Recent reviews by Lance

This game is gorgeous and well done. I do recommend it. It's helped me chill in between study sessions. Awesome work!

I feel like its life has been spent at 14 hours. I've tried every mode, figured out the mechanics pretty quickly, and put myself in a scenario or two before feeling like there was nothing left to do. This is the type of game to reap your hours because it is truly addicting; however, the content is very limited. I'd come back for a really good update or DLC.

I played this game 12 hours straight. The sun rose, I glanced out my window, and shrugged.

Only the best games make you behave in this manner.

My review is actually 50/50.
Beautiful graphics for a fresh restart to the game, but.
This was just too easy even on a difficult setting and low resources I got bored.
And the AI is messed up, there is no diplomacy. It's just random. :/

There is something you need to know, like, right away.
-Don't play this game on a laptop, or if you have less than the required minimum 4GB of RAM. You are setting yourself up for a very long death. You'll play great at first, sure, but as your city grows, your lag will with it.. until you crash. And cry.
***** Continue below for the usual pros/cons shennanigans. ****

PROS:
-If you loved SimCity5 but hated the limitations, this game is right up your alley. IT IS THE BEST CITY BUILDING GAME IVE SEEN. And I've tried them all. Best surprise that had me sold? GIGANTIC EXPANDING MAP.
-Graphics are great. Shiny specular maps when it rains? Nice touch Paradox!!!
- The AI is a bit foolish but loads better than what I expected. Every little 'cim' has a name, a place of residence, work, school, and to and from destinations shown with not so obvious patterns during thier lives. They even age and die. And own pets. What.
-ASSET EDITOR. Finally, you can mod the ♥♥♥♥ out of your own game to your heart's content without needing a fancy degree. Beggining INSIDE the game, you can EASILY make your own parks, intersections, city buildings, whatever, and re-use them for infinity and beyond.
- STEAM WORKSHOP. There are some pretty darn talented people giving to the community and some kickass mods to boot.
- Realistic feel. It doesn't look so cartoony, the game feels like you are building a real city.

CONS:
- Traffic AI. It's a 50% traffic puzzle. With the help of a few AMAZING mods like "Traffic president" and "Precision Engineering" this ceased to be an issue for me.. but there will always be a few bumps in the AI. What can you expect really when the game can hold a motion of 1 million people? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Had to install 5 essential mods to fix everything I found annoying. Like fog, how the roads snap, a traffic editor.... And Chirpy. STFU, you little ♥♥♥♥.
- This game will be rough on any computer if you try to reach 1mil population. But every game has its' limit.

Overall, 9/10, almost my favorite game. It shall continue to reap more hours of my lifeforce.

Fun game to play, I beat it in an average time and in one sitting.. I wish it could get expanded or something, cause it was a neat idea. Beautiful anime style art. Made me laugh. Bought on sale.

I've played since beta, before moving my account through Steam... bottom line, if you don't have $50 to initially spend on this game, don't play it. You need to buy alot of support in order to play. Bare minimum the $10 skill slots. You only get 4 when you need 8, especially with the 10+ skills you use. If you do have the starting funds, it can be a great game. They ran my wallet dry, so, I can't really have fun anymore.. it's hard keeping up with the majority buying thier way to "win" and not letting you fight because they hog it all. Oh well.