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Having played Prison Architect for ~200h spoiled me for this genre of games. I too wanted "more" but in a different setting, so I tried various airport sims, in

Having played Prison Architect for ~200h spoiled me for this genre of games. I too wanted "more" but in a different setting, so I tried various airport sims, including Airport CEO and SimAirport (why don't they get sued by EA?) but refunded all of them. I also tried "Another Brick in the Mall" but also made it only ~30 minutes in. I think I'm trying Timberborn next. When Paradox bought Prison architect I hoped they were going to use the engine to build similar games with different settings. Instead they killed the game with buggy expansions and stopped to support it a few months ago. At least they (slightly) teased Prison Architect 2.

throwaway290 3y ago
Tried Dwarf Fortress?
- omnibrain 3y ago
  Not since the update (steam release). I tried it years ago - I think even before Prison Architect and Rimworld (another great game, that spoils you for other games mechanicswise) - but could not get into it, because I felt very "disoriented". And a feel of disorientation is difficult for me to work through in games.
  - mrcsno 3y ago
    I think you might be able to get through it now, specially the steam version, as the UI is much closer to RimWorld than the ASCII version was.
  - throwaway290 3y ago
    Never tried Steam version, I think it wasn't available on Mac or something, but I tried the old ASCII version and it's super cool. My main problem is paralysis of choice.
grantc 3y ago
Timberborn is great, worth a try. You'll be stressing about droughts in no time.
actuallyalys 3y ago
>SimAirport (why don't they get sued by EA?) That is strange. The only thing I can think of is that EA isn't terribly motivated since they aren't trying to keep a broader "Sim" brand alive, just The Sims and SimCity (and it's not clear how invested they are in SimCity anymore). Poking around U.S. trademark database, EA may not have a general "Sim" trademark— as Maxis' appears to have lapsed [0]—and maybe "SimAirport" is distinct enough from "The Sims" and "SimCity" trademarks EA has to not be worth suing over. [0] https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=74300602&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=74300602&caseType=SERIAL_...
- adanto6840 3y ago
  Creator of SimAirport here. We fought EAs opposition to the trademark and won; we did the same for the SimCasino trademark. :)
  - actuallyalys 3y ago
    I guess I assumed most studios wouldn’t want to go up against EA’s lawyers, but I’m glad you did. Congrats!
Kerbonut 3y ago
Prison Architect was such a fun game before Paradox, but don’t kid yourself its always been a buggy mess. I think my favorite was designing prisoner escape prisons, and I loved playing them too.

throwaway290 3y ago

Tried Dwarf Fortress?

omnibrain 3y ago
Not since the update (steam release). I tried it years ago - I think even before Prison Architect and Rimworld (another great game, that spoils you for other games mechanicswise) - but could not get into it, because I felt very "disoriented". And a feel of disorientation is difficult for me to work through in games.
- mrcsno 3y ago
  I think you might be able to get through it now, specially the steam version, as the UI is much closer to RimWorld than the ASCII version was.
- throwaway290 3y ago
  Never tried Steam version, I think it wasn't available on Mac or something, but I tried the old ASCII version and it's super cool. My main problem is paralysis of choice.

grantc 3y ago

Timberborn is great, worth a try. You'll be stressing about droughts in no time.

actuallyalys 3y ago

>SimAirport (why don't they get sued by EA?) That is strange. The only thing I can think of is that EA isn't terribly motivated since they aren't trying to keep a broader "Sim" brand alive, just The Sims and SimCity (and it's not clear how invested they are in SimCity anymore). Poking around U.S. trademark database, EA may not have a general "Sim" trademark— as Maxis' appears to have lapsed [0]—and maybe "SimAirport" is distinct enough from "The Sims" and "SimCity" trademarks EA has to not be worth suing over. [0] https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=74300602&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=74300602&caseType=SERIAL_...

adanto6840 3y ago
Creator of SimAirport here. We fought EAs opposition to the trademark and won; we did the same for the SimCasino trademark. :)
- actuallyalys 3y ago
  I guess I assumed most studios wouldn’t want to go up against EA’s lawyers, but I’m glad you did. Congrats!

Kerbonut 3y ago

Prison Architect was such a fun game before Paradox, but don’t kid yourself its always been a buggy mess. I think my favorite was designing prisoner escape prisons, and I loved playing them too.