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Same nostalgic mood as City Life 2008.
- $19.99 (Price checked Nov 8)
- Deck Playable
- 2010
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Same relaxing mood as City Life 2008.
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- Released: 2008
- Developer: Monte Cristo
- Price: $9.99checked Nov 7
- 71% of 102 reviews
- Genres: Strategy, Simulation
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Forces realistic urban planning
- Nostalgic late 2000s design
- Prioritizes social dynamics over growth
- Challenging
- Contemplative
- Nostalgic
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About City Life 2008
The closest matches to City Life 2008: SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition, Cities: Skylines, Highrise City, CivCity: Rome, and Citystate II. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If City Life 2008 is your kind of game, the closest matches are SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition, Cities: Skylines and Highrise City — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as challenging, contemplative and nostalgic, and single out its long term planning and neighborhood compatibility. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
About City Life 2008: Construct the city of the 21st Century with City Life! City Life 2008 Edition is a next-generation City Builder. Its 3D game engine provides a level of detail and animation unprecedented in the City Builder genre, with total freedom of construction.
Is City Life 2008 worth buying?
Mostly recommended
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 71% of 102 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Price: $9.99 (checked Nov 7).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 8 h when they wrote their review.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Forces realistic urban planning
- Nostalgic late 2000s design
- Prioritizes social dynamics over growth
- Social groups interact unpredictably
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“The interface seems to be delayed all the time no matter you have enough space in your PC for RAM o ROM, when you are building the city,even if you take away internet connection reduce all other tasks in the PC; it gets slower and slow, up…”
“Game is defective and no updates available. Some schools don't affect education quality (they have a range of 0 feet in their description). No suits come in the city even though their attractiveness levels are through the roof. So the game…”
People who play it also play: SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition, Cities: Skylines, Highrise City
Frequently asked about City Life 2008
Can I run it?
How much does City Life 2008 cost?
City Life 2008 is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to City Life 2008?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside City Life 2008 are SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition, Cities: Skylines, Highrise City.
Who developed City Life 2008?
City Life 2008 was developed by Monte Cristo and published by Focus Entertainment.