Pocket City

Last updated on June 6th, 2023 at 06:05 am

Pocket City

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Pocket City is one of the best $2.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by Codebrew Games Inc., Pocket City is a Strategy game with a content rating of 9+.
It was released on 7th August 2018 with the latest update 12th November 2022

Whether you are a fan of Strategy, Simulation, games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.

Rating

4,748 people have rated 1.0.41

You can download the game Pocket City from APP STORE.

Description

Build your own city as the new mayor. Create residential, commercial, and industrial zones. Build parks and recreation spots. Respond to crime and disasters. Watch your city come alive!

No microtransactions or long wait times! Everything is unlocked and rewarded through gameplay.

Pocket City re-imagines classic city building simulation gameplay for iOS devices.

Note: Landscape and portrait mode can be toggled in the settings menu during gameplay, or by tapping the icon at the top right of the start screen.

Updated on 12th November 2022

  • Adjust UI to allow for Dynamic Island on iPhone 14
  • Minor UI fixes

Pocket City Reviews

Please add more content so we have a reason to grind! Also add events to get special city skins/ buildings / etc.


Pocket City is an incredible building game that is fun and actually (sometimes) very simple. It has simple, but not bad, graphics. A few years ago we started playing SimCity and got annoyed with having your city storage full and the pushy SimCash purchases. Pocket city solves all that. Add quests to level up your city and get some cash, and events and disasters, it is perfect for someone looking for a fun, easy city game.


We’ve been searching for a game like this. A relaxed, no-time-locks city-building game. It’s so fun to play, try to make the most efficient (ir inefficient) city you can.


This game is amazing! There is tuns to do with quests, events, and even natural disasters that can cause pure chaos 100/10.


Once you unlock another region and industrialize it the game becomes very open, although the unlocks are slow.


We appreciate that this game still works on modern phones. Im excited for Pocket City 2, but this is keeping us happy for the time being.


Cant wait to play Pocket City 2!


This is it, the one we’ve been wishing existed for a long time. No in-app crap soiling the experience! Just fun city building. We really love it. Its not perfect, there are little things that could be improved but they are small compared to the frustrations of the other city builders we’ve played.


We were reluctant to purchase this game, but Im so glad we did! There are no in game purchases which is amazing. You are able to build multiple cities, adjust taxes, and even create policys later in the game. There is also a sandbox mode and goals!


This game is an awesome time waster. No pay walls, no Skinner box timing techniques, just fun.


No in app purchases means this developer made a great game and is willing to make more money by having more players. If you like sim city – this game is for you. This game gets a 10/10 from us.


Its not a pay to play platform. Much better than its original grandfather from the 20th century. Its a fun game.


Everyone should play this game to learn city resource management!


We were looking for a good easy city build game, Im glad we discovered this game, Im loving sandbox mode because theres no stress you can build and you get unlimited resources and money, recommend this game to all ages. Im definitely going to buy Pocket city two when it comes out next month.


While other city building games have diverged to super sophisticated mechanics and/or content overload, this has turned out to be one of the best successors to the city building games of our childhood. There is a nice difficulty curve without getting too in the weeds of traffic mechanics or micromanagement. We cant believe such a great game is not only playable on our iPhone, but also totally free of MTX and at a reasonable price.


Super fun and lots of playability! Highly recommended!


Only thing we wish is they added more content, buildings, etc.


You should add the ability to rotate houses so they can face different directions rather than how they all face the same way.


We love this game its amazing, fun and it allows you to be creative with your city. Our only complaint is the money making system, you cant earn money when offline so idle money isnt a thing but overall its a great game.


You should add a roller coaster to the fun in leisure. Maybe you could add multiple! Just an idea. We love the game already.


We absolutely love this game and play it all the time, although as of recently it has been glitching when we zoom in and kicking us out of our city to the title screen. We dont need any updates and we closed the app out and tried again but still glitching us out. Would like to see this amazing game fixed!


Great in the beginning but if you build too fast you run out of money. You can borrow some but you need to make sure things progress so you can pay it back. Okay, two things. It says you are using 96% of your power and then you add one large power plant and five small ones and it still is 96%. You build all of these factories, commercial development and residential sections but have less then 3000 people at level 14. Who is working in the factories and commercial businesses? Robots.


Starts out great. But as you build and expand it cost more to purchase available land which takes longer to accumulate dollars to buy and build. After awhile you are more waiting then building. Raising taxes can help but frankly, we would leave if our taxes kept going up. Worth the 5 bucks but will eventually get boring.


The game has the feel and mechanics of Sim city. It is fun to build and everything is simple and straightforward. There are a lot of things though, that make the game just so-so and we quickly grew bored of it. For starters, there isnt enough going on to keep your interest for an extended amount of time. You build, you wait for funds, you build, you wait for funds. The ever increasing property cost forced us to quit purchasing property altogether and just concentrate on what we already had. Increasing the cost of all of the other property on the map every time you buy a plot is just plain stupid. This means that a plot you paid 50k for in the beginning will cost you 300k later. Its silly. We stop buying property at 150k and just work with what we have. Once we max out the city, we move on to another zone. And that is the nuts and bolts of the game folks. After about an hour or so of play, you have seen all there is to see and you look for something else.


We’ve played this for a while and although it can be fun there are a couple of negatives. The biggest negative is that if you get stalled then just raise taxes and the money comes pouring in. The reality is that when taxes get too high people start to leave and go places where taxes are lower. How about you cut costs to give you more money and you dont have to raise taxes. As a result, people are happier and they stay and spend money. Some cheesy graphics, like the guy you buy land from. Should be more then one land owner.


Game is fun but Ill close the app and try and reopen it later to find the screen frozen. Deleted and reinstalled to find our city is gone and we had to start over, happened to us twice in 2 days.


Very fun, Im not sure if its a glitch or if Im just stupid. But the resources (power, water) have always been a problem for us. It will always say some lots need one of those resources even when they are definitely in range for the ones we built. When we try to build more it shows that it only takes up 4 tiles. Unless Im supposed to build 1 water tower / power plant per 4 residential zones, Im not sure how to proceed :( we like the game otherwise.


We spent hours making our expert level city reach level 120 and now theres a bug that says that our game doesnt have a difficulty so we cant get the mayor mansion and stuff. Extremely disappointed. Dont waste your time or money on this game.


This simulation was just ok at first . Then we built a police station. Then we noticed that the cops only chased dark skinned citizens. Just a bit too racist and realistic for. Not how we wanna spend our time. You can disable natural disasters but you cant disable systemic racism. Its bad enough we live in cities like that the F¥K if Im gonna spend time creating simulations of the worst aspect of our species and society.


We love this game. We have built countless cities.


Super addicting! We really have been enjoying it!!!


Teaches you about economics the simple way but still endulging enough to keep playing!! Its worth it!


It may not be as snazzy as some build it type games but Pocketcity definitely keeps you busy. Each location comes with its own challenges that you have to address, and the stats section will tell you exactly what areas need more attention. And when you make adjustments or improvements you can see the effects right away. Love this game!


This game has a whole lot to offer, it is very fun to play and control our city, and most of all natural disasters really make the game even more fun! We cant say more, this game leaves us speechless, we are surprised that this game isnt 40 dollars, just wow this game is perfect! Suggestion: please add pandemics and make it an option like enable or disable, and add protesters, if the mayor of the city is evil and makes there city have high tax make the people protest and the police can also interfere, the protesters should be mild, bad, and extremely bad (riots). It will make the game even more fun then how it is. Sincerely.


The thing that got us to download is the fact that after the 4.99, there are zero in app purchases. Its so much fun, so many different types of cities to build and opportunities to grow. We can literally play this for hours.


This game is awesome but the only downside is that you cant rotate buildings.


Our favorite part is that there are absolutely no ads. Gameplay is incredible and smooth. We just love it!


Fantastic game, fun to play, no micro transactions, easy to edit your world, easily a better value than freemium.


Thank goodness we finally found a game thats focused on having fun and doesnt riddle you with any micro transaction or in game purchases.


This game is amazing with not having to wait long times for buildings to build, there is also so many things you can unlock and explore with we absolutely love decorating our city this game is amazing.


Really lite city builder that doesn’t steal your personal info. Super fun, well made game!


Highly reminiscent of Cities: Skylines! Its slightly more simple than CS, but for wanting to play it while on breaks at work, this fits right in our back pocket, hence the name, and we can have an outlet for our creativity in city management on-the-go! Its well-worth $2.99! And with absolutely no microtransactions, Pocket City puts all the other wallet-eating city builders to shame!


Got this game on a whim, wasnt sure if we were gonna like it. A few days later we love it and play it every day. Its got the zen quality of Minecraft or Animal Crossing but crossed with the perspective of a Civilization game. Great game to relax and listen to music to. Highly recommend!


We just started this game but we love it. Its amazing but we do have one recommendation. When your in the menu or for example building a road and when you confirm or cancel its exits the menus and you have to open the menu and click to what you wanted. Its just tedious when your building a lot. Anyways you probably wont see this and a bot will respond to us but the games fun, good job.


Wish we had more road option maybe single lane Maybe even have a bridge that can support highway flow Love this game.


This game is super addicting and so fun. The ability to make so many different cities across different regions that benefit from eachother is an amazing idea, and the fact that this game is super cheap and there are no ads and no micro transactions AND no long wait times at all? SO GREAT. We’ve looked for a game like this for years ever since we played the Facebook SimCity game like a decade ago. Highly recommend to anyone. Also hope they add more stuff in future updates because its so fun to mess with all the stuff you can place.


Worth more than the price. Cant wait for Pocket City 2!


Its a fun city building game. Simple like the first sim city but good graphics and interesting gameplay. Not hyper casual but definitely something you can put down and pick up later. Auto save every minute is great. Its not especially challenging, yet, but its fun and we can see myself picking it up again and again. Great implementation of the original concept, unlike the other ones.


We bought this game in october of 2020 and for a brief time it was great, then some update to ios or the game- no idea- caused the game to stutter terribly on all of our ios devices (even new ones we have gotten since then.) well the most recent update finally seems to have solved the stutter, thank you! Now the only issue is that the game doesnt recognize mouse events from our magic keyboard- but we guess thats why its called pocket city and not laptop city ;)


A rare gem. A fun game that captures the essence of what youre looking for in a city simulator. We actually want to pay more for this game because its good and you have to support the decent humans that will just sell you a game rather than litter it with micro transactions. This reminds us of all that is right with this genre of games.

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