Citalis

In its current state, I cannot recommend this game. I thought this game was about building a city and expanding the floating islands while growing the city. But it's a whole lot simpler than that. Basically you have 3 districts: business, residential and recreation. These three need to be filled with resp. businesses, houses and trees while maintaining a balance between them. That's all there is to it. Nothing more. Paying back the initial loan becomes a waiting game, if you have filled up all of your islands. I don't understand the loan at all. If it was a loan, I should have been able to access that money, but that is not the case. There is no interest rate, so the daily payback does not decrease while the sum of the loan decreases. It's way too simple in its current state. I really hope this game gets the attention it deserves from the developers, to make it a really good and fun game. I will not refund it, because I think the devs can do it.

It's VERY simple and once you learn the basics and requirements to keep money pooling in it just becomes sit-and-wait-simulator. The game really needs more variation to gameplay as currently it really doesn't offer much other than wash-rinse-repeat of buying house, buy park items, build water resevoir, build business, collect money, upgrade, repeat. What it really needs ultimately is a purpose, a goal, a reason to play beyond building your 2nd business other than to level up and unlock a tiny handful of cosmetics for your buildings. The price point is fair considering the content you receive, and by my rule of "$1 per 1 hour of actual gameplay" I'd say I've got my money's worth out of this game as of the writing of this review, however I see little reason to go back to it without additional content added to it. If you just like to amass a huge fortune and use that as your personal high score then maybe you'll get further lasting appeal from this game, and even if that were the ultimate goal then leaderboards would at least give people something to aim for.

This game... is just too basic to live up to what it looks like it is. This is what happens: a) You start the game, all excited that it's a city builder b) You get game over immediately because you didn't get the tutorial c) You try to follow the tutorial and fail because the tutorial isn't quite clear enough. d) You follow the tutorial and get it. Think "aha, now I know how to play this". e) You start to build parks and reservoirs and housing and commercial... and waiting for money to recharge, you realise this game is actually a clicker but with some configuration to start with. f) You earn enough money to buy the upgrade which collects money for you. The game is "upgraded" to IDLE GAME. g) You feel frustration when the game crashes, which it did several times for me, though thankfully no progress was lost each time. h) You repeat the process of adding parks, reservoirs, housing and commercial, until all your city can possibly do is make millions from you doing NOTHING. i) You get bored and close the program and write this review. (TIPS: press A and D to navigate districts, use L to lock reservoirs at 99% because it's more reliable than mouse, build more parks and reservoirs before you build more housing / commercial) So - how could this game be improved? Well, it doesn't have any feeling of ecosystem that you do with a Sim City, or Project Highrise, or whatever. No building affects the ones around it. Building placement seems to not matter as long as the building is in the correct district. And it would be nice to be able to delete misplaced buildings, or edit their appearance. And.... basically it needs to not turn into an idle game after about 30 mins.