Car Park Capital – the tycoon game where you pave over a green map and make society completely car-dependent – has picked up MicroProse as its publisher. Developer Hilko Janssen of Hilkojj Interactive is staying the course on his vision of total automotive apocalypse, and MicroProse isn't pushing back.
The game was first covered last year with mechanics that already leaned hard into the premise: billboards to brainwash pedestrians who refuse to drive, and banana-mobiles for sale. None of that has been softened. If anything, the project is pushing further into its own gleefully unwholesome lane.
MicroProse has been on a steady comeback run in recent years, publishing niche and genre-specific titles that bigger publishers wouldn't touch – flight sims, strategy games, and now apparently car-dependency tycoons. It's a decent fit for something this deliberately weird.
No release date has been announced, but the game still looks sharp – the contrast between the starting greenery and the eventual concrete sprawl is doing a lot of visual work. If you liked the original pitch, the publisher deal changes nothing about what Car Park Capital is trying to be.
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