Project Highrise: Architect's Edition
Your job as the architect and developer is to build world-famous skyscrapers that will be the envy of the entire city, masterpieces of art and engineering. But a skyscraper is more than just steel and glass…
Project Highrise: Architect's Edition is a simulator developed by SomaSim, released 12 October 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Mac.
What Project Highrise: Architect's Edition is
Project Highrise: Architect's Edition is a simulator game developed by SomaSim and released in 2018. It was published by Kalypso Media. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Your job as the architect and developer is to build world-famous skyscrapers that will be the envy of the entire city, masterpieces of art and engineering. But a skyscraper is more than just steel and glass, it’s an intricate ecosystem, full of people that live and work in the building. They become a complex machine that needs your steady hand to keep it running smoothly and efficiently.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are business and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Project Highrise: Architect's Edition holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Project Highrise: Architect's Edition launched on 12 October 2018, within three weeks of Red Dead Redemption 2, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Return of the Obra Dinn and Assassin's Creed Odyssey. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Red Dead Redemption 2, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Return of the Obra Dinn, Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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