On this update, your city decides it has an opinion. While we spent time greasing the gears so you can play comfortably with a controller, your citizens have discovered the ancient art of complaining about their property values. NIMBYism arrives to check your expansionist ego, buildings now emit complex layers of influence, and tourism gets a shake-up. You can now control the chaos from your couch, but the chaos is distinctly louder.

🏡 NIMBY-ism & Citizen Feedback

Citizens have stopped being polite victims of your zoning laws. They now react negatively to undesirable developments near their homes. Expect pushback when placing industrial structures or the Techno Club near residential areas.

💸 Rezoning with consequences

Bulldozing a building to put something else in place is no longer a piece of cake: You will be required to pay the owner of land a price for repurchasing and compensate with huge payments to companies and residents using it.

🎮 Gamepad controller support

We added Xbox controller support for the entire game which means menus and city building is totally navigable with a gamepad.

Official support for more controller types is coming soon but any type of controller should be configurable through Steam Input.

🏗️ Advanced Building Simulation

The simulation sheds some simplicity. Buildings are no longer one-trick ponies; they have layering effects like a complex urban lasagna.

• Multiple Auras: Buildings can now emit more than one type of area-of-effect bonus (or penalty) simultaneously.
• Tourism Mechanics Changed: Adjustments to how tourists interact with the city economy.

📊 Vital Statistics & UI

You can now track the simulation of your city more closely with live statistics. The new stats page shows live cumulative stats like how many immigrants have arrived, total number of citizens born, tourists visited, and expect a lot more to come soon as we will start to reveal all the numbers under the hood in this new panel.

🎬 New builds: Film studios and high rise buildings

Movies are now made in your cities, the film studio is a late-game build that provides work for up to 500 citizens in the arts & entertainments industry. The high rise office building is a 33 floor commercial behemoth that can house big companies with big demands of workforce.