SimpleCities vs CHAIR

Build a city. Keep it running. SimpleCities brings classic city simulation to iPhone with a native, touch-first interface. Start with open land, build roads and power, zone new neighborhoods, balance the budget, and watch your city grow one decision at a time. Every city develops differently. Residents need homes, businesses need customers, industry needs workers, and everything depends on power and transportation. As the population grows, you will face traffic, pollution, crime, fires, blackouts, and increasing demand for public services. Features: • Build residential, commercial, and industrial districts • Draw roads, rails, and power lines directly with your finger • Manage taxes and funding for roads, police, and fire protection • Track traffic, pollution, crime, land value, growth, and city services • Respond to fires, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, monsters, and other disasters • Play eight classic city emergency scenarios • Inspect your city with detailed data maps and reports • Pause or adjust the simulation speed at any time • Save multiple versions of your city and restore earlier progress • Import and export compatible classic city files • Choose from several visual themes, including the original classic style • Learn the game with a complete Field Guide for new mayors SimpleCities is easy to start and difficult to master. A healthy city needs more than roads and buildings. It needs planning, patience, and a mayor who can survive the annual budget.

Play as Fed Chair. Shape the economy. CHAIR puts you in charge of the Federal Reserve for a four-year term. Set interest rates, deploy quantitative easing, and navigate six unique economic crises, each built on real monetary economics. Every decision ripples through the economy. Raise rates to fight inflation, and unemployment climbs. Cut too fast, and credibility crumbles. The market watches your every move. REAL ECONOMICS, REAL TRADEOFFS - Transmission chain: rates → growth → unemployment → inflation - Self-fulfilling inflation expectations anchored to your credibility - Four stakeholder factions with competing demands - Equity markets that react to your policy decisions - 147 unique events with condition-gated late-game content SIX SCENARIOS - AI Disruption: Hold steady under pressure to act - The Housing Trap: Your main tool makes housing worse - Tariff Shock: Don't tighten into a supply shock - Geopolitical Fracture: Multiple shocks hit simultaneously - The Debt Reckoning: Rate hikes widen the deficit - Fiscal Dominance: Fiscal offset overwhelms your tools Built by an economics nerd, for everyone. The real tradeoffs are dramatic enough, no need to invent fake ones. Can you earn reappointment?