SimCity BuildIt Critic Reviews

If you’re in the mood for a crafting freemium title, you can do a lot worse than checking out BuildIt.

If moving buildings around all the time to squeeze in a fire department or a police station, while waiting for the slow trickle of money and resources that you need to expand, sounds like fun, then jump right into SimCity BuildIt. Just be aware, patience is necessary, and don’t expect to have marathon sessions with the game.

SimCity BuildIt is a competent city-building game, but its free-to-play trappings are borderline monstrous.

This is the first "real" mobile SimCity and it's a nice game, but it's more Clash of Clans than classic Sim City and the free to play model doesn't work very well.

The core of a fun mobile city-building game is buried beneath egregious free to play additions.

Sim City Build It is a strange mishmash of free-to-play trappings, resource management, and other oddities that don't necessarily make sense within the context of the game as a franchise or even as a stand-alone app. Pass on it and choose something much meatier to spend your time with.

Simcity BuildIt is not a game with some timers, it's a huge timer with some bits of a game in between.