Highrise City

The story is a bit mysterious, but I think that it adds an extra layer of intrigue to the game. It’s not all just monotonous city management. I was hoping for a game that wasn’t overwhelming or confusing; something that I could lose myself in for hours and not feel burnt-out. It was such a pleasant surprise to find that in Highrise City and I’d highly recommend it to anyone interested in city simulators!

Highrise City is an immersive city-building strategy game with a steep learning curve, featuring city construction, resource management, and a strong emphasis on economics. It’s not just a simple city builder, but a complex city-building and management game that focuses on the logical requirements for city operations and subsequent development. The icing on the cake is the ability to drive around the city you’ve built in a white pickup truck, putting you right in the thick of the action. However, the game is let down by relatively poor optimization and a user interface that’s confusing at first. Fans of the genre will definitely find it engaging and entertaining. I’d recommend that newcomers arm themselves with patience or opt for an easier title.

Highrise City is the culmination of an almost entirely solo project. The title makes a real attempt to distance itself from the other experiences available on the market. It offers an honest management aspect as well as a fairly advanced resource system. Nevertheless, the game fails to achieve the same overall quality in terms of interface, soundtrack and even visual proposition. There are still a few elements that need fine-tuning.

Although Highrise City seems quite complex, it is somehow economical at the same time. As if the creators saved in every direction and were afraid of finer processing, going more in-depth, creating more comfort for players, as well as more beautiful visuals, and the story is downright sloppy.

Highrise City is an interesting variation on the city builder formula, but it has two souls that often collide.

This ain’t it. There are good ideas in Highrise City, but the game is just plastered with nuisances that result in it not being as relaxing or accessible as other city builders. It is too deep in its logistic mechanics, almost to a fault. The beginning of each new save is also painfully slow, poorly explained, and convoluted, meaning that this game also lacks the “pick up and play” aspect seen in Sim City or Cities. It tried, and I respect that, but it needs an extra phase of fixes before I can call it a city builder worth hanging out with the other big boys.

Highrise City is an incredibly immersive city builder with a sharp learning curve for those who expect it to just be a normal city builder, as a lot of the mechanics come from economic and resource management simulators. If you are familiar with typical city builders and are thinking Highrise City might be the same, you may just be biting off more than you can chew if you ignore the tutorials.

Highrise City is a valid real-time strategic hybrid city builder, with differences compared to other titles that "update" the formula, but with several problems and defects that can frustrate.