Here is Microlandia 0.8, explained so your future citizens survive your learning curve.

• 🎮 We are arriving in Steam!
  Add Microlandia to your wishlist, ritual complete. Do not worry, you can still get the game from itch dot io. If you already bought the game there, I will send Steam keys so you can have it in both libraries, one game, two shelves, zero regrets.
• 🗺️ Bigger maps, bigger stakes
  Cities now grow to sixty four by sixty four. More room to shine, more room to dig fiscal holes. Longer roads, higher upkeep, traffic that actually matters. Success now needs planning, not vibes.
• 📈 Demand Points, no free lunch
  Building residential and commercial is no longer a free lunch. You must spend demand points, two jars, residential and commercial. You start at one hundred in each jar. You gain plus ten per month in a jar only if occupancy in that sector is above eighty percent, in plain words, only if the real estate sharks think your city is a good investment. There is a hard cap at three hundred. A building that lists a demand cost withdraws from the matching jar, if the jar is empty, construction is blocked. Translation, stop placing malls when the last mall is a ghost, stop spraying apartments when half of them echo.
• 🌳 Parks, now with purpose
Unleash your inner garden designer! For your green areas, you can choose from elements such as grass, trees, a maze garden, a fountain, or a playground. Construction and maintainance prices were improved. 
• 🏀 Basketball court, small build, loud nudge
  A tidy recreation boost for the neighborhood. A hint of the future parks and recreation cost center. Cheap morale, mild crime cooling nearby. The sound of bouncing balls, and your budget whispering be careful.
• 🕵️ Crime and economy, less polite
  Systems are sharper. Prosperous cities attract cybercriminals. Sometimes nothing happens, sometimes you get a ransomware greeting card. Keep cash buffers, keep backups, keep your ego on a leash. The simulation will not flatter you.
• 🏢 Corporate tower, late game oxygen
  One skyline piece for educated workers, roughly three hundred fifty degree level jobs. Money cost to place, zero. Commercial demand cost, three hundred. Build time, about seven hundred thirty days. Prebuild housing, transit, and schools, or enjoy vacancies and a newspaper headline that laughs at you.
• 📰 More newspaper stories, more noise to filter
  Extra articles that mirror your choices. Some are useful signals. Some are gossip. You are the mayor, you must tell which is which without blaming the messenger.
• ⛓️ Jail has a tab, you pay it
  When you send someone to prison, the city pays inmate housing. Costs are informed by research from the Vera Institute. I promised not to pull numbers from a dark place, I prefer to pull them from institutions that publish footnotes.
• 🏥 Hospitals, capacity is destiny
  Hospitalization ratios vary by age and by housing situation. Beds are finite, consequences are not. Run out of capacity, people die or they leave. Your tax forecast becomes a fairy tale and your inbox becomes a horror anthology.
• 👶 Fertility and matchmaking, families behave like families
  People pair up, births happen, then services matter in a way that ruins your spreadsheet optimism. If schools or hospitals are full, or crime grinds patience, entire families leave. Fewer workers, thinner revenues, fewer ribbon cuttings.
• 🏭 Companies with actual incentives, ruthless by design
  Firms behave like cutthroat companies in a ruthless capitalist ecology. They fire when income sours. They stop hiring while in the red. They move to cheaper rents when vacancies exist. They leave town after one year of losses. You cannot pep talk a balance sheet, you can only respect it.
• 💻 Faster simulation on your machine
  The engine now uses all available cores. More citizens thinking per minute, more firms reacting, more second order effects before your coffee cools. Chaos arrives sooner, that is a feature.
• 🧭 Cleaner interface, clearer errors
  Messages that tell you what went wrong, not just that it went wrong. Fewer mysteries, same responsibility. You still make the mistakes, you now find them faster.

How to not sink your city on day two:

Watch occupancy, hoard demand points, prebuild essential services before prestige. Keep a cash buffer. Expect crime to follow wealth. Respect hospitals. Do not believe your own press. Build redundancy, not mythology.

If that sounds grim, good news. It is playable. And occasionally beautiful.