Leo Bear Studios
A busy crossroads in a small town: cars, a bus, water towers and a main street

iPhone & Mac · In development

CityBuilderworking title

Goofy on the outside, serious underneath. Googly-eyed little citizens wander a bright, tidy town, while under the hood a real economy, real weather and real utility networks keep it honest.

Run it, don't just build it

Your city keeps going without you

Close the app and the city carries on. When you come back, an away report tells you what happened and why: the front came through, the pumps lost power, the east side went dry.

"Front arrives Thursday. In most futures the east side loses water around 6 pm."

The game plays out eight possible futures for your city and tells you what's likely coming. Place a building and see what it does to the next three days before you commit.

The whole town from above: suburbs, main street, wind turbines and a solar farm

Utilities that matter

When one thing fails, the next one follows

Power, water and sewage are real networks. Storms bring lines down, cold snaps burst mains and heatwaves start fires, and the failures spread just like they would in a real town.

Coal, solar, wind, batteries, gas peakers and nuclear. Water mains and sewers in three sizes. Seasons, day and night, weather fronts and the aquifer under it all.

A suburban block at night with lit windows

The economy

You're the mayor, the treasurer and the mint

Set taxes, sell bonds, borrow, set interest rates, even print money. Prices move with real inflation history, so keep an eye on the burger price.

Not your thing? Hand the mint to the Banker and let them run it for you.

A street rising from houses to townhouses, apartments and towers

Relive history

Can you steer through it?

Scenarios built on real economic history, with medals and scores.

1973Oil Shock
1979Breaking Inflation
1995The Long Boom
2008Credit Crunch
2020Everything Stops

Buildings are a show

Watch it go up

Cranes, scaffolding and hard-hatted workers on every site. Thirty landmarks unlock as you grow, from the Clock Tower to the Space Center, and when times are hard the shops get boarded up.

In development

Want to hear when it's ready?

CityBuilder is coming to iPhone and Mac, as one purchase for both, with no real-money currency and no pay-to-skip timers. Drop us a line and we'll let you know when testing opens.