SimpleCities vs Island Colony

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.

ISLAND COLONY is an economic strategy game about keeping a colony of exiles alive on a distant, cold island. A remake of a 2003 classic: the same rules, the same buildings, the same character — with a modern interface for iPhone, iPad and Mac. March 1, 1890. You have 28 exiles, a little money, one City and an island you must hold for as long as you can. Every March 1 — taxes. Every 10 years on November 1 — the Main Tax, and it doubles every time. Fail to pay, and the colony is finished. WHAT YOU DO • Build farms, apiaries, sawmills, mines, gold mines, power plants — 33 buildings, each with its own service life, working season and running costs. • Feed your people: everyone needs food and water every day. Without water the next day does not come; without food people stop working and leave. • Trade on the market, but remember: buying costs more than selling. Only your own production pays — build supply chains. • Borrow and save for taxes: the key rate moves through debt cycles, and both loans and deposits follow it. • Repair: buildings decay every day, faster in winter. • Prepare for the governor's decrees: every five years a new rule — taxes, prices, credit or people. Decrees are announced a year ahead. WHAT MAKES IT TICK • A real calendar: seasons, leap years, winters when the farms stand idle. • Almost 40 random events: fires, floods, gold strikes, missing workers. • Exiles arrive every summer, people are born and die, and everyone needs a home. • One island and one goal: find out how far into the future you can survive. Every game is a search for the best sequence of moves. WHO IT IS FOR Players who like to count. No combat, no timers — just the economy, the calendar and your decisions. A game takes anywhere from half an hour to forever. No ads, no in-app purchases, no internet required.