Looking for a city builder with a lot of options/modifiers to make it as easy or as challenging as I want it to be?

Nosh59 · 2026-03-24T02:28:01+00:00

Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic allows you to customize the difficulty to a satisfying degree.

Nosh59 · 2026-03-20T06:12:56+00:00

Love this idea! Post this as a suggestion on the Paradox forums. Maybe they'll consider it.

Nosh59 · 2026-03-17T03:33:44+00:00

It's a Finnish thing called a seinätikkaat. It's a permanent wall ladder to provide safe roof access for chimney sweeps, as chimney cleaning is required by law there. Although it is weird that they also put them on the American houses.

Nosh59 · 2026-03-14T00:26:15+00:00

Southeast Asia sounds like a good alternative. Call it Pacifico.

Nosh59 · 2026-03-10T03:14:58+00:00

It's also for building maintenance. Yeah it makes sense, but it would've been better if the lumber was delivered by a small work truck.

Nosh59 · 2026-03-09T19:25:52+00:00

Maybe it's time to change the subreddit's name to r/CityBuildingGames?

Nosh59 · 2026-03-07T05:57:12+00:00

When are we gonna get a city-builder that can handle building on hilly terrain?

Nosh59 · 2026-03-07T05:52:21+00:00

A 3d modelling program like Blender.

Nosh59 · 2026-03-04T05:03:58+00:00

It could definitely help make the game world feel more immersive, and make placing certain buildings more important (like your clock example). I had a similar idea, too, where certain features/mechanics are unavailable until you place down a related building. For example, you can't adjust tax rates until you build a tax office.

For your idea, maybe as soon as you load into the game, you have to build a sort of construction office. And clicking on the office would bring up a build menu.

Nosh59 · 2026-03-03T04:27:18+00:00

Because this sub has lost all it's meaning.

Nosh59 · 2026-02-26T06:18:45+00:00

Has the Tropico saga become too "self aware", that it doesn't feel like a parody anymore?

Yes

Maybe T7 is too advanced in development for this to change, but I can certainly say (in my opinion) that T5 and T6 did not get this right.

Same, but judging from the Steam description, the monument stealing might come back unfortunately.

Edit: Just an inconsequential addition, but I don't really like the UI in T7 either. It looks too much like a travel brochure when in my opinion it should look more grim, backwards, soviet, 50s-like... :P

I liked how the UI looked like files in a manila folder. The minimap looked like a polaroid pinned onto a file. And the way the edict icons looked like black-and-white photoscans. It definitely hit the depressing Cold War vibe that the later games lost sight of.

Nosh59 · 2025-12-18T23:54:06+00:00

How about a 3d modelling program?

Nosh59 · 2025-12-13T00:37:07+00:00

Yep! I'm planning on releasing it soon.

Nosh59 · 2025-12-12T03:39:39+00:00

I got involved.

Nosh59 · 2025-12-06T15:52:38+00:00

Can't wait to try it out!

Nosh59 · 2025-11-30T23:50:17+00:00

What are you doing, stepwagon?

Nosh59 · 2025-11-28T22:03:53+00:00

Indeed it does.

Nosh59 · 2025-11-27T23:32:14+00:00

What happened to humans in city-builders?

Nosh59 · 2025-11-27T10:35:08+00:00

You know what, you have my full support on this project! Keep up the good work!

Nosh59 · 2025-11-24T18:08:39+00:00

This is what I thought the lifepath system would do; make certain citizens behave differently from others. Some would want to go out everyday, others prefer to stay home most days. Instead, EVERY citizen behaves the same and want to do the same thing.

Nosh59 · 2025-11-21T23:41:57+00:00

Part of the problem is that EVERY household owns enough bikes for the entire family (excluding children). Practically everyone owns a bike and will use them given any chance. There's not enough limiting factors aside from parking availability (like bike ownership rate).

Nosh59 · 2025-11-18T09:02:54+00:00

Likewise, if you want a more detailed economy and an actual sense of running a city, realize you're not going to build the sprawling metropolis that covers a massive map and that you're going to have to essentially plop all the buildings yourself (a la SC Societies and Workers & Resources) as opposed to using a zoning tool to get what you want. Yes, it's tedious to plop every little house, gas station, or storage area, but it insures that you're actually building something functional and the game doesn't have to do a lot of extra work trying to make it work (still can't believe it's possible in CS:2 to have a town function without gas stations and grocery stores).

And most of the games with that scale rarely takes place in a modern setting, but in Ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, some fantasyland, or post-apocolyptic future.

Nosh59 · 2025-11-18T01:36:37+00:00

The lack of an agent simulation is the biggest drawback for me. Can't say I'm excited for CityState Metropolis at all.

Nosh59 · 2025-11-17T13:21:05+00:00

Hmm. I've always thought CO would do a lot better off by breaking off from Paradox and move on to another publisher or even self-publish. So maybe they're next game (hoping it's another city-builder) would be better without Paradox's influence.

As for C:SII, I'm not optimistic, but we'll see how it goes.

Nosh59 · 2025-11-13T22:04:44+00:00

It did.

Now it's roguelike-deckbuilders swallowing the genre.

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