Airport CEO

Airport CEO asks for the kind of patience that turns layouts into an airport, and it is for players who enjoy management that grows from floors, queues and timetables. By our assessment, its strongest point is the clear chain from design to operation: terminals, gates, security, baggage and staff all have to fit together. The trade-off is that the game can become a lot of watching, balancing and nudging rather than dramatic crisis management. In practice it has that slow, tidy satisfaction of solving passenger flow one bottleneck at a time. Compared with city builders that spread attention across a whole map, it is narrower and more specialised, which makes the planning feel more focused. Airport CEO stays close to the logistics side of simulation, with the passenger lines and baggage belts doing most of the talking.