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What separates city builders from tycoon games? (ani.social)
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Is a city builder a subset of tycoon game that just focuses on managing a city or some other polity? Is a tycoon game a city builder except it’s open to you managing something that isn’t a town/city/state?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

City builders have you zoning and laying down infrastructure, rather than actually building a city bit by bit. Most of what gets built is random based on zoning, taxes, land value, etc.

A tycoon game is all plopping down every single piece you want with varying degrees of background simulation that is still usually a fraction of what a city builder simulates.