management sims (theme hospital etc...)

Goodie · 6 Apr 2013 at 17:59

When I was young I always loved playing games such as theme park, theme hospital, transport tycoon and roller coaster tycoon. I don't really play too many games other than the occasional stint on Football Manager these days, however I've got the urge to rekindle my youth and have another crack at the sort of games that I was bought up on. I always like to think that I've kept fairly up to date with game releases however I've never really noticed much along the lines of the games listed above that have proven to be a hit.

Can anyone recommend any games similar that I can give a try? It's a real shame that the likes of theme hospital has never been bought up to the current generation of technology!

matty114 · 6 Apr 2013 at 18:09

https://code.google.com/p/corsix-th/

Theme Hospital remake, it's good

Marky · 6 Apr 2013 at 18:14

I'm still hoping and praying that they'll bring the likes of Theme Hospital to the iPad

It's the perfect game for a tablet! Make it happen!

In my opinion, we haven't had many decent sim/management games released in ages

PMKeates · 6 Apr 2013 at 18:16

Marky said:
I'm still hoping and praying that they'll bring the likes of Theme Hospital to the iPad It's the perfect game for a tablet! Make it happen!

In my opinion, we haven't had many decent sim/management games released in ages

As TH has simple graphics, have you considered trying corsix-th over RDP?

Goodie · 6 Apr 2013 at 18:18

Thanks Matty, I'll have a download of that in a bit later. I cant really understand why that type of game seems to have fallen by the wayside. Imagine a modern day theme hospital or theme park on a greater scale with graphics a little closer to The Sims, with some of the rubbish churned out these day's I'm surprised no one has every really had a proper bash at it.

Marky · 6 Apr 2013 at 18:44

PMKeates said:
As TH has simple graphics, have you considered trying corsix-th over RDP?

I've tried it and it's fantastic

They've done some really good work to bring it up to scratch

But how good would it be to play it on the train on your iPad

Lt_Red · 6 Apr 2013 at 19:09

What about Prison Architect?

Good old Introversion

Fenris · 6 Apr 2013 at 19:11

Lt_Red said:
What about Prison Architect?

Good old Introversion

Be aware this is still heavily in Alpha and really doesn't have much in the way of content yet, it is also quite buggy and clunky.

Saying that what there is so far is great.

iviv · 6 Apr 2013 at 23:21

Marky said:
I'm still hoping and praying that they'll bring the likes of Theme Hospital to the iPad It's the perfect game for a tablet! Make it happen!

*cough*

Neil79 · 7 Apr 2013 at 00:55

iviv said:
*cough*

oooh, a write up coming I see

Marky · 7 Apr 2013 at 03:47

iviv said:
*cough*

Oh wow that is amazing

Penfold99 · 7 Apr 2013 at 12:08

Are they not making a new Roller Coaster Tycoon game at the minute ? Or was it just all talk.

Marky · 7 Apr 2013 at 14:50

Penfold99 said:
Are they not making a new Roller Coaster Tycoon game at the minute ? Or was it just all talk.

I know they're making Rollercoaster Tycoon for the iPad/iPhone

Apparently, it's due for release the end of this month

Penfold99 · 7 Apr 2013 at 16:43

Marky said:
I know they're making Rollercoaster Tycoon for the iPad/iPhone Apparently, it's due for release the end of this month

That's not good enuff lol

Marky · 7 Apr 2013 at 17:18

Penfold99 said:
That's not good enuff lol

Haha it's a start I suppose

RCT 3 was a lot of fun, but I think I still prefer the isometric style of RCT 1 and 2

Penfold99 · 7 Apr 2013 at 20:51

Marky said:
Haha it's a start I suppose RCT 3 was a lot of fun, but I think I still prefer the isometric style of RCT 1 and 2

lol I guess so

MatsyLR · 7 Apr 2013 at 21:30

Theme hospital with the corsix mod is just epic.

Penfold99 · 7 Apr 2013 at 23:32

What about Sim City lol...

hood1971 · 8 Apr 2013 at 11:50

Problem with new management sims, particularly for mobile/pad market, is that they are so well suited for micropayments and everyone is trying to cash in.

uncle_rufus · 8 Apr 2013 at 12:12

As well as CorsixTH there is also OpenTTD for some good old transport tycoon action, they've duplicated the assets so you don't need a base game of TTD to get it running, just download it free and you're laughing... Also just like Corsix they've gone further by patching in a lot of options not available in the original which really add to the gameplay

I also loved Dungeon Keeper and RCT, and agree with the poster above a modern version of this type of game has the potential to be so awesome