Sim City
Review

Sim City (1989) is a series of city-building games, created by Will Wright. Since their inception as educational experiences in 1989, the games have enabled players to design ambitious cities. The attraction is the openness of play, where you can let your imagination and ideas play out on a grand scale to see the implications.

You start with a small budget and a patch of undeveloped land. By establishing residential, commercial and industrial zones, and providing electricity and water you soon have people moving in and building their homes. Then, by means of taxes, you can make money to develop your city further.

• SimCity (1989) on PC, Mac, Amiga, Atari ST
• SimCity 2000 (1993) on Mac, PC, SNES, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance
• SimCity 3000 (1999) on Windows, Mac, iOS
• SimCity 64 (2000) on Nintendo 64
• SimCity 4 (2002) on PC and Mac
• SimCity DS (2007) on DS
• SimCity (2013) relaunched on Mac and PC
• SimCity: BuildIt (2014) on iOS and Android

Our examiner, Jo Robertson, first checked Sim City 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Andy Robertson and updated 5 weeks ago.