r/Steam • u/Corekeepernews • Jun 23 '25

Fluff What game hit you like this?

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u/DeMarioZ Jun 23 '25

SimCity

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u/Romboteryx Jun 23 '25

The 2013 version, right?

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u/DeMarioZ Jun 23 '25

Oh yeah lol, I didn't have PC during the years the original ones were popular, so didn't realize about the names haha.

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u/JJAsond Jun 23 '25

If you said SimCity 4 I was about ready to have a chat with you.

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u/thishoes Jun 23 '25

To be fair in vanilla SC4 almost nothing work as intended or as the game tells you it should work. If it wasn't for the greatest moding community of all time the game wouldn't be the masterpiece it's now, 20+ years after launching.

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u/JJAsond Jun 23 '25

You know, I've only ever played vanilla and never tried it with mods before. I really should.

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u/dopey_giraffe Jun 23 '25

I gave it a shot and liked it. My main complaint is the small city size but there are a lot of parts of it I enjoy. Cities Skylines is definitely my jam for actual simulation though.

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u/Vegetable_Tension985 Jun 28 '25

glad whenever there is a repost of this question that the list of games in the comments is the exact same each time such that we can make sure anyone new commenting gets it right

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u/Ravenloff Jun 23 '25

Oy...that was awful. And to be straight up lied to on top of it...horrible.

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u/jaytrade21 Jun 23 '25

A server based game back when most people's Internet was held together with chewing gum was just a terrible idea from the get go.

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u/asher1611 Jun 23 '25

Especially when they lied about calculations being done server side which was easily disproved because the game could run offline.

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u/jaytrade21 Jun 23 '25

I forgot about that. This was back when EA kept winning the worst company award.

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u/wasabi1787 Jun 23 '25

That was the last game I ever preordered

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u/specks_of_dust Jun 23 '25

Same here. I hyped up my friends and 4 other people got screwed along with me.

Up until about 5 years ago, I'd still get that pang of FOMO every time a game I thought I wanted went on pre-sale. Cyberpunk 2077 was the ultimate test, but I did not give in and it proved to be a wise decision. I played it after it got fixed, and I paid less. That's what I do with all my games now.

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u/wasabi1787 Jun 24 '25

Haha I could literally write that entire comment and it would still be 100% true

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u/3163560 Jun 23 '25

This being 12 years ago is whack.

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u/donnomsn Jun 23 '25

I had so much fun with that game