SimCity BuildIt
BuildIt is a 2014 mobile city-building game developed and published by the American video game company Electronic Arts. The game is part of the SimCity franchise, and is available to download from the Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore, and the Apple App Store. This game allows players to solve real-life situations like fire, sewage, pollution, and traffic and helps deal with public problems.
Also recorded as SimCity: BuildIt
SimCity BuildIt
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- Model
- SimCity.
- Date
- 2014.
- Publisher
- SimCity BuildIt was published by Electronic Arts.
- Genre
- city-building game.
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BuildIt is a 2014 mobile city-building game developed and published by the American video game company Electronic Arts. The game is part of the SimCity franchise, and is available to download from the Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore, and the Apple App Store. This game allows players to solve real-life situations like fire, sewage, pollution, and traffic and helps deal with public problems.
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Development and release
Development and release
Players can connect and compete with other players for more connected gameplay.
Development for the game had started after the release of the 2013 massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) SimCity in an effort to develop a game quicker than prior installments and at a much higher profit margin. BuildIt also utilises assets from SimCity. In December 2014, the game was released on the App Store and Google Play.
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Reception
Review aggregator Metacritic indicated that Simcity BuildIt had received an average score rating of 76 out of 100, which indicates "mixed or average" reviews. In 2018, according to EA Mobile, SimCity: BuildIt became the most-played SimCity game ever. The game stayed in the top 10 in U.S. sim and strategy games on iOS platforms, in the top 100 for U.S. games overall, and in the top 150 games globally. PCMag's Tony Hoffman had praised the game for its offline play and "well-integrated online features.", but criticized the over-indulgence of currencies. Paul Hatton at TechRadar had felt that the game's user interface (UI) was "incredibly easy to navigate". However, the reviewer had criticized the game's "cash-grab ploy".
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- “SimCity: BuildIt”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.SimCity BuildIt – Free Mobile Game – EA Official Site – Electronic Arts EA.com › games › simcity-buildit. ea.com. January 13, 2017.
- 2.SimCity BuildIt – Apps on Google Play. play.google.com.
- 3.SimCity BuildIt:Amazon.co.uk:Appstore for Android. www.amazon.co.uk.
- 4.ARTS, ELECTRONIC. SimCity BuildIt. ELECTRONIC ARTS. January 22, 2018.
- 5.Bains, Callum. SimCity launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series. PC Gamer. Future plc. 7 March 2023.
- 6.O'Brien, Lucy. Bring London to Your City in SimCity BuildIt. IGN. 2015-11-25.
- 7.CBS Interactive. SimCity BuildIt for iPhone/iPad Reviews. Metacritic.
- 8.SimCity BuildIt – IGN. IGN.com. November 25, 2015.
- 9.SimCity BuildIt review – iPhone reviews Pocket Gamer. pocketgamer.co.uk. December 18, 2014.
- 10.Ford, Eric. 'SimCity BuildIt' Review – Actual City Planning Has Timers Too. TouchArcade. December 23, 2014.
- 11.SimCity BuildIt (for iPad) Review. PCMAG. September 5, 2017.
- 12.CBS Interactive. SimCity BuildIt for iPhone/iPad Reviews. Metacritic.
- 13.SimCity BuildIt – The Best Construction Game. August 15, 2019.
- 14.Hoffman, Tony. SimCity BuildIt (for iPad) Review. PCMag. 2017-09-05.
- 15.Hatton, Paul. I can’t remember a time when SimCity didn’t exist – now I’m hooked on the app version. TechRadar. 2025-03-09.
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