Android Devices Offer Some Amazing Tycoon Games

Android Devices Offer Some Amazing Tycoon Games

Those of you with a burning desire to take something over and build it up to the pinnacle of achievement will be pleased to know that so many good tycoon style games exist for Android smartphones and tablets. For the best of the best in this genre, you can't miss this list of tycoon games.

Whenever I hear the term "tycoon game" I'm always taken back to 1990 and Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon, though the genre has been around since at least 1983 when M.U.L.E. was released, and possibly even before that. While back then all the tycoon games centered around large businesses and macroeconomics, these days any game that focuses on any kind of business management is generally called a tycoon game. It should be noted, though, that some games, like "Sushi Tycoon" or "Farm Frenzy," despite being great games, are really just action games that take place within the confines of a business, and not truly tycoon-style games.
With qualifications and semantics out of the way, we can focus on the best Android tycoon games you will find on the Android Market. It's a fairly crowded genre, but it's also easy to make a misstep when creating these types of games. The feature-rich tycoon games on a PC won't necessarily survive the translation to an Android device, as the confined screen space and limited interface options (just the touch screen) make porting a PC game very difficult, and usually you can get better games by designing them from the ground up with a smartphone in mind. A good number of developers have taken the challenge of bringing fun tycoon-style games to Android devices, and quite a few have succeeded, so check out the list below for those games that make the grade