CITYCONOMY: Service for your City
- November 3, 2015
- Nano Games sp. z o.o.
- 4h median play time
Get on SteamIn 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.
PC
Windows
Reviews
- The game features a variety of realistic jobs and vehicles, providing a unique experience in the simulation genre.
- The graphics of the vehicles are detailed, and the day/night cycle along with weather effects adds to the immersive experience.
- The game offers multiplayer support, allowing players to enjoy the experience with friends.
- The game suffers from severe performance issues, including low frame rates and frequent bugs that hinder gameplay.
- There is no in-cab driving view, which detracts from the overall driving experience and immersion.
- The gameplay loop is repetitive and grindy, with many tasks feeling monotonous and lacking variety.
- graphics29 mentions
- 14 % positive mentions
- 72 % neutral mentions
- 14 % negative mentions
The graphics of the game have received overwhelmingly negative feedback, with many users describing them as outdated and poorly optimized, reminiscent of games from the early 2000s.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 the design of vehicles, 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 attempting to play, as the game struggles to run smoothly even on capable systems.
“The graphics are great, the detail on the vehicles is incredible.”
“Like this one and city sweeper - clean it fast! What I like about this one is the graphics don't look cheap either.”
“The actual graphics of the trucks themselves are 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!”
- gameplay13 mentions
- 23 % positive mentions
- 46 % neutral mentions
- 31 % negative mentions
The gameplay has been criticized for its repetitive tasks and poor performance, leading to a frustrating experience. While the management mechanics and concepts show potential, they are hindered by limitations and a lack of engaging elements, resulting in an overall mediocre gameplay loop.
“The concept and the ideas are actually interesting, and the management aspect could have been a nice mechanic.”
“In Euro Truck Simulator, one can drive 20 minutes on a highway because the mechanics are engaging.”
“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.”
- story13 mentions
- 15 % positive mentions
- 62 % neutral mentions
- 23 % negative mentions
The game's story features a unique concept centered around a "utility simulator," offering quests that involve mundane tasks like emptying bins, which can quickly become tedious. While the plot ideas are appreciated, the execution suffers from poor optimization and numerous bugs that hinder mission completion. Overall, the narrative provides a basic framework for progression but lacks depth and engagement.
“The game has a story mode to help you progress through and give you more reason than just grinding through each discipline.”
“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.”
- optimization13 mentions
- 23 % positive mentions
- 54 % neutral mentions
- 23 % negative mentions
The optimization of the game has received mixed reviews, with some players experiencing significant performance issues such as stuttering and frame drops, while others report improved performance after reinstalling. Many users describe the game as poorly optimized, with complaints about controls, AI behavior, and environmental factors affecting gameplay. However, adjusting settings and resolution can help enhance performance for some players.
“Thought I got lucky and got a superbly well-optimized game.”
“- You can also change the resolution from default to any other that will increase your performance.”
“- Go to the performance tab and set low presets and turn off all parameters.”
“The performance is abysmal.”
“Poorly optimized and horrible controls.”
“Other reviewers have already pointed out a few of the shortcomings of this game: it seems pretty unoptimized, bins spawn in unreachable places, the steering radii of the vehicles makes them annoyingly unmaneuverable, the truck sounds are garbage (pun intended), the AI vehicles are unerringly stupid, and why oh why does it seem to be raining every 5 minutes?!”
- grinding11 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
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, 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.”
- stability4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
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.”
- music3 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 33 % neutral mentions
- 67 % negative mentions
The game lacks any original music, leading players to find it repetitive and often necessitating the use of their own playlists to enhance the experience. This absence of music contributes to a monotonous atmosphere, particularly 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”
