# SimMayor — user reviews > 70 indexed App Store user reviews of SimMayor by InstCoffee Limited, rated 3.47/5 from 103 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/simmayor/id1523877459/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/simmayor/id1523877459.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 45 · 4★ 10 · 3★ 16 · 2★ 12 · 1★ 20 ## What do users think of SimMayor? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎮 Fun and addictive gameplay mechanics - 💡 Innovative city simulation concept - ⚡ Easy to pick up and play - 🎯 Good balance of features to manage - 👍 Responsive developer support - 🏗️ Multiple ways to generate income - 📱 Works well on mobile devices **Cons** - 📺 Excessive and intrusive advertisements - 💰 Difficult monetization model without ad removal option - 🐛 Frequent game crashes and data loss - ❌ Sandbox mode broken - can't purchase items - 😕 Unclear gameplay mechanics and tutorials - ⚙️ Poor UI/UX design with small buttons - 💸 Unrealistic economy and maintenance costs - 🎮 Unbalanced gameplay difficulty - 📊 Confusing statistics and resource tracking **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes every few seconds - Sandbox mode purchase functionality broken - Unlimited budget mode doesn't allow purchases - Building names display as null - Extend term feature breaks game progression - Public approval stuck at 0 with no recovery - Settings don't persist (manual time, elections, tutorial) - Text labels incorrect (shows 'corn' for all resources) - Game crashes when switching between owned buildings and farms - Data loss after viewing ads - Auto-time feature passes months randomly - Commercial buildings show negative income - Citizens riot despite 100% approval rating at high taxes **Most requested features** - Education buildings (schools, universities) - Transportation systems - Population growth through immigration and births/deaths - Town halls and law-making mechanics - Factory and employment centers for more jobs - Paid ad-free version or ad removal option - Term limits and election system improvements - Campaign and opponent election features - Better financial breakdown and expense tracking - Taller buildings and map locations - Inflation mechanics - Auto-save functionality improvements - Bulk purchase buttons (100x or 1000x build) - Realistic utility scaling - More detailed tutorial system ## Newest reviews (22 of 70) ### 3/5 — Good Game with some improvements *2024-11-01* include things like being able to hold town halls and write laws into affect. Also when playing in sandbox mode you can’t really buy things. ### 4/5 — The only thing missing in my opinion is education. *2023-08-02* It’s a great game overall. I hope they update it so there can be Education buildings added to it. ### 4/5 — Needs a little more *2023-06-25* Excellent game but it would be better if there were more things like education and transportation etc. **Developer response:** Thank you for your review! Let us know how you think education and transportation could work and i'll get it added to our suggestions list! ### 4/5 — Four Stars *2023-02-14* Ads a bit much but good game! Fun and enjoyable, had a perfect game! **Developer response:** Thanks for your review! As a free game, it's hard to find the right balance for ads which every player is happy with. Once we start to add some more content to the game, after we release Simplomacy (world leader simulator), we may look at adding an IAP to remove adverts. ### 3/5 — Not bad *2022-10-20, version 1.2.3* Over all the game is a decent playable game… Here are some suggestions: School- under jobs we count the uneducated, but we have NO WHERE to educate them. Allow people to make more money We need to add factories or employment centers which generate 1000+ jobs. It’s unrealistic to believe that I bought 30 males and still can’t employ over 50% of my city. Allow the city of grow on its own, add developers offering to build in the city. Add other way to make money outside of corruption and taxes. ### 3/5 — garbo *2022-09-28* just bring back instlife instead ### 2/5 — If there were no adds I would give a 4 or 3 *2022-07-12* Ok so this game is pretty good just everything is locked so you can’t you good stuff and I get to put a tiny bit of ads but every time there would be one and it’s annoying so I’m sorry but 2 stars 😔 **Developer response:** Thank you for your review - everything is unlockable, it just takes a little bit of time. We'll take note of your issue with the ads too and potentially create an in app purchase to remove them :) ### 4/5 — I hope something gets added *2022-05-21, version 1.2.3* I hope they add education such as Elementary school Junior high schools and High schools and Universities would be nice. ### 4/5 — What happened to Instlife? *2022-03-10, version 1.2.3* It was my favorite life simulator game now I’m stuck with BitLife 😢. ### 4/5 — Overall good game, but… *2022-02-12, version 1.2.3* I think the population should be reworked. People should be able to immigrate and leave, and people will come not based on housing, but instead on attractiveness, which can be increased by parks and landmarks. Also, people should be able to die and get born, and the population growth increases with more people. But, overall a great game, also cut down on the ads. Maybe half the amount of ads? ### 2/5 — Need help *2022-01-28, version 1.2.3* The maintenance cost are killing me starting big or trying slow either way I can’t profit ever ### 3/5 — Doesn’t work *2021-12-31, version 1.2.3* I can’t buy any building and I have enough money ### 4/5 — Amazing Game, But easy *2021-11-07* I love this game soo much but it’s soo easy to get money, 100% tax rate causes riots but there allways really cheap to fix so I can just make tones of money that way. Please fix this somehow **Developer response:** Thanks for your review! We've taken note of your issue with being able to make money too easily :) ### 4/5 — Number of things you can buy at a time *2021-10-06, version 1.2.3* It needs to be more than 25 I have to spend an hour just to get the amount of buildings I need. There should be a 100x build button or even 1000x ### 4/5 — Fun but *2021-06-10* It’s a fun game but sandbox mode doesn’t let you buy anything! Please fix this ### 2/5 — Seems like Sandbox doesn’t function right *2021-05-27, version 1.2.1* I will gladly update review if it turns out I’m dumb, but when I enter sandbox mode I cannot make any purchases ### 3/5 — Good but adverts non-stop? *2021-05-27* How do we get rid of the constant adverts? Jesus christ? **Developer response:** Unfortunately Jesus Christ can't get rid of the adverts but we may release an in app purchase to remove them ### 4/5 — Some Mistakes *2021-05-15* Fun game and becoming profitable isn’t a problem and can be done in many ways, a good amount of things to balance. My only problem is that sometimes the text says something it shouldn’t. For example, when I tap on a resource I’m producing to check the value of it, the text at the top always says ‘corn’ (Corn is the first resource I started to produce). Not sure if the bug will go away after restarting my device but overall nothing that affects the game is wrong. Also some things appear to be unbalanced, of everything I’m producing rice is a lot better than everything else and my eggs struggle to get past $1 in value. **Developer response:** Thank you for your review. ### 4/5 — Great game! All for one thing *2021-05-08* I love this game it’s great! Except for one thing the ads, I went looking to see if there was a purchase I could make to remove the ads but nope! Would love to be able to support you guys and get rid of those pesky ads! ### 4/5 — Good game too many ads *2021-05-03* I find I’m watching an ad every 5 minutes, I wish there was a paid upgraded version because I do really like the game just the overload on ads gets annoying ### 3/5 — Quite a few bugs *2021-04-24, version 1.2.1* This is more for the developer than consumers but this is what Ive found in about 2 hours of play. I like the idea of this game and hope to offer several constructive criticisms. 1. Building names being set to null when bought 2. Extend term sometimes breaks game and there is no new election or monthly reports. Just endlessly clicking the “next month” button 3. (Not a bug) Buy buttons can sometimes be frustrating as they’re so small 4. I’ve found several times once public approval goes to 0 there is no way to get it back up (potential calculation error with 0?) 5. Tax rates and public approval. I set my tax rate incrementally higher up to 100% and public approval did not drop, but the citizens rioted at 100% taxes with a 100% approval rate. ### 3/5 — Good Fun Game but could be better. *2021-04-21, version 1.2.1* The ads run ridiculously frequent. If you enable the auto-time feature each month passes at random. Days pass randomly. Game mentions it takes 30 seconds for 1 day to pass and 15 minutes for a month to pass. I’ve had months pass back to back within 30 seconds after each of which I had to watch at least one 5-10 second ad. Fun concept but the ads are a bit out of control and the time feature must be fixed. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Hi! *2024-05-29* This game keeps crashing every second don’t play it resets where you left off! ### 1/5 — Pretty mid *2022-06-16, version 1.2.3* This app isn’t that fun if only instcoffee didn’t sell out ### 1/5 — This game. *2022-03-20, version 1.2.3* The game was very basic to a normal simulation game. The biggest problem I had was when I need to gain money to boost my likes and create my city but due to the game their were so many riots and the game was locked for bigger police force. Don’t put out a game that isn’t helpful and doesn’t allow room for you to grow within the game. Horrible. ### 1/5 — F *2021-05-31* Big f dev Ads every 30 seconds like come on u are that hungry for money whatever this game is a joke bitlife is way better than this ad riding game a big joke ur game sucks ### 1/5 — bad *2021-05-29, version 1.2.1* stupid ### 1/5 — Unlimited budget doesn’t work *2021-05-09, version 1.2.1* Can’t buy any building at all when you select unlimited budget. ### 1/5 — Fun, but bad programming and too many ads *2021-04-09, version 1.2.1* Chill with the ads. I was really having fun but the game decided to not respect my later saves and today I have 1000% more ads (I was able to play without any/only optional). Also, learn to manage states and maybe actually utilize iPhone’s background abilities/memory? No reason at all for a game in 2021, of this simplicity , to not be able to run in the background and to retain its state and other data. Good luck! This game is really fun otherwise and had me hooked for 2 hours last night. ### 1/5 — Boring *2021-04-09, version 1.2.1* Nothing really ever happens and it’s confusing to work! Had high hopes, but was very disappointed! ### 1/5 — Settings don’t work *2021-03-27, version 1.2.1* Tried to play this game, restarted it eight times. Settings just flat out never matter. I turn on manual time, and yet days and months still automatically pass. I turn on tutorial, and there’s silence. I turn on elections, I remain godking of my town. ### 1/5 — Forced to give one star *2021-02-26* What an absolutely useless game...loaded it...did the tutorial that was pretty dumb, then can’t seem to be able to do anything but go from settings to menu.... nothing happening and to write this review I am forced to give one star...I don’t even rate it one star! **Developer response:** Hey! This is the first time we've heard of someone struggling to navigate the menu. From the main menu screen, you can either press 'Return to Game' at the top or 'New Game'. If these options don't show, if you could send us a screenshot that would be great. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great game *2022-07-14, version 1.2.3* Im having so much fun with this game but you said the next update will have ores but that was a year ago so i would be hoping to see that soon-kalob ### 5/5 — Some things that would boost the experience *2021-04-25, version 1.2.1* Maybe a term limits option? Something where you can set having term limits to see how many points or money you can make in that time to compare scores to other people. Or just have it at no limits. My proposed term limit range is 1-5 terms. Also, maybe there could be an event option called “campaign” and you could do it every few days to make an election year more interesting. Enactment date would be cool. Maybe after an election you lose, you have a certain amount of time before the game ends to finish stuff up and maybe still extend your term by a month after. If there was an opponent for elections. An opponent that posts on social media, and even has their own approval rating to have more fun during elections. **Developer response:** Hey! We plan on adding customisable term length to the start game options 😃 ### 5/5 — This game should be number 1 on App Store *2021-04-08, version 1.2.1* Really good game,hoping for more updates ### 5/5 — More Suggestions: *2021-03-17, version 1.2.0* One: make laws, Two: add taller buildings, Three; make a map like locations, Four: make your own mods, five: use mods, six: maybe add capital cities, seven: last one (Inflation!) **Developer response:** Thanks for the suggestions! I've added them to the list! 📝 ### 5/5 — Incredible *2021-03-01* I don’t know how so little people have installed this, it should be on the app front pages! This is by far one of the best mayor simulations I have ever played. Keep up the good work InstCoffee, you are doing a great job! 😁 **Developer response:** Thanks for the kind review! Let us know what features you would like to be added and be sure to spread the word about SimMayor! ### 5/5 — Great game. *2021-02-24, version 1.1.1* It is possibly one of the best ideas for a type of game. I would suggest only to make it more accessibly organised. For example, it doesn’t have to show every house or business one by one, when you can integrate it by showing a total number of them etc. And also create a more realistic way of dealing with the energy needed numbers, or emergency workers numbers, a lot of money is gone by trying to fulfill those needs. **Developer response:** Hey! Thanks for your review and your suggestions. Funnily enough, in the next update we've made a change to emergency services so they're now built on residential numbers rather than anything else which should make things a lot more straight forward! 😊 ### 5/5 — Amazing game *2021-02-24* It’s amazing better than BitLife this is just so good I love it probably the best game on my phone and I have a few **Developer response:** Thanks for the kind words! ### 5/5 — Great game *2021-02-17* Lots of fun. Easy to pass a lot of time whilst playing. **Developer response:** Thank you for the review! Let us know any features you would like to see added 😊 ### 5/5 — Love this game but please consider adding this to the game *2021-02-16, version 1.0.1* With me being a huge fan of this game I think there should be some improvements ... once the city gets to a certain population. I feel the population should grow on its own. This could be due to immigration. And numerous of more reasons ... And the population shouldn't grow based off the housing you buy. It should be more things to add attraction to the city to pull more people into the city and etc. Then with that we can add deaths of citizens then possibly births of new citizens and more so. This is just an idea that I think would be a great addition for the game .. I think the population could also decrease if your are mayor for ever without re election and and acceptance rate goes down the people as the population should have a choice to leave or not . just another idea that I think that would fit perfectly with this game.. more real life corruption and overall better public relations and events.. such as corrupt politician events and etc. Love the game. Huge fan of all of the games keep it thanks for taking the time to read. ### 5/5 — So much potential! *2021-02-13, version 1.0.1* I love this game. The idea is amazing and not anything I’ve see before. Of course it needs more. It is very confusing in some aspects like; learning how to make money, how to read the stats of your city. Keep working hard on this game and it could be bigger then Bitlife **Developer response:** Hey, thanks for the review! Let us know any suggestions you have over on our social media platforms and we'll be sure to get them added to the suggestions list! 😃 Twitter: @SimMayorGame Reddit: /r/Simmayor --- *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 2026-06-10.*