SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition

The last SimCity i played was SC2000, so this game now has to compete with my SC2000 experience. And with that SC4 just can´t compete. You just have to manage too much stuff, i just want to build a town, i don´t want to have to change how much money every school and every hospital gets. But if you want your town to succeed, you need to do these things. Another thing i dislike is the region system. In SC2000 i was able to start a town, use a random generated map and start playing. In SC4 i can´t even generate random maps anymore. Why? Sure, this game may be nice for modder, but i just want to play. I neither have the time nor the energy to invest hours into understanding every little micromanagement issue with this game. So to summarize: If you have enough time to invest and if you want to do micromanagement, then go ahead, buy this game. But if you are like me, just wanting to fire the game up and build a town for fun, then you are probably wrong here. In this case, play SC2000 instead, at least that is what i did. (Even though the version on here is the inferior DOS version, even this version of SC2000 is more fun to me than SC4...)

This game does a great job with the transport simulation. I wish this game had the petitioners and graphics of Simcity 3000, but the depth of the game is much improved from it's predecessor. Managing multiple regions makes it more difficult to start a city, but if you learn the new regional dynamics, this nearly 20yo game is the best city-builder there is.

I am glad to see this one here. A Good Old Game. A mac-as-well--version would be nice though. This is one of those games that should ride on any HD for ever or should come as an OS-included game; IMHO. Why? It is a personality, a friend; someone to love. True; my computer initially couldn't handle the requirements of the game back then, but with today's systems that's history. I think the game is the conclusion of a successfull series; a perfect mix of it's predecessors plus everything one could imagine playing them - without MP functionality, that is. Great city-building simulator; wonderfull game.

Don't buy it and expect that it runs on modern Win11 systems. You need to tweak around and maybe find some help in the forums or elsewhere to get it running. But also might happen it won't work. So buy on your own risk. Sadly GOG forgets to mention this.

In the long history of Sim City, this game hit the balance of complexity and fun better than any other version. It is complex enough that players will continue to learn about the game long after purchasing, but accessible enough that anyone can play. City building is coupled with vehicle based missions which allow the player to explore the city they have built by taking to the streets. Also this game has a gigantic library of mods out that span years and years of fanaticism from hundreds and hundreds of talented content producers. This game, and this game alone, they got EVERYTHING right. Sim City has never been this good.. and it never will again.