Chaotic Airport Construction Manager Reviews

Quote: "You really want to build the BER? Are you insane?". But you should wait for a better offer... or for the sequel.

I think the game just becomes really annoying at some point. Sometimes it even crashes 2 months before the opening. So it would've been fun if it goal was not to piss you off by all means.

This game is such a meme. I first discovered it through watching a Let’s Play which I thought was absolutely hilarious. So, I went ahead and bought the game and I gotta say the first couple of hours were indeed very funny. But after that the rose-colored glasses slowly wore off and I tried to actually beat the game and get all the achievements, and this is where the experience soured for me. While the jokes are funny, there are only so many and after just a couple hours of gameplay they inevitably start to repeat. Also, when it comes to gameplay, there isn’t that much to it. You just click on buildings to build or upgrade, choose a company, and then having to solve problems that are guaranteed to pop up during every build section. The game even actively works against you, trying its best for you to not be able to finish the airport. Countless runs of mine have ended with only a couple building upgrades left when I got hit by a news report about parts needing renovation or aliens attacking the build site which ultimately reverted a lot of my buildings back to previous upgrade steps and I just didn’t have the loans or shares to be able to rake in enough money to redo everything, basically soft locking me. Same with the inflation, if you don’t have enough money for one upgrade step and ran out of shares and loans, it’s basically impossible to get enough money just by waiting since the upgrades get more expensive over time as well. And don’t get me started on the achievements, most are easy enough, but the vast majority boils down to dumb luck which will lead to you spending hours upon hours trying to get that 1% chance to finally go through. Overall, the beginning hours were a lot of fun, but actually playing the game is not. I’d recommend just watching a video on YouTube rather than buying the game. [u]Achievements[/u] There’s a total of 37 achievements with most of them being very easy to obtain. The last 10 or so are a lot more difficult however as one has you actually finish the airport which in my experience also boils down to mostly being lucky. The other “hard” achievements are all solutions to specific problems that can turn up during gameplay, but their completion percentage is often below 30% (with one even being just 1%) so you have to restart the game again and again hoping for that specific problem to occur and then hoping the required solution actually works. The very last achievement is even outright impossible with the devs themselves stating they don’t know how to unlock it, rendering it basically unobtainable without cheating. Achievement hunters beware!

Die Langzeit Motivation hält sich in grenzen, ab einem gewissen Punkt wird es sehr zäh. Bis zu dem Punkt macht das Spiel aber spaß. Ich würd das Spiel für zwischendurch empfehlen. ES ist viel Satire enthalten.

tl;dr worth a laugh, a self-reflective cringe, and a disappointed-in-humanity sigh for $5, but still in need of some bug fixes. In terms of bug fixes, sometimes the reason for a fault will not be shown, only the solutions. When the entire game is encountering and resolving faults, it is a pretty serious issue to sometimes not even show a description when the fault is encountered. It's a joke game that sometimes doesn't show you the joke, only the punch-lines. The translation is also spotty. Not because the translations are bad, but just because the game has a habit of periodically showing German instead of English. This won't hurt anyone (I am pretty sure everyone can guess what the German message indicating insufficient bank funds means), it's just a shortcoming that would make the game feel more polished. The game is also on the edge of being more frustrating than it needs to be. I get that the point is to have a frustrating experience. But if I wanted to just be irritated, I could read the newspaper, I wouldn't need to buy and play the game. One experience that comes to mind is the existence of solutions to faults that require an ungodly amount of money while also being the "correct" solutions. These faults would be better designed as disasters (events that cannot be controlled, only mitigated by spending money) than faults. I'm referring to the "crystal floor tiles breaking" fault specifically. If you exhaust the less-likely solutions, then the only solutions that remain are to replace the tiles with money or fill the cracks with gold. Both of these solutions are multi-million dollar expenses, but unlike other expensive joke solutions, these may be the only way to resolve the fault. They are "solutions" that can single-handedly cause a game over. Every other fault I encountered might have had a pricey solution with the best success rate, but not remotely at the same cost.

Game looks awful and keeps on crashing constantly. This is even more realistic than i expected ;) Rating (6/10)

The thing with simulation games is that they're either meme-ladden wannabe-satire which isn't as much clever as it's only bearable for 5 minutes and even that only when you're high. Or they're realistic, unwieldy and require a university degree to get even through the tutorial. This one combines the bost of both worlds: it's exceptionally realistic while being accessible. Get your own airport now*! *or on a couple [strike]decades[/strike] [strike]lifetimes[/strike] eternities.

I repurposed the airport into a pub. 10/10 would drink beer again. Okay, serious review time. 10/10 concept, 1/10 execution. It's fun and ridiculous at first but behind the jokes is a horrible, frustrating "click here, click there, now wait" game. Strategy: Build the most expensive buildings like the terminals and the hotel first but keep building everything at once. Always pick the most efficient build option. Reroll every flaw that appears until you have a 100% option, then pick that. Put all your skill points into Bonus Payment level 1, level 2 and level 3 first, then into Qualified Stock Advisor level 1 and level 2. Once you have QSA on Level 2, sell all your shares. Then put your skill points into Disaster Insurance. With that strat I managed to build the airport in 2101 and by that point the game only threw 1 of 2 remaining possible flaws at me: "Groundhog Day" (4 options that are all the same and you can't reroll them) and "working out all flaws" where you essentially have to pick the 100% but 9 year option everytime. That's the worst of all. NINE YEARS OF INGAME WAITING. I had situations where I had 2-3 buildings that all were on the exact same "wait 9 years for 100% success" flaw. FUCK THIS CRAP. The only thing that pushed me back from year 2070 to year 2101 were the constant "the airport was destroyed" accidents, I had to wait 30 YEARS to get the final 3 buildings built. If you want to troll your favorite streamer, suggest this game. Otherwise... don't play it.

It's a good game, especially if you know about the actual German airport it's about. There are some bugs and crashes, but the developers are in close contact with the community and able to fix them. One gamebreaking bug I had encountered yesterday was fixed within less than 24 hours

As real as it can get. Hyperrealistic events! Guaranteed frustration! Untranslated German words in the English version! An absolute must have in the world of deconstruction simulators!