Last updated on December 7th, 2025 at 07:29 am
Pixel Plex: City Builder – Simulation Game Review
Pixel Plex: City Builder is a Simulation/Strategy game from Toast – Apps and Software LLC, first launched in 9th March 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,832+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pixel Plex: City Builder Stand Out
City Building with Friends!
Build, trade, and chill with friends in a relaxing city-building game where up to 40 players shape one bustling city together. No ads, no stress—just good vibes and creativity.
Team Up and Build Your Plex
Design and expand your Plex your way! Collaborate with friends to trade resources and create stunning city-wide projects, transforming your shared cityscape.
Grow Bigger and Higher
Choose from over 60 unique buildings that evolve as your city flourishes. Expand your Plex by buying more land and growing your businesses to new heights!
Trade and Profit in a Lively Market
Master the Plex Market by buying low and selling high. Trade resources at the Depot with your neighbors to maximize your wealth and influence.
Become the Mayor
Elections every two days keep things exciting! As mayor, your decisions shape the city—whether it's lowering taxes, boosting the market, or filling your pockets with extra cash.
Join Pixel Plex today—build your dream city and hang out with friends from all over the globe!
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pixel Plex: City Builder is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 27th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Update perks and store bundles
Download & Availability
Pixel Plex: City Builder is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Pixel Plex: City Builder on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game is literally perfect. You can play it almost anywhere, with friends, and its not a big pay to win and it has great mechanics.
Its one of the best games we have ever had played.
Wish it wouldn't delete your progress if you don't interact for a while. Makes us uncomfortable because of that. Otherwise not a bad game.
The in game premium currency can be randomly deleted.
Fantastic game and great time killer. We love being able to build with friends.
We think its really cool to share a world with other players non-combatively and be able to build and trade cant wait to see what gets added on.
We love the game and got a bunch of people wanting to play but cant because its not on android, if you want to get more clicks, try and consider the idea.
Recently, you changed the in-game texts from English into local regional language. Why? We didnt ask for this, we dont need it and we dont want it. There is no option to change language, not even an address to call for support. We want to be able to choose language at least.
We love the game design and simplicity. Very unique for a sim building city.
This game is a joy to play. Its not full of ads, you arent pestered to purchase packages to continue playing, but you have the option if you want it.
We love this so much and we play with our brothers.
This is a pretty fun and laid back game. It takes a little bit to get going but checking in once or twice a day is all you need to manage your city block.
Love the game. Very entertaining and a good game to just come back occasionally throughout the day. Our only issue is that the last few times Ive moved a building from 1 block to another and try to upgrade the building, it just takes the money without upgrading it. Its happened twice and cost us close to $10,000 before we realize it wasnt a connection issue. Not a big issue, just dont upgrade directly after moving. Unfortunate for the money but we still love this game.
This game is a lot of fun! It keeps you interested and engaged. Build/upgrade times arent long very reasonable. We see plenty of possible room for improvement and growth in future updates, excited to see what is in store for this fun lil game.
We get bored of regular games easy this keeps us entertained.
Very nice and detailed game would recommend.
We absolutely love this game combining a clicker, city builder, and community aspects of this game is so unique and very fun to play. Im curious if the developers have ever thought about giving city mayors the option to set a tax which would go into a city fund controlled by the current mayor at the time. This money could then be used for anything that the mayor saw fit. For instance they could put all of the money into the city projects to help boost that or if there was a city really struggling or a new city the mayor could allocate funds in order to help them. This would also create a more realistic version of politics where if the mayor wanted to they could allocate the funds form taxes into their own account in order to selfishly help themselves. We know next to nothing about closing or developing a game but just thought this would be a really cool dynamic to add.
Cant wait to see it keep getting developed.
Love the game. Easy to play and progress. But our city died and no new players join.
Its a lot of fun, but you cant play with friends unless everyone pays $6. Also, the time progression is pretty slow.
Game is fun to play but the start is slow to make money to buy other buildings and stuff.
Feels and plays like a great game, awesome art style and great interface. However, the main things that made us give it two stars is the paywall that locks a large part of content out, for example, you cant join two cities unless you pay one of the fees. Additionally, you progress extremely slow, you can only play for a couple minutes a day because of how slow you make money and are unable to do anything but sit and watch your little buildings. Even early game, there is so little to do, and it will take months to get to the next level. If the dev ends up reading this, drop some of the pay barriers, add more to do, and MAKE PROGRESSION FASTER. This game has quite a bit of potential and we would hate to see it go to waste. Ill check back in a bit.
This game is as in depth or simple as you want it to be but it really shines when you play together with friends. Run for mayor and set policies of trade with each other or just watch each other grow. Eventually you advance to mars and build another city there which has been our favorite part. They also host sped up events where everyone competes to have the highest population as fast as possible for actual decent prizes. The devs have been constantly updating and active in their discord so Im excited to see where else this game goes, hope another planet after mars lol definitely recommend.
It definitely takes some thought. Us our husband our sister and sister in law are all playing together and all have different strategies and doing good but have times where we start struggling and need each others help. It wouldnt be the same if nobody else was involved in the community. Not one person can thrive without others playing as well. Not as well at least.
This game is a more relaxed Sim City. Easy to play, easy to learn, but still challenging.
Got swindled by our friends into downloading this game. Thought it was just a clicker at first, but became very interested in the city planning aspect. End game turns into a base builder simulator where youre managing points vs income. Events were super sweaty when we were competing but we recently participated in one for some extra pixels and see its died down a bit. Very fun game. Always grateful for updates and new additions.
We dominated our rivals. Our city ruled over them all.
This game has so much potential, it is a very slow moving game but it is very fun and casual game to check up on with your friends. Think of different modes to add like wars from ai or from ur friends. Think of police and firestation like someone said. Just more buildings in general. Very fun game KEEP UPDATING PLEASE YOU HAVE FANS KEEP UPDATING TO GROW.
The mansion bulding (with residents to speed up building time) does not work. It changes the time, but after the revisd time is up it starts to count up instead of down.
Still has numerous bugs that require you to reload the game. You can build car washes if you spend pixels at lvl 8 but you cant build condos that car wash workers want to live in until lvl 9. Buy shares on the plex market? Better remember what you paid because it doesnt tell you your margin or anything. Just lazy.
5 stars overall, just needs a few updates. Add a vote to kick feature so cities dont get overrun.
The ability to play with friends is the best part of this game. Anyone who likes the pocket tycoon type of games has to try this one out. We have been playing for a couple of weeks with a few friends and we are all enjoying the shared growth that the game allows you to explore, for example one person can focus on housing while another focuses on industrial. What we would love is a more competitive aspect, where islands can interact with each other and you can see your standing compared to other islands around your rating. Being able to trade with other islands would be a cool addition. Regardless, the current state of the game is amazing and we think anyone should take a look at the unique collaborative aspect that just isnt the same in any other tycoon games we have played.
Ive never loved a game as much as this one. Its the game ive grown addicted to the more we play. We have absolutely zero negative feelings towards this game except for one small thing NO FIRE, POLICE, SANITATION. If this game made it so there was fire and police stations as well as a sanitation plate or electrical plant. If each of these buildings would only have the range of the 8 plexes they touch then it makes you make better plans and adds a great detail of realism to the game. Would be so much more entertaining.
There arent any ads which is definitely nice but theres no way to to turn off sound and the game is generally buggy. Buildings dont swap places well, and pixel spending is glitchy. For example, we once rushed an upgrade for 1 pixel, was charged 10 and the building didnt even finish upgrading. We had to spend the 1 pixel again after that.
Great idle management game. The social aspect is the best part, with having to work with your city. It would be cool if one city could actively compete with other cities , for small rewards. Not sure how big player counts are tho.
Would be nice if we can rotate buildings please.
Our roommates and we have had such a good time building a city together we just wish for 2 things: bigger, taller buildings and a little bit faster of a progression. Its gonna be hard to make our town feel like a city when the buildings dont get very tall.
Honestly one of the best mobile games we have played to date. Installed it 4/5 months ago and have not looked back.
It is simple at first but ramps up in complexity. It is a blast, we usually only check it a few times a day. You can tell the devs really had a vision and pursued it. Our only question is, is it still being updated.
Ive never left a review on the app store before, but we really love this game. Its easy if you are busy with your every day life, you can check in see whats up, upgrade your stuff and leave. Ive got our friends and family into it and they all have multiple cities they participate in. Ive been playing consistently for about 4-5 months which is longer than any iPhone game we have played before. Our only complaint is the event system. We like playing the events but Ive given up completely on them. It is nearly impossible to get first place and win an Event only building. Im not in school and Im not a kid ( no disrespect ) we cant sit on our phone all day and make sure we win. Our suggestion is this. Make an event shop. Reconfigure the whole way events work. You should get Event Points based on your placement in the event, and there should be an Event Shop opened up in which you can spend your points for the Event Locked buildings. Make every building a certain amount of event points that way you can save your points up across multiple events, and still have access to the better buildings. Also there needs to be a way to implement suggestions within the game so more people can give their ideas! Id rate 5 stars if it wasnt for the simple fact Ill never be able to unlock Event Buildings.
Love the game. Our gf and we have started our own city and we play everyday. Been like this for about a year. Great with friends and even joining new lobbies for the heck of it. The updates. Ohhh the updates. Stock exchange building now takes away the ability for brand new (and older) players to play with and explore the markets UNLESS the building is constructed. Unnecessary. A barn was recently put into the game for starting players to increase storage. Decent but the warehouse was fine the way it was. And now, warehouses cost 8-10x what they used to, with horrible upgraded storage AND an increased requirement for level just to purchase. Its almost not even worth getting one except for a lvl 1 warehouse. Ive upgraded ours to lvl 3 now, both, and have received a total of 2k storage. Back before the barn and the broken and HIGHLY expensive warehouse update, we used to get around 5-6k extra storage at that level. So very very very UNNECESSARY.
The game is very fun and doesnt require that much thinking. You could login 2 times a day for like 5 min and progress. However, it takes forever for some buildings and at the start it does take awhile to get things going. One thing we dont like is how some items are locked behind events as Im not trying to grind for sowmthing that hard and its really hard to win the events.
The game has the opportunity to be huge but we think the slow money generation is very limiting to peoples enjoyment of the game. Ive only been playing for a little bit but the fact that all of your money generation happens hourly is a really big roadblock Im how much we can actually enjoy this game. Maybe just a small increase to how fast the money generates and a more obvious counter of when your next pay check is.
A great game to pass the time. You should also play there other game. Mafia.
Really fun game we feel like we are always getting more excited about the game.
We love this game so much but its only on iOS.
Overall, a great game with steady pace. Would like more content in future updates.
We really enjoy this game, our only real issues are that no one has joined our city in weeks and we need to restart the app to to see the resources we've collected.
We have been looking for a group game like this but we feel like the game progression is wayyy to slow im only on the app for 2 seconds then im off it again waiting for more resources. We want to get all our friends into it but the game is too slow paced for a lot of them.
This game is awesome but needs a fee minor things including a timer so we can see how long until the next hour trend on the stock market.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 5.5
- Size: 116.42 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, KO, PT, RU, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Toast – Apps and Software LLC
Last updated: 27th October 2025 | Genre: Simulation, Strategy | Developer: Toast – Apps and Software LLC