$5 Monday Game: City Limits
You want to build a city in five minutes? This is how you build a city in five minutes.
Hey, it’s Monday! I hope you all had a good weekend. If you didn’t, I promise you’ll have a revenge that will be so powerful it will haunt you. The look in their eyes as you destroyed them will be burned into your soul as both sin and salvation.
So let’s talk about a cheap, $5 video game: City Limits!
City Limits is a little SubaraCity. Both are on Switch and Steam. Both are puzzle games that use a city-building theme. Both are calming, relaxing games. But outside of their many, many similarities, both are different enough to warrant buying at least one. Which one should you buy? It doesn’t matter!
Although, to be fair, SubaraCity costs a flat $5.00 while City Limits costs $4.99. That extra penny can go a long way, so be sure to consider your options.
To be fair, the two aren’t exactly the same. Both involve matching similar buildings, but SubaraCity is about combining buildings together to create even larger structures, while City Limits is a bit more about combinations creating new buildings. This doesn’t sound like a lot, but they do play fairly differently. City Limits also has gradually-growing spikes that take over the map if you’re not careful, so that sucks.
The game has two modes. One is a relatively simple puzzle mode with four “buildings” to match. Buildings is stretching it because one of them is just a plot of land. The other mode in City Limits adds speciality buildings that give you certain advantages like reducing spikes and getting better bonuses. These take even more complicated combos to create, but you’ll be fine. Don’t worry.
I’m a sucker for city building games that don’t require any actual work. This could be a sad indicator of how lazy I am, but who gives a shit? The music of the game is pure relaxation, and - again, like SubaraCity - rounds move fast. Compared to the three hundred new games that each take four hundred hours, City Limits is like a vacation. You don’t need to remember any names. You don’t have to follow a quest line. Just put some buildings down and beat the high score.
And… That’s really it! It’s a fun puzzle game that costs $5 and has cute pixel graphics. I can’t really give you more of a sell than that. Some of the games I write about on here are complete garbage. Some I write about are miracles that shouldn’t cost as little as they do.
But this game? This game is worth exactly $5 and I love it all the more for it.
You can buy City Limits on Steam or Nintendo Switch. And you should.