Build-a-lot: On Vacation

Build-a-lot: On Vacation!

Popular vacation destinations are looking to upgrade their local attractions and your skills are needed to help them with these special projects! Use your building skills to spruce up the local attractions, create 4-star lodging and plan the most exciting get-a-ways to charm tourists and locals alike! Can you get the gondola working at the ski resort? Will the fairgrounds get constructed in time for the hot air balloon festival? Find out as you play through 65 vacation themed levels. From snowy mountains to sandy coastlines, there's fun, sun and relaxation ahead in Build-a-lot: On Vacation!

After an unexpected break from the Build-a-lot series, developer HipSoft is back with Build-a-lot: On Vacation. The sixth installment of the popular casual building sim franchise could work very well under the title Full Circle, too, because it bears more similarity to the earlier games. We found this approach rather refreshing and welcome as opposed to a step backwards.

Build-a-lot games have always boasted a generous number of levels and modes, but Build-a-lot: On Vacation takes things even further. Apart from the main campaign there is also an expert campaign and a quick mode to be unlocked, along with the usual casual mode. There are 65 timed level, and you can earn a speedy ribbon for finishing them quickly, but there's no penalty for going slowly, either.

Players who are familiar with the genre will immediately pick up the familiar gameplay because the core is very similar to the original Build-a-lot, and most of the well-meant but rather annoying features from Power Source and Elizabethan Era (rather pointless farms or power outages, anyone?) have been removed. Basically the player has to construct houses which will result in a regular income. This money can then be spent in new materials and workers to build even more expensive houses, which can also be sold for profit. Games related and similar to Build-a-lot: On Vacation include action games, arcade games, strategy, all of them and Build-a-lot: On Vacation itself are available for download from The Game Album.