Not as in-depth as it could be. It felt promising for the first few hours while the game is gradually introducing its mechanics, but it eventually becomes clear that all you'll be doing is adding new buildings when it tells you to, and hiring new staff when it tells you to.

None of the clever, strategic management I would expect of a game like this is required of you, nor is it possible. For example, once your campus gets large enough, there will be students complaining about having to travel long distances between classes. But, while you can view timetables, you can't change them, so you can't reschedule classes to fix the problem. And while the game will yell at you about it, there aren't really any consequences for ignoring it.

There is fun to be had here if you meet the game where it is. My issue is just that I wanted a campus management sim, but got the Sims build mode with a fun gimmick.

This was one of those games that, as a small child, I didn't really get much of the satirical elements behind it and I was just kind of vibing along with it. One of those things where it takes a tycoon game and uses it to explore themes of the evils of advertisement, marketing and spin, labour exploitation, industrial slaughter of cows to create food, environmental themes regarding global warming and climate change, and the intersection of all these elements to show the unsustainability and lack of ethics behind never-ending growth. This would be all well and good if the game was actually fun to play and didn't suck. Oligarchy, by the same developers, is much better than this.

i don't know how to feel about this pack.

$40 for apartments AGAIN feels like an absolute scam. we should've just been able to build our own apartments from the get-go, or whatever happened to pack updates? or, if they're adding onto something else, why isnt this a game pack instead of $40 expansion pack? but there is an expansion pack worth of build/buy. a lot of it is themed to the world, but it's still very pretty stuff.

being a landlord was kind of fun, there's a lot of random events that happen where you have to go fix things, or banish a ghost- this pack definately feels like it's a lot of passive things happening in the background. i feel like gameplay will be lacking severly as just a tenant. the more forward facing things, like snooping for secrets- are bad. the secrets are just randomly assigned & make no sense. they have cute descriptions of sims related inside jokes, but being tied to a sim doesn't make much sense. it's an objectively bad feature.

one horrible bug.. or even just an oversight from the sims team is that if your landlord dies, they still own the property. you can sell the property from manage worlds, but without knowing how to fix it, it caused me a lot of headache.

maybe wait for a sale, or at least for bugs to be fixed. i did have fun, but it's a very passive expansion pack. should've probably just been a gamepack.