Underplayed Gems

SimCity™ 3000 Unlimited (2024)

SimCity™ 3000 Unlimited cover
Developer
Maxis
Publisher
Electronic Arts
Platforms
Windows
Genres
Casual, Simulation, Strategy
Rating
4.2 of 5, 754 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 5.2 hours
Where to get it
Steam

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How it feels

You calmly draft and fine-tune a sprawling metropolis, weighing budgets and zoning while unexpected disasters briefly disrupt the steady hum of urban life.

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What players say

Players praise this as a classic city builder that runs on low-end hardware and Steam Deck, but the Steam release has problems: scroll speed is too fast with no option to slow it, it crashes for some on startup, and players must manually mod in language support that was in original releases.

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