Virtual Playground was a software company producing many tycoon or

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s primarily for the PC platform, but their works do also extend to the

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. Their works include

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, Beer tycoon, Eco Tycoon: Project Green, and

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. Their games are published by

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and

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and are typically based on the

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. Since late 2018, many games published by Virtual Playground were removed from

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