Constructor

Constructor is a city-building game in which you compete with rivals to create a profitable town. Build houses and factories, manage tenants and their demands, collect rent and keep resources flowing. You can compete through fair means or use underhanded tactics, including sabotage, property theft and violence.

Build and manage your town

Construct and upgrade properties, then place tenants in them for rental income. The game has ten types of tenant, each with distinct demands and personalities, as well as six Super Tenants with their own functions. Tenants can have children who later join your workforce. You can send people to the hospital to maintain their health, decorate gardens to keep tenants happy and equip properties with gadgets such as burglar alarms and dog kennels.

Factories produce resources, gadgets and industrial pollution. You must also keep the Council satisfied: it periodically assigns tasks based on your progress and your rival’s. If you fail to meet its demands, you can lose investment properties or be shut down. Keeping the Council happy earns marks that you can sell for cash or use to maintain its favor while you ignore tenant demands.

Compete by any means

You can take over a rival’s property by sending your Foreman to remove its fence panels. Then sell the property for a quick profit, put in your own tenant for long-term income or let it decay until it becomes infested and explodes, potentially damaging rival people or properties.

Law enforcement can protect your investments, while the Mob offers a more aggressive route. Gangsters can attack rival properties and people; the more they kill, the better the weapons they can access, including pistols and a laser. You can also hire seven kinds of undesirable to cause trouble. These include Mr Fixit, who can sabotage a rival’s property, and a chainsaw-wielding Psycho who attacks investments and anyone who tries to stop him.

Scenarios and missions

An interactive tutorial covers the basics, from building your first properties to taking over others. Six free-play scenarios range from Financial Conquest to the perfect Utopian State, and can include up to three opponents. Six multi-stage story missions follow Nigel Plasterboard of Cobble & Stones and raise questions about why he abandoned you during the tutorial and who Vincenzo is.

Locations and multiplayer

Play across five locations, including countryside towns, an abandoned industrial sector and a tropical jungle. You can design and share city maps, then play online multiplayer battles with up to three other players.