City Builder (2010) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

City Builder

Solve pipe puzzles in time to build cities in a wacky, cartoon world. City Builder gives a fresh and wacky take on the classic pipe puzzle game by expanding gameplay to three overlapping levels: Roads, water…

72 12 July 2010

What City Builder is

City Builder is an arcade game developed by BoomBox and released in 2010. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Wii and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Solve pipe puzzles in time to build cities in a wacky, cartoon world. City Builder gives a fresh and wacky take on the classic pipe puzzle game by expanding gameplay to three overlapping levels: Roads, water and electricity. Connect puzzle pieces and watch your cities grow in a madcap cartoon environment. Race against time by picking your puzzle pieces from a rotating dispensary. Along the way you'll encounter curous creatures like the shy Bigfoot, which you can scare away with your oversized flash camera, and use dynamite to blow up rocks in your path.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

City Builder holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 46% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 2 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Dual Core CPU 1GHz, 512 MB RAM and 256 MB. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

City Builder launched on 12 July 2010, within three weeks of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo and Singularity. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo, Singularity.

City Builder — frequently asked questions

When did City Builder come out?

City Builder was released on 12 July 2010 for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Wii and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for City Builder?

At minimum, City Builder needs Dual Core CPU 1GHz, 512 MB RAM, 256 MB graphics, 400 MB available space of storage.

How many GB is City Builder?

The PC system requirements give two figures: the minimum line says "400 MB available space" and the recommended line says "600 MB available space". Plan for the larger one, since the developer has not said which is current. Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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