- Release Date: 1997
- Genre: Simulation
- Style: Construction/Building Sim
- Similar Games: SimCity 2000 (Macintosh), SimFarm (Macintosh), SimTown (Macintosh), SimCity 2000 [DOS] (IBM PC Compatible), SimCity 2000 (Sega Saturn), SimCity 2000 (PlayStation), SimFarm (IBM PC Compatible), SimCopter (IBM PC Compatible), SimCity (Macintosh), SimCity 2000 (Super Nintendo Entertainment System), SimCity 2000 (Nintendo 64), SimFarm [DOS] (IBM PC Compatible), SimTown (IBM PC Compatible), SimCity (IBM PC Compatible)
Game Description
SimCity gave you the chance to build your own city, while SimTown let you build your own neighborhood. SimTower, also byThe game starts off with the placement of a lobby. You can build it as wide as you wish, but each section costs money. An elevator, escalator, or stairs connects you to the floor above, where you can place offices or condos. Your tower starts out with a one-star rating, which limits you to condos, offices, and restaurants. As time goes on, your building is awarded more stars, and you can build more types of rooms, such as hotel rooms, hotel suites, security offices, maid service laundries, and elevators, meeting rooms, movie theaters, and more. The choices seem endless.
In addition to placing rooms, you must also make it so that people can get around in your Tower. Express and local service elevators, stairs, and escalators will help you move your tenants around. But they will not take well to a Byzantine maze, so plan your building carefully.
Review: Overall
Sim Tower, bySim Tower also uses a system of stars to give you more options when it comes to placing different types of businesses and homes in your high rise. At one star, you have access only to offices, condos, or fast-food restaurants. With two stars (which you gain by having at least 300 people residing in your tower), you get the option of placing security offices, single-bed hotel rooms, and places for the maids who clean the rooms and make the beds.
More stars lead to more choices, from two-bed hotel rooms and suites, to movie theaters, parking places, recycling centers, meeting rooms, and more. At the pinnacle of your success--five stars--you can place a cathedral, but only on floor 100.
Figuring out the rules using the included manual might be a little difficult, as the manual itself is not the thickest, and many of the details are thinly covered. Reading the entire manual before starting the game is advisable though. Otherwise, you will be very upset when the game keeps telling you that you cannot do something. This is not a game to charge into full-speed.
The game comes with three speeds, and there is a handy pause button if you wish to stop and examine something. However, while the game is paused, you cannot add to the building in any way. All you can do is examine things.
At the end of the fourth quarter of every year, in a charming bit of fun, Santa Claus and his reindeer fly over your tower. The manual says that something good is supposed to happen when he does this, but it doesn't say what that is.
Other events happen, such as having a VIP Visit your tower to stay in one of the hotel suites. While these events cannot be turned off, sometimes they lead to something good. If the VIP enjoys his visit, you will gain another star. If the VIP doesn't enjoy himself, you will get another chance to make the grade.
This game offers plenty of chances to make money to continue building, but you will often find yourself with nothing to do as the money runs out. Wait a while and continue building, and either read a book or do something else to keep yourself occupied in the meantime.






