Last updated on December 10th, 2025 at 02:45 pm
Upland: City-Builder – Simulation Game Review
Upland: City-Builder is a Simulation/Strategy game from Uplandme, Inc, first launched in 22nd December 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 4,782+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Upland: City-Builder Stand Out
Build Real-World Cities That Last Forever
Play a completely new type of simulation game: Upland is the real-world city-builder where your progress never resets and every decision shapes living neighborhoods. Enter a persistent, shared map of actual places—from New York to Paris—where you plan, build, and trade in a thriving player-driven economy.
Unlike traditional city builders, your properties are tied to real addresses and stay with you permanently. Your strategic choices create lasting impact in this revolutionary city-building tycoon sim.
Strategic City Building
• Plan your empire – Scout new city openings and choose prime neighborhoods
• Optimize collections – Build strategic property portfolios for maximum returns
• Real-world context – Own your childhood home, Times Square, or the Eiffel Tower
Build Cities That Matter
• Design lasting structures – Create buildings, décor, and styles that define your skyline
• Shape neighborhoods – Your constructions influence entire districts
• Never resets – Everything you build remains permanently in the world
Player-Driven Economy
• Trade with real players – Buy, sell, and swap virtual properties
• Run your business – Open shops in your buildings and add service structures
• Digital ownership – The digital assets you create or acquire: they are yours, and you're free to sell them and earn real-world value
Compete & Collaborate
• Join neighborhood teams – Work together on massive city projects
• Climb leaderboards – Prove your strategy in global competitions
• Community events – Participate in limited-time challenges and rewards
Play Anywhere, Always
• Cross-platform progress – Seamlessly switch between mobile and web
• Email-only signup – Start building in seconds
• Persistent world – Your cities evolve 24/7, even when you're offline
Perfect For Strategy Fans
Ideal if you love city sims, tycoon games, management strategy, town builders, or location-based gameplay. Combines the depth of complex city simulators with the social dynamics of MMO gaming.
Join a thriving global community of 3M+ players building collaborative cities mapped to the real world since 2019.
Disclosure: Digital ownership refers to in-game assets only.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Upland: City-Builder is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
General improvements and bugfixes
Download & Availability
Upland: City-Builder is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Upland: 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:
Loving the game cant wait for 1 month so we can sell some properties for usd and cash out to properties for usd and cash out to paypal.
Upland is great for creating a conversation & community about real estate in a cyber world before kids are faced with it as adults. Its a great tool for connecting people & products & real world & digital world items like art & products & services.
Hard at the start because its a bit confusing but when you get used to it youre gonna have fun.
Its very early in the game so if we can truly progress by being good and not having to spend real money that would be great.
Im enjoying playing the game and buying properties in the meta verse its a hobby.
Been playing for a couple of years and the new features are great just definitely need to learn how to treasure hunt. But we love it.
Has a lot more to do than we expected there to be. Hopefully it will keep us entertained for a while.
Very interested concept backed by blockchain with real world association.
Im blown away by how innovative and clean this game is. You get our kudos for sure.
Looking forward to explore this virtual world of Upland more. So far Im hooked.
Adult monopoly and much much slower but fun.
This app is so cool , we feel like it should be the only app on iPhone not just like any other app, we earn weekly $10 above , we think every one need this app.
This is a good game and we hope it goes very very far. Ive played for like 10 min and Im already addicted.
Its a fun game to play. The NFT aspect is what we really enjoy and the fact that you can see the real life address that you purchase we cant wait to start adding properties onto our properties. We just bought and would love to have them manufacturing plant the future looks Bright.
So far we are having a great experience.
Wake up color avatar small change. Different no time to collective. But however love displays changes new navigation. View and understanding seems filters. Likable colorful and beautifully.
Fun game to play and its earning crypto.
A lot going on here but once you get started and get going it downs take long to figure things out. Enjoy and buy what you like.
We love this game had it about a year.
Love it we work on road and where we travel we always buy properties.
Love it, love it Love it, love Love it, love Love it, love Love it, love it.
Great game to play on phone. We love looking for properties to buy and treasure hunting.
Been around since the game first started, and the amount of updates and features are well worth your time.
We love it this , and we also can make extra $$$.
We were hoping this game would be similar to Sims still trying to figure it out.
This game is so much fun. We love Upland app.
It could have a lot more service done to it! But it already has a lot!! And the stones that have been laid are solid, foundations. This can lead the project to having being more realized as in its features seem very beta but the app and vision itself solid. Football, legits, property collections but you can like go into them virtually yet. There is cafes and within one of them is a cool documentary about train rides but no virtual coffee ..yet.
Gonna take a minute if strictly f2p, but cool if youre just getting into crypto/metaverse.
We have used COIN app for years. Im a conviction player and its one of our favorite coins. Thats how we were introduced to Upland. We purchased some of your coin and then checked out the game from there.
Great way to own something even if its virtual its a limited resource and may go up in value someday. Thank you good application.
Still dont know whats happening.
If this app provides us with income in the future Ill be happy.
Quickly getting the hang of it. Slight learning curve but pretty cool.
This the only app that you can really make money on. It takes time of course. The money you generate with patience will go to your game platform and straight to your PayPal. Ive been using this game for a few years we stopped but now Ill get back to it. We use to think that it was a scam but the only one who was the scam was ourselves being impatient scamming ourselves. Ive never had a problem with payouts here. And Ive had some nice size payouts not thousands but a few hundred here and there. People please dont disrespect these creators for trying to fatten their pockets and give us access to a platform that can help us with the right strategy. Thanks upland for giving us exposure to the virtual, crypto, nft etc. World. We knew none of this 2years ago.
Atlas earth is better. This doesnt have enough properties. Too expensive. Not worth the time. Spark is crashing anyway.
So far so good. We dont have a whole lot to say. Im still very new to the game.
Very confused on what Im doing, but its a great game.
Tons of fun and how awesome u earn money as well.
What a wonderful way to view the metaverse in a different way.
We unfortunately do not recommend this app. Its not worth it and its impossible to do anything f2p.
Different and hopefully not pay to win.
Im just got started and we are have so much fun.
We can have a second life at the same time of our real life. Thats awesome. We strongly recommend it.
Great opportunity to grow your pro-folio great game.
But this platform can be fastest than now.
Sickest game honestly so much fun for us.
Engaging. Fun. Detailed. Surprising. Open world. Creative.
Its a really nice game you do have to spend money to earn money but once you know what your doing you start doing pretty well for yourself and we learned what Im doing from YouTube videos and doing research before we started buying properties but anyways really nice game 10/10.
Still learning how to play the game thou.
But theres a LOT to this and it takes a while to get through everything and figure it all out. Havent tried to see how the game earns income or anything yet.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.77
- Size: 71.29 MB
- iOS: 15.6 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Uplandme, Inc
Last updated: 5th December 2025 | Genre: Simulation, Strategy | Developer: Uplandme, Inc