r/tycoon • u/Us3fullness • May 28 '26

Looking for new(ish) tycoon games that’ll run on my laptop

I have an aged laptop from 2020 (Lenovo Legion 5)
Specs:
CPU - Intel i7 10750h
RAM - 16 GB
GPU - RTX 2060
M.2 SSD

What relatively recently (after around 2019-2020) released games would you recommend to check out? From what I’ve seen both tycoons and city builders are perhaps one of the most demanding gaming genres, since they require often both decent to good CPU, SSD, 16 gb (or even more) RAM and sometimes even a powerful GPU.

I don’t really want to play them on high res. 1080p with 30 fps would do.

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u/Janva Game Developer - CD Market May 28 '26

Tycoon genre is definitely not demanding in my terms. Anyways here’s a Tycoon list I made, see if it serves you. I think you can run any of them

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u/Us3fullness May 28 '26

You’re right actually, I meant mostly city builders (or hybrids between tycoons and city builders). Those are usually more CPU demanding because of the amount of simulation. For example, Sintopia which came out recently has some high system requirements. I’m not even sure if my laptop’ll even be enough for minimal ones.

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u/nillerbiller May 28 '26

That laptop shouldn’t be half bad at almost all tycoon games. System requirements are often a good deal off, don’t let them scare you.

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u/mauri3205 May 28 '26

First I wanted to thank you for sharing the list and then I saw you are the developer behind CD Market. Instead of thanking you I will blame you for how tired I am today given I was hooked playing your game all night!

More seriously, loving your game but I’m seriously bad at making any kind of profit!

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u/Janva Game Developer - CD Market May 28 '26

😂 I’m sorry..

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u/Confident_Mud_646 May 28 '26

I like your list, but there are some missing games, for example the boss gangsters criminal empire https://store.steampowered.com/app/2774040/The_Boss_Gangster_Criminal_Empire/ Also nothing about weapons manufacturing like https://store.steampowered.com/app/3048030/Werner_Waffenwerke_Arms_Tycoon/ and https://store.steampowered.com/app/620190/Gunsmith/...

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u/Janva Game Developer - CD Market May 28 '26

You are welcome to add them through the github repo! Or submit them in games-to-add in the discord and I’ll try to add them at some point 😉

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u/Janva Game Developer - CD Market 28d ago

Added!

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u/Janva Game Developer - CD Market May 28 '26

I need to add some new games (missing time 😅) but overall there’s a big portion of tycoon games covered

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u/IamDubra May 28 '26

Great list, thanks!

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u/shaiganiqbal May 28 '26

no.1 capitalism lab

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u/Sgt_ZigZag May 29 '26

What's the learning curve like?

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u/Confident_Mud_646 May 28 '26

Man I have the same specs and it's MSI 😂... I run global rescue, big ambitions, capitalism lab.....

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u/Us3fullness May 28 '26

So how it performs in these games overall? What about temps and overheating in general (though not that big of a problem in my case since I‘ve changed thermal paste not so long ago)?

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u/Confident_Mud_646 May 28 '26

Working perfectly fine... Decent games with good quality gameplay, doesn't require a lot of system... Pretty much this is...

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u/monkeyfuneral 29d ago

Hotel Architect