Sim Junta

This game is a huge waste of time

Tags: Tycoon&Simulator&Sim&City Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Simplistic turn based game with a fun premisce but poor execution, suffers from low interactivity, clunky slow sequences that show the consequences of your previous turn's actions. Goal is to siphon money out of the country. But you start the game running a deficit, which means you must increase taxes, while managing police and army budgets, avoiding a revolution. Basically one of these gauges is always going to suffer as there is simply not enough money for you to win the game and manage the colony at the same time. Even so, the implementation is too clunky for it to matter, the reactions from the engine seem very drastic and I usually find myself being overthrown fairly fast. The transitition between turns is illustrated by days in which you see an isometric screen of what is presumably the presidential residence. The screen always flickers black whenever those sequences start and stop. There are not a lot of policies you can adopt and are often limited to just waiting for a request coming from one group or the other to implement changes. I found the user interface rather cryptic and not very pleasant. The choices are mostly made through a retro CRT computer, the old windows sounds it produces are unpleasant. I would had said to just make a larger menu since this is where you play the whole game.

I have a pretty good gaming rig, and this thing is a glitchy disaster. Too bad, a great idea just executed piss-poor.

It's okay. Old school sort of strategy game. I escaped with a tonne of money and have no desire to play much more than that.

A text-based version of Tropico could work in theory, but here it doesn't. You're mostly managing budgets, and it gets repetitive after a while. Some of the events also seem a bit arbitrary which makes it more difficult than it should. It's now awful, but it's not that fun either.

Just buy Tropico

It's a remake of an old ZX Spectrum game, but the original was better. Even that long ago!