

There are a lot of details and options available to you, however after a short while playing you will comfortably be able to navigate the game, and you can always hit that view button for a helpful reminder. Aside from this issue, the controls map to the Xbox pretty well. This makes relocation more expensive and difficult than it ought to be, and for an organisation freak it is very frustrating.

To make matters worse, you can only relocate rooms to a completely empty space, not just shuffle them along a few blocks to tidy things up. The fact that your choice does not default on “relocate”, so if you do accidentally select it you can cancel moving the room with no consequence, is a small but important oversight. There is no way to undo this, and it will cost you to replace what you have just lost. If you press “A” one too many times, which is very easy to do after you have scrolled through the build and edit options a few thousand times, you’ll delete the room forever.

When you highlight said room your selection will highlight “Evict/Remove” by default instead of “Relocate”. Now, with these games I insist on organisation, symmetry and tidiness, so if a room isn’t exactly where I want it, it has to be moved. As things progress you can build a mover’s office, which allows you to relocate rooms that you have already built. Once I started playing, I ran into a control niggle fairly early on. As you can imagine, the scenario mode asks you to meet certain criteria before progressing to the next challenge, whereas “endless” mode, unofficially named by me, is a sandbox affair where you play for as long as you should wish. The game has two main modes aside from the tutorial a scenario mode and an “endless” mode. This is a well realised but essential mechanic for a game such as this, to try keep things moving at a decent pace. This lets you pause or fast forward time, depending on if things are starting to spiral out of control or you need to push actions along a bit. Another feature worth highlighting is the manipulation of time, via the D-pad. As extra support, the control map is toggled to the view button on the Xbox controller, which is very handy as you get accustomed with the controls, and saves you having to dig through menus to remind yourself which button does what.

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