Last updated on November 27th, 2025 at 07:10 am
Designer City – Simulation Game Review
Designer City is a Simulation game from Sphere Game Studios Ltd, first launched in 12th August 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 7,436+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Designer City Stand Out
Free Offline City Building Game – No Wait Times! Tired of waiting to build? In this free offline city building game there are no timers—you control the pace. Design your city, expand your skyline, and create a thriving metropolis with 2,000+ landmarks and skyscrapers.
BUILD YOUR CITY, YOUR WAY
Construct houses, apartments and skyscrapers to attract residents. Create jobs with commercial and industrial buildings. Add city services, sports, leisure and community buildings, parks and decorations to keep everyone happy. Design a unique city skyline filled with landmarks, monuments and world-famous towers.
BECOME A CITY TYCOON
Happy citizens work harder and generate more income for you to reinvest. Manage transportation networks of roads, railways, subways and highways to keep people moving. Build airports, seaports and farms to boost business, trade and food supply. Expand beyond the city with an army, navy, air force and even a space program.
STRATEGY AND SIMULATION
Choose how you want to play:
• Relax and design a beautiful city skyline.
• Use advanced analytics and statistics to optimize your city.
• Manage pollution, zoning, services and revenue like a true city tycoon.
DYNAMIC AND UNIQUE
Every city is different thanks to dynamic land generation. Shape the landscape however you want – add rivers, mountain ranges, forests and lakes. Create a green, carbon-neutral city using renewable power and public transport, or build a bustling downtown packed with skyscrapers and real life buildings.
ENDLESS CITY BUILDING FUN
With almost 2,000 buildings, trees and decorations, no two cities will ever be the same. Reset and build again on a brand-new landscape. Climb the leaderboards with your dream city.
PLAY FREE, OFFLINE OR ONLINE
Designer City can be played completely free. No internet connection required. Optional in-game purchases are available if you wish to expand even faster.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Designer City is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 31st October 2025
Recent improvements include:
Many new buildings have been added.
New stats tab in city info screen.
Reduced the costs for building multiple of the same building.
Many other fixes and improvements.
Download & Availability
Designer City is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Designer City 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 is the best simulation game ever period. With gdp per capita to show how well people in the city are doing and other metrics that city advisor automatically records. Wonderful game to play and all the updates are really good. Im forgetting if we made a review of this before or not but regardless, even our parents talk about the beauty of the game with its real time economic analysis and cities that actually look beautiful. Thank you for constantly working on this game and the others.
Absolutely in love with this incredible sim game!!!!!! Best build your own city app ever.
Designer city is fun but can it be more fancy.
Great game, but add more simulation, more congestion in roads, maybe make it an option we can toggle in setting for traffic, (make it heavier, lighter), we think the citizens shouldnt just be walking around have them walking into buildings or standing at bus stops or stations, have them walking into buildings. Have cars leave and park into lots, have cars parked on the streets permanently.. So much potential for more realism.
We have really enjoyed playing this game. It is really fun and has very good graphics. We suggest to add new buildings like subway hub and other diamond buildings.
We recently started playing this game and its totally addicting! However, we have some suggestions to make it even better: – More options for decorations, such as boardwalks, lifeguard chairs, decorative gardens, or large parks with play structure. – A way to see how much income you make per minute/hour – A button to visit random cities – More opportunities for diamond and gold income; its becoming increasingly difficult to get, but is vital for city expansion. – A way to edit your rating of other cities – More resource options, such as rain collectors or public trash cans – Sidewalks – The ability to pick up a large of buildings at once and move them while still maintaining original arrangement – The ability to mass build from storage -Filtering buildings in the store by employee count/income/resource usage/ecology/happiness – A confirmation button when you delete something in storage; we have lost extremely valuable buildings because of a misclick.
So we like the gamekinda but! Every city sandbox game needs a sandbox modeit just gets boring we want freedom not work.
Game is fun we give it 5 stars but it needs a update on the buildings its needs some new buildings like the Sphere in Vegas it also needs situations like cops chasing cars or ambulances getting call from the citizens for help and fire fighters putting out the fire and it also needs new People walking on the streets of the City and new Cars driving around in the city. It needs a serious update on the game it needs new situations to happen everytime that happen in the city or new weather changes like floods or tsunami. The game needs Update. The game needs Update On Holiday events and Events in General add more stuff. ADD MORE GAMES JUST LIKE THE CHESS GAME ADD MORE BOARD GAMES OR ADD MINI RACING GAME GOOD QUALITY WITH SOUND. THIS GAME IS 5 STAR GAME IT JUST NEEDS MORE MINI GAMES DIFFERENT KIND.
The game is so fun, the graphics are great its fun to make city you guys made a great game.
First off we LOVE THIS GAME(APP)Ive tried multiple other city building games none like this.we love how you dont have to wait in order for a building to be fully constructed we would like it tough if Traffic was more realistic we havent downloaded any of your other games yet but as soon as we finish our city on this we will.
We love this game . Please download. The only thing you will regret is not downloading sooner. We do wish more land after unlocking all the land. Please read!!!! P.s. Please please please visit our city it is called Birdsburg, California.
This is not a game. It is an app to us. It is realistic. Im on our 15th city. There is no winning or losing you create theres no waiting for buildings. Nothing you are in charge. We just wish designer city too. Was this realistic as this one because that way Id have to go at the same time.
No bad reviews Im try to tell you that you have to git this.it does work without WiFi and no add GET THIS GAME PLS.
Ive been playing this game for more than a year and we love that you can create a fantasy city or a real city. We like all the analytics so you can keep track of how your city is growing. There are a few glitches here and there. When placing buildings, you have to be aware of not placing them on top of trees that you paid for because they will disappear. Why did you fix the waterfalls? You need to undo what you did because you have messed up our landscape. Or create more than 1 style of waterfall. We wish you would create more buildings and bridges like the Brooklyn bridge, London bridge, Big Ben and Parliament in England. We would love to see the MET museum. There are some glitches with bridges where they create gaps and cars disappear. We wish there was a way for the pager to pick the bridge of their choosing and not have it be designated by the amount of water spaces. Also, where is the camera? Why did you remove it? It would be fun to see more seasonal items. By the way, those walkways over the roads are a disaster. They should be more functional and look actually like walkways. It would be nice to see more interactives, such as more people traffic, animals, sea life like fishes, whales and seals. Too bad the playing space cant be increased. Im always moving things around and redesigning. It would be nice to create a buy back program for items you no longer want or need. We would love to be able to sell items back that we may have brought by accident or no longer want.
Its a really fun game and you have to use your imagination a lot in this game for your city we dont have anything bad to say about this game cause you get to choose how your city looked and and the buildings on each street and we think a lot of people should try it it is also a calm game and we dont get bored of it because you get your city bigger and bigger and have as many rivers you wont we rate it a 5.bye thanks for reading.
We truly enjoy this game.we just wish it had more creative ways to run it such as naming the lakes rivers or even more bridges.other than that great game.
Lost our city that we spent a ton of money on, contacted support and they were able to get it back right away. So helpful and the game is awesome. Love being able to be creative and build build build.
This is so much fun. We used to love sim city. SimCity build it is a money grab and you cant really building anything. Slow and annoying. This is the closest Ive get to find. The graphics are good, you get lots of money to building and make plenty once you do. Our only gripe, and its a big one, you cannot change the viewing angle of the city. We building some things and cant tell where they are. Also cant see some plots of land that arent built on because of other buildings. If the developers (we hope you can hear us) would fix that. The game is near perfect.
Been playing for a month or so & bought some of the very cheap in game QOL stuff! Love the aesthetic of the buildings & look of everything! Cool Recommendations: – Add more options for high school & college campuses to diverse the different type of districts we build on the map (immersion of rival school districts for communities) – Add waves (that players can place), so we can have a cool surf spot in game – Add rave & concert venues (that would be cool!) we really enjoy the game! Thank you Devs.
We love the games, its absolutely addictive. No, like seriously but you guys should add a feature where you can name and zip code certain areas!!! Almost like little towns inside the city. Just a thought tho, still love the game.
In designer city the thing we want is new bridges. Honestly you had the same bridges since the release so that will be great. The last one ia the idea to change the color or design of a building. This will bring more people to your thousand dollar game.imagine making a resident skyscraper red and blue cool right? That's what we want. It's still a good game but we want to see these updates.
Stop the videos for a free gold coin from taking you out of the game to the Apple app page.
Ive been playing for about 2 years, and while they do add new buildings every month or so, Ive noticed they seems slightly generic. We would LOVE to see a new design for the roads, such as a true highway 4 lane road and off ramps. Adding a 2, 3, 5 squared buildings would also be a game changer.
Guess its just us. Triggered by the monorailS passing each other in the v1.92 update. IYKYK. Continued 12 14 2024 & Im still triggered. The logic is illogical. First of all they are mono rails. They should'nt pass each other in the first place IDK who idea it was to make them super slow in passing. We guess its for safety reason in a video game. It really irks us.
So, first of all, this is a great game. But there is one thing we want. We need freeways. You know, like highways with exits, one way roads, and stuff. Also another thing. You should add more plane variety. There is just 767. We want 777, 747, A380, A350, and A330.
Hi love the game. We really believe convention centers should be added to the game as they bring in lots of revenue Thanks.
Proper and enjoyable game, with frequent quality of life updates, new buildings, and functions. Their optional pay to play can be very nice and time saving- but not at all inhibiting to non-paying players. You dont have to spend any money to thoroughly enjoy this game. Ive had a great time building our city and look forward to continue improving it.(:.
Dear developers, we LOVE the fact that there are games like this that exist but there are still a couple things you can add, them being: 1. The Twin Towers 2. Golden Gate Bridge 3. The other WTC Buildings 4. World Financial Center 5. Perhaps the pre 9/11 Austin James plaza (maybe included with The twin towers) 6. Statue of Liberty 7. The option to be able to see other peoples cities.
We put down 400 buildings and when we do we have a population of 2K we spend 10% of all our territory trying our best and yet it is still very annoying. Who ever made this we feel upset cuz of you. Not tryna be rude.
Its a fantastic game for us to love our fantasy dreams. However, we wish that when we add buildings, it wouldnt just ruin the numbers and causing to have to store to warehouse then add again to fix it.
Designer city is very good for creators like us who want to build a city. You let to have your own imagination while also having to worry about money, electricity and water. We have no complaints about this game. There is no ads unless you are unlocking something and you get to freely design your own world and build it to be the strongest city in the world.
Is really good we like it and please rise of gold on Fridays to 30 not 25 add add a sell feature, please.
Pretty cool game . The way that you can unlock buildings even do your not in the level,pretty cool buildings do.
So we have been playing this game for almost a year or so. And it gets addicting. So many options for houses, commercials, industrial, transport, decor, and even more! But our only problem is that this game should have highway infrastructure. For us, that makes a city truly excellent. Also, billboards would be so amazing. Anyways, this game is excellent. 4 stars.
Please, and since last update gold check box always goes to checked.
The game has ads but not too much, it is fun, and it does not need WiFi.
Great free play game. There are no quests or anything but there are suggestive actions if you like to follow a plan. No random ads so far but you can get free unlocks by watching ads. Great layout.
Theres no ads in this game the detail is awesome and enjoyable we like how we could build bridges theres a lot more to do so we wont say it all and rate it 5 stars.
We have had this game for a while now, and it has been great! We love the fact that the game considers how much resources your city has, that youre able to build irl buildings for diamonds, the game considers employment and the demand your citizens want, and that it shows different ecology and pollution levels throughout the city. We have a few recommendations however: – Firstly is that the infrastructure isnt that great. There needs to be more kinds of roads that are able to be built, such as highways. We wish there was also an ability to expand roads to four or six lanes, or to make them one ways (we.e. In a downtown area, etc.). That would make the game seem more realistic instead of seeing generic two-lane roads. – Secondly is that we wish you could write a review of others cities when you finish rating them. It could show what people think is going right or wrong and how they can fix it. – Finally is that we wish the game would show your exact number of population in the millions instead of having to calculate it. Other than that, this game has been great! Keep it up.
Please make it 3d and have more choices of roads and diangle roads olso better ghaphics . Thanks.
If youre creative and dont want rules and people telling you what to do.
We purchased the new buildings pack and was replacing older buildings with the newer when WHOA, the game restarts and we lost everything. We were up to 38th in value and have now, boom, we have to start over. We have been in this game for years and was really enjoying the game. Our real time playing was over 117 hours. Now Im out money, out of the game and out of patience. Try to email in the settings to let them know and the app doesnt let us email. Not our computer, its a iPad and loaded with security.
Its like the first sim city but if it was on phones and operated a bit better. 8/10.
Its so hard to get money to buy more land at level 16 like we can barely buy a single thing of land and also we think you should add where you can make multiple cities in one world.
The Eiffel Tower makes people sad tall buildings makes people sad they give out a lot of tourism.
It can get a a little bit boring and seem like a job more then a game. However its mostly enjoyable and fills in the gaps of time. You can build a city with no real money or spend lots of money and build it bigger and faster. We dont spend any money so the boring factor comes into play. Nice overall. However there are two major things that drive us nuts. #1 is that when moving around the screen with finger it always picks up a a building as if that is what we wanted. Make moving a building something you must hold finger on for maybe 2 seconds before it can be moved so scrolling the screen is easer. #2 have something that will make the building to disappear while placing road, bus stops, trams, subways, etc. Its almost impossible to place these items when building only become somewhat transparent. Thats our nickels worth of suggestions.
Im happy they updated with new buildings but it seems you have to pay $14 just to access them. We hope this is a glitch because Im not paying $14 for some fake buildings in a game.
The FB admins have been bullying players to purchase these new buildings. Since when was is mandatory to pay. If these are your employees are people you have put in charged of you game social media, they need to be let go. As of today our family & we will not support any of your games free or other wiser.
We personally love this game but theres just a few features that would really improve the game.1 being able to build in the mountains.we are a big fan of the mountains and id love if you added in this feature.2 rivers in the mountain. We also love rivers but we also love rivers in the mountains.If you added this feature it would probably be a big hit.3 roads in the mountains we also love the view from the mountains.So if you could add this it would also probably be a big hit.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: v2.01
- Size: 317.25 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: 31st October 2025 | Genre: Simulation | Developer: Sphere Game Studios Ltd