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Whizzo 14 Mar 2013 20:02:27 44,765 posts
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It is similar in that it's a lot more concerned about keeping people relatively happy rather than just building stuff.

Obviously if people are really unhappy you can always have them arrested and put into a lovely re-education er happiness adjustment facility (prison) or they may have an accident from unhappiness (secret police) or you may just shoot them if they rebel. I don't think that's possible in Theme Park. :-)

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King_Edward 14 Mar 2013 20:04:08 11,470 posts
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I love Theme Park. \o/

I see Anno 2070's on sale too, but I daren't buy anything off Ubisoft on PC.

the_dudefather 14 Mar 2013 20:08:20 10,735 posts
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I used to trap thugs in fenced off prisons in Theme Park, just set up a line of clowns to tempt them, then trap them at the end of a path

could set up a small zoo of them for other guests to see!

heavy_salad 14 Mar 2013 22:36:31 1,156 posts
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I'd recommend Children of the Nile as a bit of a left wing suggestion. I do like Tropico though - that'd be my favourite. 3 or 4 really cos there's not much difference, but 4 is cheap on Steam right now.

Mike1989 14 Mar 2013 23:02:34 47 posts
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Anybody know of decent ones for iphone?

thelzdking 14 Mar 2013 23:39:56 7,524 posts
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I've just been enjoying TTD. I've been meaning to try it for a while and this thread was a timely reminder

dsmx 15 Mar 2013 17:35:52 8,235 posts
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Go for openttd instead, lots of good improvements to the core game and you have the option of downloading newgrf, which is basically modding the game so you can new vehicles, industries, town buildings, etc. Can make the game far more interesting, but you don't have to if you don't want to.

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MrTomFTW Best Moderator, 2016 15 Mar 2013 17:53:56 47,491 posts
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Mike1989 wrote:
Anybody know of decent ones for iphone?

One I can play on my Nexus 7 would be the death of me I think.

thelzdking 15 Mar 2013 21:15:20 7,524 posts
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dsmx wrote:
Go for openttd instead, lots of good improvements to the core game and you have the option of downloading newgrf, which is basically modding the game so you can new vehicles, industries, town buildings, etc. Can make the game far more interesting, but you don't have to if you don't want to.

I meant to say OpenTTD!

I would really like to see an updated version of Constructor as well. That game was a bit different.

Razz 22 Mar 2013 17:46:45 63,431 posts
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This is alpha footage of a city builder that I'm really interested in, reminds me a bit of stronghold. It's made entirely by one guy

ronuds 22 Mar 2013 19:51:19 21,781 posts
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Looks pretty awesome.

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