
- 79/100
- Players24 ratings
More scores
- GameFAQsTough
- 3.33/5
- Player reviews
- 90% positive84 reviews
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$4.99
Where to get it

1997 · System 3 · Business simulation · City-building
Constructor
PlayStation console exclusive
In a town where anything goes, you can’t rise to the top without taking a few others down. From dodgy deals to shifty tricks, do what you gotta do to go from small-time slumlord to filthy rich tycoon.
- Released
- 3 October 1997
- Platforms
- MS-DOSPlayStationPlayStation 4PlayStation PortableWindowsmacOS
- Genres
- Business simulationCity-buildingReal-time strategySimulationStrategy
- Developers
- System 3
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- MultiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- Third person
- Themes
- Comedy
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Age ratings
- USK 12PEGI 16ESRB T
- Languages
- English, French, German, Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish (Spain)
- Time to beat
- 10hmain story11hcompletionist
About
Constructor is a 1997 video game released originally for MS-DOS computers and later ported to the PlayStation and macOS It was developed by System 3 and published by Acclaim Entertainment.
In the game, packed with humorous undertones, the player controls a construction company in a map split between several estates, and must deal with other teams to win the game.
Players say
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
The player controls a construction company, and aim to drive the other players out of business. Using teams of workers and foremen, the player must build facilities to manufacture building materials (a sawmill, concrete works, etc.), in order to build houses (ranging from simple wooden cabins to large mansions) in which to house tenants who pay rent and thus fund the company, as well as producing new workers, tenants and other characters. Along the way, the player can build homes for undesirables such as gangsters and hippies, who work to undermine the enemy.
Development
Constructor's development was first revealed in a January 1991 issue of The One, where the player's role was described as "You play an architect on a planet subject to freak weather conditions. Like Jupiter it has a huge red spot which revolves every hundred years flattening everything in its path. While not being good news for most of the inhabitants of the planet it is very good news for you and your fellow architects ... From your sophisticated office console you control the planning and building of building of new properties and then attract the right sort of tenants to them." More information regarding Constructor was to be announced in the first quarter of 1992, but its development was delayed.
Fergus McGovern of Probe Entertainment said in 1997, "[Constructor] was a project that we'd been after for a long time, but it was originally with Warner. When they were going through some problems, we jumped in and snapped it up. We've been working on it ever since."
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Expanded editions
- Constructor Plus
- Ported as
- Constructor
- Built on it
- ConstructorConstructor Plus
Games like this
PlayStation exclusive86CorsixTH
1997 · MS-DOS, PlayStation 3 +1
Business simulation · Real-time strategy
83Railroad Tycoon 3: Coast to Coast
2003 · Windows, macOS
Business simulation · Simulation
76Sid Meier's Railroads!
2006 · Windows, macOS
Business simulation · Simulation
Timed Xbox73Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
2018 · Android, Nintendo Switch +7
Simulation · Strategy
73Tycoon City: New York
2006 · Windows
Business simulation · City-building
Xbox exclusive77Tropico 4
2011 · Windows, Xbox 360 +1
Business simulation · City-building
50Train Fever
2014 · Linux, Windows +1
Business simulation · Simulation
82Tropico
2001 · Windows, macOS
Business simulation · City-building
Collections9 collections
Platform libraries
- PlayStation 4 games (A–L)List
- High-definition remasters for PlayStation consolesGames › PlayStation 4
- PlayStation (console) games (A–L)Games list (A–L)
- Downloadable PlayStation games (PAL region)Released titles
Years
- Games released in 2017List › April–June
Genres
- Simulation gamesConstruction and management simulation › City-building
- Business simulation gamesList
- City-building gamesList
Themes
Description adapted from its source, CC BY-SA 4.0.
