Upland: City-Builder

Name: Upland: City-Builder
Rating: 4.1 (4763 reviews)
Author: Uplandme, Inc

Real-World Map, Tycoon Sim

Only for iPhone

Free · In‑App Purchases

4.8K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Simulation
Developer

Uplandme, Inc
Language

EN
English
Size

74.8
MB

iPhone

Own virtual property on real streets. Plan, own, trade & develop in a player-driven economy. Start with just email—stake your claim before your city's gone. Build Real-World Cities That Last Forever Play a completely new type of simulation game: Upland is the real-world city-builder where your progress never resets and every decision shapes living neighborhoods. Enter a persistent, shared map of actual places—from New York to Paris—where you plan, build, and trade in a thriving player-driven economy. Unlike traditional city builders, your properties are tied to real addresses and stay with you permanently. Your strategic choices create lasting impact in this revolutionary city-building tycoon sim. Strategic City Building • Plan your empire - Scout new city openings and choose prime neighborhoods • Optimize collections - Build strategic property portfolios for maximum returns • Real-world context - Own your childhood home, Times Square, or the Eiffel Tower Build Cities That Matter • Design lasting structures - Create buildings, décor, and styles that define your skyline • Shape neighborhoods - Your constructions influence entire districts • Never resets - Everything you build remains permanently in the world Player-Driven Economy • Trade with real players - Buy, sell, and swap virtual properties • Run your business - Open shops in your buildings and add service structures • Digital ownership - The digital assets you create or acquire: they are yours, and you're free to sell them and earn real-world value Compete & Collaborate • Join neighborhood teams - Work together on massive city projects • Climb leaderboards - Prove your strategy in global competitions • Community events - Participate in limited-time challenges and rewards Play Anywhere, Always • Cross-platform progress - Seamlessly switch between mobile and web • Email-only signup - Start building in seconds • Persistent world - Your cities evolve 24/7, even when you're offline Perfect For Strategy Fans Ideal if you love city sims, tycoon games, management strategy, town builders, or location-based gameplay. Combines the depth of complex city simulators with the social dynamics of MMO gaming. Join a thriving global community of 3M+ players building collaborative cities mapped to the real world since 2019. Disclosure: Digital ownership refers to in-game assets only.

Ratings & Reviews

4.1

out of 5

4.8K Ratings

i love this game . a real review
12/05/2022

Chowbaby
i love this game, and i just came to the app store to see if the new updates are available for download as they have just released some new great updates. as i’m looking i see the reviews tab , i love the game but let me see what others are saying. i see some bad reviews . a lot. and i’m confused. so i gets to thinking and reading the reviews and i thought about just that, i love the game just like others do , but never write a review. just like in my business, i have a bunch of people who love my construction work and custom builds. but if you look me up online you may be deceived because only mad people write reviews lol. the people who happy just keeps playing on doing what they do. and i also think that these are other games and competition? writing these reviews so don’t get fooled. me and the community of Upland love this game and we have fun at it. it does take a little money just like any other game but it has very good potential. Don’t be one of the ones they said I wish I would’ve invested into this game when it started.. because you will be left out! i don’t work for them , nor invested with the owners outside of my normal playing the game. it’s not a game to play for free. yes i have made a little money off properties. but this is still the beginning and it’s fun and exciting to log in everyday . this is a real review by a real person. thanks upland AtlChow
i love this game . a real review
12/05/2022

Chowbaby

i love this game, and i just came to the app store to see if the new updates are available for download as they have just released some new great updates. as i’m looking i see the reviews tab , i love the game but let me see what others are saying. i see some bad reviews . a lot. and i’m confused. so i gets to thinking and reading the reviews and i thought about just that, i love the game just like others do , but never write a review. just like in my business, i have a bunch of people who love my construction work and custom builds. but if you look me up online you may be deceived because only mad people write reviews lol. the people who happy just keeps playing on doing what they do. and i also think that these are other games and competition? writing these reviews so don’t get fooled. me and the community of Upland love this game and we have fun at it. it does take a little money just like any other game but it has very good potential. Don’t be one of the ones they said I wish I would’ve invested into this game when it started.. because you will be left out! i don’t work for them , nor invested with the owners outside of my normal playing the game. it’s not a game to play for free. yes i have made a little money off properties. but this is still the beginning and it’s fun and exciting to log in everyday . this is a real review by a real person. thanks upland AtlChow
This Game can be Addictive
11/12/2022

Bigfoot Exists
This is a quite a fun game and you can earn money however it’s not straightforward to cash out. You have to sell your NFT‘s for USD, and that’s not as easy as you may think. You have to be a certain rank to be able to sell for USD after a certain number of days. You have to be KYC’d. And the higher up and rank you go the easier it is for you to sell your assets for cash. If you’d rather grow your net worth in the game, which is probably a good strategy, but not financial advice, you can start to earn 20- 30 $50 a month in just earnings revenue if you are wise with your collections and minting. It’s even possible to benefit from buying undermint in USD, to boost your returns. As cities open, new Property NFTs are available and desirable. The next city release is tied to FIFA World Cup soccer. This is a fantastic partnership, and I’m excited to see where that goes. Collaborating with groups of players to build community enterprises is also a fun strategy to boost value of one’s assets and potentially sell for a profit in the future, post development. New racing mechanics and community voting…. There’s many cool features to this evolving game. Is it actually going to emerge as a web3.0 e-commerce market space? Overall, it’s fun. It can be frustrating. It can be time consuming without discipline. Treasure hunting is big, but new mini-games are coming.
This Game can be Addictive
11/12/2022

Bigfoot Exists

This is a quite a fun game and you can earn money however it’s not straightforward to cash out. You have to sell your NFT‘s for USD, and that’s not as easy as you may think. You have to be a certain rank to be able to sell for USD after a certain number of days. You have to be KYC’d. And the higher up and rank you go the easier it is for you to sell your assets for cash. If you’d rather grow your net worth in the game, which is probably a good strategy, but not financial advice, you can start to earn 20- 30 $50 a month in just earnings revenue if you are wise with your collections and minting. It’s even possible to benefit from buying undermint in USD, to boost your returns. As cities open, new Property NFTs are available and desirable. The next city release is tied to FIFA World Cup soccer. This is a fantastic partnership, and I’m excited to see where that goes. Collaborating with groups of players to build community enterprises is also a fun strategy to boost value of one’s assets and potentially sell for a profit in the future, post development. New racing mechanics and community voting…. There’s many cool features to this evolving game. Is it actually going to emerge as a web3.0 e-commerce market space? Overall, it’s fun. It can be frustrating. It can be time consuming without discipline. Treasure hunting is big, but new mini-games are coming.
Learning curve
09/21/2022

Brian0007
There is a learning curve in the game. Even with the tutorial at the beginning, I was a little stumped on with what to do. It took me a few months to finally figure it out. Now that I have been playing for a while, I still don’t have it all down pack, but it has definitely become a lot more fun. I wish there was a way to message other users about possibly selling their land or what they would charge if they did besides just make an offer. For instance, there is one plot of land in Queens. That is actually my grandmothers old house and I would love to be able to buy that for a keepsake just because it was her house. but it’s not a guarantee that if you send an offer that the person is even on anymore or that they will respond to it. Besides that it is definitely a fun game. Still trying to get the hang of everything there is to do in the game by traveling, it’s still a little perplexing and doesn’t always work. Lol but I can say. That I am having fun.
Learning curve
09/21/2022

Brian0007

There is a learning curve in the game. Even with the tutorial at the beginning, I was a little stumped on with what to do. It took me a few months to finally figure it out. Now that I have been playing for a while, I still don’t have it all down pack, but it has definitely become a lot more fun. I wish there was a way to message other users about possibly selling their land or what they would charge if they did besides just make an offer. For instance, there is one plot of land in Queens. That is actually my grandmothers old house and I would love to be able to buy that for a keepsake just because it was her house. but it’s not a guarantee that if you send an offer that the person is even on anymore or that they will respond to it. Besides that it is definitely a fun game. Still trying to get the hang of everything there is to do in the game by traveling, it’s still a little perplexing and doesn’t always work. Lol but I can say. That I am having fun.
If you’re not willing to pay to play, PASS
06/11/2020

johnny 4 3/4
This looks like a great game. It has a great concept and the I can only imagine what I could do with more coins. You have to acquire a net worth of over 10,000 coins to move out of “Visitor” status and become an “Uplander”. But that’s the problem; you’re gifted 3,000 or 6,000 coin to start and the minimum property value is ~2,400 coin. If your property accrues 1-2 coin/day (what my two are) it will take MONTHS, to achieve the 10,000 coin level. Full game function (the marketplace where you can buy/sell/trade properties) doesn’t become available until you cross that threshold. At the moment, the only way to get more coins is the wait (an exorbitant amount of time, seriously, do the math at 2 coins per day, needing 2,600 more coins would take 3 and 1/2 YEARS), OR you can BUY coins. Great game, amazing process, bravo for putting together an awesome app where the blockchain integrates to real world assets. Needs serious attention to gameplay for beginners. Everything about this game screams “PLAY ME!!” But I can’t. I can’t buy anything else, I can’t sell or trade what I already have, I can’t fill any more collections to generate coins faster, I can’t do anything but collect a few coins a day but at this point, I’ll probably just come back weekly to renew my earning timeline or cut my time lost, delete the app and let what I have cycle back into the system for someone who wants to pay to play. Shame.

Developer Response
Thank you for your candid review. Here are several ways you can make UPX with a visitor account: * Participate in Standard Tier treasure hunts where you compete against the clock. You get one of these free every 24 hours. * With a visitor account you can also compete in the Limited Tier treasure hunts against other players where the reward is far greater. * Follow our social media, we hold contests for UPX every so often. * Get fellow players to visit your properties. * Join the community where other players hold their own contests and promotions: https://discover.upland.me/discord. We would indeed appreciate you sticking around. There are more features to come like property development, in-game businesses and fiat-out (where you can sell your in-game items for actual money).
If you’re not willing to pay to play, PASS
06/11/2020

johnny 4 3/4

This looks like a great game. It has a great concept and the I can only imagine what I could do with more coins. You have to acquire a net worth of over 10,000 coins to move out of “Visitor” status and become an “Uplander”. But that’s the problem; you’re gifted 3,000 or 6,000 coin to start and the minimum property value is ~2,400 coin. If your property accrues 1-2 coin/day (what my two are) it will take MONTHS, to achieve the 10,000 coin level. Full game function (the marketplace where you can buy/sell/trade properties) doesn’t become available until you cross that threshold. At the moment, the only way to get more coins is the wait (an exorbitant amount of time, seriously, do the math at 2 coins per day, needing 2,600 more coins would take 3 and 1/2 YEARS), OR you can BUY coins. Great game, amazing process, bravo for putting together an awesome app where the blockchain integrates to real world assets. Needs serious attention to gameplay for beginners. Everything about this game screams “PLAY ME!!” But I can’t. I can’t buy anything else, I can’t sell or trade what I already have, I can’t fill any more collections to generate coins faster, I can’t do anything but collect a few coins a day but at this point, I’ll probably just come back weekly to renew my earning timeline or cut my time lost, delete the app and let what I have cycle back into the system for someone who wants to pay to play. Shame.
Developer Response 07/08/2020
Thank you for your candid review. Here are several ways you can make UPX with a visitor account: * Participate in Standard Tier treasure hunts where you compete against the clock. You get one of these free every 24 hours. * With a visitor account you can also compete in the Limited Tier treasure hunts against other players where the reward is far greater. * Follow our social media, we hold contests for UPX every so often. * Get fellow players to visit your properties. * Join the community where other players hold their own contests and promotions: https://discover.upland.me/discord. We would indeed appreciate you sticking around. There are more features to come like property development, in-game businesses and fiat-out (where you can sell your in-game items for actual money).

General improvements and bugfixes

Version 1.3.72

1d ago

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