Last updated on December 8th, 2025 at 03:40 pm
Designer City 2 – Simulation Game Review
Designer City 2 is a Simulation game from Sphere Game Studios Ltd, first launched in 30th May 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 3,700+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Designer City 2 Stand Out
Design and Build Your Ultimate City Skyline in Designer City 2
Tired of waiting in other city games? In this free offline city building simulator there are no timers or energy bars – you control the pace. Design and build your dream town, evolve it into a city, and expand into a massive metropolis with a unique city skyline.
BUILD YOUR DREAM CITY
Construct houses, apartments and skyscrapers to attract residents. Zone commercial and industrial areas to provide jobs. Add parks, schools, hospitals, police and fire stations to keep citizens safe, happy and productive.
CREATE YOUR SKYLINE
Design a city skyline filled with world landmarks, monuments and over 2,000 unique buildings. Shape the land by raising mountains, carving rivers, or creating coastlines. Every city is unique, every skyline different.
CITY MANAGEMENT & STRATEGY
This is more than just a casual builder—it’s a city tycoon simulator. Balance jobs and housing, manage resources, control pollution, and deploy services efficiently. Build complex transportation systems with roads, highways, railways and subways to keep traffic flowing.
EXPAND BEYOND THE CITY
Boost your economy with airports, seaports and farms. Explore military and space programs to add extra depth to your growing city empire.
PLAY OFFLINE OR ONLINE
Designer City 2 is completely free to play and works offline. No internet connection needed, no energy bars, no timers. Play your way, whenever you want.
THE ULTIMATE CITY BUILDER
If you love city building games, town builders, city simulators, tycoon games or skyline design, Designer City 2 gives you endless freedom. Build again and again on new landscapes with the city reset feature.
Download today and start your city building adventure. Free, offline and without limits, this is the city skyline game you’ve been waiting for.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Designer City 2 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 13th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Many new buildings have been added.
Reduced the costs for building multiple of the same building.
Improved building placement.
Many fixes and improvements.
Download & Availability
Designer City 2 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Designer City 2 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 loved how you can expand your land in any way, and you can buy most of the buildings. One suggestion though, can you please add more airport variants and more skyscraper optional.
This is so great. It gives you creativity and freedom to build a city.
Hi yall, CoopMan2121 here. We just want to say that if you are reading this, GET THIS GAME. Its absolutely amazing. The graphics are awesome, game barely ever crashes (and if it does your city is saved.) Lots and lots and LOTS of buildings. Also, transportation is a big part. Passenger trains, cargo trains, cargo ships, planes, F-18s; even Apache helicopters! Empire State Building, Burj Khalifa, you name it. If its a famous building, its on there! Great game, really complex but easy to quickly understand. Analytics and stats, its awesome. Sphere Game Studios, you have outdone yourselves on this game. Great job guys! CoopMan2121 P.S make sure to check out our city! (Empire City).
This game is super fun. We suggest adding the Shanghai Tower. Highly recommendedAlso, what we most desire is to be able to create many different worlds. Otherwise, if one map is fully filled, there won't be any desire to continue playingsupport you.
We hope the developer can add Chinese.
Trees on path disappear when zoomed out. They glitch through buildings momentarily when zoomed in.
Tysm for releasing this game it makes us so happy Im going do it again.
Im having a problem securing our city. After we put in our email we get the code number. We type in the numbers and there is no return key to allow us to confirm the code. Any suggestions.
We keep getting a message saying newer save detected.saving has been disabled so now our progress will be lost if we move forward. Dont know what to do.
Can you add sandbox mode please also this is short because we accidentally deleted our other review. PS: im only 9 so cant go on discord or stuff like that (you would do anything for a child right :).
We love this game and love architecture, but there is one skyscraper we want you to add, can you add the legends tower and boardwalk at brick-town into the game as a mix used building.
When we got this game, we instantly fell in love with it. It explains its mechanics way better than the first game. Instead of just dropping you in an unfamiliar environment, with little to no direction, this game eases you in, with goals and challenges that guide you through the basics of Designer City 2. On top of that, this game has a WAY larger selection of buildings to choose from. You unlock buildings by leveling up, and, if you use the in-game currency, can unlock them early, which we think is fair. However, there are some bugs. The game can crash at random intervals, and Im not sure why. There are also some smaller bugs that arent that relevant. Overall, with just some minor polishing, this has the potential to be one of the best mobile games Ive ever played. And its already ours. Thank you for coming to our TedTalk.
The gameplay was nice and kinda simple! 1000x better then SimCity.
Far and away the best app for building a city. We do wish they pumped out updates more frequently to keep it interesting – but – its truly a great game.
This game is so great we literally just got this game and we already have 1,000 people and Ada are not a problem we only got one ad so far! GET THIS GAME ASAP.
This game is good but we dont like the way it makes us pay so maybe make it easier to get gold coins but expect for that is super fun.
One of the key points in this game is to create a good looking city. Designer City 2 the water is very shallow because you can see the ground through the water is also less blue. In Designer City 1, the water is a deep blue, making it deep. This creates depth, and makes your city look better.
Its a great game, and we like how you start off with a lot of money overall great game/gameplay/Quality thanks.
YALL GAME IS SOO GOOD YALL NEED A UPDATE TO MAKE THE GAME MORE REALISTIC.
We hope to update the Chinese characters, because most Chinese children like urban building games, which are very puzzles, and parents will also be very relieved to let their children play mobile phones. Thank you.
We like this game, pretty good and you have the option to make your city however you want, we think they should add new building like the Willis tower in Chicago, the Steinway tower, the new JP Morgan chase offices in NYC, the U.S. Bank tower in Los Angeles, the Trump tower in NYC of the Aston Martin tower in Miami.
We like be case its like have your own city make how like it that why.
Fun, but if youre OCD, these changes would be helpful to not drive you nuts 1. Water, allow us to place more than 1 at a time. 2. Landscaping rocks, geysers, and hot springs would help to fix imperfections with multiple mountains or just adding depth. 2. If you pull something out of your warehouse, auto take from the warehouse if you have more than 1 building. Its a pain to find an item, place it and then find it again for each item. 3. Roads allow overpasses and tunnels the ability to turn. So you can create an exit curve. 4. Allow the items that can be placed in water the ability to change from land or sea without having to move it. 5. Better color choices. Preferably better sand, grass and the ground designs.
We love this game so much because we really like cityscapes we like just cities in general and we can name our own city. We can build our own city. We can customize it however we want, but sometimes it gets hard with the money because sometimes you get well. Low on cash so you cant like expand your city and that kind of frustrates us a little bit but we just built toll roads and that fixes the problem for us. And we love this game.
We wish you didnt have to single place like shops and houses just make it like city skylines.
Well, firstly we really enjoyed this city game, but after months of building our city (on IPad), it started crashing. Support told us that our IPad had low RAM. So, we just purchased a new Android gaming tablet (with a lot of Ram) and its still crashing. Seems like you might need to use a full gaming computer to deal with this game. Too complex for us average folks. See ya.
Its honestly really fun to play designer City 2. And one thing we like about the game is expanding and making your city bigger and building skyscrapers all of that fun stuff. That we enjoy and another thing that is frustrating for us is when you dont have that much money and you just really wanna build something thats kind of expensive in terms of the game currency, but thats kind of been a little hard for us With the big idea we have for our city. Its already as big as we imagined, but we wanna expand and its kind of easy in this game and just we really enjoy the game. Its pretty fun. We would definitely definitely give it a five star review.
Add other Times Square buildings to the game 2 and 1 Times Square 50 gold others 55 Add Jeddah tower – premium – arcology Add Willis Tower – premium,special -commercial (150 gold) Add Rockefeller center – special – commercial (100 gold) Add transamerica pyramid and sales force tower – premium – arcology.
It's so easy you can reach the END of the terrain!!! You can be the top one! We were outside the top 500 but K.
Awesome game! We have been playing it how days without stopping! It would be great to add street events like parades or protests throughout the city! It would add to the game.
We have three days a week that Im at the hospital for dialysis. This is a great game for killing time. We had kind of a hard time finding the different buildings and how to get more of them, but we figured that out. We used to play SimCity back in the day and this game is the closest we found coming to SimCity.
This game is very calming and helps us strategize.
We realize this game is a little more difficult than DC, but our main issue is with options. The first game had waaaaay more option for buildings. This one has very limited options for Just about every category. And still no highwayswe need highways!! Please. And maybe more options for terrain. We like the option to raise land in this game but it limits you on what you can build as well. Looking forward to DC3.
This is nice! No ads, but let us tell you a secret, there is a infinite land glitch.
The game has a rating of 5 stars apart from the fact that building a house or an ice cream stop reduces the happiness like how? It is better than SimCity at least because we dont have to do the work of building the entire houses. The level and xp thing is much better than SimCitys version. Good thing we start with 2M cash and talking about cash it is not a problem when playing this. Just keep building you will earn cash by leveling up. We like the fact that buildings that cost good have free upgrades it is an absolutely awesome upgrade to add in a this game. In the en we give this a 4.7 rounded up to 5. :).
Shockingly huge game. So far no issues and no paywall.
Love the game easy to use. However we wish the map can be rotated and the lack of more cash based buildings leaves a lot to be desired. Yes the gold priced building are great. But earning gold can be tiresome.
The game is great we know the graphics look bad but we seen worse But we would at least like different music like calming still pretty fun.
Would make this game playable for people with one usable hand, or for others who play while laying down. Vertical orientation is perfect for these styles of games and other game developers have implemented this as well.
We think they steal models from designer city 1 and turned into poo poo plastic buildings and in the residential section in towers they stole it from Roblox buildings in city tycoon.
It is a fun game and we love how the game works like in most games you do not get free money and we like how you can do challenges to earn more money and homes, works, and parks so we think this game is really good.
When we first saw this game, we though, oh, Ill just see if it is good or not, but it is amazing, 10x better than Sim City Buildit. You dont need 20 different things that take 6 hours to make in the same building to make a house, all you need is money, and you get 2+ mil. To start. All around 5 stars is an understatement. 10/10 would recommend playing.
This game is amazing! We instantly got addicted (in a good way) and at first didnt have any issues. But as we started making our cities bigger and better, we noticed a few problems. One thing we found was annoying was how the roads work. In one of our cities the roads were really glitchy and we couldnt connect many of our roads. Also, the graphics, in our opinion, could have been done a bit better, but are still pretty good. Overall, this is a great game and we would definitely recommend trying this game if youre not sure about getting it, even though there are a few bugs.
We got this game a while ago and, there are glitches + theres not a lot of ways to get money with out buying it with real money or watching a add. Glitchy.
NO Restaurants beside the 7 original? Same old restaurants since lemonade stand 4 updates ago. Boring. Who runs this game now.
We can disappear into our own little world. We think the buildings are fantastic. So many options. Fun to just imagine and design. One thing Id think would be cool is incorporating freight trains and rail yards. Thanks for the game play even away from WI-FI.
We wonder why cant everything be free. It is still the best city game. You can build so much but if you delete a building you dont get the xp back.
We are a huge city building game fan. We are DEFINITELY a fan of this game. Already spent a few dollars in an in-app purchase to show gratitude.
Its a great game but we suggest you to add things like Player can move the map around like 3D not 2d Add sound of the city in it not just music the city have no sound! And improve the animations of trains, npcs walking, cars and the side walk too npcs are walking on grass And add things like car accident and stuff like that into the game But however the game have lots of potential but it needs to improve much much more.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: v1.52
- Size: 270.82 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Sphere Game Studios Ltd
Last updated: 13th November 2025 | Genre: Simulation | Developer: Sphere Game Studios Ltd