PREVIEW : The Tenants (PC)
We play as interior designers, real estate agents, and a landlord in The Renters, furnishing apartments, taking care of tenants’ concerns, and badass evicting them if they don’t pay enough.
We set up flats, take care of tenants’ worries, and kick them out if they don’t pay enough in this blend of tycoon game and The Sims-like social game with building mode and hundreds of furniture. Cockroaches, alcoholism, and earthquakes are just a few of the issues that we encounter.
Introduction
Here’s the Zap, Moin Moin. This Tenants Review provides some information about the new economic strategy indie game with a large building mode and tonnes of tycoon gaming. I’ll explain how it works, and what’s in it, and give you my rating for The Tenants exam in the conclusion. But, most importantly, I want to provide you with all of the information you need to decide for yourself whether or not you will enjoy the game.
Ancient Forge Studio created The Tenants, which was published by Frozen District. This developer has only released one other game so far, the tactical RPG Glorious Companions. Thank you for the free trial key. This should not influence my rating, as I always rate games based on how I would feel if I had spent full price.
The Tenants Gameplay – Game Type
We play a real estate agent, interior designer, decorator, and a landlord in The Tenants. First and foremost, we do not have our apartments. However, with the assistance of our uncle, a competent artisan, we eventually obtain the required funds to invest. We accomplish this by accepting jobs from other realtors to refurbish the residences of their tenants.
There are normally rough guidelines for how the separate rooms should be outfitted. A limited budget determines the facility’s quality. Our uncle conducts the cleaning, handyman chores, and repairs. Then we handle the design and equipment.
The Tenants has a nice building mode that is reminiscent of The Sims. We can’t create buildings from scratch, but we can drag and tear down walls and install doors. In the interior decorator mode, we have a plethora of wallpapers, tiles, and floors, as well as a plethora of furniture, lights, rugs, and daily objects at our disposal.
As a result, we may tailor the flats to the needs of the orders, and the editor allows you to create fashionable rooms and residences. We gain experience points and level up for successful actions. For each of these stages, we unlock new furniture, wallpaper, and so on, so our inventory is constantly improving.
There are other jobs available. In some cases, we must look after the apartments of other agencies for a few days. Tenants may experience a variety of issues, such as insect or rat infestations, faulty heaters or ruptured water pipes, damaged electrical appliances, or seismic fractures in the walls.
Most of the time, we have to dispatch our uncle to care for the animals or perform repairs as exterminators. We assign a professional in more difficult circumstances. We must not waste time here, because if the problems are not resolved quickly enough, the tenant will hire an expert himself, resulting in significantly greater charges and a poor reputation for our organisation.
We gradually accumulate funds to invest in our apartments and houses. Bank loans can potentially aid in this situation, although they come with high-interest rates. So we gradually work our way up the landlord food chain.
The game has three districts that we can unlock one after the other but use together. However, the third district has not yet been released in the current version. So we begin in the slums, go to the affluent suburbs, and then, there’s the high-priced city centre, which has hitherto been off-limits.
The Tenants – Tech, Graphics, Sound, Engine, Voice-Over, Translation
Because The Tenants is designed utilising the Unity Engine, stability and performance are not a concern. In well than 20 hours of testing, it only crashed once. This is a solid start for an Early Access title that only launched around a month ago.
There is also an elaborate roadmap that announces hundreds of additional furniture pieces, quests, events, and the third district. The game will be expanded with a few more options and development will continue until 2022. And the team has already produced 5 upgrades in the short time since Early Access began.
The aesthetics are retained in a low-poly style, yet they are far from boring due to a large number of various models. The varied textures are also low resolution. Overall, the game offers pretty enjoyable overall work. Visually, the game isn’t a piece of beauty, but the graphics do the job, are varied, and occasionally even a little attractive when the light is right.
The character animations are, of course, prominent in this style of game. And the developers have done an excellent job here. Because the inhabitants of our apartments and residences can do so many various activities, everything is brightly animated.
The Tenants Test – opinion and conclusion
The Tenants is one of a kind. I’m not aware of any other games that provide a comparable mix, and the game already receives compassion plus for this unique concept. It is primarily an economic simulation, although the construction mode provides some creative moments.
You also have a tiny amount of social simulation with you because of the many tenants and their characteristics. And there’s that Sims-esque goldfish jar effect throughout the game, where you can have fun peering into people’s homes and following their daily lives.
The economics component isn’t overly complicated, but there are some complexities to be aware of.
In general, the rating system is primarily concerned with having as many expensive items as possible in the flat, with little regard for how well it is organised. There is frequently insufficient fine-tuning in these logic calculations.
As a result, it might be aggravating when you think you’ve designed a fantastic apartment, but the tenants think it’s completely ridiculous.
At the same time, the shack next door with the last piece of soiled furniture commands a significantly higher rent. The developers must still devote a few hours of work here to make this region more reasonable and avoid frustrating situations.
Overall, The Tenants is a work in progress. There is a reason for the Early Access designation, and there is still work to be done. Aside from problems and balancing, I’d want to see more long-term incentives. More part-time jobs, more furniture, more possibilities for tenants, and so on. But there will probably never be enough of that. There have already been various enhancements and extensions announced by the DEVs.
In summary, as a tycoon game player or fan of little optimization games and construction games, you can already have a lot of fun here. And if even half of what’s been announced makes it into the game, the fun-to-price ratio is set to improve significantly.
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