Many, many people of my age and even younger spent hours and hours in front of the computer, day and night building their virtual city on the computer with Sim City . Not only in Sim City you need to build buildings, houses, roads and industries but you also need to take care of the city's infrastructure, finances, the electrical and energy system, waste disposal, the sewage system, the school, the distribution of water, sewage treatment plants and so on. Citizens make their complaints and there is a need to manage traffic, pollution, workers' protests and many other things that are part of the mayor's activities . Eventually, when you are fed up, you can unleash environmental disasters or monsters that demolish and destroy the city.
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First of all, Sim City the original cannot be downloaded for free, the direct download of the SimCity version the PC version for sale on the EA site at the price of 13 Euros.
For Android and iPhon and instead, you can download Simcity BuildIt for free.
1) In the Play Classic Games site, you can play the original version of SimCity 2000, the one for PC DOS of the 90s, complete and free.
2) An open source and free version of SimCity is LinCity-GN, very nice, to build the city in a real time strategy game and described in another article.
3) Micropolis is a game to download on the PC, where you have to build a city and manage it as best as possible to make it develop and grow. This open source game has a particular 8-bit and top view graphics very similar to that of the first Sim City .
4) Megapolis for Windows 10 is a game of construction and city management very valid for experts, where you must not only build, but also collect taxes, give services to citizens and ensure that the adequate supply of resources.
4) Without considering the flash versions that lack depth and have limited functions, we see the best online games similar to the original Sim City to play to create and manage your city on the browser, without downloading anything. OpenCity is a "serious" game of managing a very realistic city where you can play as a city councilor. Those involved in urban planning will find strategies and tips to make the city ecologically and socially sustainable. Players must take care of traffic management, water management, banking and retail supply chains through a range of crisis scenarios. We need to balance the financial, environmental and sociological interests of the city, make decisions to improve the city and achieve the objectives of turnover and profits, increasing citizens' satisfaction, making the environment greener, always without straining the budget.
5) Many games similar to SimCity have been listed in the article with the strategic games "Tycoon" where you can manage companies, administer empires, countries and cities .
6) City Creator is not exactly a game, it is more of an application to draw, with a series of landscapes in which to insert buildings and houses. Once you have chosen the city from the three available, you can change the backgrounds and drag the various buildings as you prefer, then the vehicles, the streets and the roofs. By registering on the site you can save your creations so you can review them whenever you want.
7) Virtual City is a game for Windows 10 where you have to build a city by arranging the various blocks that will form the various buildings. Instead of building prefabricated structures, in this case it is necessary to create buildings and houses by combining the pieces. To start playing, you need to register on the site or you can choose a city from the drop-down menu to see what others have built by going exploring and moving with darts.
8) City Mania is a 3D city simulator for Windows 10 Android and iPhone, free to download, from Gameloft. Therefore, the mayor is played to manage services, resources and businesses in order to increase citizens' wealth and happiness.
9) To try is the web application of the Isle of Tune site where you build a city by arranging roads, trees and houses. The goal of the game, however, is not managerial and no matter how the houses are arranged visually, the important thing is to create a musical melody that is played by the movement of the cars on the streets. Music sounds different depending on the building or tree the car crosses on the road. At the end you can hear a complete melody that repeats itself according to the size of the city.
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