It shifts the simulation from abstract data-crunching to the visible, real-time interactions of thousands of individual Sims, cars, residences, businesses, factories, and everything else you might find in a city. SimCity does that too, but with a drastically different method. Will Wright’s 1989 original and every Maxis-developed SimCity that came after are about the same thing: building and simulating cities. SimCity is the series’ greatest technical achievement. After over a week of building, smashing, and rewiring SimCity’s machines to figure out how they work, they still surprise me. A tweet from the games account reads, Update.

They churn through endless feedback loops, feeding Sims into swirling cause and effect eddies that produce money, goods, happiness, and growth. SimCitys long-awaited Offline Mode should be arriving shortly, as the update is apparently in final testing. At their greatest scale, SimCity’s cities are self-powering machines with hundreds of thousands of moving parts.

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