Project Highrise - Absolute Tower

[@billsbrothertv5701]

The Copy Room's placement pains me.

[@dem0nfr0g39]

I had to stop watching and just listen

[@PeeeV]

@@dem0nfr0g39 Me too. Jon hates us. That or he really is blind

[@ElijahAhSha]

@@PeeeV It's gotta be a meme at this point. He knows. He absolutely knows.

[@Josephemer]

God, I literally came down to the comments JUST to say this. Jon, how and why....

[@MW-pb2gf]

particularly when he could have fit the courier services if the copy room wasn’t placed like......That

[@croletan5424]

21:58 'I think I'd rather save money than make people happy' A true businessman.

[@TogglejamLIVE]

"They'll probably be wanting electricity the fussy plebs" are you sure you're not working on student accommodation rather than offices Jon?

[@muggy87]

if you want you can be a residential high rise in this game and you can do collage dorms XD

[@TogglejamLIVE]

Apparently very realistic uni accomodation xD

[@tommylau4421]

No no no. Who cares about the electricity if you don't have wifi, fix the wifi first!

[@ttss5726]

@@tommylau4421 Wow just Wow apparently the electricity powering that dull bulb of a brain of yours isn't working very well...… FYI with out the electricity you don't have Wifi

[@tommylau4421]

@@ttss5726 That's part of the joke.

[@just0nemoreturn844]

I liked this video but if the bottom floor sticking out bugged you how the hell did you deal with that copy room

[@Zayfod]

This is a lovely little game, with a gorgeous mid-century art style that you mostly never see because you're zoomed waaay out. As an added bonus the version on Android is identical, and pretty well implemented UI wise.

[@murcurialmuroid5850]

That's good to here. I want try this game out, but only the android version is available to me currently.

[@Ben-nk3cx]

Ohhh this is one “I’ve had my eye on for a while”... It’s an oldie but a goldie that’s been revamped from armour games onto Origin.

[@seedubhuntx]

F1rools22 this was on armour games? goddam flash can do some amazing things

[@pincset]

@@seedubhuntx I think SimTower invented this formula way before that

[@Killerpixel11]

You might be mistaking something here. This was first released in 2016, not quite such an "oldie". It's meant as a sort of spiritual successor to SimTower.

[@Sedan57Chevy]

I forgot how much I loved Sim Tower when I was younger, and this takes me right back...yeah, might just pick this one up.

[@cheftonutd9690]

Surprised you only just found this, thought it's the kind of thing you'd like. I was watching one of your old videos (Defect I think) and you mentioned you like the board game Galaxy Trucker, just letting you know there's a video game version that came out recently if you don't know :D .

[@tyvia]

Ooooooooh Jon, how can you make me so happy? My girlfriend left me I've been incredibly sick and my friends don't like me and i get bullied but you STILL make me laugh! I just wanna say thank you from someone who can't take it anymore, there are reasons I stay around ^^

[@TheEJackUK]

Reminds me of SIM tower. Needs more elevator schedules 😎

[@MrGhosta5]

Elevators were the life or death of your tower.

[@lutherburgsvik6849]

The spritual successor to Yoot Tower, but without Yoot Towers cheesy movie trailers.

[@o-mangaming5042]

This reminds me of Sim Tower. Fun old game, just revamped for the modern age. I like it!

[@KurosakiYukigo]

*PTSD of cockroach infested hotel rooms*

[@MrGhosta5]

Unfortuantly project highrise doesn't simulate pop transportation. Sim tower's core gameplay was on managing your transportation network so that your sims could access the services they required. project highrise doesn't simulate transportation so you can just stick all your services in the basement and the game will say that's good enough.

[@o-mangaming5042]

@@MrGhosta5 I didn't remember that. Just goes to show that this doesn't beat the original. Or at least the first one I played. I haven't explored the genre in-depth, so I don't know where Sim Tower stands overall.

[@olevsumeria]

SimTower was the inspiration for this game. I've spent countless hours on both!

[@sh8dyw8yz]

I'm having a Mandela effect moment for sure because I could've sworn you played this. I can't wait to see your crack at it!

[@eddiehowell9871]

ditto

[@ipetzombies]

Same. I could SWEAR Jon's played this before.

[@lancerfour]

I've been playing this game for a while and can wholeheartedly recommend it. Though a bit tricky at first, it becomes a super chillax experience that is great for partnering with podcasts or just tuning out to its blissful music and lulling sound effects. And, since i'm entering shill territory anyway, the DLC is some of the fairest you'll find and have made me a fan of whatever those devs put out next.

[@Rateus_Johanson]

"How are we going to get creatives in?" Easy, just make sure your building has plenty of access to exposure ;-p

[@tach5884]

"...where the coffee is just sort of magicked out of thin air" *immediately starts raining*

[@jayzo]

You should fit a stairwell so people can leave if the lifts fail.

[@zrobotics]

Have you seen any of his Fallout playthroughs? He's absolutely in favor of crispy fried NPC's.

[@jco_sfm]

Also if you look at the left side of the building there's a fire escape but that ruins the joke so forget I mentioned it

[@jackwisner1189]

Reminds me a lot of SimTower back in the day. Wonder if there'll be disasters like with that game?

[@TheCarrot11]

"I'd rather save money then make people happy." How Corporate America of you, Jon.

[@light370]

The building not being symmetrical bug you but you keep wasting 1 space with the rooms. raaaaah *trigger OCD*

[@Kiwi2703]

He's not wasting it, he uses it later in the video for more utilites.

[@SnowyK]

there's another utility box in the future... later in the video, true OCDs need to leave that space open beside the power box like Jon did

[@rifflerunderhill7006]

So what was the life altering traumatic event that gave you PTSD? Where you are forced into hallucinations and relive the event when a similar situation 'triggers' the original memory, rendering you incapable of rational thought. You know, what being 'triggered' actually means, not just 'it bothers or upsets me'. Misuse of a medical term, for an ailment which people still aren't properly diagnosed or treated, is the real thing you should be upset about.

[@stevenvroom1041]

@@rifflerunderhill7006 k

[@Raykkie]

Riffler Underhill You know the verb Trigger means To Activate, right?

[@donashcroft93]

I managed to forget that this game existed but now thanks to SOMEONE! I have to go get it and all the DLC it apparently has XD

[@thenationalhealthpotion4616]

I always wanted to get SimTower but dad sold off the PC and the promised replacement never materialised, so I'm definitely gonna pick this up. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, MATN!

[@Silverhawk100]

So someone looked at Sim Tower and said "This needs to be more complex."

[@j.a.8224]

As someone who has this game, that's both fully accurate and totally wrong. This game has magical elevators that are teleporter shafts a person enters and emerges on the level they want. But Simtower didn't care about you having this one tile gap from planting a copy room rrr.... I need a moment.

[@MrGhosta5]

It's actually less complex as project highrise doesn't simulate transportation. One elevator can service thousands of people per hour and the dude on the 60th floor can eat lunch in the basemant. Also everyone is bff and is happy living next to each other. The medical office doesn't care about the noise of having a burger joint on one side and a film studio on the other.

[@FonVegen]

In this sky caper, Jon a-spires to high-rise until he can tower far above the competition.

[@ChillinSicilian]

Me: "Jon why are you leaving one space gaps, that's really annoying." Jon: "Heheh, you'll see, YOU'LL ALL SEE!"

[@mengeletalon8151]

This would make an epic live stream.

[@Mathadar]

Hunh, this heavily inspired by Simtower? That game was very chill, and very fun!

[@pincset]

... untill there was a bomb alarm IIRC at some point it was almost impossible to find the bomb on time

[@MrGhosta5]

@@@pincset the bomb is found if you have enough security offices and not found if you don't. every security office covers a certain number of floors. i think it's around 10 per office and a max of 10 offices to cover all 100 floors. also fires and bombs don't trigger until you hit 3 stars and become less common once you hit 4 stars.

[@GregorBarclay]

12 minutes in and it's a four-storey building with three restaurants, half a dozen offices, no plumbing and zero toilets?

[@Orosian5]

I think we can deduce from that what Bean's Coffee uses for warm water.

[@ozzy5480]

Please do more of this!

[@torgranael]

I hope there are no disasters in this game. If there's a fire the one elevator and no stairs could to be a problem.

[@erikhouse7907]

13:19. I always worry when Jon says everything is under control. We'll see if it's finally true this time around.

[@erikhouse7907]

16:08. It also worries me when he says he has a plan.

[@erikhouse7907]

23:23. I'm pretty sure this is where the plan is going to fall apart.

[@KashouWannabe]

I've had this for over a year, only played the tutorial. Really need to play some of my games, man.

[@CarlMarx]

Reminds me of Hotel City

[@copperhamster]

Glad there's no fire marshal, you'd have to have stairs all the way up as well as the elevator. Also, do you know that once you get over about 10 floors, engineering elevator scheduling becomes a really big thing to deal with?

[@Septimus_ii]

I think the game shows emergency stairs going down the outside of the building. It looks a bit ugly to me, but it gives a fire escape

[@nerdframe3068]

Hi everyone hope you all have a nice day. =D

[@BroccoliAckerman]

Nerd Frame Thanks man you too!

[@polishenglish8356]

Fantastic! It should become a mini series! :D

[@MrGhosta5]

the game actually fizzles out by mid game. you basically just get asked to build the same thing over and over again.

[@liveepically]

And Jon just learned the word "plebs" this week. It also lets us know he believes he's better than his tennants.

[@BlazinBlz]

the amount of space Jon wasted by putting offices one, or two lil blocks to the side, or the copy room, or the countless other examples has made me so violently ill I need to go to hospital thanks Jon

[@flashylemming8]

Can we get a Pleb Counter?

[@DZ-1987]

"Zoop" Shots Fiyerd.

[@Sacbout]

absolute UNIT

[@richfits7715]

Hey Jon, if you loved this you should give Oxygen Not Included a try. It might make for a fantastic live stream.

[@piiYT]

15:44 "It's gonna be great" Where did I hear this phrase before, is this gonna be another Trump Tower? :)

[@stylesrj]

People say it's like Sim Tower but honestly, I think it's... unnecessarily complicated. OK I'm just not a big fan of having to wire up everything individually. Sim City 2000 did that and it was annoying that every time you built a new area you needed to put up cables just so the electricity could cross a street and if any of those buildings vanished, you could lose entire blocks of power because wiring underground was such a foreign concept... Hell, I think I could tolerate the idea of "Build a utility closet and everything's wired up around it and you can upgrade to include other utilities and expand the radius/make it cover the whole floor" better than wiring every bloody tile..

[@Septimus_ii]

It's a little simpler than Jon realised - there's a shortcut to wire the whole floor rather than drag along it

[@stylesrj]

@@Septimus_ii Still though... Sim Tower didn't have you building little wiring boxes every 10 rooms. I like to deal with my shortages in games with "More power plants" not "More power plants and more wiring"

[@heinzie5]

this building is quite a monstrosity

[@anumeon]

Thank you Jon, i have now found my new way of introducing myself.. Hello, i'm Peter, the fussy pleb. :)

[@den1er139]

How to put bench on building?

[@MrGhosta5]

Honestly i enjoy sim tower more. Sim tower accurately simulates the transportation of your towers population. Your tower lived or died based on your elevator network. Also you couldn't just go and put things anywhere as that would upset your tenets as many rooms make terrible neighbors and placing food and amenities too far from a lobby meant no one would use them. Project highrise just feels a bit too easy as you generally don't need to worry about placement at all and transportation management is non existent. you can go ahead and place a foodcourt next to a medical office and have your copy service in the basement serve the office on the 60th floor.

[@Plelement94]

When you get to higher tier tensnts adjacency does matter

[@fryken7665]

I was looking for some letsplays of this game.

[@Violaetor]

If there isn't an office above this coffee shop its going to bother me. But, I'm very content with random useless single cell gaps on all the floors. X_x

[@tealcformerfirstprimeofapo22]

He should put a Paper company office on the second floor.

[@therecordholder]

"why was this one placed so weirdly" thats what i was saying earlier Jon! did you not hear me screaming? lmao

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Did somebody say...All-Nite Diner? Have I told ya? Have I told ya?

[@Sankey84Gaming]

So glad this is free as I now own it haha but if you like this you should look at Mega mall story on the switch. I lost so many days due to that game.

[@agentsteve8263]

The power gets cut out when no one is at the office for upgrades People who are paying rent: HOW DARE YOU CUT THE POWER OUT EVEN THOUGH I'M AT HOME NOT USING YOUR POWER WHAT SO EVER! Many True Nerd: But your not even here?!?! People who are paying rent: THATS IT WE ARE LEAVING BECAUSAE YOU CUT THE POWER OUT WHEN WE WEREN'T THERE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT IT Logic right there

[@ellaguy-vogel8765]

It bothers me more than it should that you never built trash bins

[@MWSin1]

It's basically upside-down Fallout Shelter.

[@ztac_dex]

try playing sim tower 1&2

[@HockJamChaz]

This one gets a bit old quick as it's too simple (comparing to SimTower), it devolves into place A next to B next to C and repeat; give Mad Tower Tycoon a try it has some actual traffic management mechanics (which is what made SimTower great).

[@JoelStephens87]

the disorder of room placement is triggering me so hard

[@ztac_dex]

This feels like sim tower

[@bscar]

I just watched Graystillplays build a 1000 story building in this game. Said it took several minutes of scrolling to get from bottom to top

[@SONshines7]

5:53 korea? Republic of Korea??

[@bechtjefferies1148]

Nifty

[@dextercritten6167]

Is it just me or does john seem to hate everyone asking for a service he does have, of which they expect as it says? And something else Jon just keeps calling people plebs, I think this is one of his most angry videos.

[@Kaarl_Mills]

*UNNNNLLIMITED TOOOOOWWWWWAAAAAAHHHHHHH!*

[@popejoeii]

Didn't you play this once before, a couple years ago?

[@nicewithacupoftea]

I love Jons videos, but sometime he's so bad at a game it just makes it painful to watch (oxygen not included and when he first started with CKII). I'm dreading when he finally picks up EUIV.

[@Getagirlfriend-y4e]

This is the new sim tower right?.... Right

[@zephaniahgreenwell8151]

Sim Tower 2?

[@FritzHitz]

The beginning reminded me of India

[@svenmuller5950]

Looks like SimTower

[@spencerschaepman7239]

Why in hell, for the sake of all that is holy, is the copy room drunk!?

[@dezkelz]

SIM Tower?

[@tigrecito48]

when is the guy from police academy gonna make an appearance?

[@dustyb58]

8'x7' rooms....or thereabouts... yikes

[@WilliamStoneContentZone]

Should I get this game

[@ZumbaMarx]

William Stone I'm not sure if you're asking Jon or the comment section, but here goes: I have about 60 hrs in Project Highrise. It's good fun, and building up for the first two, three times feels nice and rewarding. However, once you've learnt how to build a successful tower, the game goes from being a challenging, gradually more complex experience to just busywork. There's not enough challenge to the game to keep it interesting, nor is there enough life and character to the towers to make playing the same tower for a prolonged period of time interesting. If you can afford it, get it. But I'd definitely wait for a sale or a bundle.

[@WilliamStoneContentZone]

@@ZumbaMarx Would you say 10 Dollars is worth it

[@ZumbaMarx]

William Stone Probably.

[@thegeneralmeatloaf]

This pun....

[@sydneytilden2341]

seiries

[@seiggrainhart4719]

Just don't get it on Steam and learn there's mods for Project Highrise.

[@mingwei3888]

Is anyone else triggered because he only put 3 offices and not 4?

[@aconcretemoth9382]

this is literally just sim tower but not as complex?

[@indieWellie]

aconcretemoth it’s built in the unity engine, so it’s a simpler version of sim tower, that can be modded.

[@CuppaLLX]

Steeam this a while ago on myt channel, the solution? Black Market busiess, you get money hand and fist and theres NO DOWNSIDES What so ever :P

[@skinlesschickennugget2411]

Livestream, please 🙂🙏🙋

[@borisvoll]

Hey Jon thanks for your awesome commentary and creative and mostly inventive gameplay. It is truly inspiring. I build a little trojan horse for you with this comment. To ask if you can play phoenix wright. It is a game I think you will like. It is logical thinking while defending in court. Don't know if it is good for a video though.

[@cremilar]

Please stop saying Plebs, you're not in the Tory Cabinet.

[@23daley23]

Please.. stop saying spot on. Its become a way to common thing in all your videos..

[@EpicUnknown]

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