This game is a spiritual successor to Sid Meiers "Sim City" and it does a good job of it.

Pros:
- fairly good looking
- can disable the annoying bird
- challenging but only moderately so.
- optimizing is fun.
- There are a lot of community addons and mods; they are easy to install.

Cons:
- traffic AI is weird (though not terrible). This can be mostly fixed with the "TMPE" mod.
- roads are sometimes difficult to place.
- RCI demand sometimes feels wonky.
- wish I could do mixed zones.

This game is a spiritual successor to Sid Meiers "Sim City" and it does a good job of it. Pros: - fairly good looking - can disable the annoying bird - challenging but only moderately so. - optimizing is fun. - There are a lot of community addons and mods; they are easy to install. Cons: - traffic AI is weird (though not terrible). This can be mostly fixed with the "TMPE" mod. - roads are sometimes difficult to place. - RCI demand sometimes feels wonky. - wish I could do mixed zones.