Any modern day city building game like SimCity (That isnt City Skylines)

[LordChaos]

Im looking for a modern day city building game that is grid based, like SimCity 4.

[KristopherVector]

*Maybe* some sort of indie game I've never heard of, but the answer is most likely no.

[Aturchomicz]

Urbek City Builder🥺🥰 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1411740/Urbek_City_Builder/

[Tsubame ⭐]

If by modern, you mean a game with AAA standards, then no.

You can still build gridded cities in Cities Skylines, or other 3D city builders or similar games like Transport Fever 2, if you so desire.

There are quite a few isometrical/2D indie city builders, the best I have played is TheoTown. It is available in Steam, has a SC2000 feel, and also free in mobile, with very few limitations and I never felt that you needed to pay to progress, unlike 99% of other mobile city builders out there.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1084020/TheoTown/

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

Originally posted by Tsubame ⭐:

There are quite a few isometrical/2D indie city builders, the best I have played is TheoTown. It is available in Steam, has a SC2000 feel, and also free in mobile, with very few limitations and I never felt that you needed to pay to progress, unlike 99% of other mobile city builders out there.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1084020/TheoTown/

It's good the later bulk of your post was on topic and so thanks for the recommendation! Definitely now intend to soon at least check a lets play of it to see what it's like.

Originally posted by Tsubame ⭐:

If by modern, you mean a game with AAA standards, then no.

Why would you assume by modern LordChaos meant AAA lol?! SC4 is now 20 years old and therefore the equivalent of three console generations behind, decidedly retro in other words. Cities Skylines isn't new anymore either, but only one console generation equivalent behind compared to again SC4's three and I doubt there's too many who would call CS retro like SC4.

Originally posted by Tsubame ⭐:

You can still build gridded cities in Cities Skylines, or other 3D city builders or similar games like Transport Fever 2, if you so desire.

Not having played Cities Skylines, I can't comment if the same is true for it as it is for SC2013, though I can tell you from my limited experience with SC2013 that although it has tools for gridded cities if you want, it's not the same, infuriatingly so to those with OCD like tendencies due to how the default is incorrectly sized for buildings so there'd seemingly always be small unused strips and it eats at such people that they failed to archive perfect space optimisation. Again, maybe CS is better tailored for such people, but I'm not who you're meant to convince, LordChaos is and perhaps already reached the conclusion it isn't to them though experience. And yeah, they could just not use the tools to try getting closer, though that's an extra layer of hassle they don't want to deal with making game worse to them personally even if objectively it's more freedom and so better.

[Tsubame ⭐]

OP did not specify so "modern" can be taken in many number of ways.

Cities Skylines is not new anymore but still looks decent and feature-wise remains the gold standard of the city builder genre. Mods easily extend its shelf life and features.

If by modern we are talking strictly age, then there are of course lots of newer games, though vast majority generic indie ones with far significantly less features.

Of course, this point is moot since Cities Skylines 2 is coming up this October. It will be the most modern as in both age and game features.

Grids in Cities Skylines are very easy to make, in fact many people do complain that they struggle to get away from "grid syndrome". They are less so in Transport Fever, but they are indeed also possible.

Unused areas due to curves, etc. can be filled with props/mods/assets, trees, etc.

[LordChaos]

Originally posted by Tsubame ⭐:

OP did not specify so "modern" can be taken in many number of ways.

Cities Skylines is not new anymore but still looks decent and feature-wise remains the gold standard of the city builder genre. Mods easily extend its shelf life and features.

If by modern we are talking strictly age, then there are of course lots of newer games, though vast majority generic indie ones with far significantly less features.

Of course, this point is moot since Cities Skylines 2 is coming up this October. It will be the most modern as in both age and game features.

Grids in Cities Skylines are very easy to make, in fact many people do complain that they struggle to get away from "grid syndrome". They are less so in Transport Fever, but they are indeed also possible.

Unused areas due to curves, etc. can be filled with props/mods/assets, trees, etc.

I mean as in new and Indie city builder

thanks for all the recommendations though

[Tsubame ⭐]

For a more complex, less indie experience, newer than SC4/CS, I remembered about Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic.

It is a very deep and complex game, with city building and economic and logistics management elements. While it has curves, it is heavily grid based.

It is more complex than CS or SC4 and involves a lot more micromanagement than either, which may or may not be an issue.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources_Soviet_Republic/

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

Originally posted by LordChaos:

Originally posted by Tsubame ⭐:

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Grids in Cities Skylines are very easy to make, in fact many people do complain that they struggle to get away from "grid syndrome". They are less so in Transport Fever, but they are indeed also possible.

Unused areas due to curves, etc. can be filled with props/mods/assets, trees, etc.

I mean as in new and Indie city builder

thanks for all the recommendations though

Did you find what Tsubame ⭐ said about grids in Cities Skylines convincing enough to give it another look? If so, it would tell us you're more open to other recommendations similar to it.

[Letobrick]

Simcity 2013
https://www.ea.com/games/simcity/simcity

[Aturchomicz]

Originally posted by Letobrick:

Simcity 2013 :47_thumb_up:
https://www.ea.com/games/simcity/simcity

Unironically such a Rebel opinion lol

[LordChaos]

Originally posted by Letobrick:

Simcity 2013 :47_thumb_up:
https://www.ea.com/games/simcity/simcity

Honestly I'd buy this if it was on steam. If only the original, 2000, and 3000 was on steam so I can just play it on my pc. I tried emulating SimCity 2000 years ago but it never worked on an emulator

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

I own 2K and 3K on GOG and can confirm 3K works on Win 10, haven't tried 2K on current PC and I'm sure original is there as well.

Seems I should also take this opportunity to apologise to Tsubame ⭐ for thinking you had a good reason for not playing Cities Skylines...

[Cool hedgehog]

There is CitiesXL

[sterkam5]

High Rise City is an interesting take

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

Thanks for letting folks know about TheoTown Tsubame ⭐! I've since checked out a video on it and it looks good indeed, think I'll try to get it at some point, nice realism touches like how the scaffolding actually builds up instead of just rising from the ground and civics also build instead of just plopping. The data maps seem much improved from the little I saw also. Though I didn't see him adjusting any taxes or anything finance related aside from taking loans and so I have question about that but, here's probably not the place to ask them.