Any half way decent & recent tycoon games?

[paperfist]

I'm getting terrible tycoon type game cravings to the point that I want to pick up Prison Tycoon badly despite the horrible reviews!

PC gaming used to be replete with tycoon games about trains, planes, automobiles, roller coasters, pizza pads, fairy godmothers, city builders, etc. and now it seems like the whole genre is dead save for a few 'streamlined' & 'consolized' tycoon type games.

There's a lot of new indie devs around, but I'm not seeing anything new on the tycoon horizon. Does anyone know of some tycoon games I can get my fix on?

 

[Homerboy]

I wish I did.
I could go for some new, good ones too.

 

[Lightflash]

Seems like they burnt out on the genre too quickly and a lot of people just stopped buying them for that very reason.

Although I do wish there were some out right now that had improvements to like a roller coaster tycoon or something.

 

[Anteaus]

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 is still sold and stores and is very good, especially with the two expansions.

 

[darkewaffle]

Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is kind of in the genre. I got it in a Steam indie pack and I'm only about an hour or two in but it's surprisingly hard to put down so far. I just want to keep wheeling and dealing and finding/earning more. If you dont mind putting up with or turning down the 8bit audio and the SNES graphics that is.

 

[lothar]

Monopoly Tycoon.

 

[Dankk]

Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is kind of in the genre.

OP, this. You know those role-playing games where you visit item shops to buy equipment and food? In Recettear, you actually run one. It's strangely addictive and exciting. Buy your items wholesale, or find them while dungeon-crawling; then sale them at an inflated price, rip off customers, etc. the usual stuff. Check it out.

 

[mooncancook]

Someone please remake Transport Tycoon. I still play openTTD once in a while and it's still very fun and there's still nothing like it yet.

 

[natto fire]

Someone please remake Transport Tycoon. I still play openTTD once in a while and it's still very fun and there's still nothing like it yet.

Agreed, and not just because it is all that will run on my netbook. OpenTTD keeps improving, and the multiplayer can be great if you find a good server. That was always one sore point I had with TTD, the AI. Internet multiplayer fixed that though.

 

[JujuFish]

The Zoo Tycoons and Roller Coaster Tycoons are the only Tycoon games I liked.

 

[coldmeat]

I know it's not a Tycoon game but I wish they would make a newer SimGolf.

 

[Nintendesert]

They need to bring back SimAnt.

 

[Wardawg1001]

They need to bring back SimAnt.

I agree.

 

[snewdle]

They need to bring back SimAnt.

Not gonna lie. I've never played this game but it sure sounds epic!

 

[Anteaus]

As cheesy as it is, I still play Simfarm. Dosbox FTW!

 

[smackababy]

I still play the first Roller Coaster Tycoon and the expansions. Even if the resolution is capped at some ghastly low res.

 

[jacc1234]

We need new versions of SimTower, SimAnt and SimFarm!

 

[heat901]

I bought patrician 3 from steam for 5 dollars yesterday. If you can deal with dated graphics I think it a pretty good tycoonish type game.

 

[lozina]

If you liked Transport Tycoon the developers of the game Cities in Motion are big fans who are trying to recapture that feel

PC Gamer Article:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/08/20/cities-in-motion-is-a-modern-day-transport-tycoon/


Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nIxbYESX3I

 

[Martimus]

OP, this. You know those role-playing games where you visit item shops to buy equipment and food? In Recettear, you actually run one. It's strangely addictive and exciting. Buy your items wholesale, or find them while dungeon-crawling; then sale them at an inflated price, rip off customers, etc. the usual stuff. Check it out.

That sounds like Act 3 of Dragon Warrior 4 where you played as Taloon and had your own item shop. I thought that was fun, where you went out and got your own items to sell. I am sure this is much more in depth though, since that was but a small portion of the game, while this is the whole point of the game you are talking about.

 

[Piotrsama]

I liked Tycoon City: New York.
(it's 3, 4 years old)

 

[Cienja]

I played "The Movies" or "Movies" on Steam...has a "Stunts and Special Effects" add on. It's pretty fun.

I miss SimTower and there was a sim airline game for the SNES that I've not seen since the 90s...

 

[Rifter]

sim tower FTMFW

 

[Lorne]

How nice that must be, To be on the otherside of the counter hosin customers,,,, I always thought it a bitch being the adventurer coming back with a sack full of great goods and selling them off only to go back into the dungeon and finding it again.
Makes you wonder who's side the town merchants were on when you think there reselling the items back off to the enemy.

Nothing like a sack full of all the same unique item, WTF!

Anyone have the first version Simcity and run on Dosbox?, Does it still get that same anomoly of a population growth and fire burning down the forest in the upper lefthand corner for no reason.

 

[LurkerPrime]

I miss SimTower and there was a sim airline game for the SNES that I've not seen since the 90s...

You're probably thinking of Aerobiz and the later version Aerobiz supersonic. I wish they would remake both of those games, not to mention simAnt and a new roller coaster tycoon would be great also.