Thanks for no IAP, but not a good game – Pocket City Review

Pocket city - a lot of passion into this product. Bought it blindly as there are no IAP! Needs a lot of work, I’d be willing to pay more to a sim city game that kept up gameplay refinements/additions with more dynamic difficulty. I’d would even subscribe to it - maybe carry a vanilla version and other versions down the line. From playing every sim city ever made - some critiques. Overall too easy of a game. treasure chests seem cheap, too overt to accomplish. Can build too much way too fast. Maxed out cash instantly. Had a huge city in ten minutes... Feels like an on-rails experience. Everyone hits the same achievements and progresses the same no matter what Have a date with ability to speed up, slow down. Pop up events are frequent, which is fine but are too distracting and too easy to accomplish, everyone gets them no matter what. put them off to the side or with runner at top or bottom Make more buildings available with more variety from the beginning. Part of the challenge is salivating over that 50K gas power plant, buying it early and pulling it off or failing miserably and digging out of debt. Embrace a dynamic, difficult experience, encourage borrowing. Have scenario disasters such as what keeps happening to the poor city of flint Michigan Define how far buildings can be built from road with a marker. With more variety...maybe a farm pops up up to 6 tiles away. I love the mystery of how to affect how the AI builds on zones. i.e. AI builds a farm and country style buildings as it’s far from the city, builds larger buildings closer to downtown as there is higher property values. Size of buildings from the beginning...from day one my city was building skyscrapers...start humble then working to achieve skyscrapers through trade or property values. 4 and 6 square buildings should take a little longer to achieve. Don’t worry about balancing everything in the game. If you want a building to have multiple perks and negatives then go for it. Gas power costs more, but is slightly cleaner and makes more power. Above list is just a start. As is- this game can be mastered instantly and requires no thought whatsoever. Very shallow experience. Game lasted an hour on my device.
Review by Ryko31 on Pocket City.