SimCity BuildIt User Reviews

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Very Relaxing Game !!!

I love this Game, for MANY reasons... There's no pressure to purchase things, to be able to advance thru the levels, which is often a requirement, in other games. The graphics are amazing & the 3D perspective is perfect !! I like the Vehicles' tiny Head & Tail Lights & the Emergency Lights on the Police & Fire vehicles are SO realistic !! I've only just noticed, that the Police barricade off the roads sometimes & the Fire Engines actually put out the Fires !!! I can't find fault with the Game at all !!! But there is one strange thing that's happened recently... What happened to the Vans that used to drive into the Cargo Aeroplane !? They don't come out of their Hangar anymore !!! Despite that, I still love this Game tho' !!! Thanx for developing it, over the MANY years that it has been available. It was one of the first GREAT 'Sim' Games & is STILL one of the GREATS !!! 👍🏻 ❤️
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Enjoyable, even without paying for it

Pay up, and the game would be easy. You would get heaps of resources, buildings, and upgrades. You will progress through this game with some ease. You get a lot literally thrown at you by paying. Without your wallet, the game is a challenge. You get some stuff, but you have to pay for the rest. If you, like me, can’t pay to play, you will have to play to earn the rewards EA allows for you to get. You won’t get everything, unless you pay. If you can get over that, you can play the game and enjoy it, and grow your cities. I enjoy playing SimCity Buildit, but understand, EA wants you to pay. Dispite that, if you play the low road, you can progress, and you can build beautiful and plentiful cities. Its up to you. Enjoy.
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I am just a sucker

Giving it a four because I am addicted and don’t play any other online games to compare it to. But then perhaps it deserves more than a four because I haven’t wanted to play any other online games? There are a lot of features related to disasters and mayors clubs and design challenges that I don’t use or want to - I just want to peacefully build my growing city, make things and trade them. Would happily turn off the unpleasantness of dr whatshisname and his pets and disasters. Yes, disaster increase gdp, but they don’t increase happiness (well not in real life economics)
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Hooked in

Been playing this game for far too long, maybe a decade or so and it’s my guilty little pleasure. Something you can easily put down when life gets too chaotic and it’ll send you a sweet little reminder from the app and have you reeled in all over again.

The special events are awesome, the amount of different avenues you can take in the game now is crazy! Hats off to the developers because they’ve done a fantastic job. The black Friday 2024 event was my favourite so far, thanks for making it such a fun and inviting game and I can’t wait to play for many years to come 😇💃
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Enjoyable, even without paying for it

Pay up, and the game would be easy. You would get heaps of resources, buildings, and upgrades. You will progress through this game with some ease. You get a lot literally thrown at you by paying. Without your wallet, the game is a challenge. You get some stuff, but you have to pay for the rest. If you, like me, can’t pay to play, you will have to play to earn the rewards EA allows for you to get. You won’t get everything, unless you pay. If you can get over that, you can play the game and enjoy it, and grow your cities. I enjoy playing SimCity Buildit, but understand, EA wants you to pay. Dispite that, if you play the low road, you can progress, and you can build beautiful and plentiful cities. Its up to you. Enjoy.
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Great game but here are some things that can be worked on

I live this game! I've been playing it for many years now and I've enjoyed it so much. I can't find any other game like it and that's what makes it unique. However, there are still bugs with the game and some missing features that would make the game a whole lot more fun. For example, whenever there is a train track crossing and a train is coming, some of the pedestrians like to run out in front and get hit by the train. Also, some cars like to wait at the train track crossings after the gates have already gone back up. I've also seen some cars faze through each other. It would be cool if instead of them fazing through each other, they crash and cause traffic. Talking about traffic, I've also noticed that when some of the roads need upgrades, there never is actual traffic on those roads and the roads that actually have heavy traffic need no requirement to upgrade them. That has always confused me. Now some things that would be cool if the game developers added would be if you could be able to customize the terrain a little more like being able to add little hills and such. It would also be nice if there were also more different styles of buildings because some of my buildings look exactly the same just with different colors. Hopefully, you take my advice with care and use it to your advantage game developers. Love the game!
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Enjoyable, even without paying for it

Pay up, and the game would be easy. You would get heaps of resources, buildings, and upgrades. You will progress through this game with some ease. You get a lot literally thrown at you by paying. Without your wallet, the game is a challenge. You get some stuff, but you have to pay for the rest. If you, like me, can’t pay to play, you will have to play to earn the rewards EA allows for you to get. You won’t get everything, unless you pay. If you can get over that, you can play the game and enjoy it, and grow your cities. I enjoy playing SimCity Buildit, but understand, EA wants you to pay. Dispite that, if you play the low road, you can progress, and you can build beautiful and plentiful cities. Its up to you. Enjoy.
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Awesome game! But WAY too much items

Hello Devs! First of all, Sim City Buildit is in my opinion, the best city building game the App Store has to offer! I could write a book, in fact a whole series of books on what makes Sim City an incredible game! But the bad aspects, while there is only one, is more prominent than the good unfortunately. In recent months, old commercial shops have now showed up, but this time, they are staying. This has resulted in an insane amount of items to produce to simply upgrade just one house. The introduction of train items is another example of this. Their design is awesome don’t get me wrong, but it’s too much to upgrade houses, and for the first time in my 3 years of playing the game, I am struggling to keep going. Please Devs, if this isn’t those pesky lamas doing this, please stop or reduce the amount of new items. It’s just too much! Thanks guys! Also, these shops are way to expensive anyway. And another also, could you add a super tall skyscraper, it would be awesome! Cheers
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War booster

If you are in a bubble you can not attack the other team. Do you think that doing that with the booster. So if you are in a bubble you can not use booster on the other team. They did this on the war game we played. They freeze all of us in the last 10 minute of the war and then some of then come out of the bubble to win the game
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Dear developers

I do like SimCity but there are many times when the mayor challenges are ridiculously hard to achieve, which makes me leave the game for a awhile. I love the graphics. I feel the game is so geared towards ongoing purchases that it looses the core value of enticing people to play. I don’t mind sometimes buying the mayor challenge upgrade, but then get seriously disappointed, as i said before, at how hard it is to achieve some of the requirements. There are a lot of items etc that never have a use at all ? This game is good but it could be so much better if it gave back to its players more with mayor challenges being more achievable and the rewards being more substantial. Especially if we invest money, our time is already invested due to the complexity of the game … but if it continues to produce ridiculous challenges then I will leave, and so will quite a lot of people I play with. Hope this feedback is taken in, it is meant in a constructive manner. Thank you for your time in creating such a graphically pleasing game but please help make it more enjoyable to play xoxox
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