Sim City (Series) Review

Posted: 15 months ago, last updated 4 months ago.

Author: @GeekDadGamer and Jo Robertson.

Overview

SimCity is a series of city-building games, created by Will Wright. Since their inception as educational experiences in 1989, the games have enabled players to design ambitious cities. The attraction is the open-ness of play, where you can let your imagination and ideas play out on a grand scale to see the implications.

You start with a small budget and patch of undeveloped land. By establishing residential, commercial and industrial zones, providing electricity and water you soon have people moving in a building their homes. Then, by means of taxes, you can make money to develop your city further.

SimCity (1989) on PC, Mac, Amiga, Atari ST
SimCity 2000 (1993) on Mac, PC, SNES, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance
SimCity 3000 (1999) on Windows, Mac, iOS
SimCity 64 (2000) on Nintendo 64
SimCity 4 (2002) on PC and Mac
SimCity DS (2007) on DS
SimCity (2013) relaunched on Mac and PC
SimCity: BuildIt (2014) on iOS and Android

Game Details

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 02/02/1989, updated in 2014

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Genres: Creative, Simulation and Strategy

Accessibility: 14 features

Developer: @EA

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Commitment

Duration: This game will take between 10 hours and 20 hours to complete. The time to play depends on how ambitious your plans and how successful you are at completing them.

Players: This is a single player game.

Costs

Sim City usually costs £6.49.

Simcity 2000

PS3

£6.49

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Sim City

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Free

EA Play

Does not offer in-game purchases, 'loot boxes' or 'battle/season passes'.

Age Ratings

This game has been rated PEGI 3.

This game has been rated ESRB EVERYONE.

Accessibility

Our Sim City Accessibility Report details 14 accessibility features:

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