Management sims have been booming lately, but there's one type of management I've always wanted to sim and I am yet to be satisfied: running my own ski resort. Snowtopia is an indie game that's looking to change that, and it releases into Steam Early Access tomorrow.
Snowtopia aims to let you develop your dream ski resort. You'll plan pistes with a construction tool designed for intuitive, easy placement, and evaluate the terrain to choose which of 11 different types of ski lift is best suited to serve them. Keep your guests safe by providing maintenance and ski patrol services, and cater to their needs with amenities such as mountain restaurants - there are 12 different skier profiles in the game, some easier to satisfy than others.
Make them happy enough and they'll even join your growing team of volunteer staff, because in an interesting choice, there is no money in Snowtopia. Naturally, there are new and upgraded versions of these amenities to research and unlock, meaning lots of scope to fiddle and fuss over your creation until you've built the winter playground of your dreams. This may make the fact that it's near-impossible to get to the slopes right now either easier or harder to bear.