This simple mechanism creates delightfully rich feedback loops that take a number of plays to fully appreciate – grow too quickly without an economic base and your town stagnates, unable to afford the development you need to serve your population but bring in too much business or industry and nobody will want to live there.īuying tiles for your city isn't just an exercise in math, though – building your city is a spatial and temporal puzzle, with a limited ability to impact the other players' cities as well. The population tally (which serves as the game's scoring mechanism) models the disadvantages of urban growth in a very clever and elegant way – every so often on the track there's a red line, and when your population surpasses it you lose one point of income (more expensive municipal services) and one point of reputation (more density/pollution/crime/whatever). Players take turns buying hexagonal tiles from an ever-changing market and placing them in their town to develop their city in ways that affect its population, income, and reputation. At heart, Suburbia is a simple, subtle economic simulation with three moving parts. The art is streamlined to the point of austerity, there is almost no luck, and the game is unashamed to show off its mathematical guts. Suburbia is a technocrat's take on urban planning.
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