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SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest

Pack your bags, have the neighbors collect your mail, and take a working vacation in the rainforests of SimIsle. Build tourist hotels, exploit natural resources and develop industry in a land of beauty and…

77 31 December 1995 ESRB E

SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest is a simulator developed by Intelligent Games, released 31 December 1995 on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest is

SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest is a simulator game developed by Intelligent Games and released in 1995. It was published by Maxis. It is available on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pack your bags, have the neighbors collect your mail, and take a working vacation in the rainforests of SimIsle. Build tourist hotels, exploit natural resources and develop industry in a land of beauty and danger. Can you become wealthy and keep native populations, tourists, and industry leaders happy? Or will your actions destroy the delicate balance of a fragile ecosystem?
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Sim series

SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest is the 18th of 64 entries we hold in the Sim series. The next entry was SimPark in 1996. Its critic score of 77 is 10 points above the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is SimCity 3000 at 85.

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How it was received

SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What it launched against

SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest launched on 31 December 1995, within three weeks of Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters, Tales of Phantasia and Loaded. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters, Tales of Phantasia, Loaded.

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When did SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest come out?
SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest was released on 31 December 1995 for DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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