City Island 5 - Building Sim

A Google user

5 years ago

5 stars for overall execution and a good latest version. A simple very popular game concept (city development), but executed very well in my opinion. I appreciate the ability to steadily and consistently advance in the game by multiple different ways. There are a decent amount of ads, but these don't bother me, and infact offer rewards, giving another way to make some quick advancements in the game. Gameplay and UI is good it's easy to move things around and navigate. Good game overall!

A Google user

6 years ago

This is a really fun game that continues and levels up at a fast pace. There are some consistent bug issues with exchanging currency (when I click to watch the video, at the end of the video it reverts back to waiting 10 hours). That is pretty frustrating. Plus, I wish it were easier to keep the citizens happy. But overall it's a very fun and varied game. Something that would be SUPER helful would be to be able to sort all the available community, residential, and commercial buildings by ground.

Honest “Candii” Accessor

2 years ago

It's a really fun game but realistically it takes too long to get to certain levels. For example with the snow level it asked for Community buildings I'm in level 16 but I have to wait to get to level 34 to get Community Builders realistically that's too long and I don't know if I'll be interested in keep doing it by then. It's too hard to earn the dollar gold coins and requires too many coins to achieve things.

Sue Smith

2 years ago

This game is barely worth playing anymore. For a while, if I was patient, I could still make progress, but now it's impossible. The "daily" reward from the lighthouse is suddenly now only given out once a week - even though the text still says to come back daily for a reward. It doesn't even turn off the flag after you visit. I cannot buy any new houses now without gold coins which you have to pay real money for. And to get extra perks you're given an option to watch an ad, however it is literal

Amy

4 years ago

If I could give a zero right now I would. After the new update, I was almost to the next to last bar on the Thanksgiving event (the coin prize) when the color bar just stopped moving completely. I decided to uninstall, then reinstalled the app. Upon doing so, I lost 6 levels, went from level 49 to 43, lost tons of expansions, homes, commercial, etc.. and the color bar for prizes for the Thanksgiving event still isn't working. I've emailed several times, but no response.

Dan Granger

3 years ago

Interesting & time consuming. O.K., but could be a lot better. The videos take forever to re-fresh. Prices for some buildings & property are a bit excessive. Multiple times i've clicked on pop-up videos for free keys, of all 3 types, & all that happened was the sound shut off & the timer ran down. My biggest problem is that there's not a purchase confirmation on the Key Deals. I've now accidentally clicked on 2 property's I didn't want or need.

A Google user

6 years ago

Great game, no real money required. No problems figuring how things work, and keeps growing with no issues. Generous with silver keys, and sometimes gold keys, not so much with gold coins, but that is premium. But there is a method for generating, very slowly, gold coins that doesn't cost real money. The key is making sure the number of people exactly equals number of employees. And all the happy buildings, etc., are keeping them happy - which makes me happy.

A Google user

5 years ago

I really like this game. It's easy to control and understand, which can be hard to come by on mobile games. It's also just all around fun to build your own city. The only reason I'm giving it 4 stars and not 5 is because the videos never work on my phone (the ones that offer a free chest or more keys, etc, if you watch an ad). The video plays, and I never get my "reward". I've even uninstalled and reinstalled to try to fix it, but it just doesn't work.

A Google user

5 years ago

Great waste of time. I don't like that the buildings can not be rotated through 360 degrees. The buildings have no backs and they just end up looking strange when backed up to road. That's the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars. UPDATE: What happened to the free chest and double bonus for watching videos? You're going down to 3 stars until you bring them back. Also your daily bonus isn't worth spending the time to complete it. 25 crappy silver keys? that's not a reward, it's an insult... Thanks

A Google user

5 years ago

Optional ad experience rips you off. you can choose to speed certain things up in the game by watching an ad, great idea, really! However, after you spend the forced 30 seconds of watching the ad, you dont receive the speed up as promised. Great idea, terrible execution. also, no place to submit a support ticket. Wouldn't recommend.

Garrett Green

4 years ago

I don't like the camera view. When building roads, for example, you can't see behind buildings to place the road. I feel like you should be able to have top down view or spin the map. Also bugged me that within 10 mins of playing I would open new cool things, but I couldn't use them on my island. It would prompt me to go buy more land. Maybe focus on getting the person interested in the game before you try to get them to expand. Honestly, after 10 mins I uninstalled. Maybe it gets better.

Amy Sue Hite-Griffith

1 year ago

I enjoy it. Only one thing I don't like, not enough coins or gold bars in all of the island games. And no way to accumulate more, quickly. If you can't collect coins or bars quicker, then why have them? It sucks to want or need a building and nothing to get it with. Other than that, I love the games. And why do expensive? Big jump from 1st island to the 2nd one. Geesh!! Drop the prices a little. And get coins faster!!!!

Victoria Price

1 year ago

The only reason I can't give this game 5 stars is because of how pricey buildings become after a certain point. I do like this one better than the 6. More cranes. I appreciate the spining wheel where you can earn rewards, but I feel like there needs to be an option to earn gold coins via ad watching or something. Pretty great free to play game though.

R S

1 year ago

I pay for the subscription and have purchased 20+ cranes. Timers claim to be "faster" but are still several hours long. I like this game alot, have spent a lot of money on it and time on my cities, but I'm getting increasingly frustrated and disappointed that the timers are not faster when you have so many cities on all of the islands. There should also be some sort of "collect all" button. I spend more time clicking than building! I love the game so this is very sad cause I want to keep playing

Deanna

1 year ago

It's addictive in the beginning and then becomes monotonous. Houses, Commercial, etc, are too expensive and takes hours to build, watching videos should be endless to shorten time frame. It should auto collect money, keys, tickets. The simple nature of tapping to collect each of these is annoying. It was fun for a bit but it's going to get uninstalled.

Kayla

1 year ago

I enjoy the game but there are things that could be improved. Such as; auto-collect for money/exchanges on buildings, being able to see stats of an individual island (inhabitants employed/unemployed, jobs available/filled), being able to upgrade during an exchange, seeing business stats while exchange is occuring (employee information) and the option to buy packages (coins, money, keys).

mintyice 2734

1 year ago

I have been playing this game for about 2 weeks now. The biggest down is the cost to build structures and how slow it takes to accumulate money. The purchase of gold coins is high for very little worth of coins since the structures cost so muchIf it wasn't for the cost of buildings and things and the high purchase price, it would have been a definite 5 stars. Like the game but uninstalling because it's too costly