SimCity BuildIt

by Electronic Arts
3.7 out of 5 stars25,148 customer ratings
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What's new in version 1.54.2.123092
  • Welcome to SimCity BuildIt’s Mayor’s Pass Season: Cancún - The Caribbean Jewel! Explore the stunning Tulum Ruins, the vibrant Xoximilco or relax in the luxurious Hotel Zone.
  • For a limited time, enjoy the serene Palapas Park and savor delicious food at the Mexican Grill House.
  • Keep an eye out also for the mysterious Legendary Abandoned Skyscraper, a building with a city-wide effect! In addition, raise your City Storage capacity to a new maximum.
  • Happy building, Mayor!

Product Details

Release Date: 2015
Date first listed on Amazon: June 23, 2015
Developed By: Electronic Arts
ASIN: B00XJNMALC
Customer reviews:
3.7 out of 5 stars25,148 customer ratings

Product features

  • BRING YOUR CITY TO LIFE
  • PUT YOUR IMAGINATION ON THE MAP
  • BATTLE YOUR WAY TO VICTORY
  • CONNECT AND TEAM UP

Product description

Welcome, Mayor! Be the hero of your very own city as you design and create a beautiful, bustling metropolis. Every decision is yours as your city gets larger and more intricate. Make smart choices to keep your citizens happy and your skyline growing. Then trade, chat, compete, and join clubs with fellow Mayors. Build your way to extraordinary with the most popular city builder on mobile!

BRING YOUR CITY TO LIFE
Build skyscrapers, parks, bridges, and much more! Place buildings strategically to keep the taxes flowing and your city growing. Solve real-life challenges like traffic and pollution. Provide services like power plants and police departments. Keep traffic moving with grand avenues and streetcars.

PUT YOUR IMAGINATION ON THE MAP
Build Tokyo-, London- or Paris-style neighborhoods, and unlock exclusive landmarks like the Eiffel Tower or Statue of Liberty. Discover new technologies with the Future Cities while getting athletic with sports stadiums. Decorate your city with rivers, lakes and forests, and expand along the beach or on the mountain slopes. Unlock new geographic regions such as the Sunny Isles or Frosty Fjords, each with a unique architectural style. There’s always something new and different to make your city unique.

BATTLE YOUR WAY TO VICTORY
Defend your city against monsters or compete against other mayors in Club Wars. Plot winning strategies with your Club mates and declare war on other cities. Once the battle is on, unleash crazy disasters like the Disco Twister and Plant Monster on your opponents. Earn valuable rewards to use in battle or to improve your city. In addition, take on other players in the Contest of Mayors, where you can complete weekly challenges and climb the League ranks towards the top. Each new contest Season brings on new unique rewards to beautify your city!

CONNECT AND TEAM UP
Join a Mayor’s Club to trade supplies with other members and chat about strategies and available resources. Collaborate to help someone complete their personal vision and get support to complete yours. Build big, work together, lead other Mayors, and watch your city come to life!

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Customer reviews

3.7 out of 5 stars
3.7 out of 5
25,148 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the entertainment value of the mobile application. They say it's a very fun and addicting game. They also appreciate the stunning graphics and beautiful set up. However, some customers find the game hard to use and tedious after a while. They mention that the speed is very long and it takes a long time to accomplish anything. Customers disagree on the difficulty level, and value.

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4,196 customers mention3,915 positive281 negative

Customers find the game very fun, relaxing, and addictive. They also say the mini side quests are fun. Customers also mention that the details are great, the buildings, roads, and services are easy to work with, and the game is generally good.

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"This game is so fun, you need to get it." Read more

"...is beautiful, the animation details are great, the buildings/roads/services are fun and easy to work with, and I love that the progress can be saved..." Read more

1,091 customers mention845 positive246 negative

Customers like the quality of the mobile application. For example, they say it's awesome, decent, and a great city builder. They also mention that the graphics are awesome and creating your own city is fun. Overall, they describe the game as good and run wonderfully.

"Great Game. Superb work!" Read more

"...It has never crashed and there are some terrific third party videos and websites that help improve your gameplay.Highly recommended." Read more

"...Otherwise, a relatively decent city builder that I hope continues to improve." Read more

"Game is fun to play. However, the constant freezing, erroring out, crashing, taking too long to load on the Kindle HD 8.9" makes it unplayable..." Read more

425 customers mention412 positive13 negative

Customers like the graphics of the mobile application. They mention that it has really nice graphics, with detailed details. They also say that the game is designed very well, with terrific animations and objects. Some customers like the ideas of epic buildings, but it's hard to get past the bronze level for each.

"...I love about this game: the artwork is beautiful, the animation details are great, the buildings/roads/services are fun and easy to work with, and I..." Read more

"...The animations and objects are terrific, quite a few (like the lighthouse) reminiscent of older versions, and the higher you advance the more..." Read more

"Sim City is a fun game. The graphics are stellar, and there is always something to work on; however, there are a few things that I believe really..." Read more

"...The graphics and animation are stunning, even when I play on small screen of my iPhone (I usually play on my Kindle Fire)...." Read more

193 customers mention156 positive37 negative

Customers like the app features. They say it's an amazing app, with great little perks. They also say it has in-app purchases that help, and is the best free city building app.

"...I'm not promoting anything else, this is still the best free city building app in my opinion, but I think they could do a lot more with it." Read more

"...challenging (hint: don't grow too fast), great graphics, and casual...." Read more

"...It includes many features and constructions that it's like the base game on the go...." Read more

"...The collaborative play is good with the right group. Lots of features so there's something for everyone. My favorite is the city design challenge." Read more

924 customers mention516 positive408 negative

Customers are mixed about the difficulty level of the mobile application. Some mention that the game is easy, not overly convoluted, or tedious. They say it's more user friendly than the complexity of the game. However, others say that each new item addition takes longer to make, certain aspects take so long it' s frustrating, and that the execution needs work at the beginning level.

"...details are great, the buildings/roads/services are fun and easy to work with, and I love that the progress can be saved--and played--across..." Read more

"...However, the constant freezing, erroring out, crashing, taking too long to load on the Kindle HD 8.9" makes it unplayable to be enjoyed...." Read more

"...The details are amazing, with hot air balloons flying overhead, tiny cars driving all over town and the disaster animations are great...." Read more

"Great concept but the execution needs work at the beginning level...." Read more

528 customers mention204 positive324 negative

Customers are mixed about the value of the mobile application. Some mention it's a great game for free, challenging but worth the reward, and you can earn a surprising amount of Sim Cash. However, others say that it'll make you want to spend money.

"...UGH.Aside from being a complete money pit, my biggest complaint about this APP would be how long it takes to produce necessary resources..." Read more

"...For a freeplay game, you can earn a surprising amount of Sim Cash (the premium currency) by completing achievements in the game...." Read more

"...It will take as much time as you're willing to give it. Many advancements are expensive but as you proceed you'll receive mu!tiple tasks and lines..." Read more

"...for in game cash because the cost of everything in game is also stupidly expensive and it takes forever to make money in game...." Read more

584 customers mention169 positive415 negative

Customers find the speed of the mobile application to be very long time to accomplish anything, advancing is an excruciatingly slow process, and it takes too long to make enough money to buy the bigger items. They also say the game drags to a slog and takes forever to build up enough cash to move to the next step. Customers also mention that it takes a long time for missions and expand land.

"...These parts are kind of stupid rare and untradable, so it will really take some time to expand your Omega storage and Omega bank size...." Read more

"...and there for in game bucks to help move the game along, but SIM City drags to a slog if you're not paying real money for in game cash because the..." Read more

"...The speed up tokens are awesome (it would be so wonderful if there was a "pause" button option, though), and I love that buildings..." Read more

"It takes me forever to defeat the kracken it leaves for a day comes back for a day and when it comes back u have to restart damaging it😤it also..." Read more

142 customers mention16 positive126 negative

Customers find the mobile application difficult to use. They mention that the game play asks too much, and it gets tedious after a while.

"...This is a classic waiting game. In order to build homes, stores, important buildings, etc.,..." Read more

"...reasonable prices for in game offers, but there's nothing reasonable about the in game offers...." Read more

"This game is pretty good.It gets a bit greedy sometimes but its a fun game." Read more

"...neighbors (via Facebook linked to the game) is beyond slow and cumbersome...." Read more

If you really want to win just don't play
1 Star
If you really want to win just don't play
This game is what is called a resource management game. You try and build a city that you are "Mayor" of using things that you either build or buy. While there are a few good aspects, the negatives outweigh the benefits.The first and most important thing to keep in mind is that this game is NOT free. Each task that you are required to do requires your money or your time, and there is no way around it. You want to build a building? Great! To build this hypothetical building requires 3 hamburgers and a cheesecake (yes, those are real things in this game). So how do you get those items? First of all you produce feed bags. Those bags require 7 hours to produce (real time), or you can spend $60 Simcash (more on that in a minute) per bag to speed up production. After you get those bags, then you use the bags to make your hamburgers. Each hamburger takes 3 feed bags and 2 hours to produce. Are you seeing how this works? So you get bored. You get inpatient. You just want to play the stupid game and not wait for days to accomplish something! HELLO WALLET!As far as money goes, they have 2 different types of money in the game, Simcash and Simoleans (see attached screen shots). Simcash is their resource that is harder to get. You can spend $100 ($99.99) and get $8500 Simcash. If you want to buy something called Maxis Manors (important to help you progress in the game) the first one is $1000 Simcash, second is $2000 Simcash, third is $4000 Simcash and fourth is $8000 Simcash. So think about that for a minute. You can buy a fake building in a virtual game that you will never get real life advantages from for almost $50! Your fourth one of those buildings cost you $100! Close to $200 for fake buildings! That doesn't include all if the other thinfs that you need Simcash for.But wait, (you wonder) can't you just earn Simcash in the game? Yes, you can. However, the only way to be able to earn large sums of Simcash is to participate in the Contest of Mayors. The CoM has different levels, and to be able to get the real Simcash you must work your way up to the "Megalopolis" level. This takes hours and hours of play every week for a MINIUM of 6 weeks. It is truely the most expensive game I have ever seen. If it is not taking your cash, it is taking your time.So why am I writing this long review? Because I was one of those people who spent hours playing this game. I did not invest money, I invested time. Hours that I will never get back. I realized just how stupid it was when I had an incident. I had saved a lot of Simcash, and one day it just disappeared. When I contacted EA (the makers of the game) they didn't care. It didn't matter that I had spent hours. It was just a stupid intangible game, and no one there cared. This is not real life. You get NOTHING tangible for your time and/or money. In a blink of an eye your virtual world can be gone. All that time, all that money for nothing. So, if you really want to win; don't play this game.It is just not worth it.
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GB
5.0 out of 5 stars 5 Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2024
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Great Game. Superb work!
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RG
1.0 out of 5 stars Game freezes, slows to a crawl, locks up, on Kindle HD 8.9"
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2017
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Game is fun to play. However, the constant freezing, erroring out, crashing, taking too long to load on the Kindle HD 8.9" makes it unplayable to be enjoyed. Have played SIM City games for decades and always enjoyed them.

This is a new twist on things that takes too many cues from the marketing and accounting folks who are determined to make the freemium model with an oppressed economy of scale work to maximize profits. Would gladly play for a game without the necessary requirement of advertising then rewarding you with a random item that shouldn't be worth your time. However, since it is setup to deadlock you into Facebooking (which many of us these days just don't do anymore) or forcing wait times of hours that turn into days to get items to advance; I quickly loose interest.

If I could link with my friends without using Facebook it would be more enjoyable because you could work together as a team to get the things needed to progress further. Something simple like e-mailing them a GUID code to invite them to link up is not hard to do. It is the allure that "if we force the users to go through Facebook we get more marketing dollars and have a better chance of gleaming money from them because they will feel peer pressure from their closest friends to continue to enjoy the game with each other." just irks me too much.

Games didn't always bring in the big money in the past and that was ok since the ones that did helped support the ones that did not bring in the big $$ to carry the company forward. Consider evaluating your position on long term playability vs. your profit goals EA. Lastly, toning down the extreme detail and graphical sprites to improve performance should be considered. There is no option to turn the settings down and that ultimately is what started my unenjoyment with your product. Someone surely said "let's make it so the game doesn't have to run on max settings" and someone who has no idea about processing power and graphics made the decision to discount this statement as being frivolous.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Get it
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2024
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This game is so fun, you need to get it.
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Pronto
4.0 out of 5 stars wish it was more affordable to play
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2016
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I agree with other posters that this game basically forces you into purchasing sim cash with real cash in order to get anywhere in the game. I would have much preferred purchasing the app out right over having to make multiple in game purchases. I was determined to NOT spend any real money on this app, but eventually caved in order to make some headways with my town as progress without paying for it would take FOREVER.

*WARNING* The simcash bundles are EXPENSIVE and you need to purchase a pretty sizable bundle in order to get enough simcash units to purchase enough simoleans (units actually used to buy most things in the game) to have any impact on your town funds as the smaller bundles provide you with barely enough units to do anything! The cheapest simcash bundle costs $4.99 (real money) and will get you 250 simcash units. The next bundle up is $9.99 (550 units) and the bundle after that is $19.99 (1300 units). From there the bundles are $34.99 (2625), $49.99 (4000), and $99.99 (8500)--but really, who is going to pay that?!

The problem lies with how the simcash bundle prices relate to the simolean bundle prices. The smallest simolean bundle only costs 30 simcash units, but will only get you $1800 simoleans-- not even enough to buy a water tower...or any services--so its pretty much pointless. The next cheapest bundle costs 300 simcash (for $19,200 simoleans), but, if you recall, the $4.99 bundle of simcash only gets you 250 simcash units. So you would need to purchase AT LEAST the $9.99 bundle if you want to have enough simcash to even THINK about being able to afford expanding your city, but at that point it would probably make more sense to just pay $19.99 for the simcash bundle of 1300 units to use to purchase the simolean bundle (costing 1000 simcash) to get $68,000 simoleans. UGH.

Aside from being a complete money pit, my biggest complaint about this APP would be how long it takes to produce necessary resources (ahem, NAILS.) In order to move the game along. Waiting for resources to generate in order to upgrade buildings really slows this game down once you've worked out the layout/infrastructure details of your city.

Speaking of infrastructure, as your city levels up, the sudden onslot of expanding needs/demands/new requirements of your citizens can be difficult to keep up with without monetary intervention. Suddenly having both health facilities and public transportation become unlocked AND a necessity for happy citizens in the SAME LEVEL felt like being set up for failure as my once happy citizens became increasingly dissatisfied and started abandoning homes when the golden key units needed to purchase such facilities were still out of my reach because I could not afford the shipping port--one of the only ways to obtain gold keys. Being forced into purchasing expensive services may be easier if one did not need to wait until a certain level/city size before said services are unlocked for purchase. It is A LOT harder to suddenly have to buy enough fire stations to protect an already established town (before everything starts to burn down) than it would be to add stations along the way as the town slowly grows from the first fledgling buildings to bigger neighborhoods.

As for things I love about this game: the artwork is beautiful, the animation details are great, the buildings/roads/services are fun and easy to work with, and I love that the progress can be saved--and played--across multiple devices and saved to the cloud. The speed up tokens are awesome (it would be so wonderful if there was a "pause" button option, though), and I love that buildings do not have construction timers slowing things down My favorite things are that generated resources do not "expire" or "go bad" if they are not gathered immediately (as they do in some other city builder games) and that taxes generated by your citizens when the game was closed or you were busy doing something else can still be collected at city hall instead of just being lost income.
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Nikita Campbell
5.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in Canada on November 2, 2023
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Very good game
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Robert Schmid
5.0 out of 5 stars Macht Spaß!
Reviewed in Germany on January 1, 2024
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Ein sehr tolles und spaßiges Spiel!
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Joffrey
5.0 out of 5 stars Construisez la ville de vos rêves sur votre smartphone
Reviewed in France on June 4, 2023
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SimCity BuildIt est une application incroyable qui permet de construire et de gérer sa propre ville directement sur son smartphone. Je suis totalement accro à ce jeu !

L'une des choses qui me fascinent le plus dans SimCity BuildIt, c'est la possibilité de créer une ville à partir de rien. On peut planifier et construire des quartiers résidentiels, des zones commerciales et industrielles, ainsi que des infrastructures publiques telles que des écoles, des parcs et des hôpitaux. Il est vraiment gratifiant de voir sa ville se développer et prospérer.

Le graphisme du jeu est époustouflant. Les détails des bâtiments, des routes et des animations sont très bien réalisés, ce qui rend l'expérience encore plus immersive. On a vraiment l'impression de construire une véritable ville.

Ce que j'apprécie également, c'est la dimension sociale du jeu. On peut rejoindre des clubs et interagir avec d'autres joueurs du monde entier. On peut échanger des ressources, visiter les villes des autres joueurs et participer à des événements communautaires. Cela ajoute une touche de compétition et de collaboration qui rend le jeu encore plus captivant.

En termes de jouabilité, SimCity BuildIt est très convivial. Les contrôles sont simples et intuitifs, ce qui facilite la construction et la gestion de la ville. De plus, le jeu offre une grande variété de défis et de missions à accomplir, ce qui évite la monotonie.

En conclusion, SimCity BuildIt est une application exceptionnelle pour tous les amateurs de jeux de construction et de gestion de ville. Son graphisme impressionnant, sa jouabilité intuitive et sa dimension sociale en font une expérience de jeu addictive et gratifiante. Je recommande vivement cette application à tous ceux qui rêvent de bâtir et de gérer leur propre ville virtuelle.
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Yluna
5.0 out of 5 stars Entretenido
Reviewed in Spain on April 16, 2023
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Es un juego muy entretenido
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Keith
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the BEST city building games out there!!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 10, 2018
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First of all, it's absolutely FREE!! For such a good game, with outstanding graphics, easy controls and informative tutorial, I would have expected it to cost at least £2. As there is only a short tutorial for each area, you can spend ages making your city how you like it. The pop-ups are useful, informative and aren't too intrusive. So far, I've had no glitches, even when offline. I've never lost progress or crashed, so I'm happy about that. In short, this is a great game, with good graphics, fantastic framerate and a good way to pass time. It's fun and addicting for all ages, but it takes time for your city to thrive. If I had to change anything, I think it should be easier to make simmillions, but apart from that, amazing game!!!! Would recommend!!!!!
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