Pixel People

Pixel People, released by Chillingo and developed by LambdaMu Games, was released on January 31 and is only available for iOS. The genre of the game would fit in the simulator category, but it doesn't play like a typical simulation games. I'm not really a big fan of these stupid waiting games and collecting certain material to create stuff on facebook and other platforms, but pixel people might almost win my heart over.

The big features of this game includes:

•  Puzzle like feel due to the splicing system. 
• Where as many other games you would typically need a friend to help you do task in the game, Pixel people is solely a one player game. 
• Some building will have special effects that affects the game play a little. 
• You can also get Utopium (the cash item) free within the game if you don't fancy spending real money on them, but do note that it isn't that fast collecting them via game play. 
• No quest are given. It really is a very sandboxy type of game play. 

The main objective of the game is to create your own town if you will, as big, and pretty as you like. The process of doing this is the unique part. You basically start out with a town hall, a clone center, and two "jobs". With these you will go to the clone center and splice these two jobs together to create a new one and this process goes on until you've unlock all the jobs. With each new jobs you create you get a new building to use for building up your town. Now this feature alone I have to say personally is very addictive and you'll get what I mean if you play this game.

There are only two cons that I can think of. One is the long waiting time after you reach a certain level and second is the amount of money needed to upgrade when you reach the higher levels. Currently I'm playing this game at around level 13 and the fashion store that I'm waiting for takes 1 day and 10 hours. If you have the Utopium that's fine, but it's when you don't have them, since your spending it on other stuff, that's when you get the feel of that long waiting game we are so familiar with. The leveling system is not something to be happy about either. The beginning levels you really don't notice it costing a lot, but after a while you start to have the feeling that this is truly a waiting game. Again at level 13 you would have to pay 56M to upgrade. This would normally take maybe 10 hrs of actually game play to achieve, which in real time would expand over a few days.

This game is great fun due to the splicing of the two jobs to create a new ones and some strategy involved in managing your resources. Some of  the jobs are nicely thought out and kind of make sense if you were to mix the two jobs together. Not having stupid quests telling you what you have to do, gives you the sense of freedom that a simulation game should give. The only downside is that darn waiting aspect, but if you have some leisurely time on your hands than why not kill  it with Pixel People.