This is really a tough review to write, because I really like a lot of what is going on here. But ultimately I just never found it engaging on the level of, say, SimCity. This has an awesome street view version that lets you walk around and actually FEEL like part of the city, and if you like that sort of thing then this game is definitely one you can have some fun with in that fashion.

In terms of the choices on how to build the city, it all feels a lot more abstract than SimCity, because of the way that there are these social groups and so on.

If you're looking for an entry into the city simulation genre, then probably SimCity 4 (despite its awkward controls by modern standards) is the way to go. If you're into citybuilders as a genre and are looking for another good one after having exhausted others, I can definitely tell you that I had fun with this one despite my gripes. But it's not one that held my attention for dozens of hours.

I was really on the fence as to whether to give this a positive or negative review. Ultimately I felt like I had fun and got my money's worth, though, so that's the main criteria that I guess I should use. The developer should be able to do better, and I hope they get a chance. I'd like to see this evolve in future sequels, but so far it was already fun for what it is.

This game was fun for awhile, but ultimatly it got boring. Theres always people complaining when you upgrade your city, but if you downgrade it, there's no way to get the population up. Factions that get close to each other fight, and they end up burning down a portion of the city, they make crime go up, or they destroy the economy. Essentially you can work up to a certain point, and the entire city will fail before you can expand further.

Another point to make, is that the business's in the game don't have any bonus's added to them, so the best way to run a city is to find the smallest building, and pack them together, because doing that will give absolutely no negative effects.

I'd definitly reccommend this if you want a simplistic city simulator, but I greatly prefer Tropico 4 over this. The only fault with tropico is that the road system is absolutely terrible, and the only way to fix traffic is to redesign your city to situate the traffic better.

A really interesting game. It puts a unique twist on city builders by having what they call "subcultures". They're arranged in a hexagon, with the higher up ones being richer than the ones below. Those touching eachother on the hexagon are friendly, and those opposite are enemies. For example, the blue collars hate the yuppies and vice versa, the elites hate the blue collars, and most of the rich classes hate the poorest class.

The key is that a fully ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ city needs people of every class. Someone has to be the janitors and grounds keepers. Artsy Fartsy people need doctors and firemen, and Executives need waiters at their restaraunts. People will not commute to the other side of the city for a job, so you need to manage where housing gets placed for each subculture.

It's definetly worth looking at if you want a unique twist on a city builder.

The interface seems to be delayed all the time no matter you have enough space in your PC for RAM o ROM, when you are building the city,even if you take away internet connection reduce all other tasks in the PC; it gets slower and slow, up to 5 minutes to build something and move to the next. It seems to be a problem from Steam or the version they got for download; cause I have play this game for many years and I never had any problem except with the version in Steam. Really really bad, bad experience!

I tried to enjoy this game, but the interface, and font is made for ants.

An old city simulator gem from 2008 featuring an unique way to handle your population by classes/groups that will enjoy or fight having side-by-side in their neighborhood. It has some flaws here in there but it was quite fun in their time. You're better off getting City Skylines for a real good city sim. This one I got for nostalgia and have some fun building my city just like old times.

When I first read about it, the concept sounded really interesting - new layers to city building that were different than Sim City, which I will lose myself in for hours. But when it actually came to playing it, the system was broken and the game itself was so glitchy and sticky that I just gave up on it. Juggling faction territory was a pain, balancing upgrades with population mood was a pain, and basically trying to do anything was a huge pain. There is such thing as challenging and fun, but this was just challenging. I wouldn't recommend it. Try Banished instead.

Thanks for putting this game on steam it's really nostalgic.

The game itself is alright for its time, but now there's way better games like cities skylines.
It has a unique mechanic that there's 6 different social groups and you have to seperate them into neighbourhoods, and you need all the social classes in your city to run services like healthcare, education, police etc. I kinda like it.

In the end there's not much strategy, you just plop down a housing block and each service nearby. The game is really bad at explaining how it works though so no wonder I couldn't figure it out as a kid. Also there's no QoL and it's really hard making everything neat so your city will probably look ugly as sin, but it's not much of a problem since you get lots of space.

only buy if you have a really low end pc or buy it for the nostalgia

edit: buy it no matter what.

Of all the Monte Cristo city building games, I think this one is the most fun to play. The different classes of residents interact in entertaining ways and make the city-design process more interesting.