# SimCity BuildIt — user reviews > 10,141 indexed App Store user reviews of SimCity BuildIt by Electronic Arts, rated 4.10/5 from 84,862 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/simcity-buildit/id913292932/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/simcity-buildit/id913292932.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 53,108 · 4★ 12,228 · 3★ 5,904 · 2★ 3,691 · 1★ 9,931 ## What do users think of SimCity BuildIt? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🌟 Great game - 🌇 Beautiful graphics - 🕹️ Enjoyable gameplay - 🤝 Supportive club community - 🕰️ Relaxing and not too demanding **Cons** - 💰 Expensive in-app purchases - 🕰️ Slow progression without paying - 🔍 Difficult to find needed items - 🤖 Aggressive monetization tactics - 🤯 Frustrating club war mechanics **Commonly reported bugs** - Cars phasing through trains - Inconsistent traffic patterns - Disappearing delivery trucks - Frequent crashes and connection issues **Most requested features** - Add city layout editor - Allow raising/lowering train tracks - Improve free-to-play experience - Introduce search function for trade depot - Add option to disable construction bubbles ## Newest reviews (14 of 10,141) ### 4/5 — Entertaining games but… *2026-08-27, version 1.81.1* This games will keep you entertained, but will encourage you to spend money, as the progress without paying is very limited. ### 2/5 — Luna Vista *2026-08-27, version 1.81.1* The game routinely freezes up! Constantly Forced to shut off and reboot! Try to report the issue and I get dropped in seconds from the “help” section?! That’s help? I believe I’m being punished for not paying to play! Frustrating they’d treat players this way! ### 4/5 — Department of Epic Projects *2026-08-27, version 1.81.1* I was away from SimCity Buildit for quite some time and now my Epics. project building is missing. Inventory shows 1/1 so I did have it the last time I played. ### 3/5 — Expensive *2026-08-27, version 1.81.1* In app purchases are expensive ### 3/5 — 3 regions of FUN *2026-08-27, version 1.81.1* 9 years into it ‼️ ### 3/5 — Why do all games have to be pay as you go?? *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* Title says it all. ### 4/5 — Totally Addictive *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* I left this game for 6 years, and came back to love it. ### 4/5 — Runs better after reinstalling *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* I had to remove the game and reinstall it to get it to stop freezing. ### 2/5 — Slow , Ads getting longer and keep failing, iPad starts heating up when I play this *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* Too many and too long ad clips ### 3/5 — Golden tokens *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* Golden tokens are given as rewards way too often for the limited functionality they have in the game ### 3/5 — Terrain manquant jeux qui fige souvent un bogue chaque jour besoins vraiment de mise à jour *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* Manque de terrains à construire ### 5/5 — 挺好的 *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* 挺好的适合上班玩，杀时间 ### 5/5 — Love *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* Love ### 3/5 — Great Potential *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* I’ve been playing this game from almost it’s debut. It’s gone from enjoyable to frustrating. They make changes without much explanation that are clearly more profit driven than game enjoyment. These changes are geared more for new players than longtime players. Finally, cheaters are rampant through out the game adding to the frustrating experience. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Ruined game by changing it. *2026-08-27, version 1.81.1* Was a great past time. Spent money here. Now, what once were 5 great cities, are now all dead. I pay to upgrade, only to find it isn’t enough now and I need to destroy population, to make room for more services. This game now sucks rocks. All my semolians are gone. And my cities are still destroyed. Whoever did the SERVICE UPGRADE, FIND THEM! FIRE THEM! Game still lags, but can play on my iPad now. Took long enough! Think people…. If you can’t play…. You can’t pay! ### 1/5 — Pay pay pay and pay again and wait one year *2026-08-27, version 1.81.1* Unplayable unless you want to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for 15 years without any real progress. Every aspect of the game is designed to harm you as much as possible. You can have to wait 7 hours to get a single item that allows you to have 1% of the other item that allows you to have 1 of the 15 items necessary for a single upgrade. Endless, nothing to do with the real Sim Cities. Furthermore, the algorithm is designed to block all the purchases you need. If you need an item, you can be sure it will disappear from the store. The items you need are the ones you don't have.DON’T DOWNLOAD this scam!! The patch 2.0 kill this game more again. And now they cut by 2/3 the income of my city. Now they're stealing our money through their advertising; that's called fraud. Another patch another scrap. Freeze crash freeze and crash again. Oh and disconnect after 1 minute. It not a game it’s a money grabber. ### 1/5 — Awful updates *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* Insane lag, for changes to the game that everyone hates ### 1/5 — Ruined *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* Doesn’t work with up to date iPad. Developers don’t care. ### 1/5 — Performance *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* My mobile(IPhone 16 Pro Max) is hanging or heating up while playing game. Feels like game is outdated when compared to similar games. ### 1/5 — Always selling something *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* The pay to play is over the top ridiculous. So are all the gambling ads as well ### 1/5 — Sim game *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* The game is mundane and the train system is pricy and unfair not going to put much effort into it all in all not going to play it much anymore The data is making the game aggravating ### 1/5 — Full of cheaters and scams *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* The game is complete junk. Global market is absolutely worthless, nothing but the same cities and same products. Half the time you don’t get credit for completing tasks. Then when you actually want to spend money it errors out and you can’t buy the items you want to. So you can’t even buy items you need, ridiculous. Same rewards for attacking cities. However, no matter what players say or who you say it to at customer support, it’s ALWAYS the players fault never the games. They claim the game never makes any mistakes. LAUGHABLE!! They charge ridiculous prices to buy stuff now. It’s so sad, I have played this game since it came out and it has increasingly just gotten worse. And now it’s to the point where I’m considering deleting the game, it’s not worth the hassle anymore. ### 1/5 — Nothing but an EA money grab *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* Version 2.0 ruined the game. Now having 125 assignments in COM makes it even worse. Don’t know why I still play. ### 1/5 — No longer fun. They keep changing the rules :( *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* Might stop. They’ve changed everything. Can’t figure it out. No longer fun. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — أ *2026-08-27, version 1.81.1* أ ### 5/5 — best game in 2026 *2026-08-27, version 1.81.1* make the game better. ### 5/5 — Need more land and things *2026-08-27, version 1.81.1* I love this game, played it since it became mobile and lots before. We need more land on the existing lands. We need more items, especially with the trains, love’m. Maybe a subway. Other than that, the game is great!!! Thank you. ### 5/5 — Awesome game *2026-08-27, version 1.81.1* Picks up right where 1998 left off ### 5/5 — This is my favorite game of all time *2026-08-27, version 1.81.1* Please, I’m begging you: never, ever get rid of this game. I spend hours every day playing it. I love it. I love my city. I love this game! ### 5/5 — Mr.Brian *2026-08-27, version 1.81.1* Love the game, used to play it on the computer but much better on my iPad, I can take it anywhere. Great new updates, keep it up guys. ### 5/5 — Rating *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* Good slow burn ### 5/5 — Regular player *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* Overall pretty fun to play- however I would suggest changing the algorithm to reflect a better selection or variety of items for sale in the depot ### 5/5 — Lots of fun. A real challenge. *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* Been playing for years. Very I enjoyable way to pass time. I enjoy the new features they often add. ### 5/5 — Creative fun *2026-08-26, version 1.81.1* Great graphics --- *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 2026-08-30.*