SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition

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 8,794 reviews of which 7,195 were positive and 1,599 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam and has a 75% discount.


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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

Reviews

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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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March 2024
There has not been a better city builder in over two decades. The scale of this game is massive. Regions comprising of dozens of interlinked cities with millions of inhabitants. It has so much soul the excess seeps from the seams, and a banging soundtrack.
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Feb. 2024
Even after 21 years, and three major modern attempts at creating a new pure city-building game, nothing comes close to touching SC 4. And I'm not saying that just simply out of nostalgia. The only bad quality to SC 4, is its infamous instability issues, which can be controlled if you learn what causes CTDs and how to prevent them. The biggest reasons why SC 2013, CS1, and CS2 doesnt touch this game: 1) Realistic city sizes. SC 2013 city squares are childishly way too tiny. Not even a modern American village IRL could realistically fit on them. Nevermind, a city of over 10,000. Meanwhile, CS1 and CS2 becomes so bogged down with the AI trying to control tens of thousands of different "agents," that most people's hardware cannot get much above 100,000 in population. 2) Graphics. The graphics of SC 4 is realistically "gritty." It inst this weird cartoon-ey plastic look that Colossus Order STILL insisted on making for CS2! Especially the vehicles! Like. Come ON! This is now the 2020s. The idiotic and weirdly childish cartoon graphics trend of the 2010s should FINALLY be over! I'm a grown adult who wants to build a REALISTIC city! NOT in the environment of Paw Patrol! SC 4 graphics have a more realistic "gritty" feeling to them compared to the 3 year old child-level Paw Patrol 3D graphics of SC 2013, CS1 and CS2. Those are the two biggest issues that would launch a modern city-builder to new heights.
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Feb. 2024
yes... but... (+) the best sim city out there with all expansions. no online DRM fun with physics and city management (-) just emulating the old PC version : no up scaling or any other modern commodities the charge for this is high for a game that is almost (?) 20 years old...
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Dec. 2023
Been playing the SimCity line since SimCity 2000. There is no comparison between this and any other simulator including Cities Skylines. The best, always and forever.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
8.0
7,195
1,599
Online players
496
Developer
EA - Maxis, Aspyr (Mac)
Publisher
Aspyr (Mac), Electronic Arts
Release 20 Jul 2010
Platforms