SimCity

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60 5 March 2013

Simulator Strategy Business Sandbox

SimCity is a simulator developed by Maxis, released 5 March 2013 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 19 hrs to finish.

Verified 29 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What SimCity is

SimCity is a simulator game developed by Maxis and released in 2013. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GlassBox.

The premise, in the publisher's words

SimCity is a city-building and urban planning simulation massively multiplayer online game developed by Maxis Emeryville and published by Electronic Arts. Released for Microsoft Windows in early March 2013, it is a reboot of the SimCity series, and is the first major installment since the release of SimCity 4 a decade before. A macOS version was released on August 29, 2013.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are business and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Sim series

SimCity is the 58th of 64 entries we hold in the Sim series. It arrived 8 months after SimCity Social. The next entry was SimCity: Limited Edition in 2013. Its critic score of 60 is 7 points below the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is SimCity 3000 at 85.

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How it was received

SimCity holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 65, across 172 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 19 hrs.

What it launched against

SimCity launched on 5 March 2013, within three weeks of BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm.

Cheats and codes

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