# Designer City — user reviews > 510 indexed App Store user reviews of Designer City by Sphere Game Studios Ltd, rated 4.90/5 from 8,034 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/designer-city/id1021092114/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/designer-city/id1021092114.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 7,356 · 4★ 440 · 3★ 81 · 2★ 39 · 1★ 118 ## What do users think of Designer City? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Relaxing and easy to play - 👍 Lots of customization options - 🚀 Constant income generation - 👍 No pressure to spend money - 👍 Offline playability - 👍 Detailed and realistic buildings - 👍 Ability to reset and start over **Cons** - 🐛 Glitches and crashes after updates - 🔒 Lack of ability to move or delete buildings - 💰 High costs for land expansion and special buildings - 💰 Slow diamond/gold accumulation without spending - 🔒 Unrealistic scaling of buildings and objects **Commonly reported bugs** - Incorrect employment and population statistics - Disappearing buildings and objects after updates - Freezing and crashing when accessing certain menus **Most requested features** - More road types (highways, freeways, dirt roads) - Ability to customize street names and districts - Improved traffic management and congestion control - More skyscraper and modern building options - Ability to have multiple saved cities - Improved camera controls and zooming - Seasonal/event-based content updates ## Newest reviews (18 of 510) ### 4/5 — Add Utility poles *2026-08-04, version v2.05* It would be a great addition to add utility poles in the game to transfer electricity to homes near the roads ### 4/5 — Fun but……… *2026-08-01, version v2.05* Its fut but a little expensive ### 4/5 — Very good plz add: *2026-07-27, version v2.05* It’s a very good game but I think it needs this: 1. Cars can park in parking lots and the side of the road. I think they should cuz in real life nothing in city’s are just visual(except parks). 2. Planes should turn. So basically, in real life, they have to land, get into the hangar, then when it’s ready, get everything in, liftoff, and then travel. But they should be a feature where when a plane gets in a straight line from the hangar, it can be chosen which direction, it plops in and disappears. And also, they have a landing area and they have to TURN to get in the hangar. So make those pieces not useless. And program the AI to go in the direction the line of which they enter the hangar is. The lines length is also optional. Add a button. Just one. Or put it IN information button. 3.Also, it would be cool if you could make a country also. WAIT. Before you. Click off. It’s good. Listen.👂 So basically you could own multiple cities(LOL I wrote city’s then realised that’s not a word)and then like in canva, you could put it in a country(like a folder in canva) and maybe even make a map. The map of the world. Every time someone joins the game just make the world bigger. And make an AI Change the world. It won’t look like earth. But it will look similar. Everything the same except the geography. Then click on a place on the world then enter exactly where you Clicked. 4. You know how when you hold two fingers it zooms and one it moves. Well, three fingers, basically you hold three fingers and rotate your camera. 5. The last one, you can go in person mode. I bet if you read this comment then you will be like, oh yeah, that’s smart. EXACTLY. And you press a button, press where you want to be, and boom, you’re a person. PLZ add these maybe not all but at least one. If you are dev:plz reply and say you did it. AND if you are a gamer, go and see if they replied. Dev you should reply because then when you say you did it the gamers will be like:I’m playing this. So yeah.more downloads. (: bye 🙂 ### 4/5 — Bug *2026-07-07, version v2.04a* Tout allait très bien avant la nouvelle version. Depuis, le jeu se ferme et gel. Svp corrigez. ### 5/5 — Pleeeeease *2026-07-01, version v2.04a* I LOVE this game it is so fun but I just have a suggestion that you could add by when you delete a building you get the money/gold/diamonds back ### 5/5 — Not bad *2026-06-29, version v2.04a* I like it could have a few more commercials and park buildings same with farming but it ain’t bad hope the team behind this game series is doing well ### 5/5 — ADD MORE LAND TO UNLOCK *2026-06-24, version v2.04a* Amazing game! 6/5 stars! But we need more land to be able to unlock!!!!! ### 4/5 — Something to add *2026-06-18, version v2.04a* I think 4 lane roads and 6 lane highways/interstates would make a GREAT addition to this already great game👍 ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2026-06-09, version v2.04a* This game is honestly so good it’s been my favourite mobile game for 3 years now There is just one thing that would be really cool to have and that is different regions or communities that we can place, similar to in dc 4. You would be able to see the happiness, ecology, residents, employment etc. if this came to the game it would go from a 10 to a 11 ### 5/5 — 無課金でも面白い *2026-05-31* ゴールドもダイヤも100貯まるまではコツコツと地道に街づくり　 アップデートで漁港とか温泉旅館とか増えさせたりできませんかね　あと、艦船も航空機みたいにMAP外に出たり入ったりさせてほしい　もしくは、港から港に移動するとか　あと、動画の視聴回数がわかるようにしてくれたら嬉しいです ### 5/5 — It's too much of a god game! *2026-05-31* It's too much of a god game! In the next update, I want you to add more buildings in Marunouchi and Otemachi in Tokyo! I would also like to add the Huarun General Building in Shenzhen. Please! I would like to add large station buildings such as Tokyo and Osaka in Japan! ### 5/5 — Игра *2026-05-30* Шик и точка ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-05-23, version v2.04a* This game is amazing nothing is really bad hope you make a designer city 5 soon ### 5/5 — If you wanna make a city, this is the app that you can make Towers and building *2026-05-22, version v2.04a* The gamer released back in summer in 2015 ### 5/5 — The good game *2026-05-22, version v2.04a* Very cool,creative and fun. ### 5/5 — Great game *2026-05-20, version v2.04* So addictive and really fun once your city starts to generate income could do with billboards on the sides of buildings or just by themselves would make the game more immersive ### 5/5 — Fun *2026-05-19, version v2.04* This game is so good but how do I do drove mode?! ### 5/5 — The best *2026-05-18, version v2.04* I love creating made-up city’s and finding out how other peoples experiences in city’s are. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Good but.. *2026-08-25, version v2.05* Why does it heat my tablet up so bad ? I mean my iPad gets so hot I can barely Hold on to it and I sweat like Im working out Please fix this heat problem and I’ll change my 1 to 5 stars thank you. ### 1/5 — Stole *2026-06-08, version v2.04a* I paid money to have all of the buildings get back on the game and it’s back locked and my money is gone ### 1/5 — Doesn’t Deliver *2025-12-31, version v2.01* Game offers rewards if you watch commercials, very long, multi-segment commercials… After sitting through the commercial you rarely get the promised reward. They just outright lie and collect advertising money. ### 1/5 — Annoying *2025-12-22, version v2.01* I would place a building Down right next to water and it would still say it has no water super annoying ### 1/5 — No Customer Service *2025-07-10, version v1.99* I was actually really enjoying the game, and actually spending money on it. Unfortunately I came up with a technical issue, and I tried to use their support option to get it resolved. On iOS however you’re not able to submit a ticket because the keyboard covers the game key to submit. Just seems like careless design- but I’m leaving this review in the hopes my game and purchases can be salvaged, and someone will reply. ### 1/5 — Bloated UI *2025-03-29, version v1.97b* It’s clunky, cluttered and unenjoyable to start. After 5 minutes I was done. Not fun. ### 1/5 — Always shutting down *2024-12-01, version v1.95* Game will play for 10 minutes then freezes up and shuts down on IPad. ### 1/5 — Always loved the game- ads promote killing endangered species *2024-11-22, version v1.95* I have loved Sim City for decades. While this version is lacking, I still enjoyed playing. Today there was a free ad to boost production so I watched it. People were shooting polar bears, multiple times, with a bloody ground. They need to rethink carnage on endangered species. ### 1/5 — Bigger map *2024-11-05, version v1.95* Sure would be nice if the map was bigger so the city i design could be bigger ### 1/5 — Paid for $22.99 for premium buildings which didn’t unlock *2024-10-26, version v1.94* Paid for $22.99 for premium buildings upgrade and none were unlocked. Really poor software. Disappointing for quite a pricey upgrade. Needs to be fixed and need to be refunded for the update that was not supplied. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Just a thought *2026-08-23, version v2.05* I really like this game you can be creative as well, I wish you could zoom in closer. I would like to see the tiny city better. I would like more options mountains, lakes, ponds woods would be awesome more entertainment options would be cool. It’s a awesome little game no ads either ### 5/5 — Highways Plz *2026-08-22, version v2.05* Please add highway and interstate features to this version😀 ### 5/5 — So so addictive… in a good way *2026-08-12, version v2.05* I loose track of time (I’m retired;0) and pick up where I left off at when I remembered to charge my iPad. This is the best capitalist game ever,ha! In the beginning I was looking for the Sim City flavor and I stumbled over this game. I liked the look and the price (free). The challenges hit you right away with the options of purchasing minerals to feed the urge to grow your city and take care of your citizens. Now back in the day the buying buttons were strategically placed so you would hit it every now and then for a ad, once the ad was finished you would receive some gold (was a little frustrating, but not enough to make me stop playing this great game). Love the transportation system (planes, trains, and automobiles). I’d like those even better if the landing strips had numbers. I’d like the monorails if they were one way, and I’d absolutely love it if the military aircraft had different types; cargo, warthogs, and of course an Air Force One would be awesome! Lastly I have invested a lot of time in this awesome game I too wish there was a way to add “New landmass”, now I’d pay for that! ### 5/5 — Fun *2026-08-05, version v2.05* It’s a fun game but I would like a dirt road can you please add one ### 5/5 — Feedback *2026-07-22* Jogo Designer City a anos … creio que mais de 5 anos e recomendo muitooo e não como o jogo sempre vem evoluindo com novos edifícios ou algo a melhorar amoo muito esse jogo está no meu top 1 …super recomendo o jogo e amo as atualizações porém ainda falta a desejar edifícios brasileiros … não sei se os criadores são brasileiros mas deixam muito a desejar apenas nesse quesito uma vez que o tempero do jogo é construir edifícios famosos ### 5/5 — Most recommended building game *2026-07-21, version v2.04a* When I first started playing this game I didn’t really get it, but once you understand how the system works, you start to have fun. It’s really simple and easy. I recommend playing it for starters. ### 5/5 — Omg *2026-07-19, version v2.04a* TS IS SSOSOOSSOSO GOODDDD I LOVE IT SO MUCH IT IS SO FUN AND BOOSTS YOUR CREATIVITY ### 5/5 — Designer City: Overview *2026-07-15, version v2.04a* In terms of engagement, quality, and entertainment, there’s not a city-building game out there to compare with Designer City. Sim City would obviously be the popularity rival, but being an older game than Designer City, the graphics and city statistics just aren’t at this level. I’ve built a city six Sphere Game Studios city-building games, and I’d recommend every one. My city is titled “Horizons Edge” in this game if you’d like to check it out. Happy designing! ### 5/5 — This game is my favourite *2026-07-10, version v2.04a* I give my 5 stars because this game has everything ps is so good ### 5/5 — Great city building game *2026-07-05, version v2.04a* So far, this game is a pleasure to play! If you like city building, give it a go and you will not be disappointed:) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-10.*