SimCity

SimCity is a reboot of the SimCity franchise. The basic idea is still the same as always: the player builds up a city from the ground and manages its budget and infrastructure by constructing buildings and streets. All those buildings have different functions, e.g. schools for education or power plants (no power lines anymore). New to the series is the upgrade system which allows to improve buildings in order to improve their range or capacity (mostly in exchange for more space), for example emergency services (police, fire and ambulance) can reach all places in the city and are only restricted in available vehicles. Other important aspects are zones (living, industry or commercial) which develop automatically depending on their location and surrounding infrastructure and traffic management with streets and public transportation systems.

The main difference to classic SimCity games is the regional system. The cities are restricted to relatively small maps which don't allow megacities and force industry specialisation. This means a city has to exchange resources (e.g. water, oil or police) with surrounding cities. There are up to 16 cities in each region which can also be founded by other players (this is the multiplayer component of the game).