A very well polished game.

No real challenge (so far) other than getting the next unlock. It doesn't seem possible to fail the game but I'm perfectly fine with that.

It's more of a cosy city builder, with a really nice progression system.

Honestly surprised this game isn't more popular with the level of polish it has!

The game is beautiful and well-designed. On my first try, my city was a mess because I didn't know I had to separate the "groups" (religious neighborhoods, buildings, or nightlife areas). On my second try, I did better and was able to distribute things better.

The only thing I don't like is the Sandbox mode. While you can build your city in normal mode, you have a goal, but what if I just want to build js because? Well, I thought sandbox mode was the solution and that I could build however I liked without restrictions, but that wasn't the case. Some buildings require levels of other things like "markets, education" (which works great in normal mode), but I thought these restrictions would disappear in Sandbox mode. Likewise, with house building, I thought they would let you build all kinds of houses, regardless of what's nearby (like a drop-down menu above the house icon so you can choose which one you want to place), but again, you're restricted to placing certain buildings for it to work. I'll mention this again, it seems great to me in normal mode, but I'd love to have all the freedom in the world in sandbox mode, without having to worry about radiuses or levels of things to build 6-story houses.

Don't get me wrong, the game is very good, but I'd love to see this kind of gameplay added for a true sandbox mode without objectives or restrictions.

Very anoying mechanic with the pussle type of putting houses and al the stuff limiting what and where to put things and the very frail system of needs to uphold it, and if you cant and those houses break, they wont rebuild when you meet requirements again