Citystate

Citystate: Free, Open-Source City-Building Game

A free, open-source city-building game where you design and run a city from the stone age to the future with retro graphics and gameplay reminiscent of classic city builders from the 90s.

What is Citystate?

Citystate is a free, open-source city-building and political simulation game where you take control of designing, building, and managing a city from the stone age to the space age. With its pixel art graphics and gameplay, Citystate is designed to evoke nostalgia for classic city management games of the 90s like SimCity, Pharaoh, and Zeus.

In Citystate, you start with an empty plot of land that you must develop into a sprawling metropolis over several eras spanning 10,000 years of human history. Your job as city manager involves zoning plots of land, building infrastructure like roads and power lines, providing services like healthcare and education, establishing trade routes, and keeping your growing population happy. Along the way, you'll unlock new technologies, buildings, governance policies, resources, and more.

While Citystate shares core city-building mechanics with classics like SimCity, it also brings new elements to the genre. These include a technology tree of over 130 advancements, a political system where you can adjust policies and laws, dynamic events that affect your city, mod support for adding custom content, and multiplayer where you can build collaborative or competitive cities with other players online. The game offers plenty of flexibility for you to design your ideal urban utopia.

With its open-ended creative sandbox mode, retro aesthetic, and mix of nostalgic yet innovative gameplay, Citystate aims to realize an accessible, modern revival of classical top-down city management games. Its free and open-source nature also allows a community of players to continually expand and enhance the experience through user-generated mods, assets, and features.

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