Its all about that... grind!

Well, kudos to the team, they really tried to make something with this franchise.

But heres the big: BUT!

As beautiful looking it is, as tiresome it is and its just an endless grind, as long as youre not willing to spend 99,- (!) bucks on a huge amount of cash. Free to play, sure. has its caveats, but for such an old franchise Id love to take this as an approach to first try - then buy thingy. But you cant do that.

Well of course you can, technically, but unless source willing to spend nearly 15 bucks for a shitty skate park and thus not speaking about other stuff that you can or just need together the full experience. So at least you would have to spend 50 - 80 bucks to get the full thing up and running. Which just is a huge rip-off.

And then theres the two itself, THE town. Its just one single layout for EVERY player, ever. You cant change the location, its just like all these simple city-management games for soccer moms and grannies out there. Not really what Sim City used to be.

The harbour is always on the same place, the highway, the airport, the mountains, shore, grass, trees … you get what I mean.

Its a lot less disco-ish in the colours, but thats it. You waste a lot of life-time and/or money to get a town up and running.
50 bucks for a game? Sure, if it comes at that amount of freedom, which Sim City used to give and provide a wholesome experience for the player.

So the setup is cool for a casual-game, optics and physics and UI, too. But the rest, dont buy it.

Welten5egler about SimCity BuildIt, v1.14.4