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• BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sim City 4 is the best version of the Sim City games, and is 75% off on GOG right now, $5 / £4.

  Cities Skylines 1 is the best modern city builder, 3D and a lot of fun plus well designed. But only really worth it when it’s on sale; lots of DLC and overpriced as a package when not on sale. Avoid Cities Skylines 2 - it’s just not fun and hasn’t been fixed - maybe they will one day fix but I doubt it 2.5 years in..

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  • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Imagine what Cities Skylines could have been without Paradox’s super monetization plan

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    • recursivethinking@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lol I was just thinking “this sounds like Stellaris” then you say it’s Paradox

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pssst…just pirate it with all DLC.

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  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The original developer has literally been pulled off of Cities Skylines 2. Maybe the little developer that Paradox put on it to crank out DLCs will do a good job and fix it, but I doubt it.

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  • auntieclokwise@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And don’t forget the Network Addon Mod for Sim City 4. Improves traffic simulation and adds a whole bunch of new sorts of transportation stuff. It’s really the expansion pack Sim City 4 never had.

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• ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cities and Skylines isn’t too far off from that sim city 2000 vibe, if you need a fix

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The GoG version of SimCity 2000 runs fine in wine. The originals, not so much.

    appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applica…

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  • negativenull@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll check that out! Thanks for the rec!

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just avoid cities skylines 2. It’s just a cash grab

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      • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        IMO the painful thing about it is that it was clearly just too ambitious of a simulation and they made it unmanageable, so then they backpedaled and made it too easy by having a lot of the systems automatically balance themselves (electricity from neighboring cities, for instance)

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