Excellent Game
Mon May 10 2021 zorro 55Updating my review. Once you get to levels above 34, you need more than one carpenter, agriculture, electronics and any other building that produces products used elsewhere, or more than 10 slots in the queue. 2 hours for 1 rubber component restricts your ability to complete tasks, and it cuts down on users wanting to buy tokens, as the game takes too long to get stuff done. Rubber is then used in foam, another 30 minutes. There are other problems, but rubber is the worst.
This is an excellent city building game, one you can play without having to pay. Of course, bonus items can be purchased to let you get done faster, but not like SimCity where you cannot finish the tutorial without buying something. I would rather buy things I want, than to be compelled. Things to improve: 1) no need to go into other player’s cities when buying something, slows you down; 2) show all 15 items for sale at one point, hard to get items are never there for those you must scroll for, but if they are in the first 5 and you are lightening fast, you can get them; 3) allow a 2nd carpenter building, even with all 10 queues purchased, the items take so much time and you need them elsewhere; 4) allow 4 more blocks to be enabled on the NE corner across the existing road from the short stub out road down to the river before the airport, providing room for all buildings and the 2nd carpenter building. Glad to see the contests for the unions, gives them some purpose.
Game of patience and tension over resources.
Sun Aug 28 2022 pbasluggersThis is not a game for everyone, but it really suits my gaming style well. Basically it’s a nonstop slow tension between competing forces that you need to balance… you have very limited warehouse space, yet you need to store lots of supplies or tokens or resource cards in order to purchase upgrades or land or… more warehouse space. What I appreciate is that with patience you do make progress, and you can do so without spending real money. Of course, spending money will relieve the tension and help progress faster. As I said, it’s not a game for everyone… you will watch ads - a lot of them. For me, the ads are also quite repetitive, too. But the rewards from ads are at least significant. My other criticism is that ultimately you’re on the same development track as everybody… there isn’t room for much creativity except for how you arrange buildings in the central areas. All in, I like this game a lot.
Best city-building game so far
Tue Oct 27 2020 froentelThis is the best city building game I’ve played, and I’ve tried quite a few. I like that you don’t have spend tons of money to get started, things don’t take forever to produce, and there’s a place to “purchase” needed items. That said, there are a few things that could stand some improvement. 1) There needs to be a benefit to joining a union. I’d like to see the capability of selling/trading goods with union members. 2) There needs to be an edit mode so you can move thing around and see what’s behind buildings. While in edit mode you should be able to click on something and it’ll either show you the building or tell what it is. 3) At first I thought the game was deleting items from my inventory, items like windows and doors that take a long time to build from start to finish. I submitted a support ticket and was told to video it. Well, I don’t know how to do that. After paying closer attention, I found that what would happen is that I’d set these things up to run while I’m not logged in. And when I returned to the game everything I had scheduled to run was gone. Not only that, but the materials used in the production wasn’t returned to inventory. The only way to get these items is to let the game run all day )which doesn’t help at night) or buy speed-ups. This is a huge deterrent and I’m almost to the point of giving up on it.
Very Addictive and Fun
Mon Apr 25 2022 Wjenkins96This game is basically an updated version of Big Business HD (remember that game back in 2015?) with the capabilities of today’s iOS systems. Money is never required (to my knowledge) to progress throughout the game, which makes it a heck of a lot better than similar games like Airport City. Projects do take time, but are not extremely difficult to achieve.
I looked at the city of the number one ranked player in the world on the leaderboard, and it appears that the Ring Road hits a dead end at sea before it can hit the lower island, as is the case with other high-ranked cities. Are there future updates in progress to expand? Also, there are TONS of land spaces that are not available for purchase or to place buildings, whereas that issue was minimal in Big Business HD, which was basically this game’s predecessor. Also, the ring road hits a dead end at the mountains near the game boundary, is this intentional or, again, are there future plans that’ll be available in later updates?
Solid game, but there’s always room for improvement!
Really fun game...
Sun Sep 13 2020 FdavissonThere needs to be some changes made.
1. Be able to dump products that are not in demand. Meaning I just got the ability to have water blueprints, I have something like 25 in my inventory. They are not used yet and not in demand so I can’t even sell them waste of my inventory. Just delete them
2. When buying items in the global market the lag time while you are switching to the other players city is super slow. Be nice if we did not have to switch to buy the item presented, it speed up the process.
3. If you have added something to be mined/built if your queue has not started building the item you should be able to remove it, I accidentally mined copper and that is a product I can’t use yet.
4. Would like the ability to have a reverse auction. Meaning I want the tape measure and I am willing to pay xxx coins for one, but the request out to the would.
5. Now that my city is getting larger it seems like I don’t get the items come across anymore to make my city larger like the tape measure and the other devices. I still have lots of plots of land to buy.
6. Can the inventory get larger than 95? seems that is maxed out. Can we have the game allow us to build a second inventory building?
I really like this game and it does not take very long to build items which makes it fun and keeps me coming back to it.
Thank you
Camera angle and amenities, energy, water
Mon Jan 02 2023 SamQTULove the game right now only problem I have is I wish you could turn the camera angle because sometimes you can’t see where to put roads or amenities and such. Also it asks you for amenities and energy and water and roads and such and you don’t have enough space in every grid for a house or warehouse or whatever you are placing there along with amenities and water and energy. I am always low on those things. I’ve even tried putting the electrical stuff in the same grid the water in same grid and all my numbers would go even lower showing I haven’t got enough so I’m not sure what to do about that but as of right now that’s my only problem. I do enjoy it though right now it’s about the only game I play
Great game but…
Thu May 19 2022 harleyauraI was charged $9.99 for the Diamond Fund but did not receive it or any other package beyond a one-time purchase of Global Bucks. But for that issue, I would have rated the game 5 stars because it’s lots of fun. Great design!
I’m not in a high-spending demographic, so the company is probably slow-walking their response. Nevertheless, I am hopeful that someone will provide me with $8.99 worth of rewards.
I realize that your profits come from people purchasing global bucks and bonus packages. It’s the same strategy printer companies use when they sell their printers at or below cost, knowing that the real money comes from selling ink. It’s legal and profitable. On the other hand, how ethical is it to use behavioral reinforcement to increase someone’s responses so that they will purchase more stuff. Companies manipulate the odds of winning online card games in theso a person will chase after their early wins. The longer they spend staring at their screens, the more likely they’ll buy something.
What you’re doing with Global City is brilliant, After the customer tastes early, rapid growth, you bottleneck their production and offer quick fixes that will induce them into spending real money to move up. You’re not coercing anyone to spend their money.
But what the hey, people pay big bucks to amusement parks for fake thrills. I have done so. And I enjoy this game more than waiting an hour in line at a Disney park.
Great game
Sun Jan 09 2022 kevgonzaLove this game, play it everyday, unlike other games of this type it’s very easy to expand your city without having ridiculous things to do like having 100 city bucks and or thousands upon thousands of coins in order to upgrade and at that making it harder for you to get said coins. This game makes it easy and enjoyable and attainable for everyone.
one complaint I do have which won’t affect the 5 stars is I wish I could zoom out a lot more than allowed because some buildings hit the ceiling and disappear because you can’t zoom out far enough to see what you’ve accomplished. Also a concern I may be missing is the buildings say they produce 10,000/day or whatever but I never see my coins increase unless I get money from sales or promos. Weird.
I’m addicted!
Sat Feb 19 2022 xAbominationz-I know it’s not a healthy thing to say something like that but I am honestly addicted to this game. I won’t lie or deny it. If you’re looking for a game that gives you a lot to do and let’s you show off your creative side then this is for you. Aside from creativity and keeping you super busy, it lets you be in total control which is great for people who want a little control in their life. Career not going the way you thought it would? Not getting what you want in your relationship? Denied an auto loan for that sweet ride you wanted? Well, that may be but when you’re playing Global City; You’re the mayor and the mayor always gets what he/she wants. You may have to grind it out but, you’ll get there…eventually!
good game core, global exchange needs fix
Wed Dec 30 2020 jeff204vkThis has a lot going for it, including a large number of buildings, plenty of things to construct without needing to spend real money, and a good variety of quests to complete. Unfortunately, however, the global exchange doesn’t work the way it should. Most of the time when I try to buy something, all I get is an “item has already been purchased” or “no items available for purchase” message. This has slowed my progress to a crawl, because the only other way to get certain items is randomly from quests, and it’s very infrequent to get some of the ones I want. Having an option to automatically purchase a particular item the next time it’s available would be much better. I did have some fun with this game, though.
