Build and govern a living city from a blank lot to a thriving metropolis — all through text. Zone districts, balance your budget, survive earthquakes and recessions, and negotiate treaties with neighboring cities. Your city persists across every session: the highway you built in 1987 still shapes traffic patterns in 2010. ## What's included - **Zoning system** — residential / commercial / industrial / mixed-use / parks / civic - **Budget management** — property tax, sales tax, business license, federal grants, bonds - **Random events** — earthquakes, recessions, political scandals, immigration waves, technological shifts - **Diplomacy with neighbors** — trade deals, water rights, mutual defense, annexation - **Citizen happiness simulation** — services, taxation, employment, crime, education - **Multi-decade time skip** — play through 1925 → 2025 with persistent infrastructure consequences - **Mayor election cycles** — re-election arc every 4 years - **Crisis scenarios** — pandemic, climate, mass migration, civil unrest - **Multiple endings** — paradise / collapse / annexation / golden age / cyberpunk dystopia ## Limitations - **Text-only** — no graphics, no map (descriptions instead of tilemap) - **Pacing is yours** — sessions can be 5 minutes or 2 hours - **Single-city focus** — no multi-city empires in v1 - **English-only narration** - **Permadeath is real for the city** — collapse means starting over ## Best fit Fans of SimCity / Cities: Skylines / Tropico who want a text-only equivalent for laptop-light play. Especially valuable for players who enjoyed the OG SimCity 2000 vibes (recessions matter, scandals matter, the 100-year time horizon matters). ~$9/mo for unlimited cities.
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