SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest is a construction and management simulation game published by Maxis in 1995. It ranks among many commercially unsuccessful Maxis games produced in the 1990s between the various incarnations of SimCity. Like these dozen or so others, Maxis referred to the title not as a video game but as a "software toy" because it remained faithful to the open ended philosophy of the company.
Before a new game can begin, the ga...
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SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest is a construction and management simulation game published by Maxis in 1995. It ranks among many commercially unsuccessful Maxis games produced in the 1990s between the various incarnations of SimCity. Like these dozen or so others, Maxis referred to the title not as a video game but as a "software toy" because it remained faithful to the open ended philosophy of the company.
Before a new game can begin, the game requires that the player choose one of several dozen fictional tropical islands of various shapes and sizes to simulate. Each island is unique in that it has varying amounts of open plains, forests, mountains, natural resources, and native peoples. The amount of pre-developed land also varies but most of the islands are largely nondeveloped when a new simulation begins. Although each scenario has certain objectives and win/lose conditions, the scenario objectives are always optional (each map can be started with the scenario objectives...
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