"1849 ... might just be the only real city-building game on iOS" - Owen Faraday, Pocket Tactics
The year is 1849, and gold has just been discovered in California. You decide to head out west, to seek fame and wealth in the approaching Gold Rush.
Will you strike it rich and become an overnight mining magnate? Or build your fortune bit by bit by supplying 49ers with pickaxes and blue jeans?
Gameplay:
1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and keep your citizens housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.
Updated with two new scenarios!
The Epilogue presents two final scenarios, taking place in the period after the gold rush, as the people of California attempted to forge a new identity in a state that went through an irreversible transformation.
Key Features of 1849:
- A campaign mode that traces the development of the Gold Rush from mining camps to bustling cities. Each city scenario presents players with unique starting conditions, victory goals, and obstacle events.
- Sandbox mode with a procedurally-generated map for your location, based on geography (from the Pacific coast to the Sierra Nevada mountains), precipitation, resource availability, and starting lot size.
- Vivid Old West towns with geography and architecture directly inspired by California’s Gold Country.
- Over 50 resources to dig up, farm, refine or manufacture as you build complex towns and cities.
- Classic city management gameplay meets modern technology in a sim tailored specifically for tablet / touch screen play.
- Developed by SomaSim, a new studio dedicated to producing deep simulation games for today’s players.
Really need to have good money management, the game throws a few interruptions your way sometimes, but it's fun to meet the mini challenges despite the ups and downs.. Kind of like a puzzle game trying to figure out how to make each scenario work.. Only on my 6th scenario so far..
Very much the best city building game available on ipad
nicocacolax
As a huge fan of Caesar games, I finally able to find an ipad game can meet such level! Well done. Looking forward to more add on packs!
Ian
Pyzryder
Great game. So refreshing to pay an up-front cost and have everything available with no in app purchases. Hours of playtime
Addictive and fun
srwatts
I downloaded this game at midnight and didn't turn off my iPad until 7am. Kind of wish I didn't download as now I'm addicted to another game!!
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
New in version 2.0.8:
- Stability updates
- Fixed completion bug in Epilogue
Version 2.0.8
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Information
Seller
SomaSim LLC
Size
79.7 MB
Category
Simulation
Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 6.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 6.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
