- July 19, 2017
- Andrew Rowe
Megacity Builder
Platforms
About
A city builder that has all the bells and whistles you know and love with one twist. In Megacity Builder you build a whole nation not just a city. Pass laws at the national level. Fiddle with the budgets at the city level. Build cities like in classic city builders while producing resources to feed your massive capital. Massive game world to keep you busy building for many hours.











- The game has some interesting ideas with manufacturing, trade, and managing multiple cities that work together.
- It evokes nostalgia for fans of older city-building games like SimCity 2000.
- The game can provide a sense of joy and hope, as experienced by some players during tough times.
- The game is unplayably bugged, unoptimized, and has a clunky interface that makes gameplay frustrating.
- It lacks depth and complexity, making it feel shallow and overly simplified compared to other city-building games.
- The developer appears to have abandoned the game, leaving it incomplete and unsatisfactory for players who initially paid for it.
- gameplay16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
The gameplay has received mixed reviews, with some players finding it overly simplistic and lacking depth, akin to an average city builder. However, others appreciate the nuanced mechanics and unique features like product research and international interactions, suggesting that while the initial experience may be basic, there could be more complexity introduced later on. Overall, the game struggles to meet expectations for top-tier gameplay alongside its visuals.
“The gameplay is like what you'd expect in any average city builder; however, it adds extra features such as product research, actual contact and alliances with other countries, and interaction between your country and others.”
“The gameplay takes the cake for me with the whole idea of production and interacting with other nations.”
“It's got a very detail-oriented design for a game as light as it is; its mechanics are nuanced and unique.”
“Secondly, I feel the gameplay (at least what I was able to try) was very simplified with no depth.”
“The gameplay is very basic and the hotkeys can be quite confusing.”
“With the first 80 minutes of time spent in the game, I found a lot of very simple mechanics at play.”