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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.

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Developer
Andy Sztark
Publisher
Andy Sztark
Release
September 23, 2021
4 years and 313 days ago
Steam Reviews
Mostly Positive1,131 reviews73.7%

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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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