Highrisers vs Tiny Tower
Highrisers
Highrisers is an “escape from the tower”-style survival-slash-resource management game that’s fairly similar to the first Skyhill game, except that instead of traveling to the lobby, your end goal here is to scavenge the resources you need from the lower floors to fix the helicopter on the rooftop so your team of 4 survivors (if none of them died, that is) can escape the tower. It’s basically a quarter of the plot of Zack Synder’s most recent and relatively controversial zombie flick, Army of the Dead, really… and like the film, the game is fun but it has its own caveats.And of course, there are the zombies… ahem… I mean, mutants that will attack your team and any fortifications you’ve put up if they spot you… so there’s that.
For what it’s worth, I really liked resource management-based survival games like Highrisers and I have had a pretty good experience with the game myself, minus all the issues I’ve pointed out. The game definitely has some good stuff going for it, but the dev team really needs to work on the game more to revamp some of the gameplay designs and also to fix the game-breaking bugs reported by their players. Only then I would be comfortable recommending the game. For now though, it’s probably wise to keep it in your wishlist.
Tiny Tower
Tiny Tower is a community-building game where you get to literally set up a community of cute little bitizens in a tiny tower that can be constantly expanded by adding new floors and decorating them. There are many different types of floors you can add, some of which will help improve the living conditions for your current residing bitizens while others many attract new bitizens to move to your tower.You can also cater to the needs of your inhabitants by peeking into their minds and see what they are thinking through the game's amusing virtual social network, BitBook. To make things more interesting, there will be special VIP visitors from time to time along with special missions to complete. You can even trade bitizens with your friends now.
In some way, the game does feel a lot like a city-building game despite the fact that you'll be simply building a pretty much self-sustaining tower, but it interestingly plays out like Fallout Shelter though, by being a tower, you'll be building upwards rather than downwards. If you love this sort of simulation, be sure to download the game on your mobile devices - it's free - and try it out!