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Skyscraper 4D – Simulation Game Review
Skyscraper 4D is a Simulation/Strategy game from Skyscraper 4D LLC, first launched in 3rd April 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,087+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Skyscraper 4D Stand Out
Skyscraper 4D is a new breed of tower building game that lets you design large, complex buildings with remarkable ease.
In this game, you'll serve as architect, engineer, and real estate developer, all at the same time, as you accumulate money and expand the reach of your real estate empire.
You'll control everything from the shape of your buildings, to the placement of columns, walls, elevators, balconies, kitchens, furniture, and more. The tedious work normally associated with construction has been totally automated, letting you focus on the creative side of things!
Skyscraper 4D is easy to pick up, but it strives to stay as close to reality as possible. That means whatever you design needs to be structurally and economically sound. But not to worry, if you run into trouble there are plenty of nifty warning indicators to help you shore things up.
If you like to build things, you've come to the right place!
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Key Features:
• Open World Sandbox Game: Construct as many skyscrapers as you want, in a massive, unrestricted city.
• Total Design Control: In this game, you won’t simply position buildings, you’ll get to design every aspect of the building, including its shape, height, materials, floorplan, and more.
• Intuitive Tutorial: We’ve created a simple and intuitive tutorial to make Skyscraper 4D as easy to learn as possible. No prior building design experience is required!
• Floorpan Tool: You can easily add walls, doors, bathrooms, kitchen appliances, balconies, furnishings, and more to create the floorplan you want.
• Mirroring Tool: We’ve created a tool that lets you quickly design symmetrical buildings by mirroring all of your design actions across the x and/or y-axis of your grid. We also offer an option for mirroring your build actions in a triangular fashion. You can even use them both at the same time!
• Bézier Curves: Easily add curved windows or walls to give your building a unique shape. Just tap on the Bézier Curves button in the build menu.
• Helpful Warning Indicators: When you design something structurally unsound, we’ll show you a warning indicator that will explain the problem clearly, and give you options to help resolve the issue quickly.
• Performance: Skyscraper 4D was built using the Metal API for graphics, allowing us to deliver incredible realism and performance. Every aspect of the game has been tightly optimized to ensure amazing responsiveness, smoothness, and loading times across a wide range of devices.
• Realism: We’ve tried to make Skyscraper 4D reflect the real world. Everything from the visuals of the city (which are loosely based on Manhattan), to the structural and financial components of the game, are intended to mimic reality as closely as possible.
• Soundtrack: We’ve picked out a nice selection of soothing but exciting songs to help keep you in the zone.
• On-Demand Resources: We’ve kept the initial app download nice and small to avoid wasting space on your device. When you open the game on Wi-Fi, we’ll download a few asset packs in the background to enrich the game experience with music and sharper detail.
• No Ads or Endless Wait Times: You won’t need to do a ton of busy work for no reason, or wait ages for money and resources to accumulate.
• Feedback Welcome: We are always looking to improve, and we’d love to hear your feedback! We’ve included a feedback button right inside the game in case you’d like to message us. Alternatively, feel free to send us an email at [email protected].
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Skyscraper 4D is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th December 2023
Recent improvements include:
New features and fixes in this version:
- Fixed positioning issues for the top bar and tutorial UI on devices with a dynamic island
- Added support for a 120fps refresh rate on devices with a ProMotion screen
- Improved the evenness of the frame duration on screen in scenarios where the maximum frame rate cannot be achieved
Download & Availability
Skyscraper 4D is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Skyscraper 4D 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:
Its very easy and good for learning but hopefully they add more stuff specially garden stuff trees.
We try and try to get in the game but it wont let us.
We absolutely love real estate and construction, we do it for a living, but building a skyscraper has always been a dream of ours to do and im also terrible at drawing. Somehow we came across this game and its actually so much fun! We actually have a building in the game modeled after some famous buildings around the US. We have 2 buildings from philly, 3 from NYC including trump tower and right now im working on a hotel in Chicago! If you love real estate, construction, or even skyscrapers we highly recommend this app.
There should be a way to combine plots of land to create even larger plots and buildings. You can even make this a premium feature. It would be awesome.
This game is honestly perfect, and anybody who loves city building would adore this game. There are limits for the free version, but the premium versions are a one time purchase which is acceptable. There is nothing more for us to say.
You should buy the expansion pack. Then you will have so much fun.
Its a great game its amazing but we wouldnt mind if yo added people and cars we the game to make it feel more alive thanks for listening bye ps great game Did we mention that.
Theres a bug in the game where when you go to make a new map, it glitches and you cant.
We Im building New York and very single building looks like the real thing and how you get to make your own is better than any other game.
Best game to visualize and create beautiful structures.
We have a lot of fun with this game, but we wish you could update more often because the game needs stuff like pools on the first floor, roofs, domes, and skylights. Or plants, signs, storefronts and stuff for retail, window textures and fully glass buildings, or parking garage stuff and stuff. This may be too much to ask for but Im just looking for more to do while building buildings. Thanks for reading! Keep up the good works.
The starting screen is completely broken and wont let us play. This would have been a 1 star but we used to play this game and it worked and was fun. This may just be our iPad but Im not sure. Update: yes it is just our iPad we dont know why.
This app is great as we build more and more , you can see where we picked up different ideas as each building looks different. Only thing we would suggest is fixing the map because it sometimes makes you fly way off and also the sensitivity to where you want certain things to go isnt always right. Other than that its a great app.
Im gonna build so man towers man , it gonna take some years but its worth it trust us.
The game is buggy and has its limitations but we love the concept and have accidentally spent hours at a time designing and building. We cant wait to see how it continues to develop.
Its a fairly decent app, we just wish there was bigger plots. We cant recreate a certain building because we dont have enough room in the plot.
This game is amazing, but the amount of things you would have to pay for is absurd.
We are in love with this game. Ive been playing it for a few years, but we dont have a apple wallet to get the other deals. So please, make the deals for items and amount of stories have free for a few weeks. We are hoping you guys read this and add it in the next few days. Many thanks and great game.
We wish there was an easier way to make spires and antennas. Also the map is very hard to navigate through. One little move and you end up what seems like 1000 miles away from your city and you have to keep pushing that button to get you back. Need more options for building materials. Would love to see steel. A nighttime mode would look pretty cool as well. Just little things. Otherwise this app is exactly what we wanted.
Ever since the game made all amenities and rooftop items cost money, the free version feels soooo limited. You can no longer make ur dream skyscraper, just the skeleton of ur dream skyscraper. Very disappointing wish it would go back to the old way and not be so expensive. Despite that though, theres no other game like it, and Ive found ways to make curves without the expansion, so Ive switched to no longer decorating our buildings. So because the game is still decently playable, its a solid 3/5 though really more so 3.5/5.
This stupid game stole our money when we bought the best version in the game the next day we didnt have it but we did just get scammed and now we have 14$ because of you so THANKS A LOT (you better fix this stupid).
Ok this game looks really good but idk how to get in it just gets freezes and wont let us do anything or get into the game . Why.
Theres No Other Game Like this on the App Store This game is by far the ultimate architecture simulator.
This game is pretty cool, it allows you to express your creativity. A thing Id personally want is a time system. So you could see your skyscrapers at night and stuff. Overall a cool game but needs changing time.
So this game has no ads and its so much fun 10/10 recommend.
Is it possible to get a written tutorial on how to use the app, for faster learning and other detail tutorials? Please. Is it possible to get more apple pen features for iPad? Please.
We love this game. It truly makes us feel like an architect.
Its a very good game for people who like to design buildings. Although it crashes frequently.
We dont play/use this often, but when we do we have fun, and dont get bored! We wish there were generic seats however. Well done on this.
In our idea we think it would be cool if earthquakes happen in the game to test the strength and plans to the buildings that are built is it possible to add that in the next update.
This game is great but all we want is slanted roofs like you can customize the roofs right now there just flat.
No ads lets go all the prices for lowered and great graphics. Five star yes.
This is a really fun app. Our sons creativity is unleashed building skyscrapers with it. The app has gotten impressively better over time. The developers have added really cool features and our son loves using them to build really unique and fun buildings.
We like this game wich we ment love it! But can you add cars and parking lots.
This is a great game. It really lets you explore your creative side in regards to building skyscrapers. The UI is well designed and quite easy to use. But It would be nice to be able to have slanted roofs though. *Major complaint – as of today the restore purchases button randomly stopped working. We tried closing the app, restarting our phone, resigning in with our Apple id but nothing fixed the issue. And this is not really a game worth playing without having the ultimate edition which we purchased months ago. Please fix this issue immediately. Or refund us our money.
But its always asking us to restore purchase when we already did the purchase.
We love the building mechanics of the game but we suggest that this the developers put these mechanics into a game that features home building or commercial buildings. The idea of skyscrapers are cool but we were mostly in favor of houses so it would be ideal for a house building game.
This is a very good game and we may have given it 5 stars instead of 4 if only there was the ability to enlarge the font in the UI. We play it on a 12.9 iPad Pro 2022 and still have difficulty seeing the very small font of the user interface. Cant imagine playing it on a much smaller iPhone screen. Please add the ability to enlarge the font/UI.
We really like this game but we have a problem with it. The game randomly crashes. But its a good that we dont lose and progress.
It is a great game, but the paying for pools and freaking CURVES is absurd. Please reconsider some of the options in the free version because paying for curves is just absurd. Why pay 20 DOLLARS FOR CURVES, FLOOR GAPS AND POOL.
Dont get us wrong it is a great game but when we bought premium we had it but then when we got out of the game it took it away and we had to restore our purchases and we are 9 so in app purchases are off so please fix this PLEASE.
We love this game. It can keep us entertained for quite a long time. But we need slanted roofs, and something to make the city feel more alive. The buildings look dead and gloomy without any type of movement in and out of them. It also makes little to no use for money once you get a few skyscrapers up. After you make enough money you cant spend it all anymore.
We bought the 5.00ultimate pack then we left the game when we came back we went back to the intro we were mad but we can still make creative buildings so we rate this a ,though we pressed the restore purchases and it said looks like you didnt buy anything and we have one question, do we have to go enhanced then premium then ultimate or can we skip all the upgrades and go straight to ultimate.
We love this game a lot but now whenever we try to play or even just open the app it will crash, Ive almost filled an entire map and we dont want to just have to lose all of our progress.
This games concept is their but the execution is not, we have reason to think game is meant for pcs not IOS. We purchased the 10.99 dollar pack, its not worth it unless these updates are added, 1. Currently you can only build residential style buildings, it would be worth it if you could A. Build businesses (cash register shelves) B. Build casinos ( slot machines, poker tables C. Restaurants ( industrial kitchens and tables D. Hospitals ( beds desks etc) E. Hotels 2. Lower data usage, even with low power mode still drains battery fast 3. No simulation of people – would be great so see people walking around the city 4. It is beyond hard to add organic shapes 5. Improve user interface In conclusion, game is lacking but once improvements are added by the developer this game will win an editors choice award, do not give up developers.
We will give you a much better rating when our purchases become permanent and we do not have to Restore purchases Every time we upload the game this is very annoying and we should not have to do it we made this purchase in good faith youre the one failing miserably.
Its a great game. Its probably the best building game but the game crashes constantly and it only seems to be getting worse. Often when the game loads the interior details of the buildings dont load, same goes for the rooftop features. Even with the premium version the same issues exist.
Ever since the game made all amenities and rooftop items cost money, the free version feels soooo limited. You can no longer make ur dream skyscraper, just the skeleton of ur dream skyscraper. Very disappointing wish it would go back to the old way and not be so expensive.
Been fussing around with controls for a few hours and still cant get the columns figured out. All we know is the game is asking for $14.95. Well if we cant even start a building, then we aint supporting with money. That simple. Deleting game as there is no clear instructions how to play. Sounded like a good idea, but.
The game is OK, but make a sandbox mode. Make the sandbox mode make you have unlimited money and unlimited storage and infinite height. It be nice if you could do that we might not have to pay to.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.1.0
- Size: 797.82 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: AR, HY, BN, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, JV, KO, LB, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, ES, SW, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, UR, VI
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- Developer: Skyscraper 4D LLC
Last updated: 19th December 2023 | Genre: Simulation, Strategy | Developer: Skyscraper 4D LLC