Last updated on November 27th, 2025 at 02:42 pm
City Island 4 Simulation Town – Strategy Game Review
City Island 4 Simulation Town is a Strategy/Entertainment/Simulation game from Sparkling Society Games B.V., first launched in 26th December 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 2,915+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes City Island 4 Simulation Town Stand Out
Play the most popular city building game series on mobile! In this new City Island game, City Island 4- Simulation Town: Expand the Skyline, town building has never been more fun! You’ll be the tycoon to grow a small village on one island into a virtual world on multiple islands. No internet required to play.
Discover new islands, expand your town and city life, keep your citizens happy, manage transportation and enjoy a virtual world full of quests! Join over 50 million players that played the City Island series so far. The game is highly rated for its awesome detailed graphics and realism. Place buildings and decorations strategically to keep the cash flowing and your city growing. Watch your islands come to life, in the snow, rain and sun, night and day! Manage and expand your city on the go – both online and offline playable.
With over 85 million downloads and over 10 city building games, Sparkling Society is -despite a small but really passionate team- one of the biggest City Builder Simulation Game developers of the world
City Island 4- Simulation Town: Expand the Skyline
Following the high rated "City Island 3: Building Sim" town builder game, City Island 4 is the fourth game in a very popular series of city building tycoon games. You start on an empty island with little cash and gold, and then you need to manage and grow your village to a small town or city and even further into a megapolis. If you like city buildings games, with 300+ awesome buildings with extreme detail, City Island 4 is your best choice. Join the world’s most popular building simulation game.
As mayor, you need to solve real life challenges like buildings maintenance, fires, provide services and other community needs to keep your citizens happy, boost your population with parks and decorations, provide transportability with roads, railways with trains, walking paths, canals, docks and cargo ships and solve fun challenges with friends to grow and shape your society.
FEATURES
- Easy to play building sim game
- Build and decorate beautiful islands of your own archipelago with more than 300 unique items, be creative!
- Fun FREE to play tycoon game
- Tablet support
- HIGH QUALITY graphics
- Intuitive gameplay with challenging tasks, rewards and achievements
- Enjoy fun quests to help you create your own virtual paradise
- Currencies: gold and cash, pirate chests
- Attract citizens with parks, trees, a railway with trains, boats, decorations and community buildings
- Collect profit from your commercial buildings
- Upgrade your city buildings
- Help your citizens and townsmen build a city on this exotic island story
- Unlock transport to new islands
- Collect XP and level up to unlock a new building for construction
- Collect dozens of REWARDS while playing
- Expand your city to create more room for constructing more buildings, transport and progress your village to a metropolis with tall buildings
- Speed up construction / upgrade time
- Lots of adventure, pirate chests and quests to unlock
- Expand your city
- Many hours of free fun
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, City Island 4 Simulation Town is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Download & Availability
City Island 4 Simulation Town is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get City Island 4 Simulation Town 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:
We would have given the game 5 stars for a simulation game if it were not for 1 major item. We must move our buildings and homes in order to clear property expansion. If we had the ability to rotate the game board, a 5 star would have been given.
Fun but too much expensive. Also a couple of things have disappeared that we paid for like the soccer field. This needs to be fixed asap. Since everything on your game is so expensive it just adds insult to injury when things we pay for vanish.
Half the time when they offer to watch a video, or double your reward for gold, once you sit through the video half the time they dont give you the promised reward.
Fun game in the beginning but Im on level 85 and have lots of cash and gold but there is no more expansions available and our islands are full so no way to spend it. Also the graphics are bad and we have buildings that are covering each other like a silhouette. We asked for help buy just was told they would check it out but never heard anything back.
Good game, takes it easy on the micro-transaction nonsense for the most part. Relaxing as it isnt overly complex with crazy happiness algorithms. First game Ive been able o tolerate in a long time.
Hi, this is good game but it needs a few things. 1) Building variations: we would want variations for some buildings, mostly skyscrapers. For example, the level 13 skyscraper for desert areas. We want it to have a variation for grass. 2) Lower prices for gold (in buildings, not the shop): we want some buildings to have a lower gold price (like why would you need 49 gold just for a skyscraper). It wastes time to grind gold using achievements. 3) A 3D rotator (like in SimCity Buildit): It is easier to build with a 3D rotator. Games like SimCity and our City: Entertainment Tycoon have it and its very useful. 4) MORE SKYSCRAPERS/Apartments: we would like more skyscrapers or apartments, as we are more interested in skyscrapers and apartments than houses. And thats pretty much all we want. We hope you implement some of these things to your game. Anyways this is a good game.
We love this game, but it gets expensive when not enough funds are given. The wooden chest box just loads and wont allow you to open it. The game could be a lot more fun and fictional with some improvements.
Why did you guys take away the Beauty Shop, Candy Shop, Toy Shop ECT.
Very quick to learn. Very few sales screens. Just be a little patient and you can go far for little or no real money.
We have only been playing for a couple days, but Im enjoying our time when we are playing.
Great way to kill some time. Good game good graphics and you dont have to sync a lot of money into it to advance. Thats why we give it a five out of five. *Caution this is not a game that youre going to play for hours on end. But checking in on your city every once in a while keepYou progressing and happy.
When you click on the chest and go to free one to watch video it is ALWAYS waiting video isnt available even with Wi-Fi on. It would be nice if theyd fix this.
We really enjoy this game, but a couple of things we dont care for. Is the tool bars we wish could be minimized and the wooden chest to collect shows no video. Its been a couple of days with that doing that. Otherwise everything is awesome including the graphics . We want to give 5 stars but we will give 4.
Why is the treasure chest always broken.
We Just started playing this game less than a week and half of our structures are missing,tried contacting developers,but no response so far.It is a fairly good game otherwise.
After a while we cannot get the game to work properly, it doesnt do anything but take the money.
So, if we have city advisor, it makes the game worster. The City advisor wastes your money rich to hobo.
When we upgrade our profitable buildings, even to level 6, it till says 0 profit. Every time we go to upgrade them, it has a number in blue with a plus sign in front of it, for example +988, when after the upgrade is over it still says O profit. We have spent so many bucks on them. We need help.
Every 4 hours a free chest but no video hahaha lol.
This game should give an option to regain you progress. Ive lost everything and no help was received after contacting.
The communication is terrible! If they dont want to take care if this game get it off if the Apple store.
We enjoy playing this game. We like building and planning out things. We just wish there was other ways of earning money besides whats available now. But other than that, its a fun game.
In other games, spending game tokens on decorations seems like a waste. Not here! Place any size park near a building and receive a boost in whatever that building is good for. The boost is, of course, commensurate with the size of the park. The parks also enhance the look of the island too. We held back on the fifth star because the screen is too cramped. The buttons and information plaques take up too much space and are too easily triggered. Neaten it up and we would call the game excellent.
We are playing all the games at once. Its fun and passes the time for us, especially during these times of social isolation when its hard to go anywhere . We wish they would do cities of the future, you can have several planets to design cities.
Cada da joden mas los juegos hasta para coger el bal hay que ver un video si es gratis por que no puedes conseguir ni oro.
We are only giving this a four star rating. There are too many pop ups that interrupt the game play. Also the chest is suppose to be available every 4 hours and l am lucky to get it once every 24 hours. Once these issues are resolved then it can get a 5 star rating.
We just made a purchase of your sale price of 500 gold/ $19.00 and our purchase did not load to our game even though it said its all Set. Please make this right or please refund our money. Friendcode is4i-53gm. Purchase date is 10/03/2020 Thank you.
Need to earn money faster and especially once gold is the only way to build.
Hi we youre game takes.soooooooo long to dounloading.
Ive waited 1 year for it to load and it is still loading please fix this or report.
Pretty good not bad tho we like it.
When we first started playing it worked well. After we opened our third and fourth island it really started lagging badly then would crash and shut down. Now it won't even open at all.
Used to enjoy this entertainment BUT NO MORE. PROGRAM NOW DEMANDS WE WATCH ADVERTISEMENTS EVERY SINGLE DAY. Deleted the program as a waste of time. Need to rate zero stars. Does not earn the one.
It doesnt compare to the old SimCity games, but nothing really does. A lot of fun and you dont need to spend money.
If you are thinking of downloading a city simulated get this one. Why? Easy to learn You dont have to spend money inside of the game In order to progress Fun.
We understand everyone has to make money and thats how companies exist. However, when we started playing, it was solely the random pop up ads that would strategically pop up as we were clicking (fair we accepted that) and for extra gold. Now there is an ad to collect a wooden chest? And an ad wont even load so we cant accept that? Why? We mean, its the most simple city builder you can imagine where the happiness doesnt even matter once you get to a certain point but we enjoyed nonetheless. Im truly annoyed will be deleting. Dont download.
As time go on all they want you to do is watch videos to get your chest. Getting gold gets harder and harder but if you watch their videos promoting other games you can get some. Going downhill fast. Im considering just walking away at this point Ill find a different game due to all the changes.
We play this all day but we wish it was easier to get some gold.
This is a very fun game that brings out your creativity.
Awesome sauce, great time passer and you can play literally any and everywhere! Thank you kindly team.
Wow. These developers know how to tantalize their players. We have already spent over $20 on this game. Thank you developers, we are having a blast playing this game and having a blast. Thanks you. Awesome Devs.
Easy to play, fun and addicting.
Just you can get more gold rewards for watching videos.
We mean its pretty good and all but, IT is not very specific of what thing it can do.
We like it and its comprehensive enough, however, the pop up ads are extremely annoying. We find ourselves trying to collect a resource and suddenly Im being moved to the App Store very annoying.
This game is fun but the buildings, business, and homes need to be at lot more modern and the creator needs to add more homes hope that happens soon.
Needs disasters.other than that its pretty good.we would give it five stars but the game needs natural disasters.so please add natural disasters.
The game glitches. Cant get rid of trees and bushes to expand town because it wont highlight when you click them. Deleting.
This game is so good you can build city and it has the islands you can unlock to have more space we recommend you if youre looking for a game with city get this one.
This game is the only game Ive liked in years! Lot like Sim city back in the day.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.6.0
- Size: 301.22 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: AR, DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, FA, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, TR, VI
- Content Advisory: Loot Boxes
- Developer: Sparkling Society Games B.V.
Last updated: 14th October 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Entertainment | Developer: Sparkling Society Games B.V.