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City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2

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  1. swozey · · focus · HN ↗
    There was a big heyday a decade ago with town builders, like Banished, Farthest Frontier, Manor lords and a bunch of ancient history ones. It seems to have died out again the last few years. And I don't know any that replace simcity or cities skyline 1. The only city sim I play nowadays is Soviet Workers Republic, some combination of those words.

    Maybe we'll get a million new city sims with the ai goldrush that have unique takes.

    Think I gave up on actual city sims with massive scale.

    1. bernds74 · · focus · HN ↗
      One small but charming game is Urbek City Builder. Has voxel graphics and less of a simulation and more of a radius placement system. Not very well known but it's one I've really enjoyed.
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