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SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow

Create towering multi-zone MegaTowers that allow your Sims to live, work, and play without ever having to touch the ground. Unlock two new city specializations that allow you to build a resource-hungry mega…

70 12 November 2013 ESRB E10+

SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Maxis, released 12 November 2013 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow is

SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Maxis and released in 2013. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GlassBox. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

What kind of future will you build for your city? Will you build a utopian society underpinned by clean technology, allow a giant corporation to feed your Sims’ insatiable consumerism, or build into the sky with enormous multi-zone MegaTowers?
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are business, sandbox and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Sim series

SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow is the 60th of 64 entries we hold in the Sim series. It arrived 7 months after SimCity: Limited Edition. The next entry was SimCity: Complete Edition in 2014. Its critic score of 70 is 3 points above the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is SimCity 3000 at 85.

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How it was received

SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow launched on 12 November 2013, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds.

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When did SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow come out?
SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow was released on 12 November 2013 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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