I am looking for a tycoon where you can build a club/disco from the first person perspective.

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I have been wanting to get Zoo Tycoon 2 for years, and especially now that I have gotten a Windows computer. I don't want to pirate it, because I want to avoid any chances of getting a virus, but Amazon does not sell it to those not in the US.

Does this mean that the code will only work in the US, or that it can only be bought in the US but still be activiated and played in other countries? I have a friend living there now, and am considering asking if they can buy it for me.

I have enjoyed a few games that have dozens of commodities that can and must be customized, but these games are not typical tycoon games. For example, Ara History Untold has numerous products that can be used within specific buildings or within cities; Victoria 2 had specific consumer goods that either maintained POPs at a social class or allowed them to change jobs. Even some elements of Fallout 4 required choosing whether to use scavenged commodities to customize weapons or to build settlement furniture.

As far as I can tell:

Victoria 2 had at least 64 commodities.

Fallout 4 had 31 commodities:

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_4_crafting

Captain of Industry has several dozen commodities:

https://wiki.captain-of-industry.com/

This type of highly detailed management of products, commodities, etc. would seem to be a natural fit for a tycoon game, but most tycoon games I can think of tend to be streamlined, representing only a few commodities. What tycoon games have the greatest number of commodities to manage and represent them with the most detail? Is there, for example, a game with 200 commodities?

Edit:

Someone mentioned Anno games and I was a bit surprised because I had somehow felt that they had relatively few commodities, but I was remembering them incorrectly. Also, the last Anno game I played only had some of the DLC, not all of it, but still, I should have noticed that it had more than 200 commodities.

https://anno1800.fandom.com/wiki/Goods

I tried copy-and-pasting into a basic spreadsheet and I got a result with almost 300 rows, but not every row is a unique commodity.

Saw this on r/boardgames, and thought it was an interesting question.

For me, I love Out of the Park Baseball, I've been playing it since single digit releases (maybe even since the beginning). But I almost always play it wrong. I usually since they've added HS & college leagues, I always try to create a universe that is CPU-crushingly big, with all the real college teams (D1-D3 + NAIA) and 500+ high schools, I'll even try to do travel ball & American Legion teams as summer leagues.

Then I don't GM a team, and I just sim seasons to see how the universe develops. Try to find players that played 4 years of high school, 4 years of college, and then grew up to play in the big leagues.

Which is not the way the game was intended to be played, I don't think. Especially since that many teams causes HUGE performance issues, lol.

What about you, what have you been doing wrong all along?

Hayho.

Im currently deciding between Definitely Not Fried Chicken and Good Company
Good Company is on sale on Steam for 15.40€

And Definitely Not Fried Chicken is available in a Fanatical Bundle for 3€ (need to buy atleast two games so theoretical 6€)

booth look interesting and fun but i cant really make a decision on here
Has any of you guys played the games or maybe even both?

whats your opinion on what one to get

EDIT : or youve got another good game like that?

Hey, we are looking for a few people who enjoy simulation games to play and record footage of our upcoming game so we can make an updated trailer.

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I just published the Steam page for my upcoming ski resort tycoon game named Skingdom 🚠 I also published a reveal trailer to show what the game looks like for now 😀
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https://reddit.com/link/1ibyxkq/video/i6l6et5ctpfe1/player

I'm looking for tycoon crime games in the vein of city of gangsters and not fried chicken. I've been checking out games like Dough and i'm really in the mood for more if they're out there. Thank!

How about this idea? You are a crazy alchemist brewing potions for clients. You grow the ingredients yourself: cacti with eyes, ferns made of knives, or maybe a singing mushroom? Everything is mixed in a mysterious cauldron, where you need to stir vigorously to achieve a magical effect. Spend the coins you earn on wild recipes, strange seeds, and cool tools. Improve your alchemical kingdom, attract crowds of clients, and sell your creations at exorbitant prices!

Curious what tycoon game sucked your time away in 2024. Mine was Big Ambition and Software inc Inc.

I'm curious what you hated and why

Mine was defffinately not fried chicken. The game was buggy, struggled to have a solid game loop, logistics and qol was all a mess.

So many small things but nothing working perfectly.

Hotel Magnate $25 in EA is criminal. Game crashes like crazy, saves don't work, key mechanics are broken. Dec takes forever to update then comes out with fires that no one asked for. Lol.

Basically title.

Looking for recommendations for good tycoon games of any kind on Xbox or Playstation.

Are there any in the style of Mad Games Tycoon 2? Please help.

Hi - looking for a sim/tycoon game which captures the risk / reward / excitement of being able to make larger journeys.

For examples - transport sim and you finally have the vehicles capable of making a direct cross Atlantic voyage, instead of island hoping along U.K./Iceland/Greenland route.

An old mobile game PocketPlanes had some of this vibe. But was other wise light and comes with usual mobile game issues.

I’ve even tried making my own game to capture this feeling of “meaningful expansion” but not succeeded yet. I’ve got OpenTTD and Transport Fever2 - not quite what I’m after.

Thanks in advance.

I just bought this during the holiday GOG sales and was looking forward to reliving kid memories. The games crashes though. I thought the current GOG installer ran out of the box but I'm happy to tweak what is needed. Help! :)

I get past the intro to the menu screen and then it always crashes out on me. I can't manually tweak the config files since they seem binary/proprietary but I was able to find a collection of alternate resolution config files that claim they disable TL hardware which I really do NOT want to do unless I have to.

Windows 11 / RTX 4070 / 3440x1400 native res

dgVoodoo latest version 2.84.1 / 2560x1440 res / VRAM 1024

Launcher and game file both set to run in Compatibility as WinXPsp3 and Run As Admin.

This week's Epic freebie might be of interest to this subreddit. Turmoil is about prospecting and drilling for oil in the 19th century. I've actually played this game before and will give a brief review.

Freebie link:

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/turmoil-26318a

Turmoil is light and simple. The actual gameplay of prospecting and drilling for oil is rather puzzle-like, but tycoon fans will feel right at home when it comes time to sell it. The price of oil is constantly fluctuating. This part of game forces you to juggle how much oil to store, how much storage to build, and how long you're willing to wait for a better price before you run out of cash or storage. Additionally, when you're in town, look for opportunities to make a bribe or underhanded deal with the oil buyers to set a price floor on the oil.

Some other tycoon elements include bidding for land at auction, being in competition with some NPC tycoons, and figuring out which upgrades to buy to help drill oil more efficiently or store more oil.

Overall, I had fun with Turmoil. It's light and not particularly in-depth, so you can jump right into it and have fun for a few hours. Definitely worth grabbing for free and actually installing.

Relaxing is the key word as know of fly corp which is anything but relaxing