Project Highrise Architect Edition Review

Notable Past UpdatesIn London Life, you will be challenged to create gleaming office towers for titans of trade, elite global stock traders and moguls of media.Gather up the peons this Christmas and decorate your Highrise with these amazing Lobby twinkles!PLUS Chinese and Polish localisation!if you’re not ready to “double down” on the Las Vegas expansion, quite a bit of new content has been added to the base game in version 1.5. Here are some highlights:. Mover’s office – Move things around your tower once you’ve built a mover’s office to coordinate and manage the process. New tenants – New retail and restaurant tenants are now available. New contracts – Take on new contracts from the city to earn extra resources to help build even more prestigious towers!For more details please go;We've had big updates before, but have we had 'tall' updates;)Our tallest update yet! 1.4.0 brings in a tall order of lobby options for your highrise. Multiple two story lobbies.

Project Highrise: Architect's Edition. $29.99 + Buy. Overview System Requirements Reviews. Available on. Our team will review it and, if necessary, take action. Sign in to report this game to Microsoft Report this game to Microsoft. Project Highrise: Architect's Edition. Project Highrise: Architect's Edition. Available now Redeem game code. Your job as the architect and developer is to build world-famous skyscrapers that will be the envy of the entire.

Multiple three story lobbies. Lobby art, to make those ceilings look bling bling. New Scenario.

More wallpaper decorations. Increased expectancy of community support and love(T&Cs apply, this is not a real feature)For more details please go;Our biggest update to date! 1.3.0New Additions including;. How to eliminate your property taxes legally. Rooftop Restaurants and Penthouse Apartments. Winter Holiday Decorations.

Unlimited Mode. New scenario. and more!For more details please go;9 NOVEMBERWas. Our biggest update to date! 1.2.0New Additions including skybridges and cantilevered floors, plus Improvements and more!For more details please go;19 OCTOBERThe Spooky Update 1.1.1 is here!Happy fall, everyone! Check out the new decorations we've added:) plus more!For more details please go;12 OCTOBERUpdate 1.1.0 is here!New items for your building, completely FREE!For more details please go.

About This GameYour job as the architect and developer is to build world-famous skyscrapers that will be the envy of the entire city, masterpieces of art and engineering. But a skyscraper is more than just steel and glass, it’s an intricate ecosystem, full of people that live and work in the building. They become a complex machine that needs your steady hand to keep it running smoothly and efficiently.From the moment you break ground, every decision rests with you.

As the architect you must coordinate the construction of everything - every wall and wire, every office and apartment. As the building owner you must keep your tenants happy - and paying rent on time. As a savvy developer you must keep an eye on the bottom line and invest in the future. Succeed and you will reap the rewards of a prestigious address where everyone will clamor to live and work. Fail and you will watch tenants leave in disgust, taking their business elsewhere and leaving your reputation in tatters.Will you create an exclusive office highrise that attracts business leaders from around the world? Will you construct luxury apartments in the sky, penthouses for the elite and playgrounds for the famous?

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Perhaps greed will get the better of you and you’ll build a tenement building that trades tenant happiness for loads of cash? All these choices and more are yours. Success is entirely in your hands.

ContentThe game comes with three modes:The tutorial shows you the ropes on how to build and manage the building. Learning how to turn it into profit is something you have to find out yourself.Scenario: In here you will find 30 different challenging scenarios to finish. Each of them comes with three goals you have to reach.Freeplay: Let your creativity flow and make your tower on your own terms. Here you can decide on difficulty, size, unlimited size and resources, advanced settings for the backdrop, random events, and the initial random state.GameplayProper planning is the secret to successThe tenantsThough you can just jump in and try your luck, it is recommended to properly plan your next few moves ahead of time.Starting with floor pieces the next step is to decide what to put into the empty floors, but first and foremost is whether the access to higher levels is either by conventional stairs or elevators. The choices are plenty: Shops, Restaurants, Apartments for rentals or Hotel Rooms.

The latter is rather something special and most likely needs separate planning. At later stages, you get access to additional versions for all the options, like bigger shops or rooftop restaurants. Everything is linked to higher requirements and slowly increases the complexity of your tower.The basic needsNothing is simple. Every single one of them has specific needs. Depending on who you are giving the free space, you also have to keep the basic requirements or else it will be a short rent, due to not being able to operate correctly. Electricity, water, gas, phone, cable TV and HVAC, these are the bare minimum.

Each one has its own stock and requires a kind of tank that provides them. When things are overloaded, you will need either more or bigger ones. Not only that, but you also need to wire them to your requested rooms by putting closets on each floor to connect to the base network.The higher the rent, the more requirements have to be fulfilled. There are a lot of services you can offer: janitors, water bottle services, or storage rooms for shops.

Shops need storage space, Apartments need trash cans and these need to be connected with its trash collection services. The higher the rental ladder you go, the more complicated it can get.

One of the most important basic needs is maintenance. In the beginning, you can put up to two maintenance spaces into your tower to repair and renovate all kinds of things.

You need to keep an eye on it, though, because the standard version requires manual spending.Running costs for the upkeepIn addition to planning how to build your tower, you will also need to keep the upkeep costs in mind. Almost everything requires upkeep and that prevents you from wanton spending. When I say almost everything, I mean it. Elevators, closets for wiring, maintenance rooms, and even stairs have upkeep costs.

Once you run into the red it can spiral down really fast.Keeping your residents happy by watching their feedbackOutside of basic requirements, you will also get feedback from your residents. This helps you in deciding what to put into your tower next. Sometimes it’s a pub while other times it’s a place for dinner.Prestige, Influence and BuzzThe Prestige is presented as a star rating.

The more prestige you have, the more expensive things you can unlock. You can build it up by making your tenants happy, decorate your building with art or reach a high tenant number. By moving your mouse over the star you can keep track of your Prestige.Influence and Buzz are generated passively through your tenants. Influence can be used to unlock things to boost your tower. Before you can use influence, you will have to build offices for each category.

Influence can be used in four categories: Aesthetics, Tourism, Politics, and Operations. Each of them offers a wide arrangement of bonuses. Aesthetics unlock artwork, Politics can unlock height limits (49 maximum), Operations can optimize your maintenance crew, Tourism can unlock Casinos.

Each subsequent unlock increases the influence cost. This is just a small look into its uses, as each category has six unlocks.Buzz is something you can spend for a 24-hour bonus. There are five categories and each one has four options. Once you spend it, make sure to use it to the fullest. Just like Influence, each time Buzz is used the cost rises.Loans and City ContractsLoans are available at any time and it depends on you on how to use it. You can try using it to save yourself from imminent bankruptcy or fast lane your expensive plans.

The amount of funds you can loan depends on your prestige. Each loan needs to be paid daily and obviously, you will pay an extra 20% once you sum up your loan payment.City Contracts are optional missions you can take on. Most of the time they can be used as milestones that give you some extra cash and extras like Prestige or Influence. Once you take them up, you also get a little bit of money up front to kickstart your plans.Hotel/Resort (Las Vegas expansion)As part of an expansion DLC Project Highrise Las Vegas adds Hotel/Resort options to the game. Unlike the other DLC, it adds a different economy into the existing gameplay. Part and parcel of it are new Hotel options and even comes with it’s own Hotel Management information report that reports reviews and other things like booked rooms.Random EventsTo add a little bit to the simulator aspect. There are also a few random events happening outside of your reach.

Things like a recession or boom.I did not experience any catastrophes or disasters like earthquakes, flooding, etc. That could devastate your tower yet.SummaryThere is a lot more to write about, but this is the gist of it. In short, you are managing an economic microcosm within your buildings and there are a lot of interlinked things you will keep track of. Graphics and SoundThe graphics are kept simple and clean. Which results in a game that should be able to run close to any system. It just works and keeps everything easy to oversee. This helps the gameplay a lot.

As things can get really big. The music is rather relaxing, making you feel like the hours playing it are just melting away. DLC and ModsAs mentioned in the beginning. This is the full and complete package with all the DLC. The DLC is already integrated into the gameplay and is effective in all scenarios, even the old ones.

Those who want to look outside of the basic offerings can take a look at mods. The game specifically has Mod support making things easier for the user. VerdictProject Highrise Architects Edition is a great successor to the classic SimTower. At this time, I see no reason why anybody shouldn’t take a look at it. It’s also a great entry point into the sim genre. It’s fun, it’s challenging, and even gives you a cheat option in freeplay to let you do whatever you want.

There are quite a few scenarios to go through that should last quite some time. If that’s not enough, you can add more value to it by using mods from the community. For the PC Version, I’m giving it an Autosave for the lower price point and mods adding even more value. In regards to the console versions I begrudgingly have to give it a Save in comparison to the better PC price and options.