Digicity vs Minimum Effort

Start small. Think big. Build a city that feels like yours. Digicity is an isometric city builder for iPhone, iPad and Mac with Apple silicon. Turn a randomly generated 128x128 landscape into connected neighbourhoods, busy industry and a city shaped by your decisions. NEIGHBOURHOODS WITH CHARACTER Zone homes, shops and industry, then watch 22 building types develop through three visible stages. Streets, services, land value and nearby development shape what grows. Larger buildings can bring four lots together into one site. MAKE EVERY CONNECTION COUNT Lay roads, tram lines, freight rail, power lines and water pipes. Connect homes to jobs, provide essential services, and balance tax income against upkeep. Your choices affect traffic, pollution and demand. GET TO KNOW YOUR CITY Use data overlays and tile inspection to understand what helps your city grow—or holds it back. The city overview brings population, finances, utilities and transport together, with shortcuts to relevant map layers and controls. TAKE ON A NEW CHALLENGE Optional Scenario mode follows four historical eras: Rail, Motor, Service and Logistics. Start fresh or take charge of nine established challenge cities: Industrial River Town, Aging Tram City, Utility Squeeze, Budget Rescue, Safe Streets, Quiet Neighborhoods, Transit Turnaround, Boomtown and The Compact City. Choose transport priorities and emergency-service funding, review their costs, and compare city figures after policies take effect. Pursue seven optional ambitions and pin a goal while you play. Scenario access depends on the eras you own. Everyone can preview all nine challenge cities; starting one requires Ultimate. BUILD AT YOUR OWN PACE Pause to plan or choose Normal, Fast or Fastest. Open Build is a complete, free sandbox with every building tool and the whole map. No ads, energy meters or play timers. SAVE AND RECOVER YOUR CITY Saving your cities requires a one-time purchase. Without it, your city is lost if the app closes or the system terminates it. Saving and Ultimate include autosaves on this device, enabled by default. Keep up to three recent recovery versions per city history and restore an earlier checkpoint from the city menu. Named saves remain available separately. Force quitting can lose changes made after the last successful autosave. Scenario eras are sold separately. Ultimate includes saving, all Scenario eras and all nine challenge cities. Purchases are not subscriptions and do not expire. PLAY IN YOUR LANGUAGE Available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch. Digicity follows your supported device language, with English as the fallback. You can choose another supported app language in Settings. We use AI to translate from English into other languages. Translations may contain mistakes; English is the original source. Share suggested improvements through Translation feedback in the city menu. Play in landscape on iPhone, build on iPad, or use a Mac with Apple silicon. No account or sign-in is required. https://digicitybuilder.app/privacy

You have a job. You do not want to do it. Minimum Effort is a satirical workplace strategy game. Every workday runs from 09:00 to 17:00, and everything you can do with those 480 minutes trades three things against each other: the time it saves you, the output it actually produces, and how conspicuous it makes you. The goal is not to be good at your job. It is to find the least amount of work that survives. HOW A DAY WORKS • Do the work, fake the work, or avoid it entirely. Looking busy covers part of a shortfall when the boss checks the deliverables. It never files the report. • The boss patrols the floor. When he walks past in the middle of something you get a couple of seconds to look busy . and less time the hotter you already are. • Repeat an act and it gets riskier every time. The fourth bathroom break is not the first bathroom break. • Colleagues talk. Each one has their own trust in you and their own doubts, and a rumour that crosses the floor twice reaches the boss's office from a direction you were not watching. THE PEOPLE Your accomplice will cover for you. The overachiever notices an unearned win. The snitch keeps a note of when people leave their desk. The gossip has already told two other people. You can chat, delegate your work, ask somebody to cover, genuinely help them . or put your name on their work, which they never forget. PROMOTIONS ARE A TRAP Every rung on the ladder pays more and expects more. Getting promoted is easy. Staying just competent enough not to be fired, one rung higher, with a bigger quota and the same amount of effort . that is the game. FIVE CAREERS - Corporate. Easy. Meetings, decks and a quarterly review nobody reads. - Startup. Chaotic. Twelve people, no structure, and everybody notices everything. - Consulting. Medium. Frameworks, workstreams, and never being the one with the answer. - Investment banking. Extreme. Enormous money, enormous work, and an associate who never leaves. - Home office. Nobody can see you and everything is measured. The green dot is your new boss and it cannot be charmed. Corporate and Startup are included. Consulting and Investment Banking are unlocked together by the Career Pack. Home Office is its own pack. Both are one purchase each, not a subscription, nothing recurring, and either one removes the advertising. THE ONLY SCORE THAT MATTERS Total money earned, divided by hours you actually worked. Retire at the top of a ladder having been paid for years and worked for weeks, and the number on your record board will say so. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account and no sign-in. No server of ours. Your careers are saved on your device and nothing about them leaves it. It does show advertising, which Google's ad kit loads over the network, and either pack removes it. Minimum Effort is a work of satire. The offices, the colleagues and the careers are invented, and nothing in it is advice about a real job.