Townopolis

Being responsible over your own household can be overwhelming, sometimes, especially when things seem to go out of their way to make life difficult for you. However, you can only imagine how stressful it would be to have an entire town under your supervision, as well as thousands of people, just as many buildings and the environment itself, which needs attention as well from time to time.

Townopolis is a city builder with arcade mechanics in which you have to take care of an entire town on your own, albeit on a much smaller scale that in titles like Sim City or Civilization. Moreover, the residents of each house also have their own requests and preferences, whether it's the desire to have neighbors, or the need for a post office in order to receive and send their mail.

In the beginning, however, you get a lot of help from various advisers, who teach you the basics of what you need to know in order to run a town without too many headaches. Thus, the missions gradually increase in difficulty and the buildings you are able to construct get more and more complicated, such as supermarkets, post offices or even apartment buildings.

In case you are wondering how you are going to support the investments and how you manage to turn a profit from all your effort, the answer lies in rent. Hence, whenever you build a house, the residents who occupy it must pay you a certain amount of money at fixed intervals. Depending on how satisfied they are and how many upgrades you bring to their house, the rent can rise significantly over time, which allows you to build even more and expand to new areas.

Moreover, some of the buildings cannot be started without the proper authorizations or licenses, which can also be bought for a certain amount of money. Naturally, builders are required as well and you can assign more of them to a job in order to speed up the process. Lastly, materials are basically the most basic resource needed in order to construct the buildings and you can easily order more of it whenever you run out, although it too comes with a pretty steep price that must be taken into consideration.

While Townopolis is not exactly a hardcore city builder and it lacks the potential for slightly more complicated structures, the game can be thoroughly enjoyed by almost anyone, as long as you do not mind having to wait for the money to come through in order to take the desired actions. That is also the biggest flaw of the game, since the minutes can be quite empty and boring whenever you run out of money.