SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition

It's underlined on the store page. I recommend GoG customers boycott this game and any other EA game that requires this EULA. This is exactly the kind of spyware/limited ownership EULA most people don't want on GoG. Obviously, it's your right to purchase anything you wish but this is the kind of EULA I've grown to expect on Steam and not here. It would be nice to keep GoG true to it's policy of no-strings-attached game purchases and, if GoG doesn't carry this title, EA loses business. Maybe then EA will pull this EULA on GoG.

SimCity 4 is arguably the best game of the series and probably the best all-round modern city builder that has been ever developed. It gets pretty much everything perfectly balanced: strategic planning and micromanagement, local and regional development (a big change from SimCity 2K and 3K), fun and realism, visuals and hardware requirements... But the strength of SimCity 4 lies in its active modding community which has, over the past twelve years, created some unofficial add-ons that expand the gameplay without breaking the balance or looking out of place (among those, Network Addon Mod is a must have. CAM is good, too, but it depends on much user-created content that should be installed separately due to copyright reasons). Bottom line: if you haven't yet got it elsewhere, you ought to get it now and register at the modding sites (Simtropolis, SCDevotion) to get the most out of it.

I never really took to SimCity 4. I had been playing SimCity games since the first one and enjoyed them a lot and remember being very excited about 4 but the game never really panned out. The good: They did improve many of the smaller mechanics and managing your city is challenging and fun, the graphics are way better. The bad: Regions. Regions Regions and why I hate this game. In the old SimCity you were given one big block of space and you built a city on it. you could connect to AI neighbors for power and garbage etc but your whole focus is your city. In 4 you get a region with lots of little plots (even the biggest ones are small) and you build 'kind of' cities on them. to really reach full potential you have to manage lots of tiny little pieces of cities not a whole city. This always left me feeling disconnected from my overall vision and the individual sections are too small to build traditional city (you will max out quickly) for example you might start one little city and jut put farms and some police stations. nothing else. you are mayor of farm and police. then you go next door to another section (as another mayor) and build a downtown, then you go to another section (again as another mayor) and build some suburbs and link them all up for jobs. This all works but time really only flows in the section you are in so you constantly hop around little segments to build the whole region. So while on one hand you could fill a whole region with a "City" that was bigger than ever I never really got the hang of the mechanic, all I wanted was one big square like SC 2000/3000

Simcity 4 carries the traditions of Simcity franchise and adds quite a bit more content. Simcity 4 adds a region play feature. In Simcity 4 your city will be affected by adjacent cities that you create. You can also trade resources. It's still possible to build a self-sustaining city. The main game mechanics of Simcity like RCI demand are enhanced. It's a lot harder to make a New York-like metropolis without putting in any effort. Commercial and residential buildings are grouped into stages and wealth levels. From the Stage 1 low capacity buildings to the tall Stage 8 skyscrapers. Wealth levels range between § symbols to §§§ symbols. Industrial buildings range from farms, to dirty and high-tech factories. Education, pollution, police and fire coverage and healthcare still work hand in hand. City ordinances are always around, helping you improve city conditions with simple enactments. What sets Simcity 4 apart from every other Simcity: User made content. Simcity 4 has by far the largest variety of custom-made content. I direct you to Simtropolis, the largest repository of Simcity content on the web. 7500 FREE fan made buildings ranging from landmarks to fan-imagined creations to bus, train and subway stations, to trees, to beaches and forests to bridges, etc. And that is still increasing in number. You have every tool and resource to create any city that you want. There are city journals to highlight that point.