City Mania User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience46.0% of reviews
Neutral24.0% of reviews
Negative experience30.0% of reviews

~ Based on 50 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is City Mania Safe?

City Mania: Town Building Game appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for City Mania is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 13,121 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 13,119 App Store ratings for City Mania.

Is City Mania Legit?

City Mania: Town Building Game is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for City Mania is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

Annoying black screen ADs!

Very 5 minutes an ad would pop up, no biggie. Until you try to find the skip or exit button a counter, something. It’s a glitch and no matter where you tap it stays on the screen. So now I have to close the entire game, reopen it just to play another 5 minutes and see another blank/black screen. I’ve tried offline as-well, no use. I had high hopes and was looking forward to playing. Oh-well, I guess on to another developer who doesn’t have these glitches. Note: under their customer service website it lists known issues(most of which are significant), with no eta on fixes/solutions. Re-assure your client/customer base on fixes to come and offer a pay for AD-FREE services!
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Random items added to storage

I love this game. However, I have expanded my storage on the game and I have random items show up in my storage, items that I am not even on the level to create those specific items and the game doesn’t use the items until I am at the correct level where I can create those items and so it takes up 10+ of my storage slots so I cannot store the items I want to store. Additionally the sellers marketplace never works so I cannot even sell the items. I paid money for extra storage and it was pointless.
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The need for police/fire stations etc everywhere is annoying

I love this game, but the thing that has been really irking me is that I keep losing tenants because of the need for police stations / fire stations ETC. I’ve spend maybe almost $90 on the game today and I can’t stand the fact that it’s so hard to organize my city in a way that makes everyone happy. Please take into consideration to take that feature away. It’s super stressful LOL. Thank you
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Good. But needs more

I’m not giving this 5 stars because why hasn’t this game been addressed in 2 years? It’s a good game, but when the same events and all happen over and over, nothing new seems to be updated, eventually you get bored being there is nothing to look forward too. I loved this game.. but where is the creators and all to continue to monitor the game and continue to work on it?.
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Could be a great game - lots of issues though

I just started and so far I really like this game. Although, the server issues with watching Adds is very annoying. Hard to progress without them. As well as not being able to sell any items - I try and it keeps spinning and then won’t even let me X out of it. I have to completely get out of the game. Without being able to sell items my storage is filling up! Hopefully they’ll fix all of that.

Also, not being able to sell back a building isn’t very helpful. I ended up purchasing more firehouses than needed. The only option to get rid of it though is to delete it. Why can’t it be stored and/or the ability to sell it back at a discounted amount?
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Cannot even perform basic functions

I guess it makes sense the last update was over two years ago. There are an infinite amount of bugs in the game and it astonishes me that the game still maintains a 4.7 stars on the App Store. I have the newest iPhone with the most up to date iOS and still cannot perform basic functions of the game. I cannot even list items for sale on the market. Watching ads crashes the game. And micro transactions are false advertisements. I’ve paid for several things only to get nothing from the offer; or after paying only to find out it was a bait and switch and I got something completely different and I’d have screenshots to prove it. I truly enjoy playing this game so I wish it was updated to fix this bug riddled game that’s currently available. And fairly compensate those that have been negatively impacted by your bait and switch micro transactions.
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I love it but there needs to be another storage option and some tweaks

This game is great, it is fun and it keeps you busy while playing. However, I have a few major issues with it. The game has several options for you to watch an ad and get a reward, this feature is often not working. I am not sure why it hardly works but it is quite disappointing. The other major issue is the lack of a building storage or resale option. For example, if I previously bought a small water tower and now I have a large one that more than provides for my city, there is no way for me to store or sell the small one. The only option is to bulldoze it or leave it there. I don’t think this is fair based on the fact that coins are hard to come by and it takes a while for you to be able to buy things. I believe there should be an option to sell and/or store it until you need it again later. Please also consider that it takes up space in your city and if you currently don’t have use for it in the city, it’s a waste. Additionally, I believe that as you level up your rewards should as well, for example if at level 5 I am receiving a 50 coin gift for upgrading a building, at level 20 I should be getting more coins as a gift, maybe 200 coins as a gift or so, I just believe your growth should reflect in your gifts as well. Overall, I absolutely love this game and think that it could be perfect with a few tweaks.
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GREAT GAME BUT NEEDS IMPROVEMENTS!!

This is a fun game!! I play it on my phone a lot, but there are some cons about the game that I think can be improved.

PROS: Great concept and love how much you can do in the game! Love the trait mixing and all the BIZZIES we can collect! Love that extra buildings and characters are given for daily logins too.

CONS: We are given a Daily Crate to open, but when I hit the “Watch Video” button, nothing happens. It takes FOREVER to open a crate and sometimes I give up after clicking on the button hundreds of times without an ad coming up. Why not just give us a free crate to open without requiring to watch a video of it doesn’t even work.

Trait mixing: Let us know how long it will take to trait mix two characters before we start mixing. Maybe allow us to see what character will come from the mix before we start it to avoid duplicates, if that can be done.

Cost of adding a second Awakening Spot of 180 cash is a little steep.

Fusions: Allow us to be able to move buildings that are in the process of being fused. It’s frustrating too that it takes FOREVER to get fusion materials.

Maybe allow Service buildings to be fused, i.e, two small power plants to a medium one so we aren’t forced to spend more money on larger ones when they are locked at the beginning.

Hope to see some improvements!!
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Cute sounds and art, ads make it unplayable

If there was a choice to pay $2-3 and remove ads I would, but you can’t. I haven’t had a problem with the ads that you click to watch, but the ads that pop up every 5 minutes of play or so either crash the game or don’t have an x button to get out of them, so I have to close the game anyway. Just downloaded yesterday, but will be uninstalling because you have literally made it so it can’t be played longer than 5 minutes.
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Love it

One of the longest games that have kept my interest! I have one issue though and that is the large refinery….. I cannot select them to makes items nor move them to rearrange them…. It’s a little annoying being that you do have to spend so much coins on the buildings and cannot even select them. Can we fix this bug I’ll rewrite a review and give five stars!!! This game is perfect other then that issue
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The Return

When I was in 3rd grade, I found this awesome app. I LOVED it. It was the most funnest app I have ever experienced. And then COVID. Terrible! I don’t know how I forgot, but I forgot. And then earlier today, in science, (STATIS: I am in 5th grade now.) I guess I just had a little V I S I O N. I got home and I downloaded this. Well, I guess I’d better start playing it, as it has finished downloading. I have a lot to catch up on!

RECOMMEND THIS GAME SSSSSOOOOO M U C H!
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Ads every minute

I really like the graphic style and controls of this game so it seemed like it was going to be a great game, however, an ad pops up every min or two which you have to wait for the X to close to come up. As far as I can see there is no option to pay for an ad free game. I’ve been playing The Simpson’s Tapped Out for a few years and my town is about to reach EA’s city size limit so was looking for a city building replacement, this is not it 😒you can’t relax and build with so many pop ups.
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Issues loading

I would easily rate this game 5 stars but there seems to be so many issues with connections to the server and other loading times. I am playing on a brand new phone with perfect connection but about 50% of the time that I open the app it loads half way then freezes. In addition every time I try to watch an ad for time skips the ad pops up but will not play, stating that there was trouble connecting to the network.
Other than this, the game is great because it does not seem dull and repetitive like other city building games can get, there are so many different types of tools, materials and currencies that are used to upgrade your city. There are not long wait times or upgrade limits and so many different aspects of the game to interact with to make your city better and earn materials.

Unfortunately the last update was a year ago, so I am not too hopeful in seeing a change in these bug issues.
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Thank you so much

Thank you so much for making this game it’s better then all the games on the top free games it has no ads that I can see that just pop up on your screen it’s a good game I almost been playing for 5 years and I’m 8 you should be on the very top on the top free games when among us is lower then your game :From your most biggest player that has restarted so many times-Richard
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Love the app BUT...

I downloaded this game a few years ago and liked it but later deleted it and only recently reinstalled. I find myself playing the game daily and I love all the cool, unique aspects! It is truly a fantastic game! The only bone I can pick with the game is a bug where it won’t let me watch ads to lower time, spin the wheel, or collect extra money. I can tap on the watch ad button, but no ads will show. I VERY rarely get ads in-game, which I appreciate, but I do wish it would work when I actually want to watch one, haha! Beyond that small issue, I think the app is great and have been very happy with it! :)
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Game is fun but the ads....

The ads are a problem, either it’s transactions pushed for the game or a pop-up, but the most recent ad pop-up has prompted me to write this review.

It turned my whole game black except for the ad and the X to close it was unclickable and I had to close the game to get rid of the ad and actually okay 5r game. This is extremely annoying and I understand you need revenue for a free game thru ads but there has to be a better way to show ads that isn’t so sudden and disruptive to gameplay.
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Extremely Fun, Needs Improvement

I love this game. It is a super fun way to pass some time. It is creative and carefree. I also really like the music. However, the free videos don’t work for me. I would love to support this company by watching and ad now and then, which also (apparently) come with benefits, but they don’t work or load. For a free game it’s pretty cool though. I would love to see an update that helps the loading problems.
Edit: The videos worked for a short time, and now none of the videos work. It always tells me my WiFi connection is bad even when I have perfectly fine WiFi. Sometimes I’ll click the watch video button, it’ll “think” for a second and then just bring me back to the screen. Very frustrating.
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Payments and commercial doesn’t work!!!! And no support!!!!

In this Video Game the payment method of the play money doesn’t really work... there are 2 ways to pay in the money one are the coins the second is the green paper money... this money didn’t have any name... if you sell something and you decide to remove it cause you don’t want to sell it it cost you some green paper money oh i forgot there is the next problem you have to close the app so this process takes place at all! Well if you decide to remove it cost you one green paper money, so when this process is done you lost the thing that you decide not to sell and the money... that’s not so good!
The commercial that always comes it’s really annoying and if you want too see it because you want to earn some money it never works! And the best thing is the support of this game it’s really the best cause there is no support...
all in one this game should be generally overhauled!
and in my opinion Apple should take the game out of the AppStore
Really bad app (game)
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Ads make the game crash

After years of coming back to this game to build up my city I finally have realized I have to call it quits. It’s one thing to play a game with 5 second pop up ads that appear every couple minutes, but too many times the whole game would freeze and I can’t get out of the ad. It’s unfortunate because it is pretty addictive, and fun to create a city and there’s plenty of mini goals to achieve. Best of luck to the folks behind this app, maybe you guys can spend some time fixing it before you add any other features. Otherwise it would be a nice game.
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I really like it but

So I’ve almost fallen in complete love with the game, until I realized a few things in need of improvement: one, a majority of my friends playing are never able to access the “free videos” due to “low connection” even when we’re all at home with amazing connection from our own routers. All at different houses. Two? There is no such thing as a city layout editer. Be warned! You wont be able to really reorganize as necessary to get all residents into a formation with all the necessities. It’s very hard to move things around as you can’t take them off the map temporarily and relay out roads, then add buildings, etc, like every other game with a city in it. Even rise of kingdoms has one. I’m actually thinking of looking for a new city game just for that last reason, because I like to idk design my city, and I really can’t do much to fix my layouts without moving everything around like sliding jigsaw pieces. Frustrating. Other than this, yeah the game looks cool and is fun, even if it’s free to play. Just needs a few things fixed in updates.
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