CITYCONOMY: Service for your City

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CITYCONOMY: Service for your City is a single player and multiplayer casual simulation game. It was developed by Nano Games sp. z o.o. and was released on December 2, 2015. It received neutral reviews from players.

In CITYCONOMY: Service for your City, players manage a service company and maintain a sprawling metropolis through a variety of jobs, including trash collection, drain cleaning, and lawn mowing. With 15 vehicles and multiplayer mode available, players keep the city clean and its residents satisfied to expand their fleet and complete new tasks. Realistic city economy missions, such as towing cars and improving roads, offer a challenging and immersive experience.

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Audience ScoreBased on 114 reviews

gameplay4 negative mentions

The game offers a unique concept of simulating everyday city services, providing a different angle compared to typical city-building games.
Some players find the gameplay oddly relaxing, especially when driving service vehicles and completing tasks.
The graphics and details of the vehicles are appreciated by some players, adding a level of immersion to the experience.

The game is plagued by numerous bugs and performance issues, including texture loading problems and unresponsive AI, making it unplayable for many.
Gameplay becomes repetitive quickly, with players often performing the same tasks over and over without much variation or depth.
The controls are clunky and poorly optimized, leading to frustrating experiences while driving and completing missions.

graphics
29 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The graphics of the game have received overwhelmingly negative feedback, with many users describing them as outdated and poorly optimized, reminiscent of games from the early 2000s. While some players appreciate certain visual details, such as vehicle designs, the overall graphical quality is criticized for being subpar, with frequent bugs and performance issues. Many recommend ensuring a powerful graphics card is available before playing, as the game struggles to run smoothly even on capable systems.
- “The graphics are great, the detail on the vehicles is incredible.”
- “Comic graphics, arcade style, routine tasks, drive + manage your fleet, large skill tree, big variety of architecture.”
- “The actual graphics of the trucks themselves is great and the buildings could be a bit more in depth graphically with more textures.”
- “The physics model is laughable, the AI drivers are completely on rails, and the visuals would have seemed dated in 2003.”
- “Game graphics are not very detailed.”
- “The ugliest problem of them all is the graphics; they are supposed to be DX11, but something about the shading and colors used makes the graphics feel worse than CS 2015's DX9 graphics!”
optimization
14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's optimization has received largely negative feedback, with players reporting frequent stutters, frame drops, and overall poor performance even on recommended hardware. While some users experienced improvements after reinstalling, many still find the game unplayable due to technical issues and unresponsive controls. Adjusting settings can help, but the general consensus is that the game is poorly optimized.
- “Thought I got lucky and got a superbly well-optimized game.”
- “- you can also change resolution from default to any other that will increase your performance.”
- “- go to performance tab and set low presets and turn off all parameters.”
- “Performance doesn’t help either: expect stutters and technical hiccups, even on modern machines.”
- “The performance is abysmal.”
- “Poorly optimized and horrible controls.”
gameplay
13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay has been criticized for its repetitive tasks and poor performance, with many players finding the gameplay loop unengaging and frustrating. While the management aspect shows potential, its limitations hinder the experience, leading to a lack of depth and enjoyment. Overall, the gameplay is seen as mediocre, with a score averaging around 4/10.
- “In Euro Truck Simulator, one can drive 20 minutes on a highway because the mechanics are engaging.”
- “The concept and the ideas are actually interesting, and the management aspect could have been a nice mechanic.”
- “Grinding can be fun, but the mechanics and limitations in each skill tree are too similar.”
- “The gameplay itself wouldn’t be mediocre if not for the repetitive tasks.”
- “The management aspect might have saved the gameplay loop, but the game does not let you hire employees in the beginning, no matter how much money you have.”
- “The economic gameplay is a joke.”
story
13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's story features a variety of quests centered around a unique "utility simulator" concept, where players complete tasks like emptying bins to progress and unlock new vehicles and skills. However, the narrative engagement is hampered by unoptimized gameplay, frustrating AI, and bugs that can disrupt mission completion, leading to a lack of interest in the overarching plot. While the idea is intriguing, the execution leaves much to be desired, particularly in terms of multiplayer experience.
- “You can try a wide variety of vehicles, and it has a story mode to help you progress through and give you more reason than just grinding through each discipline.”
- “And completing quests levels up your XP and increases your customer satisfaction levels, with which you can unlock skills on your skill tree and new jobs such as street sweeper.”
- “I started the first mission of emptying garbage but lost interest fast.”
- “Most quests involve emptying 4 bins in an area.”
- “You receive job quests from quest-givers, complete with cartoony exclamation marks over their heads.”
grinding
11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The grinding aspect of the game is heavily criticized for being tedious and uninspired, with players feeling that the repetitive tasks and limited skill tree mechanics detract from the overall experience. While there is a variety of vehicles to unlock and a story mode to provide some motivation, many find the grinding necessary to progress to be excessive and lacking in creativity, making the game feel bland and unengaging over time. Those who enjoy grinding for efficiency may find some enjoyment, especially in multiplayer, but the overall sentiment leans towards frustration with the grind-heavy gameplay.
- “This means you have to keep grinding to get anywhere.”
- “You can drive a lot of machines in this game if you don't mind grinding the experience to unlock them all.”
- “But on the whole, the city you are doing these tasks in is just too bland and uninspiring to draw you back into doing any more grinding.”
stability
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game suffers from significant stability issues, with users reporting numerous bugs and glitches, particularly in multiplayer mode. Even high-end PCs struggle to run the game smoothly, leading to a clunky and unoptimized experience.
- “Very unoptimized game even for high-end PCs; very buggy as well.”
- “Clunky, buggy, dull.”
- “Multiplayer is buggy.”
music
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game lacks any original music, leading players to find it repetitive and often necessitating their own playlists to enhance the experience. This absence of music contributes to a monotonous atmosphere, especially during gameplay focused on gathering materials.
- “It is a very repetitive game, and you need to have your own music playlist because the game has no music in it. If you like gathering materials in an MMO, then this is the same thing, only that you replace the materials with garbage, plastic, paper, bottles, etc.”
- “- no music”