Project Highrise is an indie developed by SomaSim, released 8 September 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS. It currently starts at $4.99 at Humble Store. The main story takes about 22 hrs to finish.
What Project Highrise is
Project Highrise is an indie game developed by SomaSim and released in 2016. It was published by Kasedo Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Project Highrise is a 2D tower-building simulation game, developed by SomaSim and published by Kasedo Games. It is considered by many to be the spiritual successor to SimTower. In the game, players take on the role of a high-rise manager who is responsible for building and maintaining a tower block, filling it with offices, apartments, shops and restaurants, which they support with utilities, while providing specialized services and fulfilling certain conditions in order to keep the residents and tenants of the building satisfied.
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. There are 88 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Project Highrise holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 13 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 22 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 53 hrs, roughly 2.4 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $4.99, that works out to about $0.23 per hour of the main story, or $0.09 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Core i5, 2 GB RAM and Integrated video (Intel HD 4000 or later), 1 GB shared memory. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $4.99 at Humble Store, 75% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Project Highrise launched on 8 September 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Project Highrise yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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