Metropolis 1998 feels like the return of classic SimCity, and you can try it now

I maintain that city builders, as a genre, are some of the best-looking games on PC. Manor Lords leaps off the screen. Cities Skylines 2 (for its various shortcomings) provides some fantastic vistas. When you look at a completed map in SimCity 3000, it’s like a circuitboard, intricate and elegant at the same time. It’s the symmetry and the density. Rollercoaster Tycoon has it, too, with all those colorful sprites pushed together - all that microscopic life. Created by a single developer, under the label Yesbox Studios, Metropolis 1998 is one of the most beautiful city-building games on Steam. We’re still waiting on a full release, but you can try its newly expanded playtest version for free right now. Continue reading Metropolis 1998 feels like the return of classic SimCity, and you can try it now MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best city building games, Best old games, Best strategy games

May 16, 2025 - 16:44

Metropolis 1998 feels like the return of classic SimCity, and you can try it now

I maintain that city builders, as a genre, are some of the best-looking games on PC. Manor Lords leaps off the screen. Cities Skylines 2 (for its various shortcomings) provides some fantastic vistas. When you look at a completed map in SimCity 3000, it’s like a circuitboard, intricate and elegant at the same time. It’s the symmetry and the density. Rollercoaster Tycoon has it, too, with all those colorful sprites pushed together - all that microscopic life. Created by a single developer, under the label Yesbox Studios, Metropolis 1998 is one of the most beautiful city-building games on Steam. We’re still waiting on a full release, but you can try its newly expanded playtest version for free right now.

Continue reading Metropolis 1998 feels like the return of classic SimCity, and you can try it now

MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best city building games, Best old games, Best strategy games