Players spend thousands of hours with great game: Currently costs €5 on Steam

It is a game that has shaped a generation: SimCity 4. The Deluxe Edition of this city-building milestone is available for 5 € on Steam for about another week. In the reviews, it is said to be a game that has defined lives. Meanwhile, city-building simulations like Manor Lords are currently experiencing a surge.

What kind of game is SimCity 4?

• The fourth SimCity was released in 2003 for PC and was the successor to SimCity 3000.
• The SimCity games reached their peak in the eyes of most fans with SimCity 4. It received 84% on Metacritic, while later titles in the series were rated significantly worse by the press. SimCity 4 is known for the depth of its simulation.
• The Deluxe version is now available on Steam. It costs 5 €, 75% less than usual.

A current representative of the city-building genre and a top seller on Steam, Manor Lords:

SimCity 4 is a game that has accompanied players throughout their lives

What do the reviews say? SimCity 4 has a “very positive” rating on Steam with 80% positive reviews.

In the reviews, it stands out that some players with over 1,000 hours of playtime praise the game:

• A player with 1,306 hours in SimCity 4 writes: “I have played this game for almost my entire life, and I intend for it to stay that way.”
• A player with 2,530 hours raves that SimCity 4 is the best game of all time. He says that being able to still play this game after 20 years shows how great it is. One could build large cities that consist only of small towns. In SimCity 4, one can simply let their creativity run wild and build.

And these are just the players who have so many hours in the Steam version. In many other reviews, players clearly state how much time they have spent with SimCity 4, even in other versions.

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Why might this game be particularly worthwhile? The city-building genre is very popular, as currently seen with Manor Lords. However, there is a lack of major new releases. The highly anticipated Cities: Skylines 2 has thus far been a complete disappointment: A new DLC is now the lowest-rated game on Steam