Category: Guides
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The best RollerCoaster Tycoon game to play today is RCT2 through OpenRCT2, and on a phone it is Classic. Here is the whole series ranked, including the one Atari should be embarrassed about.
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Three things decide a Game Dev Tycoon run: the topic and genre combo, the development sliders, and how early you open the R&D Lab. Here is the working order for all three, plus the late-game money loop.
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The two best tycoon games ever made are RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 and OpenTTD, and nothing since has matched them. Here is the full ranking, ordered by how many hours each one takes before you notice.
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Five small-scale town builders ranked from deepest to calmest, for players who want a relaxing evening that still asks something of them.
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Five country-scale strategy games that simulate an economy, a population, and a political system instead of a single skyline. Ranked, with fair criticism.
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The five PC city builders that justify a desktop, ranked by how much simulation you get per dollar. Performance notes and honest criticism included.
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Farthest Frontier, Manor Lords, Going Medieval and Foundation ranked, with straight answers on which medieval city builder is the most historically grounded and which one actually has combat worth defending against.
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Terraformers, The Planet Crafter, Reus 2 and WorldBox: four world building games that work at planetary scale instead of street scale, and what each one gives up to get there.
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Cities: Skylines II is still the biggest sandbox and Anno 117: Pax Romana is the best new one. Six city building games ranked across PC, console and mobile, with what is still unfinished said out loud.
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The MMORTS genre shrank hard after the browser boom. Here are the persistent worlds that still have real populations, and the one game that actually puts thousands of players on a single map.
