SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.

SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition is a city builder, immersive sim and base-building game developed by EA - Maxis and Aspyr (Mac) and published by Aspyr (Mac) and Electronic Arts.
Released on July 20th 2010 is available on Windows and MacOS in 8 languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain and Swedish.

It has received 9,007 reviews of which 7,373 were positive and 1,634 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.


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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP
  • Processor: PIII 500 or equivalent
  • Memory: 256MB
  • Graphics: 32MB supported Direct3D capable video card with DirectX 7.0 or greater
    compatible driver
  • DirectX®: DirectX 8.1
  • Hard Drive: 1.6GB
  • Supported 3D Accelerator Hardware: SimCity 4 Deluxe / Rush Hour requires a 32MB 3D Direct3D chipset, and a display that is at least 800x600 in size, and supports 16 or 32-bit color. It is recommended to always install the latest certified drivers for all your hardware
 

Supported Graphics Chipsets

Cards with these chipsets are officially supported by the SimCity 4 hardware graphics driver:
nVidia:
  • nVidia TNT2, TNT2 M64, & TNT2 Ultra
  • nVidia GeForce SDR, GeForce DDR, GeForce Quadro, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 MX, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce3, GeForce4 MX, GeForce4 Ti 4200/4400/4600/4800 SE, and GeForceFX 5200/5600/5800/5900
ATI:
  • ATI Radeon 7000, 7200, 7500, 8500, 9000, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800
  • Known Issues: Due to hardware limitations with the ATI Radeon series, some buildings and graphic effects will be temporarily turned off while scrolling. There is a known ATI driver defect that results in SimCity advisor animations dropping polygons. To fix this, please download ATI driver 7.79 or later (also referred to as CATALYST 02.4) from on the Internet.
Matrox:
  • Matrox G400, G450, G550, Parhelia
SiS:
  • SiS 315, Xabre 400
Software Mode: SimCity 4 also provides a software-based graphics driver which will work with most video cards. 32MB of video memory is recommended. The graphics mode driver can be selected from the Graphics Options panel in the game, or may be run from the command line using the switch -d:Software. The following video chipsets will run the game properly in software mode:
  • PowerVR KYRO, KYRO II
  • Trident Blade 64
MacOS
  • OS: 10.12 (Sierra)
  • Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (Dual-Core)
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Hard Disk Space: 2 GB
  • Video Memory: 256 MB
  • Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 3870 / NVidia Geforce 8800 / Intel HD 3000
  • Additional: Macintosh mouse and keyboard required.

  • NOTICE: This game is not supported on volumes formatted as Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive)
  • NOTICE: The following video chipsets are unsupported for SimCity4 Deluxe: ATI RADEON HD 2400, 2600, NVIDIA 8600m, Intel Integrated GMA 950, Intel Integrated x3100
  • NOTICE: SimCity4 Deluxe Mac is localized into French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Japanese

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March 2025
If Cities: Skylines is too much of a sandbox for you and you're missing consequences and more focus on simulation and managemennt this is the best you can do, even after all these years. Bonus perk: amazing music!
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Feb. 2025
What's it like to go back to a game you last played 2 decades ago? Completely awesome, at least in the case of Sim City 4. I re-bought it on Steam a few years back but only just got round to playing it, and this perfectly balanced and paced uber-City Builder was even better than I remember it. Get caught in its hooks and you might end up investing a couple hundred hours and ignoring friends and fam for weeks (like I did) With one single, easy to find mod (there are millions of others if that's your thing) you can play this baby in widescreen HD and it still looks great plus your modern rig will not grind to a halt after a couple of hours play like it did at the turn of the millennia :) I honestly wonder why it's so hard to beat this all-time best builder after all this time?
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Dec. 2024
Ok for any newer computer users, definitely use the advanced launch options and the game works normally without crashing. Here's an advanced launch thingy I found off of reddit that worked for me -d:soft -intro:off -CPUCount:1 -f -CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32 -w
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Aug. 2024
Used to play SimCity 4 a lot on our old family computer in the living room when I was a wee lad and can barely understand the gameplay and depth, but it was fun plotting down stuff and destroying everything with disasters Years later, playing this again in my 20s makes me appreciate the game even more and can actually understand what I'm doing and build proper cities. Definitely worth the buy for anyone that wants to play one of the classic city building games.
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April 2024
This game will never die, and will never stop giving fun to us. This classic from 2003 is better than the New City Skylines 2 and many other games in the same category. The King of City Builder.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
8.0
7,373
1,634
Online players
445
Developer
EA - Maxis, Aspyr (Mac)
Publisher
Aspyr (Mac), Electronic Arts
Release 20 Jul 2010
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