SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition

addicting game except for those advisors

Great city builder game, age old classic!

The game itself is very interesting, gameplay is fun when you are using mod, like NAM and CAM. Recommend to play

This takes me back twenty years. Used to love playing this game.

This game is awesome. Building cities over maps I made by hand is so satisfying. There are some issues with occasional crashes on newer systems, but it hasn't happened enough for me to not recommend a purchase. I easily put another 500 hours when i had the disc more than fifteen years ago. It's a little dated, but I honestly find cities skylines too finicky and frustrating, and the newer simcity sucked. This game struck a good balance, and is highly recommended

If Cities: Skylines is too much of a sandbox for you and you're missing consequences and more focus on simulation and managemennt this is the best you can do, even after all these years.
Bonus perk: amazing music!

It's a creative, interesting, and fairly realistic simulation of urban development.

Great game but you need some essential mods like NAM and 4gb patch to make the game functional.

When they'll Release Simcity 2013 game and cities of tomorrow expansion?

Works well and just as great as ever. Also the Simcity plug-in gives you all the cheat codes with an easy to use UI.

Still the best city simulation game overall, even in 2025.

Great city builder/management game which has aged very well over the years. Can be difficult for new players. Takes some time to learn as the game is very intricate in the way that it operates. If you have patience and like detail, enjoy simulation games, look no further as this game is a gem!

In game pop-ups impede playability.

The game is old school and its nostalgic to play, but it keeps crashing on me. Is my PC too fast for this?? Extremely frustrating. What is the point in playing if I have to restart my city every time I sit down to play? Zero stars.

Used to love this game as a kid.
Came back to it more than a decade later.
It's still incredibly addicting.
10/10

the aesthetics are good but the game itself is way to simple in regards to building things, its also really annoying have to click on this tiny button to be able to change a building funding.

i will note i barely played this so others may find it more interesting then i did if they play it longer.

What's it like to go back to a game you last played 2 decades ago? Completely awesome, at least in the case of Sim City 4.

I re-bought it on Steam a few years back but only just got round to playing it, and this perfectly balanced and paced uber-City Builder was even better than I remember it. Get caught in its hooks and you might end up investing a couple hundred hours and ignoring friends and fam for weeks (like I did)

With one single, easy to find mod (there are millions of others if that's your thing) you can play this baby in widescreen HD and it still looks great plus your modern rig will not grind to a halt after a couple of hours play like it did at the turn of the millennia :)

I honestly wonder why it's so hard to beat this all-time best builder after all this time?

its simcity 4, you get exactly what you pay for. its good.

I love this game its an amazing game still to this day!

THIS GAME IS SO FUN YOU GET TO MAKE CITYS, LIKE WHO DOESN’T LIKE THAT?

SimCity 4 is arguably one of, if not the best city builder games out there. It is unmatched in quite a few ways.

In terms of graphics,, it's timeless. i'm amazed how well the visuals have held up over the years. I think the realism mixed with a distinct art-style is what does it. The not quite isometric camera angle and 3D assets go a long way as well.

Game-play and simulation is what really make SimCity 4 stand out though. You're not just zoning a bunch of RCI and watching all the money roll in. You actually have to be careful and manage your funds or else things will go south quickly. Yet at the same time, it's extremely rewarding to see your city succeed .

You're also provided with a plethora of ways to keep track of what's going on in your city. Not only do you have advisors and graphs; but you also can also turn on a bunch of different overlays to look for pollution, traffic, crime, etc. One of my favourite features though is the query tool. With this you can check how and where residents commute on top of other things.

With Residential and Commercial; not only can you choose 3 different density levels, but you can quite easily control the wealth too. There's also 4 different types of industrial (Farms, Dirty, Manufacturing, and High-Tech) with 2 density levels for all except farms.

I could go on and on about how great this SimCity 4 is but there's just so much. that's not to say it doesn't have flaws though. Vanilla traffic path finding is pretty bad, there are some game breaking bugs, and it just does not like modern computers very much. Fortunately most of this can be fixed with mods and some tinkering.

In the end i'd highly recommend this SimCity 4 to anyone who enjoys city building games.

Very realistic gameplay, just don't go bankrupt!

Game will not launch properly. Reinstalled, still doesn't launch.

Still an amazing classic after all these years. Excellent game-play, excellent soundtrack. It's perfect.

I really enjoyed this game when I was in College/fresh out of college, just wish I could still use my CD copy. Was always really satisfying to get a stabilized city going, just always wished the game was more intuitive with how to build up High Tech industry and keep dirty away, and things like that. Still enjoying coming back to it and rebuilding my region with better topography than the last go

Getting back into this game after 15+ years. One of the best city builders ever made.

I downloaded the game and it will not open. WTF. I have a computer that is only a couple years old. Help

I know now why i have not played this game for so long now. IT KEEPS CRASHING AND YOU LOOSE ALL YOUR PROGRESS

I find myself sitting for what feels like 30 minutes attempting to construct the city of my dreams. Only to look at the clock on my desktop and realize I have been playing for 5 hours straight.. Needless to say, some of the best wasted time of my life.

I used top play these games when I was much much younger. This was so much fun! It's relaxing and I just love watching the city grow and change. Little difficult to get used to the systems but not a road block, lol, dad joke.

I absolutely love this game. I think it’s the best SimCity overall for me. I had a huge city and spawned a tornado, causing mass destruction. But overall, this game is super fun. I know some people encounter issues like crashing, which could be related to compatibility with certain hardware, but even with those issues, I still think the game is great. However, I’d recommend getting it when it’s on sale, as $20 for an older game like this can be hard to justify, especially with City Skylines 1 and City Skylines 2 out there.

Love this game, its very difficult to get it to run.

I've tried mods but I guess I'm just not good at installing them or what, but couldnt get anything to work.

I was able to get an autosave mod to work but eventually my save just randomly deleted and yeah that happened 2 times so that sucks.

I love this game, I do. I just cant recommend it when it's difficult to get to work. :(

Your game freezes up on me and I end up having to start over when this happens. This shouldn't happen on the cloud version of this game.

While it is quite charming to have personal messages from advisors the first few times, it gets unbearably annoying to get stopped every 5 seconds and distracted by some new issue.

The music is pretty funky, that's the best part for sure.

It feels a bit clunky and unintuitive. The streets get autoplaced so they mismatch easily and become a terrible mess.

Ok for any newer computer users, definitely use the advanced launch options and the game works normally without crashing.

Here's an advanced launch thingy I found off of reddit that worked for me
-d:soft -intro:off -CPUCount:1 -f -CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32 -w

Best city builder sim game i've played....maybe it's the nostalgia but idc its amazin

Simply unmatched even after more than 20 years. Best city building sim out there, bar none.

The depth and complexity of this game make C:S & C:S2 feel like child's play by comparison.

Happy this was released on Steam. Played many hours over the years and found it to be easily the best of the sim city games, totally addictive.

Classic Sin City fun. Need to edit the exe file to play

After all of these years, this game is still better than any of the new city simulation games. Maxis was solid when it came to Sim City. I still play this game today. It would be awesome if a remastered version was created just to update the graphics to the new 4K abilities. The games economic engine in no way needs to be tinkered with. It functions very well.

I score this game 10 out of 10

Game is crashing constantly... and is not saving... played 22 hours, and reopened he game to a wiped out dsity and map.... Support has been garbage

I enjoy this game but it's too glitchy on this platform. I've tried on several computers and operating systems, and it crashes often. Now it won't even load on my computer. It starts then quits. So now I can't play it at all. If you want to play this game, look for it outside of Steam.

This game is peak sim city

Still holds up 20 years later.

I am very unhappy with stability of this game. I tried to play it couple of time and its crashing often. My total playtime is now like 5 hours and I am not gonna try it more. I asked for refund but Steam refused it because my playtime is more than 2 hours. Save your money - its a great game but obviously not for all "todays" computers.

A true classic. Plays well on Steam. The amazing mods created in the past couple of decades are plentiful and easy to install with the Steam version, for the most part. I wish more older games like this received Steam workshop integration, but it still works well.

To give you a sense of what people are doing in this game today: I found a city building journal on Simtropolis where someone recreated Gotham City complete with Arkham Island, Wayne Manor, and even a slum riddled with crime, named Crime Alley.

The Japanese city mods impress endlessly, as well.

If you haven't played this one before, the graphics are full of charm, and the sound is alive and vibrant. It's presentation is excellent. Check it out!

This is the OG of city builders after SimCity 3000 unlimited. Before Cities Sky;lines 1 and now 2.
We had THIS ONE. That was all we had in the early 2K's

I have a good gaming PC, and the game keeps crashing every 15 mins or so. not really worth it.

love building road connections between Big Chungus Town and Cuckistan

new concept: "Jeans City". more info to follow soon.

used to play on windows xp. but on my gaming computer of windows 11 had to uninstall it as it fails to save and crashes after 30 minutes and it doesn't save itself if it crashes I have this sort of problem with Theme hospital to, I wont add these older games now new tech dont like them and invariably crash and you lose everything, as it doesnt save auto like Transport tycoon 2 does. shame!!