SimCity BuildItios
Includes optional in-game purchases of virtual currency that can be used to acquire virtual in-game items, including a random selection of virtual in-game items. Welcome, Mayor, to the city builder and simulator! Be the hero of your very own city metropolis. This is the city-building game to design and create a beautiful, bustling town or metropolis. Every decision is yours as your city simulation grows larger and more intricate. You need to make smart building choices as a city builder to keep your citizens happy and your skyline growing. Then build, trade, chat, compete, and join clubs with fellow city-building Mayors. The city game that lets you build your city, your way! BRING YOUR CITY METROPOLIS TO LIFE Build your metropolis with skyscrapers, parks, bridges, and much more! Place buildings strategically to keep your taxes flowing and your city growing. Solve real-life city-building challenges like traffic and pollution. Provide your town and city services like power plants and police departments. Strategize, build and keep traffic moving with grand avenues and streetcars in this fun city builder and simulator. PUT YOUR IMAGINATION AND CITY ON THE MAP The possibilities are endless in this town and city-building simulator! A worldwide city game, build Tokyo-, London-, or Paris-style neighborhoods, and unlock exclusive city landmarks like the Eiffel Tower or Statue of Liberty. Make building rewarding and discover new technologies with the Future Cities while getting athletic with sports stadiums to become a pro city builder. Build and decorate your town or city with rivers, lakes, forests, and expand along the beach or mountain slopes. Unlock your city-builder strategies with new geographic regions for your metropolis, such as the Sunny Isles or Frosty Fjords, each with a unique architectural style. The city-building game where there’s always something new and different to make your city simulation unique. BUILD AND BATTLE YOUR WAY TO VICTORY The city-building game that lets you defend your city metropolis against monsters or compete against other mayors in Club Wars. Plot winning city-builder strategies with your Club mates and declare war on other cities. Once the battle simulation is on, unleash crazy disasters like the Disco Twister and Plant Monster on your opponents. Earn valuable rewards to use in battle, in building or to improve your city. In addition, take on other players in the Contest of Mayors, where you can complete weekly challenges and climb the League ranks toward the top of this city game. BUILD A BETTER CITY WITH TRAINS The city-building game to improve as a city builder with unlockable and upgradeable trains. Discover new trains and train stations for your dream metropolis! Build, expand and customize your rail network to fit your unique city simulation. BUILD, CONNECT AND TEAM UP Join a Mayor’s Club to trade city supplies with other members who love and chat about city-building strategies and available resources. Collaborate with other town and city builders to help someone complete their personal vision as well as get support to complete yours. Build big, work together, lead other Mayors, and watch your city simulation come to life in this city-building game and simulator! ___ Important Consumer Information. This app: Requires a persistent Internet connection (network fees may apply). Requires acceptance of EA’s Privacy & Cookie Policy and User Agreement. Includes in-game advertising. Contains direct links to the Internet and social networking sites intended for an audience over 13. The app uses Game Center. Log out of Game Center before installation if you don’t want to share your game play with friends. User Agreement: http://terms.ea.com Privacy and Cookie Policy: http://privacy.ea.com Visit https://help.ea.com/en/ for assistance or inquiries. EA may retire online features after 30 days’ notice posted on www.ea.com/service-updates.
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Store presence

As of Jul 4, 2026stale (75d)
Rating 4.11
Ratings 83,265
Price Free
Version
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Released Dec 17, 2014

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Version history

Versions observed at capture, newest first
v1.79.1Jun 23, 2026
Experience timeless beauty in our newest Season: Vivid Vienna – City of Elegance! - Join the Contest of Mayors and advance along the Mayor’s Pass to unlock dazzling Vienna landmarks, including the magnificent Stephansdom. - Collect Flower Coins and upgrade the grand Gasometer Complex into a stunning piece of modern revitalization. - Stay tuned for new Events, Limited-Time Buildings, and special rewards throughout the season & create your own imperial masterpiece. Happy building, Mayors!

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Player reviews

Recent store reviews · rule-based labels
Sampled 50
Positive 27 (54%)
Negative 17 (34%)
Mentions pricing 10 (20%)
519 (38%)
48 (16%)
36 (12%)
23 (6%)
114 (28%)
★★★★★positiveLlanos del arpa · 2026-07-16 · v1.80.1
Ciudad
Good play
★★★★★positiveHjhhalooo · 2026-07-16 · v1.80.1
One of those cozy games
I really love SimCity.
★★★★★positiveMolly Lara · 2026-07-16 · v1.80.1
Funn.
I can play for hours
★★★★negativeMentions pricingYurmas Faghina · 2026-07-16 · v1.80.1
Rename it SimCity ReStartIt
This game is awesome! You have to restart it after checking the weekly assignments, trying to go to a different city, accessing any menu screen. But the ads work great! And now that they’re taking Kalshi money, you get these minuscule X’s to close out so you get trapped in loops for a good extra four ads! Brilliant, since no one is watching ads, except they’re now daily tasks and weekly assignments to watch ads!
★★★★negativeJgqjh;Omaha;Ohio;irea · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
Dan
Game constantly freezes. Stop adding enhancement and fix the slow response time
★★★★★negative765325688765 · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
Ok game
The graphics are good. The up grade that was done in January still raising havoc. Just when you think things have stabilized they hit your city with a deficiency or a repair. Your city could be idol, they would still hit it. The spinning wheel of death is annoying. Happens 3-4 times a day. The only way to stop it is to reboot the tablet. Since the up grade, the motivation to play is gone.
★★★★★positiveScifitimm6 · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
Fun city building game
I enjoy playing this gams, as I do other city building games, because I get a great chance to be creative and have fun. This one has many variables and actions that are challenging and enjoyable.
★★★★★positive9DMRS · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
Great Game, But 1 Thing
the game is great, just wish there was a way to restart the game from the beginning.
★★★★positivelewisb1981 · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
Decent
Same old same thing here
★★★★negativeAll am so in bbbhhh · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
Latest update
Need more war cards.
★★★★positiveMentions pricingDen Doe · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
Casual
Would like more if they gave more sim money without physical out of pocket payments!
★★★★positivebenhowell 88 · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
Review
It kills your battery and makes your phone hot but it’s a great game
★★★★★neutralMentions pricingNandy-Styles · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
Update ruined game play
I built a city back in 2018 the game was challenging, entertaining and fair. However this new update is very pay-to-play. Unfortunately this sucked all the fun out of it.
★★★★★positiveBobolopolopolis · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
Long time player’s review
For a month this game crashed on opening, all devices. A few weeks ago it magically worked again. Second time this happened. There is no one to call for support. But it’s still a great game. And they increased the land area this time which is so appreciated. There are ads to watch to get certain things but it is always by choice. You are never required to watch an ad.
★★★★negativeMentions pricingGator Hermit · 2026-07-15 · v1.79.1
Used to be a great game
The game’s developers keep adding complexity and more and more ways to try to extract money from the players. My friends are all leaving the game.
★★★★positiveBuildingSlowly · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
Fun and Challenging
SimCity BuildIt is an Interesting game with varied challenges. The best improvements include simultaneous assignments and train deliveries. Assignment duplicates are problematic, causing frustration. A few bugs found recently, but they get fixed quickly. The game is supported by ads, which deliver in-game rewards. Earning coins for the current pass allows choice of rewards. This is good, except when collected from houses and need “conversion.”
★★★★★positiveMentions pricingSocalkdl · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
Much Improved
Have changed my original critique of this game due to improvements. The game has a slick appearance and is fun, if you are willing to be patient once you reach over 30K population. There is just enough strategy involved to keep it interesting. If you are the impatient type, this game can be a serious money dump. If you are willing to throttle back the impulse to raise your population quickly, and rely on small increases, you can manage to keep the Sims happy, and your bank coffers full.
★★★★negativeMentions pricingBig Wel · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
2.0 update
Total screw up of the entire game! There are so many complaints after the update that I can’t even write them all down in this review… You have cut our cities capacity and more than half, it has stopped the ability to build our other cities, you made the game, totally unplayable and in pleasurable. Really interesting with all our cities in a mess. You’re still asked for money in all category to update. Wow you continue to make money on this game. The players have suffered and I’m quite sure I’m not the only one that complain. I personally spend over $1500.00 a year on this game. Of which I played since 2016… whoever made decision to do these updates should go back to the old ways where everyone was happy playing. Have you folks have not learned from the Bud Light fiasco a few years ago when they made changes and lost all their value, volume, customers, and a full from being number one in the world. I know my complaint will probably follow on deaf ears at the corporate level, but hopefully someone will understand our mayors pain and perhaps I’ll get you’ll get back to me.
★★★★★positiveCatLady46 · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
Building Fun
If you like building and designing the city of your dreams, this is a great game. Lots of fun and there are plenty of adventures to take part in so that it never gets boring.
★★★★★neutralMentions pricingTJOSDCA · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
The Goal is for SimCity to make a corporation tons of money
And it’s also a real life time and money suck
★★★★negativeMentions pricingAugh!!! Is this taken · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
Used to Be a Game… Now It’s a Cash Grab
I’ve played this game for years and used to genuinely love it, but the recent updates have completely ruined the experience. What used to be a fun city-building game now feels like a constant push to spend money just to make basic progress. Tasks that were once achievable through normal gameplay now require huge amounts of resources or take an unreasonable amount of time unless you pay. It feels less like a strategy game and more like a paywall at every step. What’s most disappointing is that longtime players who have invested years into building their cities are the ones being hurt the most by these changes. Instead of improving gameplay, the updates have made the game frustrating, slow, and honestly not fun anymore. I don’t mind supporting games I enjoy, but this now feels like a cash grab rather than a balanced game. Unless the developers rethink these recent changes, I can’t recommend this game anymore.
★★★★negativedalemac · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
Never gets fixed
Is anybody ever gonna fix the crashing and lag problems in this game?
★★★★negativeMrrobh · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
Was great til Services 2.0…
Services 2.0 killed the game for any longtime players. Played for 9+ years with minor issues until Services 2.0 rolled out - my progress reset, I wasted millions in resources trying to fix, buggy game play gets worse with each season and update, and many more. Support absolutely worthless on all fronts. Dont get me started on the feedback forum: 800+ player comments and not one issue raised has been fixed in the months since rollout. Adds more and more currencies vs fixing gameplay issues. At minimum, developers need to add ability to earn regional currencies, expand regional zones, and knock it off with the new currency for each season.
★★★★positiveMentions pricingLoudmouth123 · 2026-07-15 · v1.80.1
Pricing
Prices are a little high for what you get, but the game is fun overall I enjoy it. Even with the deals they’re pricing I find is very much inflated.
★★★★★positive@-@ *-* :0 · 2026-07-14 · v1.80.1
SimCity
It is super fun! There are no ads unless you choose to and it teaches you about responsibility, and commitment and also shows you how you can build your own city. I have been playing this since 10 and my city has grown so much! It really helps kids be more responsible etc and the other examples I’ve listed