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• gamedeal user

  Sep 27, 2021

  Much more fun than fighting about politics on the internet. Now you can show people why your ideas are better than everyone else, or kill millions trying.
• Generallisimo_Penultimo

  Aug 7, 2023

  If you like sim city 4. This is a game for you. I will say this: Game is rough around the edges, The UI wasnt the best, Lot of thing the games didnt tell you that you have to learn by trial and error. This game for its price is alright. They could done something better if worked on more. But it seems developer hasnt update the game in a while and just left it incomplete, So was it worth the price?, yes was it good? its alright was it better than cities skylines? nope, not by longshot. Its good for its price and thats about it
• gamedeal user

  Sep 25, 2021

  I think most people misunderstood what this game is about and asks for things to make it more like Cities: Skylines. This game is not about designing the bus route or the water pipes, whilst this game does have those elements, they are not the focus at all. This game is about macroeconomics and politics, so the focus is in balancing your immigration rate, inflation, public debt, etc. And I have found that challenging, fun, interesting and unique (in the sense of this is the only game I know to have those options). It's not a perfect game, I think is not clear some things like make people use public transportation and there may be more elements to push forward the spirit of macro and politics, but I don't expect it to add elements to make it a more "city builder game" because this is simply not the spirit. In comparison with CityState I, I find this harder and more dynamic in terms that I still havent reached a stationary state where I earn money and everything is joy and happiness. I would recomment it to all those want to experience something different and play with different politics and economics decisions and fantasies, and I look forward future updates.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 18, 2022

  There are things I liked about this game. Choosing a flag, having an overworld map with connecting cities but it needs work. In concept I like the idea of a city builder that focuses a lot more on politics. Managing a city is almost entirely political so focusing on that aspect is great. Choosing your policies is fun for a little while and I do like that they have things like sliders for immigration various things like that. It is mildly entertaining the first time around. However, the game kind of loses it's charm when you realize that for the most part the policies are just stat modifiers. They don't effect your city in any visible way. Allowing private schools in policy for example does not make private schools appear in game. Give citizens free university access when you haven't built a single university in game and haven't unlocked the ability to build one. As a city builder there's a lot to be desired. I can start the road building system. It's kind of janky. There aren't any transitions between road types and you can overlay them on top of each other in a strange way. Freeway overpasses would change into flat intersections for some strange reason. There's no Freeway x Freeway interchanges or transitions between freeway to road. Upgrading a road is needlessly complicated. Everything is only at one height. It's a janky and extremely simple road system. For the most part its just like any other city builder but with stat modifiers from the policies you choose. Keep track of your electricity, water, schools, health etc. You could build high density immidately. So you could just spam high density zones (keeping your various vitals intact) and grow your city to a decent size pretty quickly. It doesn't take much time to grow your city and as soon as I got there I realize there really isn't much to this game. Pacing is a pretty big problem here to be honest. The size of the cities isn't as large as what I've seen offered in other games. I could keep building until I fill up the entire map. Some things felt strange in this game. I could spam coal plants and my enviornmental approval on the left could barely be effected. Building religious buildings has no effect on religiousity. I had metro stations pretty much everywhere yet I still had pretty high traffic (maybe this one could have been me and I missed something idk) I like what the game is trying to do but it's not complex enough to hold my attention. Needs more customization and more immersion.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 15, 2021

  I like this game a lot, but unfortunately you can't save your progress until you go to options and disable toutorial. Also the game crashes fairly often later on, because of that, a LOT of progress can disappear and the game doesn't auto save. But that does not mean that the game is bad, but it could be so much better if the bugs would be fixed.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 27, 2022

  I'm really glad that this game exists. It takes a brave stab at some topics that city builders should have been looking at years ago and I hope that this game is an omen for where city builders are heading. Being first to the party comes with drawbacks though and Citystate II has clearly bitten off more than it can chew. The game feels like it should still be in early access for another year or two (March 2022). In trying to be both a society simulator and a city builder the game ends up doing neither particularly well. As a city builder it falls way short on what we should expect from the genre in 2022. Placing roads are incredibly finicky and simple junctions and connections are simply not possible. Even if you build a liberal utopia there remains an absolutist ban on any curved or even diagonal roads. Not since simcity 3000 has city building been this restrictive. But even here Citystate II takes things a step further with only 2 sizes of zoned lots allowed making this feel like one of the most restrictive city builders i've ever played. The joke is that all these restrictions make all your cities look very monotonous and generic, for a game that 'allows you to build everything from a workers paradise to a capitalist nightmare that's a massive problem. The game also gives you very little information, not a single sim used the extensive railway system I built or the freeways I set up but all instead clogged my sideroads without giving me any indication of how I can fix these problems/bugs? Lastly on the city building front there is just very little to do. There are very few service buildings etc to build and core things like harbours are just missing. On the society simulator side, what society you end up making has very little impact on the look and feel of your city, something that for all its faults a game like Simcity Societies did very well showing us that it is possible to tie these themes together. I demolished some homes to widen a road after which my 'stability' indicator got stuck at 0. The only effect of having a city at literally 0 stability for years was that I couldn't pass new laws...Laws which felt like they made no real difference to how my city ran anyway. It felt like the game gave me cool law buttons and stability values that I quickly realised I never have to look at. This game feels like a reddit wishlist for what city builders should be thinking about and I think the kind of things the game tries to include is spot on. It's just a shame that it forgot to also include and integrate all the basics that make city builders so much fun in the first place. Thank you for trying Citystate II. I hope the next game that tries to do even some what you tried can learn from your mistakes and get it right. I look forward to playing that game.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 3, 2021

  I really wanted this game to be good. I was hoping for a good city builder and/or a good nation simulation game. But this game does neither of the things at a satisfactory level. You can't build a natural looking city because of how it looks, and also cannot play a good state simulation like Tropico or Paradox grand strategy games. All you do is build whatever the RCI demand shows up and try to have a positive income, and connection between 2 cities might not even work for the most part. After playing for 6 hours, I feel like I've just wasted my time without even getting the fun or the satisfaction.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 24, 2021

  Interesting style. However I have some issues after 1h of playtime. - its somewhat hard to earn money. I bankcrupted my city after 20min. - there are no police, fire vehicles whatsover. Just normal cars. No parked cars in the street either - moving around on the map takes time. WASD and cursor movements are way to slow - you can't click on normal buildings - zones are rather difficult to place. They only come in like one or two sizes, thus a false road placement leaves big gaps in the city I really like the atmosphare and politics though. Also the automated creation of slums is an interesting touch.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 24, 2021

  Positive: Good Game Concept (the single) Dev seems to care about post release Development and bug fixing Negative: Frequently crashes on starting. Tooltips frequently stop working. Roads are a buggy mess. Railroads etc. are even worse. UI is really bad. Insane amount of bugs affecting all things. Conclusion: Wait 1 year of post release development before your buy it. So buy it in Autumn 2022 :) Update 07.03.2022: Still a mess.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 28, 2021

  Pretty fun game but missing a lot of important elements. Roads have no shape tools, road connections are clunky and you will sometimes have to fix a lot of roads in your city when upgrading or connecting avenues. Fire stations are practically useless in this phase of the game, my whole 300k pop city burned down with fire stations on max personnel and upgrades every few blocks and the "Safety" tab showing the whole city as covered. Driving AI needs a lot of work done too. There are no districts/zones, so you can't make special districts with stuff like "Highrise bans" or similar options we had in Cities: Skylines. Land value seems to be a bit.. weird. I was really disappointed by the fact your "outside" connections don't actually connect your cities and there is no interaction between your cities. They're just zones on the map right next to each other but I guess it looks pretty in the nation view? No functionality to share resources in your state, only money, which is also kinda weird. What if I don't want a nuclear power plant in every city that I own? What if I want just one city that uses 20% of power production and have the rest distributed to the nation? This game still needs a lot of features added. I really like the governing functions this game offers though. In my opinion do not buy this game until more features are added. The price tag of 24.99 EUR is also a bit high considering there is a lot of features that need to be added and polished. Buy it if it's on a sale, but for now until they add more stuff my opinion is do not purchase. Edit: More bugs - Citizens do not use public transport at all even if it's right in front of their house (bus and rail) - Highway connections over roads will break the roads they're being placed above - Placing a road under a highway that's already built will "chop up" the highway at the place where you placed a road under it - Planes fall out of the sky randomly (this only happened to me in my latest playthrough for a few moments) - Cars will not use highways created to connect other parts of the city but will always use roads and avenues - Game will now crash while loading in after staying in the menu for more than a few minutes before choosing a city (yay) 29th. sep. 21 - Traffic still generates so much pollution that your cities will start falling apart when your population gets higher [ https://i.imgur.com/BUEUtRb.jpeg ] you can see buildings with green/overgrown roofs are abandoned and they will soon start burning up and fire stations won't do anything about it More things I've noticed while playing: - In 1.0.4 more upgrade options were added to some building which helps out with their capacity - AI will destroy the city by themselves by starting to drive in random directions and sometimes driving in circles for a few REAL TIME minutes, this generates an insane amount of polution on those streets and it brings the land value down CRIMINALLY Dev responed on 29th of september, I'm putting my reply here in case it somehow gets burried (?) "@Citystate_Andy Not sure if you're going to read this one but thank you for taking the time to respond to the review. Appreciate the detailed answer you gave and your willingness to work on your project. I'm yet to see how the power and water is shared, I made a save just for this purpose to test it out and it never got shared between cities. :( I have a "test street" where it's filled up with bus stations and rail stations. Every single house commutes to work by car, no public transport usage what so ever. Thank you for your time dev, I will continue to update on the review!"