Social City is so recent that it is hard to say how well it will do, although it seems likely that it will reach at least a few hundred thousand players. There is a lot of freedom in Social City – you are able to build a town exactly the way you want. They have a number of options about how to build their town and the levels of complexity that grow with it.
Anyone who has played SimCity or social renditions thereof will have no trouble picking up the way Social City is played. You need to watch out for things like money (in-game currency), the number of people in your city, and their general well being while playing Social City.
Social City was very recently released by a gaming company called Playdom, and is a game where you start out with a small city and then try to grow it into something big. You can make your city grow larger by constructing more and more things, and shaping your city so that more people will come. When you begin the game, you go through a Social City walkthrough that gives you a very brief tutorial on how to play the game properly and keep your citizens happy.
Now in order to get more people in your city, you need to provide for them – this means building hotels, apartments and houses that they are able to live in. It is important to build leisure buildings in order to keep your people happy in the city. They each grant a set amount of happiness. The money to run the city is earned through various factories. The number of factories a player gets is limited by the population.
The most important thing in Social City is to keep your residents happy, and continue to build more and more factories, in order to maintain an income. The cities can be expanded by purchasing expansions of the city limits, which brings in more population. Players can also make achievements which they can share with other Social City Facebook players. You are able to make your city different from anyone elses by building things like trees and flowers, and various other attractions. Even for the newest players, there is plenty to do in this game.
There are several things that make Social City look like a game that will become a hit. For a free Facebook game, the graphics of Social City are pretty good, and it’s easy to find your way around. The game takes place at a quick pace, with barely any lag time. There are a number of other games on Facebook by Playdom and it seems likely that Social City will start to get a decent following too.
Though the game is too new for there to be any Social City tips for players, there are some technical problems that hopefully will get fixed in short order. For one thing, you can’t rotate buildings and objects. Because you can’t rotate buildings, sometimes the back of a building will be facing the street, and the front of the building will be faced towards empty space. Hopefully improvements will be made to the game in future.
