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Survival City Builder – Strategy Game Review
Survival City Builder is a Strategy/Adventure game from AI GAMES FZ LLC, first launched in 30th August 2022.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 11,609+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Survival City Builder Stand Out
Welcome to the world that has experienced widespread devastation and where only small groups of people have managed to stay alive. Survive whatever it takes in this apocalypse game. Manage survivors, build the last shelter, and repair a large truck to leave the abandoned city.
COLLECT RESOURCES
In this idle survival game, you need to explore every piece of the land to find materials, fuel and other valuable resources that will help you survive. Break abandoned houses, loot cars, and scavenge to get anything that can be used for crafting and constructing.
BUILD A SHELTER
Join forces with other survivors and develop your own shelter. Create a spacious storage for food and materials, upgrade the dormitory to allow more survivors to live in, and build a farm to provide food. Only you can protect the survivors!
INVENT & UPGRADE
The more resources you collect, the more new tools you can invent. Don't forget to build a medical center to cure the survivors and make them faster and stronger! There are dozens of other upgrades you can use to make the city a better place to live.
EXPLORE THE CITY
If you like survival simulator games, you’ll definitely enjoy exploring the ghost city, looking for hidden crafting materials. You can even launch expeditions to other locations to get more valuable resources.
What are you waiting for? Loot resources, craft tools & build the shelter! Help survivors restore life in the abandoned city! Join one of the best idle crafting and survival adventure games.
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Survival City Builder is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd November 2023
Recent improvements include:
Technical update
Download & Availability
Survival City Builder is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Survival City Builder 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:
Really enjoyed this game. Completed all three levels. Really hope more gets made. We just wish they had a reset option because Id totally play it again but it looks like Im going to have to redownload it to make it happen. Really love the concept as well as the way it works. Great job guys.
Love the game. But after all those adds – sound disappears. Prob a glitch.
We played this game multiple times over and over again, still awaiting update to new maps! Please dont give up!!!! Waiting for you.
Its got plenty to do and its not pay to play.
We love it, Its really relaxing and fun, the little Characters are really cool too, little Glitches here and there but its really good. The 2 key things about it that we would love to see in the future is More levels but Bigger levels and more Upgrades, or do one level and have that level as a Permanent Base and send your Group members to different locations to Explore and maybe loot. Developer(s): Keep up the great work on this game.
It needs an update sometimes the crafting box for the upgrades says that you need to upgrade something and All though you have the correct amount of materials it still doesnt show orange in order for you to craft them , the people get stuck and start to glitch them selfs and then they reappear in completely different place on the map.
We cleared to sites and Game Over lol.
A lot of ads during game play a few is cool but it a lot.
The game is fun but now Im stuck. Started new level and now all our guys r gone so now we cant build anything. What am we supposed to do.
We enjoyed the game. Needs more levels.
This game does take time but theres only two levels. We loved it while it lasted though.
UPDATE: Here we are a year later and this game had so much potential but was just pushed off and forgotten. If you decide to pick it back up then add more levels and make the survivalist be able to harvest only specific items while the app isnt open. We enjoy this game. Its fun and its something we can easily do while waiting. We saw where the developer just recently made some bug fixes but we wish they would add more levels. This is the only game of theirs we like and Ive tried some of their other games. If this game had more levels and was continuously expanding then we would pay to get rid of the ads and Id pay for resources too but with only 2 levelsIm not wasting our money on no ads.
We cannot give it 5 stars as the sound is constantly cutting off.
We really enjoy the game wish it was more than just 2 lvs laying in bed sick you could knock out this entire game in 2 days ma little glitchy sometime the people get stuck on random things and run in place you have to close and reopen the game to get it fixed but becides that its a real fun game if you got a few days check it out.
Love the game but would like to see more levels. Better yet, ability to reset and play the levels again. Only way to do that is uninstall and reinstall.
This game has pretty good if takes awhile to finish and its kind of annoying when you want to craft something and they keep grabbing stuff that you dont need to craft that.
Its good, Im just stuck ran out of resources, everything is maxed out cant build medical facilities because we cant get into the next area because we need a shovel lvl 3.
Loving this game but would like to see the workers work in the background when Im not playing the game.
We loved to play this just to pass time but we recently got to the third map and we dont see our little people.
Just finished the game and, we have to say, we were hoping for more content then just two levels.
This game easily became one of our favorites! Its simple, easy and fun to play. We live for these types of games that we can just sit and leave our open its fun to us so this one is just that however the tiny people do get stuck and will not move Ive had this problem for some days now and we dont want to reinstall because it may set us back to the beginning but our people will not move.
We like the game. It does have its flaws as do all games. First two levels were pretty good but not sure how to collect material on the third level. Please help! Thanks.
We bought the full game (17 dollars but still have to watch ads ? Cmon now) and we like the aspect we like the game. There should be a way where we can tell the little dudes what to grab because they will just sit around the fire until 1 of them decides they need to grab resources and then they all follow but only getting the 1 resource. Also if we paid 17 dollars for the full game, we should get cool skins & at least 3 care package thingies especially id youre still going to make us watch ads.
We just lost maybe an hour or 2 of time because we left the app got back on and Im set back like 2 hours and now we cant find the save with cloud button WTH.
We paid for the license to play without ads and get all rewards. We were very disappointed to see there are only two levels to this. We would have liked to be able to control the characters more or at least to set priority in tasks. Lots of potential here.
We went through all the maps and made it back to the first map. We have no beds and no people to build and thing. Game over.
Game is good but when our people are looting abandoned homes or cars, they get stuck. Or when we want to upgrade it wont do it either. We know this game has its age, but we would really love to see this issue fixed.
We think this is a great game, but after we beat the game we dont have a character now whats going on. It only has three levels but cool game though.
Needs bug fix game sound goes away after ad plays.
We have completed the game but to find out you cannot do anything after its done, you cant restart, you cant prestige or anything and we have also spent $20-$30 just to find out when the games finished its a useless app on our phone.
We went through all the maps and made it back to the first map. We have no beds and no people to build and thing. Game over.
This game could be awesome, but frequently the game gets stuck and you have to reload. When you do that none of your previous work has been saved.
Dont go too fast in this game or else the game will not function properly (example: truck supply mission may not work, cant collect tires for truck).
The game is fun but it needs a few things worked out.you should be able to send your ppl off to go loot or craft or whatever, exit the game, come back and the tasks be completed. Its annoying to have to leave your phone on and in the game in order for them to complete the tasks. In some areas the ppl would get stuck, causing us to force close the game multiple times, then the ppl would avoid the area completely lol. It became so frustrating that we ended up just deleting the game entirely.
Not a terrible game on the surface, but there is a problem where your population wont farm (even though the larders are bare and there is food in the field). Now, because of that Im stuck between transitions cause we cant load up food (which is literally laying in the ground, ready). Cant upgrade the farm either to soft fix the problem cause our material upgrade cost is too high now. Turns us off to the game.
Game is a time passer for us, im halfway through the second stage and our survivors keep glitching, with all of them standing at the base not collecting resources. Seems like the app needs an update.
It is a fun game we did the two levels and that was it the third level is only the first one all over again but the survivors were not loading in so we are going to be deleting this game needs work different levels would be great only two isnt worth the time.
It can entertaining but it gets boring just staring at the screen watching the collect things. It be better if there was a afk function.
We enjoyed this game so much that we purchased the add free only to find out that there are only 2 levels . Would love to continue to play if you could add more levels.
Not a bad game but we keep losing progress when we close out of it. Our characters were stuck so we closed it then when we opened it back up we had lost our last few upgrades.
This game would get a higher star rating but Cons: extremely slow progress, way to many ads, the people stop gathering and/or building when you close the game so you basically have to keep the game open and running for items to get built and/or done gathering Pros: its fun, gives you something to do.
We like the concept of the game, but it constantly freezes on a task and will not progress until you close it out and re-open it. Once you do that, you lose a bunch of progress and have to do things over again. Its very frustrating.
The game wont let us click on certain things that are lit up.
It is a very addictive and fun game. But it seems to have only two maps so far, and it would be more efficient to be able to delegate certain tasks on the workers instead of them doing what they want. Overall, fun game but hopefully therell be more maps soon.
AI would also be a lot less buggy if they didn't collide with each other.
Characters get stuck and a truck item didnt spawn in.
The gameplay is fun. There are some minor glitches that need working though. We completed 2 levels and looked forward to the third level that never came . Not worth paying for.
Its a fairly decent game until your crop glitches and your survivors wont go harvest it.
Survivors run in haywire while looting resources. When we tap, all the survivors start running towards the loot. Thats good but few of them suddenly stops and start running towards the farm. After that theyd approach towards the tapped area, but after going midway they return to the fireplace and wait for other survivors.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.6
- Size: 1,062.08 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, VI
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: AI GAMES FZ LLC
Last updated: 3rd November 2023 | Genre: Strategy, Adventure | Developer: AI GAMES FZ LLC