Cityscapes: Sim Builder

Great!

Really love the game. Very well done! My favorite city builder game (by far) on iPhone.

The best

The best, fantastic, most wonderful game!

Not what I expected

This is much more of a city manager than city builder game. Your city will always be the same square design in order to be efficient with the space you’re given. The layout of your city will be more about placing buildings that the citizens demand more than it is about the actual design of the city. Also, I’m sick of the sustainability propaganda that this game loves to shove in your face. “Mining bad”, “wind farms good”. There’s enough of this irl, we don’t need it in games too. Wind farms require a ton of mining too you know? And have killed many endangered animals? And that natural gas is a relatively clean source of energy? And so is nuclear? But of course these facts don’t go along with your agenda.

This game is cool but:

I cannot delete roads.

Cool

More building please!

Some problems to fix

At first sight, the game looks great. But I can’t pass the first request, I can see the cars moving but I can’t do anything. The game is not responding, I tried to restart the game but same problem

Dean likes it

The first thing I thought was nice is that you can designed if you want to play the tutorial or not.also no adds and it is free.and there is so many different builds and different places you can go

Great! (With some space for improvement)

This game is surprisingly addictive and fun! It is reminiscent of Cities Skylines but has many differences. The pros are that the game is pretty, the little story pop ups are good and the gameplay is ridiculously addictive. (Good luck finding a stopping point other than your phone or tablet battery dying!) The cons are that I think it could use some polishing and some quality of life improvements. For example, the camera controls and zoom level are nowhere near good enough for what you need to do in game. It works, but it’s a constant fight. The merging of buildings has the potential to be a super fun mechanic, but it becomes a hindrance with always having to tap multiple menus to get the merges done. Also, the shop is a little weird… I’m not even entirely sure what I’m buying? It’s not really explained. I guess you buy a singular building for one singular file at a time, vs an unlock for every city..? I think this is more a detriment than anything else because now I don’t want to use my buildings. None of that will stop me playing outright for sure. I might get annoyed at time but I still highly recommend this game!

Decent City Simulator, but patronizing

I find the amount of “guidance” given is excessive and annoying to the point of patronizing.

Better than the Sim City version

I accidentally downloaded this thinking it was Sim City and I like this a lot more. There’s no wait time for resources or having to check in on the game every hour. You can play without wifi and it’s pretty easy. One thing I would change is being able to keep the colours the same when you add a clone building. One thing I’d add is being able to zoom in more! Especially on iPhone, the buildings are so tiny on the screen. I like to look at all the map details zoomed in, too.

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TouchArcade Sat Sep 23 2023