I’ve just finished mission 3, where you have to get pots to a certain number of households, and this is where they introduce the idea of houses upgrading themselves if they are well serviced, and downgrading if not. I had fond memories of this game, playing it in 1999.įor once the rose tinted glasses are not inaccurate. (Well, rymdkapsel is a brilliant one, but its scope is so much smaller than the Impressions games, I assume that’s not what you’re looking for.) It’s not perfect, but I came to enjoy it quite a bit (especially after they ripped most of the free-to-play stuff out). The easiest to recommend is called Townsmen. I’m a city building connoisseur, and it’s true there are not many great ones on iOS, and none following closely in the footsteps of the Impressions games. But nothing that gets in the way of playing.

I’ve played Pharaoh with the high-resolution patch, and it’s definitely an improvement on modern machines, but understand that not all the UI scales properly, so some screens are a little wonky. You’ll get Pharaoh as a title that either takes three months real time to build a small city…or you can micro-pay for bricks, flooding, and certain necessary buildings. If you do get your “wish”, it’ll actually be like the Monkey’s Paw. In other words, they’re not developing them for iOS.įinally, the City Builder series seem to be the unintended parents of the most awful, non-game IAP/microtransaction games available on the platform. Whomever does own the Sierra properties is happy to license those properties out (such as Gabe Knight), but isn’t actively doing anything with them besides selling them through an outlet like GOG. Yeah, sadly I wouldn’t hold my breath for an iOS/tablet-friendly version of those Impressions City Builder games.įor one, I don’t think the folks who actually worked on them–most of whom ended up at Tilted Mill–own any sort of rights to allow them to adapt those games to another platform.

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