City building games WITHOUT managing/playing as mayor.

[Tsar Butterfly]

This is a weird request but I bought Cities: Skylines since it was on sale. Heard you could make a psuedo-sandbox game with unlimited money and all the stuff unlocked but you still have to manage power and sewage and pollution and whatnot. I just want to place buildings indiscriminantly and not have to worry about anything. Like, just a relaxing city building game, where you place buildings down and that's that. Don't have to connect them to power lines and water pipes and then make sure an earthquake doesn't destroy those things and be super stressed out.

[Indiana Georg]

Tropico 5 has a sandbox mode and 4 has cheats

[Tsar Butterfly]

Originally posted by indiana_georg:

Tropico 5 has a sandbox mode and 4 has cheats

I'll check that out. Thought those were more of a politics simulator but they're only $5 right now so it might be worth it.

[Indiana Georg]

Originally posted by Tsar Butterfly:

Originally posted by indiana_georg:

Tropico 5 has a sandbox mode and 4 has cheats

I'll check that out. Thought those were more of a politics simulator but they're only $5 right now so it might be worth it.

It’s a dictator sim , funnily it’s easier to be a kind ruler than rule with an iron fist

[Tsar Butterfly]

Bumping

[Tsar Butterfly]

Guess there really aren't any. Why there can't just be a peaceful building game I'll never know.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

original simcity?

[Tsar Butterfly]

Originally posted by IF:

original simcity?

Still have to manage stuff. I don't have an 80's Macintosh anyway.

[Violeta]

Originally posted by Tsar Butterfly:

Guess there really aren't any. Why there can't just be a peaceful building game I'll never know.

Because games where you only build and have nothing to worry about really aren't games. They're art programs.

And most city builders have easy mode or one can mod them or use cheat codes.

[Tsar Butterfly]

Originally posted by Sashie:

Originally posted by Tsar Butterfly:

Guess there really aren't any. Why there can't just be a peaceful building game I'll never know.

Because games where you only build and have nothing to worry about really aren't games. They're art programs.

Minecraft has a pure sandbox mode. I'd use that but it requires placing blocks one at a time and you can only make old timey looking stuff. If there's a game that's Minecraft but with the ability to place entire buildings I'd like to know.

[psychotron666]

Check out terraria. It's like Minecraft but 2d side scroller and you can build towns and really anything you want (I made an underwater rapture like town for example ) and you also can explore underground dungeons to get materials for building and making gear and fight bosses and stuff. Its actually a pretty fun game

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by Tsar Butterfly:

Originally posted by Sashie:

Because games where you only build and have nothing to worry about really aren't games. They're art programs.

Minecraft has a pure sandbox mode. I'd use that but it requires placing blocks one at a time and you can only make old timey looking stuff. If there's a game that's Minecraft but with the ability to place entire buildings I'd like to know.

Fallout 4. Though the story sucks and dialogue sucks and everything that makes a good fallout game sucks in fallout 4 but it's a great town building simulator if you ignore it as a fallout game

[Joe Cool]

Mods are your friend OP...

There are mods to get rid of all that stuff. Best part is they're all on the workshop too so they're super easy to get.


When I first started I was watching videos from Sam Bur (because he is supposedly a real city planner lol) and I used his mod list to pick and choose what I wanted.. It would probably be a good start for you (his videos give some good ideas too)

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=958859068

[Tsar Butterfly]

Originally posted by chacmool:

Cities Skylines isn't that hard to manage. Over a decade later and I still don't understand the tax system in SimCity 4.

I'm sure I could learn to do it, it's just not the type of game I'm looking for.