SimCity 2013 Revisited Over 10 Years Later... Is it Worth Playing?

For me, the Sim City franchise died after Sim City 3000

I call it sim town 2.
Or simcities societies 2

this never happened to me, hmmm. I enjoyed this game, infact i still say city skylines ripped off Sim City (2013) it is almost a 1 to 1 in look and UI.

When I want play SimCity, I play SimCity 4 Deluxe.
When I want play city builder I play Anno or Citites Skylines.

This?

I cannot play it because of the JOKE that is the city size.

If they would call it ,,SimTown" or ,,SimVillage" -> OK.

But it is not a Sim CITY.

I loved this game. I remember it was one of the only games I could play on my moms iMac and I would play this game for countless hours

I will say that the small cities were interesting in that you had to specialize each one and promote trade with each cities to cover each others weaknesses

Use to play Sim City back in the late 80s/early 90s. Cities Skylines reminded me of it, and the reason I started playing Cities Skylines.

The only reason i come back to this title every now and then is for the future city stuff

Two things that Sim City 2013 did better than Cities Skylines were the musics and sound designs. If you click any individual buildings, you can hear every unique soundscape within that buildings. For example if you click the Nuclear Power Plant building you can hear scientists and engineers are clicking computer buttons while the reactor is humming. If you click on the middle class commercial shop, you will hear people are taking things from the shelter while the cashier is busying counting money along the the elevator music playing in the background. None of the sound effects exist in Cities Skylines 1 and 2.

If only... this game had 4x size buildable area and road system like at least CS1. I would play it to this day. The aesthetics imo are better than vanilla CS1 for sure. Models of houses, commercial are also way better and closer to realistic shops found in USA than octopus billboard spam mess that is CS1. Medium density also is super nice that is completely missing in CS1. Sadly corporate greed just killed this franchise. P.S: also parallax texturing in 2013 city builder was never seen before! (I think) CS1 doesn't have that even and it's super easy to do and cheap to run also.

simcity 2013 is my favorite genre of video games - "product so bad it creates competitors"

So it still sucks. Thanks for the update anyways!

the only problem i had with simcity 2013 was the size of the tiles, but i've never really played it back then i played it much later when it was practically already dead i guess.

I loved this game. I had it cracked with no internet connection requirement and downloaded a mod to make lots much larger

I would love to see a Sim City 6.
I like the idea of choosing the starting locations , but then the entire map should be playable.
I still think they had an excellent engine going.

I just jumped back on to Cities Skylines II to check if it's any better, and it's still a disaster.

When game release multiplayer is a nightmare. People just spam build to has as many population as much as possible to get quick money but because ai is bad and tool they gave us is bare minimum. Most player will just left city full with problem in region and it connect to other player city. I try to build slowly then 1000 of criminal just flood on my city from other player city.

ai water flow movement made road design a nightmare too. While City Skyline gave us more tool to deal with it. and Simcity 4 has a lot of mod for road design

I'll never forget the server issues day one. That was brutal.
I grew up with Simtower in elementary school and Simcity 2000 was my first one that hooked me on the series. So I pre ordered this Simcity when it first came out. Man, I haven't played it in such a long time.
The launcher has stayed on my pc. I have mainly used it since for playing the Sims 4, Dragon Age Inquisition, Mass Effect Andromeda, and Need for Speed. So I just have to download the game.

Im still playing simcity 4 rush hour to this day.

I loved this game as a kid

I’ll never forget staying up til midnight trying to play this game.. it took me a year to go back

this game is on my top 3 biggest gaming disappointments ever. And it's going to stay there forever.

I loved the modular buildings and the music. :)

If someone wonders about the Maxisman-reference, look at the Megamind-movie.

The artistic quality of the studios under the EA banner, from this era, is unforgettable... as for the games...

i remember some guy made a 600k pop city in this :D very impressive

If this is slow, buildit is just barely moving

RIP Maxis. You don't hate EA enough.

frantically my ass, cities skylines 2 is still broken. way to disappoint your fans and make simcity 2013 2

The absolute major problem with SimCity is it was distributed and owned by one of the top worst companies of all time, EA. Had they not required you to be online all the time, then the existing roadmap might have actually happened.

I thought it was very bad back then. And then city skylines dropped. What a great game!

Yo pagaría un dlc si quitan esa maldita limitación

i liked it, but also hated the small size. think i seen 300-350k people cities?? cant remember.

traffic management was this games biggest flaw, you would get to a point in gambling and tourist cities where it was just impossible no matter what you did.

What's funny is I was so upset with SC5 that I called the help hotline, and the guy I talked to told me to check out Cities Skylines.....

City skyline
👇

Game is great, but it has some biiiiiig limitations when you start scaling population. Mainly traffic and how it will eventually suffocate your city

They could just re-create this game.. use it how it is, make it not online.. increase city size.. and there you go.. Why they don't re-unite and do that? :) I bet so many people will jump in and buy the game.. considering state of new stupid city skyline

The modular buildings and resource extraction were my favorite parts of the game. I had many problems with the game, and yet, if definitely felt like it had more character to it and was more fun than Cities Skylines (without the DLCs anyway). The music and visuals of cities skylines always felt so blah

any one here can please help me to get the game plssssssss?

please help get back the game🙏🙏🙏🙏

I was in the minority that really enjoyed this game when it released and never particularly loved Cities Skylines. Unfortunately Skylines just completely took over and set a new standard for city builders but ultimately I don't think it took the genre in a good direction, for me Skylines just isn't fun...

After watching this I'm going back to SimCity 3000 I love that game so much! This looks like a cut down upspec graphics enhanced version instead

This game should have been a SimCity side project fora more casual experience, building collaboratively with people online... SimCity Communities or something. The more serious, simulation based city-builder should have remained at the core of the series and should have been made alongside this. EA took a risk and it didn't work out.

It was not worth playing 10 years ago, its still a hot piece of garbage.

I randomly play hundreds of hours of SimCity 2013 after it was a couple years old. I set it up on a 2nd screen and randomly poke it while working.
Saying that, I would not use it without a few critical mods.
I like the simplicity of it. I just wish the maps were 4-5x larger.
The server component really kneecapped the whole project.

Thanks for the video

I was wrong about the trees! You can find them in the Parks menu! Thanks for pointing that out, everyone!