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Citystate II

Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.

Developer
Andy Sztark
Publisher
Andy Sztark
Release
September 23, 2021
5 years and 38 days ago
Steam Reviews
Mostly Positive1,143 reviews73.6%
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About the Game

Build an entire Nation, one city at a time

  • - More than 300 unique buildings (including real-scale skyscrapers), 8 road types, railways and subways.
  • - Power and water management. Schools, hospitals, prisons, fire and police stations.
  • - Large city maps (512x512 tiles), with up to 64 buildable cities per Nation.
  • - Flag creator and mod-ready maps.


    One of the most advanced economic simulation in a city builder

  • - Unemployment, income distribution and social ladder.
  • - Money printing, inflation rate, corruption and trade balance.
  • - Immigration policies, to precisely control the speed of the population’s growth.

Extensive and powerful political options

  • - 51 policies offering a total of 204 distinct options to choose from representing all sides of the political spectrum.
  • - Policy creator, to edit and enact custom laws.
  • - Religion, birth rates and political affiliations.

Easy to play. Hard to master.

  • - Riots, fires, plane crashes, organized crime.
  • - Slums and urban decay.
  • - Bankruptcy.

This game contains economic slang, a bunch of statistics and depicts political ideologies in an arbitrary and subjective way. Citystate II is intended for mature audiences.

“A simulation is a set of assumptions, so there is bias in any simulation.” Will Wright.

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