Is a city builder a subset of tycoon game that just focuses on managing a city or some other polity? Is a tycoon game a city builder except it’s open to you managing something that isn’t a town/city/state?
Crossposted to !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works here. (My instance would not give me the little Crossposted thing when this little bit wasn’t edited in and the posts were identical but in separate communities, so I figured I’d just do it myself. Wonder if this is just a my instance deal or if it happened for everyone. And if it happened for everyone, wonder if crossposting only gets auto-shown if it is a link post, and what the requirements are in general to make crossposting automatically show up.)
In my experience, in city builders you don’t usually have any competition, although I think there were neighboring cities in Sim City 3000 that you had to negotiate with.
In tycoon games, you have competitors and your success depends on beating them. In the best tycoon games, you can buy your competitors’ stock and profit from their effort.
In city builders, there’s generally no rush - you can move at your own pace. Tycoon games don’t give you that luxury - in the games that I play, you have to stay ahead of competitors and/or keep shareholders happy.
That is so interesting. In the tycoon games I have played I do not remember having competitors too often.
It might just be the ones I play; Railroad Tycoon 3, Airbucks, Detroit, etc. Edit: I forgot about the original Theme Park (by Bullfrog)