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Citytopia® is a single player casual management game with a business theme. It received neutral reviews from players.

Build a 3D metropolis in this city building tycoon simulation game

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56%Audience ScoreBased on 340 reviews
graphics23 positive mentions
stability18 negative mentions

  • Enjoyable and relatively relaxing city-building gameplay with appealing graphics and sound effects.
  • Fair to play without mandatory in-app purchases; progression is possible through gameplay without spending money.
  • Good variety of buildings and mechanics that differentiate it from typical city builders, including card-based upgrades.
  • Frequent game-breaking bugs, freezes, and crashes leading to lost progress and inability to advance.
  • Limited city customization: roads cannot be modified, trees cannot be removed, and land expansion is slow or restricted.
  • Overly intrusive tutorials, forced events, and persistent pop-ups disrupt gameplay flow and frustrate players.
  • graphics

    36 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    64% positive mentions, 28% neutral mentions, 8% negative mentions

    The game's graphics are consistently praised for being charming, stylized, and visually appealing, often featuring smooth 3D visuals that enhance the city-building experience. While some users desire more dynamic elements like moving people or vehicles for realism, overall the graphics are highlighted as a major strength despite occasional optimization issues or minor display glitches.

    • “The aesthetic and graphics are charming and stylized enough, and ran smoothly.”
    • “Amazing graphics and realistic game.”
    • “After playing this game for a month, I must say that the graphics are eye pleasing.”
    • “But with this game, it's not smooth enough and doesn't give an option to increase/decrease the graphics.”
    • “The logo, graphics, music and gameplay are very much a ripoff of the also poorly designed SimCity BuildIt.”
    • “It's way too over the top with graphics.”
  • gameplay

    21 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    38% positive mentions, 48% neutral mentions, 14% negative mentions

    The gameplay is generally praised for its fun mechanics, good graphics, and engaging core city-building elements, though many users find it repetitive and limited by slow, unskippable animations and restrictive progression mechanics. Some criticize the lack of depth, world building, and narrative, while others feel the design is derivative or overly reliant on monetization. Overall, the gameplay offers enjoyment but is hindered by pacing issues and constrained features.

    • “The game mechanics make sense and if you wish to pay to speed your progress you may, but the speed of advance does not require that you pay.”
    • “The gameplay is fun, the tutorial is short sweet and simple.”
    • “It's a great city builder with some strong core mechanics.”
    • “The animations take too long to complete, can't be skipped, break the flow of the game and generally only exist to extend the only thing that serves as gameplay.”
    • “I love the graphics but lost interest quickly due to repetitive gameplay and limited city layout.”
    • “Between the boring game design, restrictive gameplay, and the frequent wait for funds/tasks to advance, I have already deleted this game.”
  • stability

    18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game suffers from frequent and severe stability issues, including numerous bugs, freezes, and crashes during key actions like opening card packs, using in-game currency, leveling up, and loading screens. These glitches often require force quitting or reinstalling, severely impacting the overall play experience despite the game's addictive qualities. Many users express frustration over persistent errors and ad-related glitches, leading some to uninstall and await future fixes.

    • “Numerous game-breaking bugs and glitches.”
    • “Game freezes and force quits when opening card packs.”
    • “The game is good until you get to higher levels, then it freezes and glitches, preventing progress.”
  • monetization

    16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    19% positive mentions, 12% neutral mentions, 69% negative mentions

    The game’s monetization is generally well-received for avoiding aggressive microtransactions and paywalls, offering affordable in-game purchases with good value. However, players report frequent, sometimes intrusive ads and occasional technical issues related to ad playback that can disrupt gameplay and cause reward losses. Despite these drawbacks, the game does not heavily push in-app purchases and is seen as a fair city-building experience compared to others.

    • “One thing that's absolutely amazing is that for a mobile game, the microtransactions are not ridiculously egregious.”
    • “The in-game purchases are quite affordable and have great value.”
    • “Definitely slows down more as you progress, but doesn't push in-app purchases.”
    • “After the first hour of playing, the game slows down significantly to encourage watching ads for progression.”
    • “Full of ads that wait another 10 seconds to show an 'X' button after the timer finishes, then prompt you to touch the screen, directing you to the store.”
    • “Cause you can't change how land looks, and pop-up ads appear unexpectedly without any benefits from viewing them.”
  • grinding

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is often seen as tedious and time-consuming, with manual upgrades and slow progression that some players find frustrating. Additionally, issues like not receiving earned coins have led to disappointment, although fans of planning and farming may still enjoy the challenge.

    • “Sometimes it's quite grindy to progress and takes ages to get cards, which seems designed to push you to pay for progression.”
    • “Very disappointed, when farming coins after updating the game, my coins were not received, which is upsetting.”
    • “The housing does not evolve over time but requires manual upgrades, which is very tedious and not enjoyable for me.”
  • story

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The story aspect is criticized for its forced and repetitive tutorial elements that impede player progress, alongside a narrative overly focused on gold accumulation which limits mission enjoyment and variety.

    • “Because now I'm stuck with a pop-up window to build a roller coaster. It's a forced way to build one, and I did, but now I only have 400+ money while this mission needs 4,000+ money. I'm stuck in that window and can't go back or close the process. I tried reinstalling and restarting!”
    • “I get you have animations in the tutorial, but come on, after every level up, every card pack, every completed mission, and so on.”
    • “Love the game, but it's all about gold, and without gold you can't do anything. Missions are useless—small packs here, small packs there—and your daily reward is always useless, just 5k gold all the time.”
  • music

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, -67% neutral mentions, 67% negative mentions

    The music in the game is generally appreciated and contributes positively to the experience, though some users feel it could be livelier. Overall, it complements the gameplay well but may lack variety.

    • “I really like the card mechanic and the music in this great game.”
    • “The logo, graphics, music, and gameplay are very much inspired by SimCity BuildIt.”
    • “The game is relaxing and can be played anytime every day, but the music could be more lively.”
    • “The logo, graphics, music and gameplay are very much a ripoff of the also poorly designed SimCity BuildIt.”
    • “If I think this game is relaxing and can play anytime every day, but the problem of little music is that it is not lively.”
  • optimization

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The optimization is generally poor, leading to performance issues despite the game's beautiful graphics. Users find it clunky and unrefined, detracting from the overall experience.

    • “Ugly, poorly optimized, lacks any type of soul or charm.”
    • “Beautiful look and graphics but suffers from poor optimization.”
  • replayability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Replayability is limited, as the game offers enjoyable moments initially but lacks long-term engagement typical of many phone games.

    • “It is fun for a short time but like many phone games, has no longevity or replayability.”
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Play Times

10h Median play time
10h Average play time
10-10h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 1 analyzed playthroughs
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Citytopia® is a casual management game with business theme. Common tags for Citytopia® include free to play, stylized and building.

Citytopia® is available on Phone, Tablet, Android and Mobile Platform.

On average players spend around 10 hours playing Citytopia®.

Citytopia® was developed by Reliance Games.

Citytopia® has received neutral reviews from players. Most players liked Citytopia® for its graphics but disliked it for its stability.

Citytopia® is a single player game.

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