Global City: Building Games 4+

Excellent Game

Updating my review. Once you get to levels above 34, you need more than one carpenter, agriculture, electronics and any other building that produces products used elsewhere, or more than 10 slots in the queue. 2 hours for 1 rubber component restricts your ability to complete tasks, and it cuts down on users wanting to buy tokens, as the game takes too long to get stuff done. Rubber is then used in foam, another 30 minutes. There are other problems, but rubber is the worst.

This is an excellent city building game, one you can play without having to pay. Of course, bonus items can be purchased to let you get done faster, but not like SimCity where you cannot finish the tutorial without buying something. I would rather buy things I want, than to be compelled. Things to improve: 1) no need to go into other player’s cities when buying something, slows you down; 2) show all 15 items for sale at one point, hard to get items are never there for those you must scroll for, but if they are in the first 5 and you are lightening fast, you can get them; 3) allow a 2nd carpenter building, even with all 10 queues purchased, the items take so much time and you need them elsewhere; 4) allow 4 more blocks to be enabled on the NE corner across the existing road from the short stub out road down to the river before the airport, providing room for all buildings and the 2nd carpenter building. Glad to see the contests for the unions, gives them some purpose.

Developer Response ,

Dear player, thank you you for taking your time to tell us about your ideas! We have passed your suggestions on to our developers, and we are sure they will think over implementing them! Please stay with us to see more great updates!

Game of patience and tension over resources.

This is not a game for everyone, but it really suits my gaming style well. Basically it’s a nonstop slow tension between competing forces that you need to balance… you have very limited warehouse space, yet you need to store lots of supplies or tokens or resource cards in order to purchase upgrades or land or… more warehouse space. What I appreciate is that with patience you do make progress, and you can do so without spending real money. Of course, spending money will relieve the tension and help progress faster. As I said, it’s not a game for everyone… you will watch ads - a lot of them. For me, the ads are also quite repetitive, too. But the rewards from ads are at least significant. My other criticism is that ultimately you’re on the same development track as everybody… there isn’t room for much creativity except for how you arrange buildings in the central areas. All in, I like this game a lot.

Best city-building game so far

This is the best city building game I’ve played, and I’ve tried quite a few. I like that you don’t have spend tons of money to get started, things don’t take forever to produce, and there’s a place to “purchase” needed items. That said, there are a few things that could stand some improvement. 1) There needs to be a benefit to joining a union. I’d like to see the capability of selling/trading goods with union members. 2) There needs to be an edit mode so you can move thing around and see what’s behind buildings. While in edit mode you should be able to click on something and it’ll either show you the building or tell what it is. 3) At first I thought the game was deleting items from my inventory, items like windows and doors that take a long time to build from start to finish. I submitted a support ticket and was told to video it. Well, I don’t know how to do that. After paying closer attention, I found that what would happen is that I’d set these things up to run while I’m not logged in. And when I returned to the game everything I had scheduled to run was gone. Not only that, but the materials used in the production wasn’t returned to inventory. The only way to get these items is to let the game run all day )which doesn’t help at night) or buy speed-ups. This is a huge deterrent and I’m almost to the point of giving up on it.

Developer Response ,

Dear player, thank you for the feedback! We appreciate your ideas, and we will try to think about them in the next updates! Thank you for help in improving the game!