuperTaxCity

Didn't take me long to realize this game wasn't for me. The game takes you where it wants to go and there's really not much the player can do about it. Even in roguelites, the player needs some level of agency that offers a mitigating sensation that counters purely luck-based engagement or else what's the point in even playing?

"Fun Start, Frustrating Finish." My first impression of Super Tax City was genuinely positive. The opening hour is smooth, cozy, and surprisingly engaging. The pacing feels just right early on: you’re placing buildings, lining up synergies, and watching your tax score climb in a way that feels clever and earned. The game nails that “one more turn” vibe right out of the gate — something that’s harder than it looks for smaller roguelike-style puzzle games. At its core, the game asks you to place buildings based on city-building logic to trigger combos and boost your score. It’s conceptually simple, but when the pieces fall into place, it’s really satisfying. Lining up the right neighborhoods or combining certain building types gives that classic dopamine hit you’d expect from a score-chaser. Like many roguelikes that don’t get their randomness tuned well, Super Tax City eventually hits a wall — and that wall is the RNG. Far too often, you’re left waiting for a specific building type to appear. Runs stall not because you misplayed or took a risk, but because the deck just refuses to give you anything remotely useful for 10, 15, sometimes 20 placements in a row. Instead of feeling strategic or reactive, the game becomes a waiting game — and not a fun one. It’s like planning a combo that you know the game wants you to build… only for it to never show up. The result is this weird mix of boredom and irritation where you’re stuck placing throwaway buildings hoping for a miracle. The aesthetics are honestly lovely. The pixelated visuals have a cute and cozy charm that fits the tone perfectly. It’s the kind of game you want to like because everything is inviting and low-pressure at first. The music adds to the mood too — soft, breezy, and relaxing — though after a while it becomes repetitive enough that you may catch yourself lowering the volume. Super Tax City has a strong concept, a great vibe, and a promising core loop. The first hour showcases what the game could be if the RNG were more balanced or if the player had more tools to mitigate it. But right now, the randomness is tuned too harshly, too stingily, and too often blocks progression in a way that feels unfair rather than challenging. It creates artificial difficulty instead of meaningful choices.

Kinda fun for the first few runs, but very limited in the number of buildings you can make. No real unlocking except different base rules. Leans VERY heavily into RNG to give you a build which is a bit frustrating as there's very few ways to pivot.

低レベル帯は楽しいです。 色んなビルドが組めて色んな遊び方ができる余裕があるので。 高レベルになると楽しくないです。 自分の技量では結局同じビルドになってしまい、 それを運良く引き当てるだけのゲームになっていたからです。 そんな短調さに少し飽きがきてしまい、 運ゲー要素を技術介入で補えるのか、 その試行錯誤をしようにもモチベが残念ながら湧きませんでした。 あとローグライトではお馴染みと思っていた、 長く遊んでいると恩恵をもらえるバフ的な要素もないので、 これ無理だなーって思うステージに行き詰まると、 単調さも相まって、もういいやとなりました。

SuperTaxCity, developed by soramame-koubou and published by KIC Games, is one of those deceptively simple strategy games that reveals its true identity only after a few runs. At first glance, it looks like a lighthearted pixel-based city builder—small buildings, cheerful residents, tidy grids—but the heart of the experience lies in its economic tension, randomness, and incremental decision-making. Instead of managing infrastructure or long-term city planning, the game challenges you to build a profitable miniature metropolis under strict time pressure, with unpredictable construction options and an ever-looming tax deadline. Each round becomes its own economic experiment, forcing you to balance short-term survival against long-term income potential. The result is a game that feels familiar in presentation but fresh in execution. The main loop revolves around choosing one of three randomly offered facilities each turn and placing it strategically on your limited plot of land. These facilities—restaurants, houses, entertainment venues, industrial buildings, and many more—generate income when residents wander into them. Residents roam freely and behave semi-randomly, introducing both chaos and excitement into every run. Items you acquire along the way modify the behavior of buildings or citizens, encouraging synergies and engine-building strategies. After the timer expires, tax must be paid based on your earnings, and if you haven’t generated enough income, the run ends prematurely. This structure creates a satisfying push-and-pull rhythm: build quickly, hope the citizens cooperate, and pray the next tax cycle doesn’t destroy everything you’ve constructed. What makes SuperTaxCity compelling is the way it rewards adaptability. Because building choices are randomized, no two cities ever unfold the same way. Sometimes you’re showered with commercial properties and must build a consumption-driven economy; other times housing and support buildings appear, encouraging a resident-based strategy. Certain items reshape your priorities entirely, enabling explosive growth if placed intelligently. The game encourages experimentation—testing whether unconventional building combinations can carry you through multiple tax cycles. Slowly, without the player realizing it, the rhythm becomes hypnotic. Even failed runs feel productive, because each attempt teaches new interactions, synergies, and dangers to avoid. Visually, the game embraces a charming, colorful pixel style that prioritizes legibility and personality. Buildings are immediately recognizable, citizens wobble through streets with distinctive silhouettes, and the UI clearly communicates profits, timers, and tax burdens. The presentation supports the emotional tone of the game—cheerful on the surface, stressful underneath. The soundtrack complements the light city-building fantasy, creating an atmosphere that feels welcoming even as the tax counter ticks down like a bomb. It is clear the developer values clarity over spectacle, and that restraint works in the game’s favor, ensuring the player focuses on decision-making rather than visual clutter. Because SuperTaxCity borrows design sensibilities from roguelike deck-builders, it also inherits some of their frustrations. Randomness can occasionally feel punishing, particularly when you desperately need income-generating buildings but are offered only niche support structures. A run can collapse not because of poor planning but because the draft refused to cooperate. For players who dislike RNG as a central design feature, this unpredictability may feel unfair rather than challenging. The game’s claim to city-building may also mislead players expecting detailed urban simulation—there are no roads to lay, utilities to balance, or zoning decisions to navigate. The focus is almost entirely on economic synergy rather than urban realism, and expectations should be set accordingly. Still, within its chosen design space, SuperTaxCity excels. It is a compact game that respects the player’s time, quickly ramps up strategic thinking, and offers replay value through endless run variations. It occupies a sweet spot between accessibility and depth—easy to learn but genuinely demanding when pursuing high scores or long survival streaks. Its price point and low system requirements make it approachable for a wide audience, especially those who want something strategic but not time-consuming or mechanically overwhelming. And despite its simplicity, it manages to generate stories—runs where a single building or item transformed a doomed city into a thriving one, or where a perfect plan collapsed moments before tax day. SuperTaxCity ultimately shines because it reframes city management as a series of tense, clever micro-decisions rather than slow, sprawling simulation. It captures the addictive spirit of economic roguelikes while maintaining a unique identity, blending charm, strategy, luck, and humor into a compact package. Players looking for a thoughtful, replayable, risk-reward puzzle will find plenty to enjoy here. Those craving realism or narrative depth may move on quickly, but for everyone else, SuperTaxCity is a small but engaging surprise—one worth returning to run after run, just to see what kind of city chance and strategy will build next. Rating: 8/10

<ステージ全開放後レビュー＞ おすすめ度:★★★☆☆ 良かった点 ・シンプルで何も考えずに楽しめる難易度 ・操作量が少ないので疲れてても遊べる ・どの施設もしっかり役割がある 悪かった点 ・施設が少ない＝シナジーが少ない ・毎回似たようなビルドになりがちで単調 ・爽快感を感じるまで非常に長い ービルドが整うのは無限モードに入る辺りから ・大味で目新しさは無い 総評 無数のローグライトデッキ構築を触ってる身からすると大味で目新しさはないです。 面白いですがチャレンジモードまでやるかと言われると正直微妙。 同じ価格帯で面白い作品は沢山あるので、その中から今作は選ばないかもしれません。 既に沢山このジャンルを遊ばれてる方であれば遊んでみるのは良いのではないでしょうか。 いずれもデモを触ってから購入を検討すると良いと思います。

Super Tax City is one of those 'build a scoring engine through synergies' type of games, and those can be very hit and miss for me. This one is a hit. It's quite boardgamey in many ways, with some buildings generating resources that are required by others, buildings that score from spatial positioning in relation to other things, etc. It works very well here, and while it won't scratch the city builder itch if you were after SimCity, the premise does make logical sense in terms of how different buildings key off each other. It's a good one, well worth checking out.

I got SuperTaxCity as part of a game bundle, and this was the *last* game I chose, expecting it to be the worst. Despite that, I have found myself repeatedly coming back and playing it multiple times. Definitely glad that I picked it up (I haven't played any of the other games from that bundle more than this, so far). A casual game, with similarities to 'Luck Be A Landlord' (another favourite). Taking on the harder difficulties makes completing each play difficult to achieve, given the RNG item choices.

G-Eight展玩到 覺得是蠻完整的小遊戲 支持~

おもしろい ローグライクとして抑えるべきポイントが抑えられていてよい 唯一の欠点としては、建てられる建物の抽選が完全ランダムのため、ストア部分での調整が多少効くものの、狙ったビルドを組めるかどうかは結局運頼みになってしまう点か