SimCity not working for you? 5 alternative city-building games

Publisher Electronic Art’s latest city-building game is struggling. SimCity requires a constant connection to the Internet, but its servers are collapsing under high demand. Gamers can’t even start playing. Others are losing progress as connections timeout and the game fails to save. It’s a mess. EA is trying to fix the problem by adding new servers, but that could take a couple of days.

In the meantime, plenty of similar games are out and available even if you don’t have a reliable connection.

[wita]

Good recommendations!

[Sadie2100]

I'd normally scoff at CityVille but....

[Megaton]

Anno has junk DRM, too. Not always-online, but activation limit without any revoke tools. I wanna try Cities XL, though.

[vega275]

Cities xl needs to be optimized. Once you reach a certain amount the game just slows down. Regardless of how much your pc can handle it. I have it and it pretty good. Just thats one of the major issues about It

[Tr10wn]

Yeah last i heard the game was still using 1 core?

[DudeJets]

i bought XL a last year due to wanting a sim city game... it was dire :(

[2pacalypsenow]

I dont know if its just me but sim city 4 was Hard i could never balance it hospitals cost too much

[TuxedoMoon]

Cites XL 2012 looks really cool. Might check that game out when I get the money. Any other recommendations?

[Saryk]

I have Cities XL Plat, it does bog down after a while, but is stale compared to old Simcity. Tropico 4 is damn good!

[Blastoise]

I wish there was a game like this on Vita, I miss this kind of addictive gameplay. oldschool games