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2019 · Anarchy Enterprises · Business simulation · Indie

Moon Tycoon

This is the original Moon Tycoon city-building game back from 2001! Remember building vast lunar colonies, then destroying them with meteors and asteroids? Blast off again with the first 3D Sim game, back to the old days on the dark side of the moon. Feeling nostalgic?

Released: 19 July 2019
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Business simulation Indie Simulation Strategy
Developers: Anarchy Enterprises
Publishers: Anarchy Enterprises
Modes: Single-player

About

Moon Tycoon is a city-building computer game released in 2001 by Anarchy Enterprises and Unique Entertainment. It is based on the creation of a lunar colony, or rather a lunar city. Anarchy Enterprises described it as the "first 3-D Sim game ever", and noted that it has similarities to SimCity (which at the time was 2-dimensional).

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

Moon Tycoon has three campaigns to play through, each with its own story-line and placed around the year 2021.

Campaign 1: Earth is in a global energy crisis, and the only thing that can stop it is a precious resource called helium-3 that can be found on the Moon in vast quantities.

Reception

Moon Tycoon was compared to SimCity, but praised for its innovative 3D graphics. Although Moon Tycoon was well received by US based game review website, GameZone, overseas it was not well reviewed scoring poorly by two foreign reviewers