Project Highrise on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Project Highrise is a simulation, management and building game developed by SomaSim and published by Kasedo Games.
Released on September 08th 2016 is available on Windows and MacOS in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 4,536 reviews of which 3,850 were positive and 686 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. šŸ˜Ž

The game is currently priced at 19.50ā‚¬ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7 or later
  • Processor: Core i5
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Integrated video (Intel HD 4000 or later), 1 GB shared memory
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Display: 1280 x 720
MacOS
  • OS: OS X 10.11 or later
  • Processor: Core i5
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Integrated video (Intel HD 4000 or later), 1 GB shared memory
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Display: 1280 x 720

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March 2025
It is a must for the one who remember Sim Tower from back in the day when "Sim Anything" was the trend. A nice and relaxing game.
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March 2025
Enjoying my time with Project Highrise. At the current discount rate this game is a giveaway. Loads of variety in different types of businesses while considering their demands. Found myself restarting a couple a times just to get the infrastructure correct.
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Nov. 2024
Overall, I did enjoy the time I spent playing Project Highrise. Managing a skyscraper full of residential, shops, and offices is fun, but after the skyscraper gets to a certain height, the grind becomes less interesting and more repetitive. While the game has its flaws, it offers an enjoyable experience. Grab it when it is on sale.
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June 2024
If you loved SimTower because it let you carefully plan elevator patterns and schedules, well, I've got bad news for you. This game has essentially none of that and you probably won't like it. Okay, now that I've addressed Carl above, I can talk to everyone else who loved SimTower for literally any other reason than elevators: SimTower is quite a bit worse than you remember it, but Project Highrise is as good as you think SimTower was.
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April 2024
Started playing this to satisfy a Sim Tower craving. I really enjoy this game, but there are a few annoying issues/bugs. Pros: Itā€™s aesthetically beautiful, with a whole 1960s mid-century vibe. The music is pretty chill, no complaints. Gameplay is very reminiscent of Sim Tower, I enjoy the geometric placement puzzle of it all, and the increasingly challenging room unlock requirements. Relaxing, soothing, and has enough content and complexity to keep you interested for a while. Cons: As for the issues, the manual placement of utilities is irritating. The main frustration is that there is no auditory way of alerting you when a room is missing a key requirement, e.g. power, or a service. Sometimes an angry face appears over the room, but in a tower of 50 floors, you are not always going to notice that appear on floor 10 when youā€™re zoomed in up at the top of the building. I have no idea why they wouldnā€™t add in some kind of sound alert or pop up, especially since every time a tenant vacates, it plays this extremely annoying and very loud ā€œtire screechā€ sound. The second main issue is around lobby placement. You can place two or three story lobbies, but unlike Sim Tower, in this game you have to place empty building tiles before you can build anything over them. This means that if you already have a two story lobby and want to extend it sideways, your construction workers cannot reach the second story to build out those tiles. There is also an annoying aspect to making elevators and utility closets ā€œmergeā€ into the lobby (you must have an empty tile on either side of the item, otherwise you have 2 or 3 elevators on top of each other which looks very dumb in a lobby. This means no elevators at the outer edge of the building, or in a row right up against the utility closets.) However, the above issues have not stopped me from thoroughly enjoying this game. How does this compare to Mad Tower Tycoon? Project Highrise looks cleaner and crisper, and aesthetically reminds me more of Sim Tower, with a major upgrade. The Mad Tower Tycoon gameplay is more similar to Sim tower however. It has elevator management and no requirement to place utilities. Mad Tower Tycoon already includes hotels, whereas that is a DLC for Project Highrise. Music is better in Project Highrise, itā€™s more like soothing background tunes. Overall, I seem to prefer playing Project Highrise.
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Project Highrise
8.2
3,850
686
Online players
87
Developer
SomaSim
Publisher
Kasedo Games
Release 08 Sep 2016
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