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Urban planner's single-player offline paradise!

SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition, the fan-favorite iteration in the long line of legendary urban planning simulations with a myriad of design options and factors to tweak and track, creating the ultimate sense of life-like complexity, is available 75% off on GOG.com. That's only $4.99 for the next 72 hours! Includes the Rush Hour expansion pack.

It all started 30 years ago, in 1984. An up-and-coming brilliant game designer by the name of Will Wright created an incredibly believable virtual city that astound the gamers with its level of detail and the amount of little things that were constantly happening in it. The city, though, served only the purpose of an interesting background to an action-focused title, Raid on Bungeling Bay. It would surely feel like a waste to see such a sophisticated simulation only as a "bells-and-whistles" addition. Luckily, 5 years later, Will Wright gave the gaming world the first SimCity game. The one we offer you today, the fourth--and according to many gamers, the best--part of the series is the result of almost a quarter of century worth of a concept's evolution.

In SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition you don't just build your city, you breathe life into it. Create a megalopolis by weaving together a tapestry of cities ranging from a bedroom community to a high tech urban center or a vacation destination to a farming village. You can create a region of interconnected cities sharing and competing for resources that are linked by a fully integrated transportation network. Use "god-like" powers to create mountain ranges, carve valleys, and lay rivers to construct the most realistic metropolis imaginable. The new simulation engine offers immediate feedback so you can react to the needs of an expanding metropolis. Now individual buildings and their lots provide you with feedback. Use the My Sim features to personalize your Sim and immediately move him or her into any area and watch them experience life around town and get instant feedback on the city's progress. Each decision has a greater impact and gives you the ability to respond more effectively. The DRM-Free Deluxe Edition offered here, comes complete with the Rush Hour expansion, for an even more in-depth urban experience!

Every game in this great series offers the player hundreds of hours of fun and easily adjustable challenge to create a sense of immersion in a living, breathing metropolis. They all come with their very own special flavor, but most gamers agree that SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition is the most delicious dish of them all. Grab it now, on GOG.com, for only $4.99! Remember to hurry, because the 75% release discount offer lasts for 72 hours only, that is until Sunday, June 1, at 9:59AM GMT.
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park_84: Nice release. And does anyone know what happened with the first and third SimCity? Is there some conspiracy against odd numbers?
Sim City 1 was released as freeware as 'Micropolis'
http://sourceforge.net/projects/micropolis.mirror/

Wikipedia info:
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropolis_(software)#Micropolis]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropolis_(software)#Micropolis[/url]

Dunno about Sim City 3000 though - I was wondering that myself, technical issues getting it to run on all systems?

Damn good to see an EA release BTW!
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blotunga: Hmmm, on steam the base price is only 10 (and 20 USD for US) euros, it seems this is one of the rare cases where steam is cheaper...
This is also the case with some Ubisoft games like Assassin's Creed, Heroes of Might and Magic V and Rayman Origins. $19.99 here and €9.99 on Steam.
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Impaler26: Sure, the release discount is great. But it doesn't change the fact that the regular price of $20 is too high for an over 10 years old game.
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Matruchus: On that we agree but there are several old games with that price on gog and nobody is complaining.
So how many over 10 years old games cost $20 on GOG?
Insta-bought, of course.
My favorite SimCity game

Nice to finally have it here on GOG
Nice, didn't expect it.
Omg! Awesome, you did it, GOG. After months of "Nah" releases, "Yes, instabuy!" rush is back again. Thanks.
Hello everybody,

I haven't played any Sim city since the 2000 edition and even then I did not play it like I should have. As a consequence, I don't really know if I'll like it or not.

But since I do enjoy playing games like Pharaoh, Zeus, Emperor, I think I may like Sim City 4. Is the gameplay of these games close to each others, or not really? Is Sim City a Paharoh but on a larger scales since cities are much bigger?

Thanks
Gilou
Good release, will buy it as I don't played any Sim City since I had the first game on my ancient 486. Also good to see an EA release, haven't had in a while.

I do believe however that the base price is much too high.
great release for SimCity fans! I personally would be interested to see SimCopter here
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tinyE: WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! EVERYONE STOP....put your money away!

I just checked the fine print and found out this version does not come with the "Miniature Donkey Farm" addon. Sorry, GOG but if I can't build a city whose sole source of revenue is miniature donkey farming then I'm afraid I'm just not interested!
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Grargar: Why must you be such an ass all the time?
He just would not be TinyE otherwise, miniature donkey and all...

:-)

Edit: And bought! I have been waiting for this one for a long time, and consequently it is an insta-buy for me. FINALLY have a DRM-free copy.

Oh, and GOG: FYI: Just because I got this one does NOT mean I would NOT buy SimCity 3000 Unlimited. You get that one here and I will insta-buy that one too!
Post edited May 29, 2014 by jackster79
I regularly pay more for DRM-Free games.

This, being the worst SimCity game with a number attached to it, I'll only pick up on sale even here. Now SimCity 3 with the expansions, that I'd hop on without trying to decide if it's worth doing, just like with SC2K.

Other games I buy full price, or the 10% off intro sales GOG has a lot., but even games I really want to play need to hit 80-90% off for me to rent (if there's DRM it's only a rental) on Steam.

Now if only EA would release newer titles here, even delayed a few months, they'd start getting sales from me again rather than my Origin boycott. Heck, if EA did it maybe Ubisoft would would provide delayed releases of their games without INOPlay attached.

Yeah, I know, pure fantasy. Still, it seemed like that with music until Apple dropped the DRM in iTunes, now nobody could get away with using DRM on a music sale.
Regarding price, I just consider the difference to Steam prices as a cost of having no DRM. No DRM is an advantage and it's acceptable having to pay for it.
wow, that's some nice release there
Nice addition GOG. I wish you could get SimCity 3000 too, but it isn't sold anywhere digitally that I'm aware of...