Overcrowd is one of those titles I saw on steam and instantly knew it was my jam. Ever since I first played RollerCoaster Tycoon back when it came out, I've loved these sorts of tycoon titles, and Overcrowd is easily up there with the best of them with its rewarding mix of creative expression and pedantic checklists to keep your angry commuters happy. The difficulty curve can feel pretty brutal at first, especially if you expand too much too soon, but once you learn to take your time and focus on many smaller changes, rather than vast sweeping ones, its the sort of game that will reward your patience.

My first few stations fell apart very quickly. When you make a mistake, things go from great to bad to worse to game over in what feels like seconds. Its a runaway snowball that if you don't get on top of soon, you're gonna be reloading an earlier save. Once I got the hang of the very early game, I decided to save up some cash and completely remodel my entire station - once again - snowball to game over haha. Overcrowd works much like these sorts of businesses do in real life - you can't just completely change your entire world over night. You need to slowly adjust and think about how this will impact your commuters and try to compensate.

Needless to say I'll be sinking a lot more time into this game in the coming days and weeks. Maybe I'll even get halfway decent at it! If you like tycoon games and aren't scared of a little challenge, then I'd strongly recommend picking this one up!

Overcrowd is one of those titles I saw on steam and instantly knew it was my jam. Ever since I first played RollerCoaster Tycoon back when it came out, I've loved these sorts of tycoon titles, and Overcrowd is easily up there with the best of them with its rewarding mix of creative expression and pedantic checklists to keep your angry commuters happy. The difficulty curve can feel pretty brutal at first, especially if you expand too much too soon, but once you learn to take your time and focus on many smaller changes, rather than vast sweeping ones, its the sort of game that will reward your patience. My first few stations fell apart very quickly. When you make a mistake, things go from great to bad to worse to game over in what feels like seconds. Its a runaway snowball that if you don't get on top of soon, you're gonna be reloading an earlier save. Once I got the hang of the very early game, I decided to save up some cash and completely remodel my entire station - once again - snowball to game over haha. Overcrowd works much like these sorts of businesses do in real life - you can't just completely change your entire world over night. You need to slowly adjust and think about how this will impact your commuters and try to compensate. Needless to say I'll be sinking a lot more time into this game in the coming days and weeks. Maybe I'll even get halfway decent at it! If you like tycoon games and aren't scared of a little challenge, then I'd strongly recommend picking this one up!