# SUBURBIA City Building Game — user reviews > 162 indexed App Store user reviews of SUBURBIA City Building Game by Bezier Games, Inc., rated 3.20/5 from 23 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/suburbia-city-building-game/id681966300/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/suburbia-city-building-game/id681966300.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 8 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 6 ## What do users think of SUBURBIA City Building Game? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Great implementation of board game - 👍 Excellent single-player campaign - 👍 Convenient for playing on the go - 👍 Captures the feel of the board game - 👍 Handles calculations and scoring well - 👍 Visually appealing **Cons** - 🐛 Calculation errors when displaying tile impacts - 🐛 Tiles disappearing from the board - 🐛 Inability to find/center the board - 🐛 Buggy online/multiplayer experience - 🐛 Crashes and freezes - 👎 Unintuitive interface and controls - 👎 Lack of save/resume option in campaign - 👎 Small font size and text readability issues **Commonly reported bugs** - Calculation errors - Tiles disappearing - Inability to find/center the board - Crashes and freezes - Buggy online/multiplayer experience **Most requested features** - Add undo/replay functionality - Improve online/multiplayer experience - Provide more detailed scoring/stats information - Implement Suburbia Inc. expansion - Add support for iPhone/smaller devices - Improve tutorial and in-game instructions ## Newest reviews (14 of 162) ### 2/5 — Fix the calculations! *2026-01-28* This is a great implementation of a solid board game. However, the app is unplayable because of calculation errors when displaying impacts of a tile to income, population, etc. If this was corrected, the review would be 5 stars, but without it, it’s a 2. I realize this is an old app, but please fix this issue! ### 2/5 — Broken Game *2023-05-27* The game won’t reward you all the goals; essentially making the game pointless. The game is visually to big for an iPhone (everything is compacted into a small screen); would probably look good on an iPad. ### 3/5 — Can I finish please. *2022-11-06* 2 new games in a row I have not been able to finish. I saved a game and opened a tutorial to see things k wanted to know what were in the game and the tutorial became my game save. I think if this game got a patch that fixed the clunky glitches it would be a fun game. Hope it gets fixed. I was excited to get it. ### 3/5 — Bugs! *2022-01-17* The preview showing how the tile will affect stats are incorrect. For example, the airport which should only show -1 rep if adjacent to a suburb is showing -1 in every possible spot, despite only one space being adjacent. So disappointing since I love this game. **Developer response:** It's possible that it is showing -1 Reputation due to potentially crossing a red line on the Population track. The preview shows the total outcome of your entire turn. ### 2/5 — I want to like it but I can’t *2020-03-15* Any game like this that allows the user to move the play area off screen and not allow them to move it back (even a recentering button would be enough for this) is impossible to like. There are really basic bugs related to playing that desperately need addressing. Basic functionality. It’s as if the developers haven’t even played their own game. **Developer response:** Hello, if you click the Options gear in the top left corner, one of the options is "Recenter". If you have found a bug, we would be happy to address it. Please email us at bugs@beziergames.com so we can help resolve the issue. ### 3/5 — French please *2020-01-05* L'application est sympa. Le jeu n'est pas facile et il serait bien de le mettre en français pour aider à la compréhension. Merci ### 2/5 — Bugs *2019-12-10* Updated graphics are super cute but I just caught my newly purchased tiles not increasing my income (yellow warehouse +2 for every touching blue business & +5 for blue new car dealership + another +2 for touching yellow warehouse. 🙁. If purchases don’t increase my scores, it’s not so fun. **Developer response:** It sounds like there were a bunch of things happening at once to your score. We would love to walk you through any questionable calculations if you message us at bugs@beziergames.com. ### 3/5 — It’s okay but buggy *2019-11-21* Tile purchases are wrong. Allows you to buy tiles even if you don’t have enough money. If the printed price plus the market price equals more than your coins then you should not be able to buy the tile. ### 2/5 — Bon jeu, app pas terrible *2019-08-24* L app a besoin de quelques ameliorations: sauvegarde automatique pour commencer. Elle crashe et je perds ma partie：super frustrant. De plus l’application a des bugs. ### 2/5 — Fun game, poorly developed app. *2019-08-13* A friend of mine recently purchased the board game version of Suburbia. We were having trouble learning to play, so I downloaded the app. It was easy enough to learn, but nearly impossible to win, since the $ score doesn’t always add up properly. I would add a tile that would move my cash score from $2 to $8. It would change in the cash window, but not in the little bottom tally. The other player would take their turn, doing nothing that should affect my score, and when my turn comes around again, I’m still at $2. It happened two turns in a row (the second time was supposed to get me up to $14). Those who know the game will understand that this makes the game virtually unplayable. It doesn’t always happen, but it’s frustrating when it does. There are also dumb little glitches like the save function not letting you back into a saved game, and the app kicking you out of your current game at random times. I would leave the app to answer a text only to come back to the home screen where I have no choice but to start a new game. **Developer response:** Hello, could you send us details of these issues to bugs@beziergames.com so that we can look into them? ### 4/5 — Solid implementation of good game *2019-07-20, version 1.5* The app works well for me. I also enjoy the game play. My only complaint is that the AIs are not very strong opponents. ### 1/5 — You remove German language and i remove 5 stars. *2019-07-03* No unterstanding. ### 1/5 — Last update is bad *2019-06-30* The last update to version 1.5 is the start of the end of this game. It is really bad and removes useful features of the game! Multiplayer is removed. Saved games no longer work. German Language is removed. I don’t know why this decision was made, but now the game deserves only one star as rating. ### 2/5 — App does not honor settings *2019-02-23, version 1.2.5* Despite disabling sound, the app starts with sound. This is an automatic 2-star max for me, regardless of other app quality. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Another developer wannabe. *2024-10-24* Can’t even use the iPhone form factor correctly. Wastes 15% of screen. Font impossible to read. Your app is a ripoff. ### 1/5 — Does not even start *2024-05-22* This game does not even start, neither in my phone nor in my iPad… requesting a refund from Apple ### 1/5 — Does not even start *2024-05-20* This game does not even start, neither in my phone nor in my iPad… requesting a refund from Apple ### 1/5 — App Won’t Run *2024-05-18* Just installed this app and it will not run. Phone returns to the Home Screen when opening app or navigating to its screen within open apps. Tried restarting app, restarting phone, and removing and reinstalling. ### 1/5 — アプリが *2024-04-15* 起動せん ### 1/5 — App won’t open at all *2024-04-13* App won’t open at all. I own the board game version and I really enjoy it. I just wanted to play it on the go… well better luck next time. Tried to play on my Iphone 14 ### 1/5 — No multiplayer *2020-03-30* No multiplayer which is the whole reason the game is any good? ### 1/5 — New writing on tiles is way, way to small *2019-10-17* The new tiles are gorgeous, however, I own an iPad Pro and even on this large 10-inch screen I can’t read the incredibly small writing on the tiles. :/ I’m sure the printed tiles will be easier to read, but unfortunately, the online game is now dead to me. :( **Developer response:** You can freely toggle between the old and new art on the tiles by tapping on the image of the tile in the game setup screen. ### 1/5 — 4 stars have been removed *2019-09-05, version 1.5* Online multiplayer has been removed. ### 1/5 — Warum wurde die deutsche Übersetzung entfernt? *2019-08-03* Verstehe nicht warum die Übersetzung entfernt wurde. Ansonsten kein schlechtes Spiel ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I love it! *2024-03-04* I got this for $0.99, which really is a steal. This is a great game and an adaptation of a very good board game. The AIs are tough and there’s a learning curve to figure out how scoring and modifiers work, but once you do, this is quite fun. Games take about 20 minutes, and the computer handles all the tricky math for you, but I still do recommend learning how it calculates these anyways, or you’ll never get far. I play on ipad. It makes zooming in easier, and this is important to remind you which tiles use what modifiers, as the text can be small. Placing a surburb tile next to a lake tile is good. Placing suburb next to landfill is bad. But, landfill is great for an economy boost. Part of the fun is learning how to combine your tiles for best effect. The goal conditions can change from game to game, so you can’t just use the same layout designs again and again and expect to succeed! Some tips - early in the game, build up your economic base first, or you will stagnate. Keep reputation healthy; you get +1 population for each rep point per turn, but control your growth! If you allow population to grow too quickly, you won’t have the economy to support them and you will fall behind. I play vs one AI at a time, and a game lasts about 19 turns, so if you cripple your economy, you won’t have time to catch up in time. Anyway, if you like strategic economy games (check out Le Havre too), or you like simcity-like games, Surburbia is a winner! ### 5/5 — Works Perfect *2022-04-16* My app works perfectly! Maybe a recent update fixed the errors. But this game is fantastic, and the campaign mode really brings new challenges. Love it! ### 5/5 — Interesting, well executed, and without distractions. *2021-09-18* It may seem a bit expensive for an app, but you get everything for one price: no ads, no in app purchases, no in-game points to cripple you until they are earned, just a fine rendition of an interesting board game. Check out some of the YouTube reviews to see what you’re in for. Far too many free apps end up costing you more than the price here, which is the last you’ll pay for it: we all complain about ‘freemium’ but few try the alternatives. I’m not even very good at this game yet, but I am enjoying learning the strategies, and the app is not presenting any hurdles at all in this endeavour—it is clean, clear, concise, and colourful. Bravo to the game designer and the programmers. ### 5/5 — Enjoyable game *2019-11-30* I originally gave it 3 stars because I found the new graphics hard to read, but I found the option to revert to old graphics and all is well. ### 5/5 — Very fun *2019-07-02, version 1.5* Might not be visually flashy as the kids seem to like in today’s apps. But this really captures the table top game and adds quite a lot of aids so the player doesn’t have to try to precompute their numbers. ### 5/5 — Loving the night life *2019-07-02* Great new expansion Night Life, has really expanded the mental challenge of the game. Not sure the AI have caught up with it yet. I wonder if in the info tabs re number of airports, restaurants etc you could add number of crescents (night life) and number of dice (gamer con). Also if there could be a super speed AI option that would be superb too. ### 5/5 — Great game, plays fine *2019-02-20, version 1.2.5* Game runs great on my iPad using iOS 12.1.4 Excellent conversion of the board game. Convenient for playing on the go. Hours and hours of challenging fun!! ### 5/5 — Fantastic App (Updated Aug/2018) *2018-08-21, version 1.2.5* The bad reviews are all from older versions of this game - the updated version is perfect, and a 5-Star port of this wonderful board game! I love the multiplayer but also the solo challenges!! No bugs, full tutorial and great UI on iOS 11. Thank you to the design team! ### 5/5 — Muito bom *2018-02-17* Jogo muito bom, corrige alguns problemas do jogo de tabuleiro por ser mais claro quanto as interações de cada peça quando entra em jogo ### 5/5 — Perfection of iOS implementation *2017-10-18, version 1.2.5* Suburbia in iOS is the perfect adaption of physical board game while all those tricky calculation are all handled by the app. The AI is challenging and you can feel that you are sweating for the win. Maybe someone may prefer a better graphic/ BGM but this is not a problem to me. Highly recommended. --- *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 2026-08-24.*