![]() Across the top of the player board you can track your income and reputation, which will go up and down based on the tiles that you place. The Player BoardĪll players start with a player board and the same three starting tiles a suburb, a park, and a heavy factory. Once you get used to reading the tiles they are pretty easy to figure out, but the game also comes with extensive instructions that fully explain each tile if you have questions. ![]() The game has 100 different tiles that you can place in your city and almost all of them involve interaction with other tiles when they are played. Most experienced players consider it to be a medium on the complexity scale, but if you are new to this type of game you may find it overwhelming at first. Suburbia is a tile laying game with a city building theme, released by Bezier Games in 2012. Possibly More Downtime at Higher Player Counts.Follow Christine's Place on WordPress.My overall grade for the developers who’ve done nothing but lie to players of the original game for over two years now: F–. My score: 4 out of 5 stars for initial game play and story development, 2 out of 5 stars for continuing game play and story development, and half a star for the company stopping further development on the original game in favor of developing an all-new game that, from what I can tell after reading players’ comments, isn’t worth your time. Now even the Sims is gone from Facebook, another great game that instead of fixing all the bugs in it and continuing the game, they instead chose to end. There are only five episodes, you can get a good sense of who the culprit is but no real evidence beyond circumstantial to go on, they have no intention of introducing Episode 6, and there is no closure for the mystery which is the whole reason most of us started playing this game in the first place, since at the time it was introduced the Sims game was still on Facebook, so we already had that game if we wanted a simulation game to play. If you’ve recently started playing the original game….same advice. Supposedly they already have six episodes for it (why they couldn’t do that for the original game is beyond me) and are planning even more episodes after those six (don’t hold your breath, you’ll asphyxiate while waiting for them), but don’t count on it. So if you’ve recently started playing Suburbia 2, good luck to you. Recently the geniuses (and I use the term very loosely here) at MegaZebra decided to announce that instead of rewarding our patience by finally introducing Episode 6 and subsequent episodes, or at least Episode 6 and wrapping up the mystery for us, they’ve been using the last two plus years to develop a new game, Suburbia 2, and have decided to introduce all of their long-suffering players to this game instead, and have flat out said that they’re not going to do any more development on the original game. Over two years later, I’m still waiting, and so is everyone else who invested time (and in some cases, real-life money) into the game. I quit playing the game over two years ago, when I finished Episode 5, and only got on the game to check in and send/receive gift requests, and sat back to wait for them to introduce Episode 6. ![]() You can continue to build onto your house, assuming you have any room left on your property, and can continue to update your skills and career until you max out (yes, you can change careers after you max out on one and start a new one, but there are only so many skills you can learn and max out on), but after that the only thing you’re really doing is maintaining your property, visiting friends’ properties (and hope they haven’t already given up on the game, because gifts from friends is the only way to get some of the products you need to maintain your own), and accumulating money in the game. I’ve never reviewed a game on here before, but after devoting the last four and a half years of my life to this game, I feel compelled to do so now, prompted by another player’s comment on the game’s Facebook page… If you’ve never played Suburbia by MegaZebra, do yourself a favor and don’t! The game itself is engaging at first (if you like Sims type games, like I do) but they stopped any development on the game whatsoever after finishing Episode 5 of the storyline. ![]()
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