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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Developer EA - Maxis, Aspyr (Mac)
SimCity 4 is a city-building simulation video game developed by Maxis, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts. The game was released in January 2003 for Microsoft Windows and in June 2003 for Mac OS X. It is the fourth major installment in the SimCity series. SimCity 4 has a single expansion pack called Rush Hour which adds features to the game. SimCity 4: Deluxe Edition contains the original game and Rush Hour combined as… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
213 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Oct 4, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
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85
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182 positive · 31 negative
95% range 80–90%
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
8,133 of 9,885 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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60 of 213 · most liked firstSimCity 4 Deluxe Edition is the only game where you can spend an entire evening designing a perfectly symmetrical cloverleaf interchange… only to bulldoze it 10 minutes later because it “didn’t spark joy”. After 3000+ hours, I can confidently say this game is a masterpiece of slow‑burn city building, urban zen, and the occasional catastrophic budget meltdown. This is a 2003 game, so no, you’re not getting photorealistic skyscrapers or ray‑traced pigeons. But the graphics hold up shockingly…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To get this game to work, including high resolution, high FPS, and AUTOSAVE: - go to https://community.simtropolis.com/forums/topic/762953-performance-and-graphics-list-index-of-all-critical-mods-to-install/ - install all critical mods, from top to bottom. Take your time, read the readme files or the explanation on the webpage. It will take you like 20 minutes in total, but it should work and make the game better than ever - if you have set the sc4.exe to run in compatibility mode or in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Does not function at all on Windows 11. I spent half an hour trying to fix it with mods but it still will not launch. Non functional game that should be removed from Steam until EA actually fixes it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Vanilla, pound for pound without any mods this is still the best true city builder to date. With that said the game has a huge modding community and even then, it still might be the best city builder. I have hundreds of hours in the game off of steam. However, the game runs sub 1080p out of the box. Easy fix. Right click the game in steam and click on properties. Where you see “Launch Options” copy and paste this line: -CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32 Bam there you go. If…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still worth $50. Complete gaming experience unless hacked or misconfigured. Task manager->Details->Sim City->Affinity->1 core prevents crashes. -Windows 11 HP 13th i5 Intel
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SimCity 4 is known as the best of the series, and I agree. Pros: + Zen-like city building gameplay, as simple or complex as you make it. No hand-holding past the optional tutorials, along with optional advisors on your side + Has charm, humor and lots of space to build a large array of different buildings and utilities + Great soundtrack + Decent visuals. Aged well too + You can manually drive/fly around your city in vehicles, and even talk to Sims via mic + No modern or scummy sales tactics…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Possibly the greatest city builder ever made, very hard to find a similar sim game today with such pretty visuals and details. It is IMPERATIVE that you download the community patches to make it run fine, since this was made for 2003 computers. If you don't do it, it will crash every x minutes want it or not, this is unavoidable! You also have to be patient and consistent building cities of course, and use the whole neighbor dynamic to have good growth and skyscrapers easier. With the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SimCity 4 is still one of the best city builders ever made, even after 20+ years. It offers deep, satisfying simulation where traffic, wealth levels, education, pollution, and regional connections all matter. You build interconnected cities across large regions, watching neighborhoods evolve organically from low wealth to high wealth over time. The gameplay feels thoughtful and rewarding instead of simplified. The modding community keeps it alive and excellent. Install the essential…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is touch and go, it constantly crashes and you'll lose all your forward progress. its absolutely not worth it if you invest time into something just to watch it get wiped out because there is not quick save options or save over time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Maybe its a good game but its a pain in the ass to get it run in acceptable state in a modern machine so at this state i cant recommend this to anyone
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Think what you want, but I enjoy this more than Cities Skylines. I played both, but Cities are really like "SimCity on steroides" - which for me ain't better, and quickly confusing. Just saying...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →dated, but aesthetically pleasing. and unfortunately it was the last successful installment of what used to be the crown jewel of the city builder genre. It's successor's failures more or less killed the genre for years.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →how to make SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition run stable on modern systems 1. force the game to run on only 1 CPU core. (early 2000's games were developed and optimized around single core CPU systems, not multi core ones) insert this into the advanced launch options for the game, found in properties -> general, then under launch options -----> -CPUCount:1 2. run a 4GB patch exe, this is also essential for stability, especially for modded installs (i recommend only installing mods made for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Better than Cities Skylines 2 in 2026! So much more depth, and even though it's not the 'cutting edge 3d' visuals, it has a whole lot more charm. Download the "4 GB Patch" (NTCore website) and the NAM Lite Mod (Search for sc4nam) and you're golden, no crashes so far!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Greatest city builder of all time. Good balance of simulation & creativity, Theoretically infinite map sizes. And not demanding on hardware, cause its 20 years old.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was a great game, until it stopped loading. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME IT WILL STOP WORKING
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've studied sociology, and I find it so interesting how relevant this game is. The different variables you can play around with make a huge difference in where the game ends up at. An extra school here = tremendous impact, an extra industrial building here = tremendous impact, an extra police station over there = tremendous impact. The list goes on and on. Timing is important as well. Knowing when a city needs something added, removed or replaced is a skill in and of itself. I enjoy…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played it as a kid not understanding much but how to get in debt : <3 Played as an adult understanding exactly how to get in debt and failing to bounce back for a dollar off the line : <3
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT BUY THIS GAME, it crashes every 30 mins because its too old and 32 bit. when you create more cities, it crashes even faster!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It will not load on my old computer, it kicks back to the Stem page. I recently bought a new laptop and it does the same thing. Shows the intro then kicks back to Steam.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Started playing this a while ago and this is by far the best city building game of all time. The way cities interact with each other in a region makes the game feel very rewarding as you slowly build out your region and have to upgrade regional infrastructure to keep up with demand. Additionally, the wealth mechanic makes the cities feel alive as your citizens wealth determines crime level, public transport usage, etc, making the game feel unique and realisitc as the wealth also affects the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Childhood! the music still holds up today, the wackiness of what you hear from buildings, the noise of the traffic, i would have made this review ages ago but for some reason didn't work on my computer so i gave up. several updates later I had forgotten i even had this game, and i'm so glad I stumbled and tried again. being able to play a childhood classic that still has so much fun to it today is the reason why I sometimes like my old games over new.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SC4 was my go-to city builder for a long time and returning to it is like revisiting an old friend. The only knock I have is that it takes some effort to get the game up and running on a modern computer, but there is a dedicated community at Simtropolis and SC4 Devotion that have written out good notes and good tools that will get this oldie up and running in no time. The game is still fun after 20+ years and with the addition of a couple of quality-of-life mods it is still a very dynamic…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still the gold standard for city simulation games even after 23 years. There is still not a game that feels so alive, so lived in, that matches all the intricacies established by this game. It's not perfect, but it's unmatched. Community is still decently active and there's a plethora of amazing mods that elevate this game even more. If you like 3D cities and free-form roads go for Cities Skylines. If you want to experience timeless-in-every-sense-of-the-word city simulation with believable…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still the GOAT city builder 23 years later (in 2026). When modded with Nam and CAM. Playing on mac (emulating Windows/Steam/SC4 with Parallels). The actual mac version is rubbish as many mods don't work with it. A little bit of mucking around to make it work on modern hardware, but well worth it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →23 years and counting... still nothing comes close to beating the charm and soundtrack of this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hey so this game is old asf and there's been a long period where I haven't been able to launch it. But I can now! some recent developments and a decated community of modders have it functioning again. This is the ultimate true city builder and just has something that makes me keep coming back to play over and over. You'll need to tinker a bit and add some mods to get it all hunky dory check the guides and Simtroplios website and mod loader to find mods and learn more. I see a few people…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its something that i will always love, very nostalgic to look at this game after 22 years...how time went so fast and now my sons are the ones playing it while i do it in real life as an architect ....tx EA, thank you, these were the times where passion for doing good games was real
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was last good Sim City game before franchise went downhill. Whole art style, soundtrack (best soundtrack for video game made in my opinion), complexity and gameplay makes it fantastic city builder after all this time. I wish that EA remaster this masterpiece like they did The Sims and The Sims 2.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After so many years away, I've finally come home. As a kid/teenager I've probably put thousands of hours into this game. The music, the sounds, the grime of building a rundown neighborhood - no other city simulator can match that. Cities: Skylines is a good game, but it's just too bright, too cheerful, too plastic looking you know? This is the only city builder that really captures that feel of an American city. I can't forget the hundreds of thousands of free assets/mods/maps available.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I still have this game's original box set at my mom's house with my other classic box set games like Counter Strike Source. GOATED city building game, I played this game for hours as a kid at my mom's house. The soundtracks are great and calming. Great way to teach yourself basic civics.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I used to love this game as a kid and I was to excited seeing it ported to mac silicon. My excitement was short lived. The resolutions have not been updated and not fitting modern screens at all. That's the least that could have been done. But the really is: it is unplayable. You cannot customise keyboard touches, game navigation is extremely difficult and sometimes simply don't work (try opening the option menu inside your city panel...) The price for such a poor effort is exorbitant and steam…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best city builder of its generation, period. Today, it's probably simplistic compared to titles such as cities:skylines, but there something that you can't STILL do in ANY city builder game: build cities of 10-20 millions people with no population limit! And that's thanks to regions, which are containers of cities that can be combined the make an extensive metropolis with real and functioning road/rail and ferry connections. amazing game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it's still highly playable in modern devices (with potato specs). But sometimes it crash and closes on its own. No auto save, you should save it every 30 mins.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really tried to enjoy this game but I just can't. It is somehow feels both too easy and too frustrating due to UX. It's in the little things: the never ending demand for Agricultural Zones, no low-budget high-rise apartments. Everything looks too polish and very chaotic, the feeling of a peaceful building is gone. No Ordinances or petitioners - shame, they were fun. The mini-games are losing their novelty in the first hour of play. I would recommend sticking with SimCity 3000 instead, that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How to stop the crash!! If EA put a little bit of effort to fix it formally it can still be a cash crop....
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Managed to run this on a modern linux laptop. Setup: GE-Proton10-10 (Glorious Eggroll Proton GE) -d:soft -intro:off -CPUCount:1 -f -CustomResolution:enabled -r1280x720x32
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you have never played Sim City before, or any sort of city building simulator before, SimCity4 is definitely the game you should play. Its very welcoming to new players. I have great nostalgia from when the game first released and I have consistently gone back to it. The reason I can't recommend the game though is that it is so unstable on Windows 11. EA needs to look into this. I was only able to play for 25 min. After closing out from my first session and trying to get back in, the game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I cannot get this game to open on Windows 11. On XP way back, I got to play it for a little bit before it crashed and I lost all progress. Too buggy, won't run.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is pure Sandbox. No achievments, no campaign... past 3 or 4 tutorial maps, is just Sandbox, so if you're like me and need a goal to motivate you, skip this. Better city builder games have been made since.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SimCity 4 is a time capsule that's aged into a peculiar spot: mechanically simplistic by 2026 standards, yet still retaining the core brilliance that made it essential two decades ago. The game doesn't apologize for being a 2003 release — it just is one, which is exactly why it still works when you accept what it's trying to be instead of what modern city builders have become. The simulation is deliberately hands-off compared to newer competitors. Traffic management is abstracted,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →crashes to much.. spend time building, all of a sudden it crashes you lose everything you just built
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Keeps crashing, basically unplayable
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →loved it great game, but its broken now and dosent work since ea games left it, it might be just me but everything didnt work like it used to :/ before: 7.6/10 now its broken: 3.2/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Works great on 64-Bit Intel and M series Macs, the PC version needs a lot of TLC to get working well on a modern display and system, pcgamingwiki is your friend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SimCity 4 is a citybuilder game, the classic and essential one in fact. Its biggest strength is its involved systems, which for the time had you managing a staggering amount of variables for your city. It's still one of the better city builders you can get for extremely cheap and run on almost anything. However, you should keep in mind this is an old title. It doesn't play like its modern equivalents, and it can have a bit higher of a learning curve as well. I accidentally bought it thinking…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have a nostalgic thing with the simcity series. If that is what you are looking for too, this game is ok for a couple hours a year. But it does not work well. From frequent crashes too me having to copy an city name from another program/screen and and into the box cuz typing on keyboard does not work.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They couldn't make a better city building game in 25 years.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great city builder. Better than CS1 and CS2 in my opinion. Runs bad on modern hardware but you can easily fix it with mods or launch arguments.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game. Feels more like a Sim City 3500 than 4. A good/average game on an excellent previous iteration as blueprint. Cant go wrong. The 2d graphics and animations by 2003 look updated, but also very much the same as Simcity 3000. They surely look better but leave a savory taste. It could have been seriously improved. The same goes for the gameplay. The game doesnt have any bugs and glitches to note, still, the problems you can face are only due to the 2003 time, which isnt exactly the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Definitely better than CSII :) musics, visuals, performance :)) we need its new version but not too new.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not much to say other than: King of city building. To this day its unrivaled.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So fun! You can see the little horses, n' stuff, at the trough. N' like, the little workers building new homes and playing in the parks, n' stuff.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is excellent and stands well even in 2025. I highly recommend it if you're considering buying this game, it's highly addictive and also educational. I played this 15 years ago and it's exactly as I remember! By far the best Sim City game still around.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a little clunky in some aspects but this is still one of the most detailed and intricate city builders ever made. the soundtrack is also fantastic.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Spent 15 minutes playing, and spent the whole time thinking, "I'd rather be playing Cities:Skylines". So, I just went and did that instead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still the greatest city building simulator ever.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The last version of SimCity not aiming to rip you off with microtransactions
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Doesn't even run. just a black screen that i've tried everything to fix.
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