Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1Project Hospital (2018)Project Hospital (2018) 7.3/10 on IGDBReleased 30 Oct 2018The campaign makes you a crisis manager for hospitals already in trouble, so this is a direct fit for taking over someone else's operational headache. Follow patients through examinations and treatment, then look at staffing, equipment and the layout that make the process stall. Prebuilt hospitals…0
  2. 2Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up (2020)Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up (2020) 8.0/10 on IGDBReleased 6 Oct 2020A dirty, overheated station with a queue at the wrong staircase is a set of connected problems you can actually watch. Directional crowd flow and staff job priorities let you change how people and maintenance work move through the same space. You generally build the station yourself, then adapt it…0
  3. 3Production Line (2017)Production Line (2017) 6.0/10 on IGDBReleased 18 May 2017A queue of unfinished cars makes an inefficient layout wonderfully visible. Break complex assembly jobs into specialised stages, balance their capacity and check whether parts can reach the stations that need them. You build the factory before you inherit its problems, and research keeps giving you…0
  4. 4Two Point Hospital (2018)Two Point Hospital (2018) 7.6/10 on IGDBReleased 29 Aug 2018The queue outside a room can be a staffing, diagnosis or layout problem, so adding another expensive treatment machine is not always the cure. The statistics screens give you information to test a better plan, and rooms, staff training and prices offer several ways to respond. Most hospitals grow…0
  5. 5Megaquarium (2018)Megaquarium (2018) 6.0/10 on IGDBReleased 13 Sept 2018An animal that looks like a simple addition can change food, water-quality, equipment and staffing requirements across an aquarium. That makes an overcrowded or awkward layout a useful systems problem. The campaign teaches through different objectives, while tanks, pumps and staff access give you…0
  6. 6Two Point Campus (2022)Two Point Campus (2022) 7.0/10 on IGDBReleased 9 Aug 2022Low grades can come from problems outside the classroom: an unhappy student still needs a bed, food, friends and somewhere to study. Looking across those needs is more useful than buying another lectern and hoping for the best. The academic calendar gives you a summer window to reshape facilities…0
  7. 7Cities: Skylines (2015)Cities: Skylines (2015) 8.0/10 on IGDBReleased 10 Mar 2015A jammed junction can stop services reaching the same neighbourhood that caused the traffic. Looking at routes, road connections and public transport gives you a way to work on the cause rather than repeatedly adding lanes. The base game's usual starting point is a new town, so this is chiefly…0
  8. 8Mini Motorways (2019)Mini Motorways (2019) 8.2/10 on IGDBReleased 19 Sept 2019The small road map makes a bad connection difficult to ignore. Change one crossing or motorway route and you can watch the effect on queues across the city. This is a compact network-management puzzle rather than a full municipal simulation. For this reader, the useful option is continuing a…0
  9. 9Transport Fever 2 (2019)Transport Fever 2 (2019) 7.5/10 on IGDBReleased 11 Dec 2019An impressive railway can still be moving the wrong goods, offering too little capacity or losing money on an awkward route. Traffic layers, line management and the simulated production chains help you trace where passengers or cargo stop making useful progress. Campaign missions provide context,…0
  10. 10Satisfactory (2024)Satisfactory (2024) 7.3/10 on IGDBReleased 10 Sept 2024Follow a slow belt back through the machines and an apparently enormous factory becomes a sequence of smaller, fixable shortages. Power, pipes and transport routes give you different kinds of bottleneck to diagnose from the first-person factory floor. This is your own operation growing beyond its…0