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Matt Hooper / Nov 3, 2016 / Casual, Indie, Simulation
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CompareCitalis is a fast paced city simulation game where you must carefully manage your city to avoid crime and disasters such as floods and droughts - all whilst making a profit!
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- Added a new interactive tutorial when starting a new classic mode game - Restricted value to be entered into lump sum textbox (to prevent crashing) - Fixed limit on naming business to 16 characters - Saved fullscreen preferences (now remembers if you were playing fullscreen or windowed mode etc) - Clicking on a business will default to the details menu to save a bit of clicking - Added more music!
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33% positive, 117 reviews
The game has a good concept but it gets boring over time since theres not much to the game. But its really relaxing and cozy so I reccomend 👍
0 found this helpful, 2026-06-01
Citalis, developed by Matt Hooper and published by Sometimes You, is a compact city-building simulation that deliberately trims down the complexity of the genre into something faster, more reactive, and easier to approach. Rather than offering sprawling infrastructure systems or deep economic modeling, it focuses on a handful of interconnected mechanics—profit, environmental balance, and citizen satisfaction—wrapped...
1 found this helpful, 2026-04-24
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....
33 found this helpful, 2016-11-06
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...
49 found this helpful, 2016-11-05
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...
18 found this helpful, 2017-06-27
City-builder game with micro-management elements in which you build a small city, balancing population, businesses, water and crime ✅You have to balance between houses, parks, water and commercial buildings ✅Unlimited expansion of the city, a lot of combinations - there are as many as 700 of them ❌Too much text at the start instead of a clear tutorial ❌Few building types ❌You can't upgrade houses. ❌The only source...
15 found this helpful, 2026-02-24
Citalis is a weird game to properly review. I actually enjoyed this game, for an hour. After that it became a quick snooze fest. But: It can be worth it during a discount. It actually heavily depends on your taste. Most people will simply dislike this game. Even I wasn't really sure how to review it. The best thing would be a neutral review. Unfortunately: Steam doesn't allow that. And I just can't give it a positive...
3 found this helpful, 2021-01-14
Well, this is a really delicated review and I saw a bunch of negative reviews, which I think they have interesting points, but to negativate this game it seems a bit unfair. To sum, I do recommend this game. Once said that, here's what I think: • First of all, this game NEEDS an achievement system. It's not something that "would be nice", it's a thing that MUST exist. Citalis is a great game of micromanaging a very...
7 found this helpful, 2016-11-07
The simplistic visual looks good, but that's the only good point i could mention. But there are so many why i don't enjoy this game * Tutorial vague. It took some time to understand what exactly you need to do to achieve what tutorial tells you. * You can get game over during tutorial by build something which costs higher than your current money. * Game never mention about keyboard shortcut, which is more comfortable...
3 found this helpful, 2023-05-11
Citalis is a novel approach to citybuilding without the need for positioning, roads, etc. This can work. Citalis falls flat though; It has boring mechanics like the arbitrary need for "beauty" and water - which are not resources, they're build-it-once and forget. And it has pointlessly punishing mechanics like the need to "lock" a water resevoir before it overflows, when the water is never consumed so it's just a...
5 found this helpful, 2017-07-09