Casino Resort Tower

Played 8 hours and barely unlocked anything yet… so much to do. Really enjoying this one ☺️

Bottom line: Good for 50 or so hours before it just got so repetitive I couldn't take it anymore. Very much worth the price on sale. The good: This game really surprised me. There's so much more to it than you would expect, and apparently there's even more coming. Which is great if you like micro-managing and very slow development. There are a whole lot of moving parts to keep track of. The game is extremely good at telling you when there's an issue, once you figure out how the various windows work. Money doesn't feel like a crucial resource. I've never had money pressure - which I like. But trying to build reputation and ratings, that's a different story, and I haven't figured it out very well yet. Achievements, if you are so inclined, are actually achievable. I'm not much of an achievements hunter, but I still got 75% of them in my 50 hours, and was on track to 100% it in 75 or so hours. There aren't any that feel like total stretch barely possible. Some annoyances: When starting a new game, you can change the difficulty of almost everything. But using custom difficulty settings at all, or playing on any difficulty besides normal, disables achievements. This is disappointing, in well designed games I can tweak away the things which annoy me the most and make harder the things I want to challenge me, but still earn achievements. By default, the escape key doesn't close windows, it only opens the main menu. You can sort of fix this by assigning escape as a secondary key for closing items and then map the "escape menu" to something else. Otherwise it might drive you crazy, I probably would have refunded the game if I hadn't been able to work around this. You can't assign keys to open the task bar items, it's mouse only. I'm much faster using a keyboard than a mouse, so that's disappointing. Overall you have to do 95% of everything with the mouse. Running electricity, LAN, water, and sewer lines is a puzzle game that can get a little annoying. Lines of different types can't cross each other and require bridges, which is OK. The problem is when you build a light, for example, but it's sitting on a water line. You have to re-route the water line around it to hook it up rather than just running electric to it.