Megapolis: City Building Sim Reviews

by AbbyBrooklinn

This would be a fantastic game but it’s not possible to do anything because of the cost. You have to upgrade EVERYTHING multiple times (the highest I’ve seen so far is 8), and the megabucks it takes increases exponentially each time. You need megabucks for everything. EVERYTHING. Sure, you could use supplies to upgrade, but where do you get them?? You buy them with megabucks! It’s ridiculous. You can watch a video every 4-8 hours to get THREE supplies...at that rate it will take months to upgrade just one building. This is the most expensive game I have ever seen. They sell FOUR megabucks for .99 (and that’s what they call a 55% EXTRA DEAL!!)...those will get you absolutely nowhere. It’s extremely obvious the developers of this game are GREEDY. I play other games that I happily spend money on, but the developers also give a lot for free. Absolutely not the case with this one.

*Update to developers response: Instead of actually doing anything to make their game less expensive they just try to direct you to their FB page. NO. I do not want to “enter your contest” or “friend” a huge bunch of people I don’t know. I want you to actually LISTEN to EVERYONE and make this game LESS EXPENSIVE. What a ridiculous and idiotic response from them. I’ve just now noticed how they FORCE you to upgrade buildings for hundreds of megabucks or the buildings won’t preform their function. This is NOTHING but a GIGANTIC cash grab and FB scam.

by Tololololololololo

All these people bashing EA’s SimCity but this game is the same if not worse. Am I missing something? The game relies heavily on Pay2Play and the use of mega bucks. Every time I open a new window there’s a pop up about buying a pack. There’s 4 or 5 icons on the main screen just for that. You have to wait hours to collect a few hundred coin. You have to wait hours for your materials to finish building. The city hall is such a scam. You have to pay megabucks for your “employees” to automatically collect your coin or register residents except it’s 1 wage per collection. So if you have a couple of dozen buildings or hundreds like most people it will cost 5+ mega bucks each time city hall collects. What a rip off. And if you want to collect yourself? Well good luck tapping on the smaller buildings behind larger buildings. You can’t see them! The mechanics are bad regarding that.

by Blurryraven

So, I’ve been playing this game for quite sometime now, and honestly I haven’t gotten very far. I mean yeah I’ve made it to level 47 but that took some years and that ridiculous the BUGGEST DRAW BACK IS it takes way to long to accomplish building things cause YOU NEED FRIENDS OR MONEY that’s why not give us the option to earn these thing thru time or coins or even missions idk. But not everyone has friends on fb that wants to play this game I’ve asked it got annoying and not everyone has money to invest into this game, over time I could just buy simcity 🤷🏻‍♂️ and be done with it. I really like this game I really do but constantly having to ask for things is just way too much I have a regular job and don’t really have that kind of time I started this game in high school almost 10 years ago, so can y’all make a “in between side” of this game like a part that I don’t have to constantly ask for stuff or pay, I much rather make one payment for the whole game 10-20$ sounds fair seeing how it’s a app 🤷🏻‍♂️ in the mean time I will have to draw back from this game too it’s time consuming.

by Maddenman501

I’ve loved this game since it came out, back then when I started I was young, lost my account, but that’s not what this is about, wasn’t that far. But now I like it more as they’ve made it easier to progress in game with the video for mega bucks, and video for materials, I just think you should either round off the video mats to 5, cause lots of times I find myself having to watch videos for 1 and not getting the other two since I only needed 1, or increase the amount of times you can do it per day, or make it 1-1 and let us do it way more so we can complete more. Cause there is ALOT , to do in this game which is why I love it so much, I just can’t seem to justify the amount of money for megabucks cause there not worth it unless on sale with certificates. Or if they increased the amount of mega bucks earned for the videos for mega bucks instead of a measly 1 mega bucks maybe every hour( if I can get on every hour) maybe 3 just like the materials. If even watch a 30 second clip for 3. Unless they do something to make those points better in game I’ll keep 3 star.

by SerfNturf

Started playing this almost 2yrs ago b/c I like SimCity type games and this looked interesting. When I began there was a dozen or so different types of materials to complete building projects and game has steadily added obscure materials to the point where it’s cumbersome (have to scroll to find each- no search bar). Have noticed more and more places within game that megabucks (or whatever game cash is called) are needed to progress. I totally understand a certain amount for developers to profit, but it’s become excessive and off putting. There’s no way to convert earned coins to megabucks either (though I’ve suggested it)... I’m sitting on 300mil+ in coins and counting; silly. Game gives you just enough free gifts, earned cash and contests to keep you on the hook. New items (that require more & more materials) periodically added to keep it interesting and never ending. New “State” feature allows chat & gift exchange with limited users, but the other features aren’t well explained. Fair warning.

by Ack🤓🤓🤓

This game is very addicting, however it’s extremely unfair with it’s secondary currency, megabucks. Megabucks are extremely hard to come by. There is free ways to get them, however it’s usually a very small amount. Often times it’s only one megabuck.

On top of that, the game makes you spend way more megabucks then you do coins! It’s ridiculous how much you NEED megabucks. And if you do blow a bunch of real money on megabucks, then it is extremely slow progress.

This game has so much potential. This game would be by far the best city builder if it megabucks were easier to come by.

Response to the developers response: I now think this game is a 3 star game
Because if you play correctly, you don’t really need to spend money. But again, it’s still really slow progress. Which is kind of a good thing because it’s never ending, but this is kind of ridiculous.

I am however disappointed with the developers for giving no real response. They are not listening to people when they say the games to expensive. Instead, they just say things like “go to our Facebook page” or “watch ads”.
I don’t want to friend a bunch of people that I don’t know on Facebook to trade materials and watch videos because that option rarely pops up.
I could go on and on about things they can do to fix there game, but they wouldn’t listen. I’m still going to list two of them.

1. Buildings that produce megabucks
2.ways to produce materials

by Victoriant1

Really annoying that you can't rotate the screen to 360 view your city. And I'm still confused about how I am supposed to get all these parts to build these things as the only means I see it is with cash which I have already spent some on this game and haven't gotten very far with it. I wish there was a better tutorial on this. And I seem to have a bug, I've had the supplies for a track and have applied them like 10 times to completion and it's kept the supplies and not completed the track each time. All in all I don't know if I will continue with the game as it looks it will be super expensive. I honestly would rather pay up front, or pay a cancel at any time monthly fee and have all mega bucks be no longer based on actual dollars. Other then it looking like it will be too expensive the game is really adorable and diverse if you have the money to spend you can really create a unique and satisfying SIM. I wish they had something like this is a Sims4 just buy the game once format something like this I would play for hours if I could just create to my hearts content. Please consider doing a pay once pc game like this.

by Reviewmaster100@

I downloaded this app a few months ago, and it’s probably one of the most addictive games ever, and I mean it in a good/bad way. I mean, I really love to build my own city, and there’s sooo much to do like all the special events, the districts, the new areas (like the Tourist Island, Rocky Mountains, and Las Megas), etc. I mean it’s all good, but this app is super time consuming (a good/bad thing), I mean building things is slow at times (even though you can trade with friends and you get 16 things to use every day), but you really need to buy megabucks to progress faster in the game. Also one question to the game developers, is the Overpass going to be connected with the Nepilim World Center (sorry I didn’t spell it correctly), and also if the time to get 3 items to construct things (which is 4 hours) could be at least two or three hours, since 4 hours to wait for an ad to get three things is a bit too much. Overall, this app is a fun game, but it could use some improvements.

by Oanskor

I've been playing this game for over 3 years. So far I've had 3 cities, one lost to a phone transfer, another where I decided I'd made poor choices early on, and finally the crazy sprawling metropolis I call Coruscant. I check in just about every day.

I've learned that it is very important in this game for players to focus on specific buildings/areas, otherwise you end up with a ton of half built stuff you're unlikely to finish. Another reviewer mentioned that they don't participate in the new set events for this reason. Personally, I use them to get cheap boosts to population caps that don't eat up space in the portion of town the player has control over. Meanwhile, I focus my actual building and asset allocation in the industrial area to unlock new resources and products.

As stated above, I've played and enjoyed this game for along time. One of the key things players need is patience. And the other is a firm grip on their wallet as the temptation for instant gratification is both intense and constantly shoved in your face.

by Coolgamer24

So most things about this game are good. You can kinda do what you want, and build whatever, I mean you still have to worry about money, but there is a lot of cool stuff you can get for cheap. But the one thing that kind of turns me off of this game is the big projects. They require materials that can’t be produced with factories or stores, and you have to rely on friends donating them to you, or your own stash of megabucks. And sometimes these big projects are mandatory for you to move on in the game. Now I agree that it should take time and effort to do these projects, but I think you should be able to complete them yourself without relying on friends or megabucks. I think maybe you should be able to make these goods by maybe stores or something, or maybe other missions, or anything, I just honk you should be able to complete them yourself without asking friends or splurging megabucks. Again, I think that these projects should take time and effort, but from you, you should be able to do them independently, and without megabucks. I think that megabucks should be more optional of when you spend them, because like I said, a lot of times these projects are mandatory to move on in the game.

Anyway, besides my rant, this is a good game and you are pretty free to do whatever, the only reason I gave this 4 starts is because the problem above, otherwise it would be a definite 5.

by Idkeveryusernameistaken9937272

Overall, I think this is a really great game to pass some time, and all the buildings look really great. However I do have some suggestions that I hope developers will consider to make this an even better and more enjoyable game. First, it can sometimes be quite annoying that you can only view your city from one angle and you can’t turn the camera to different angles. Sometimes having the camera fixed at one angle can block the view of other building behind it, so it makes it difficult to show all your buildings without wasting a lot of space. Also, it takes WAY too long to gather enough building materials to construct special buildings such as overpasses and airports. It should not take weeks to finally have enough materials to do the FIRST STAGE of building an overpass. If you guys can make these changes into the game, it would really make it a much better experience and I would be willing to play it more often. Thank you!

by Epic McChillington

So I’ve been playing this game for a while, and I like it a lot, but when there aren’t any events going on, there really isn’t any motive to do stuff like launch probes or rocket ships, or military operations. This brings on the first idea/suggestion, host events/contests more frequently. It would really encourage a lot more people to try and progress with military, or research. Another idea/suggestion is to add more building variety. In other words, if you place a building down, the wooden house, for example, you could edit the color so that when it is built, it will be different from the original color, and now for my final idea. You should add more things past level 52 I think it was, because you don’t really unlock anything new around the map past that level. So I’m thinking maybe add a heliport, just like the new airport, but for helicopters, then maybe a big racing thing, but you focus on holding all of the tracks, and you can sponsor teams, stuff like that. I also think adding a bit better detail, (graphics and stuff) would be pretty nice. Well that’s basically all I have. Other than that. It’s a great game that I would suggest to friends. Keep up the good work!

by Cicero589412

My third update and review.

I would appreciate it if the developers would be sure that the game points you to all the buildings when doing State tasks. I have multiple buildings of the same kind and it’s hard to find all of them with so many buildings. Searching through my massive cities is hard. Way too many buildings. I now group bldgs for easier access to finding them.

If a team has won a challenge three times in a row, then please make them wait 30 days before they can enter again.

Same teams are dominating the game. Makes it pointless for the rest of us to even bother if we’re never gonna be able to get a top prize. Makes the game boring. I no longer enjoy playing because I have had to bunch bldgs to meet state tasks so my cities look awful now.

the Soccer Challenge. the leaderboard is not loading and it doesn’t calculate your tasks points. I’m doing tasks like mad only to see my level drop way down and my points stayed where they were. The developers say that it doesn’t calculate in real time. Well after doing over 30 tasks and no update to my points for all my tasks I did, I’m very upset. This is causing me to get way behind. To keep this game fair, please give a new challenge now.

by Mr.Hobo21458

I have been playing this game a while 4+years and it’s a wonderful game and I do buy megabucks on occasion but I have great neighbors and the state I belong to is one of the best . The graphics in this game is outstanding. Especially for the quests . The tech support is also great . They get back to you and are a big help . Aside from the cheaters who come in and ruin it when there are the contests and quests for us long time players. When someone has almost 500 points and someone barely has 300 and nothing built but somehow have hundreds if not thousands of points, it’s not fair and many long time players no longer participate in the quests or contests . This is one of the best games out there and I will continue to play as long it’s here .

by OcalaSteven

True some say it is expensive however there is a lot free with the game. I have built lots of buildings without having spent megabucks...some buildings do if you wanna finish them. And by choice when they offer discounts on mega bucks I buy them. Especially when I can get 400 to 500 for the cost of 150 ...so like 20 bucks at a time. I mean I spend that on stuff in real life I do not really need so rather then do that I put it into the game. For me I really enjoy this game it is A LOT of fun. If there was 1 thing I would gripe about it’s when you expand a territory it is a pain in the rear to move everything to make space in the expansion to work right. Wish there was a way to temp clear all buildings in that one area at once then able to replace on the area that stuff.

by Shellym6

I love this game soooo much! It’s an unbelievable game with great graphics and a wide variety of buildings to choose from. It’s very addicting and relaxing to play.

However, while this game is so great, there are some flaws that bother me a lot and probably many others. First of all, it is impossible to make enough megabucks to satisfy you to buy building materials or buildings. It would be great if when you watch a video for a megabuck, instead of just getting one single Megabuck, it would be great if we could get 5. Also, I would like for there to be more options to watch ads for megabucks since the bubbles to watch the ads rarely pop up. Also, when watching a video to get 3 materials, it would be better if we could get at least 5 and for the hours to be consistent. The fact that after watching a video to get 3 materials varies from 4 hours to sometimes 17 hours is absolutely unfair and crazy. Please make the hours consistent. If it has to be 4 hours, and not less, then make it 4 hours each time.

Also, just as a possible addition, it would be nice if we could have a 360 view option to see our cities.

Overall, I love this game, but I do find that when it comes to both megabucks and materials, it is very unfair.

by Futbol8striker

The game is really fun but it has a few downsides that I don’t like. One being the fact that you can only sell one item at a time, it is very rare that I only want to sell one of my items at a time it is not very fun. Also the introduction of 360 view would be legendary and would change the feeling of the game. Along with that I think I have a bug with one of the things I was upgrading. The Main Laboratory Complex has other buildings you can gain after upgrading, yet I can’t build the radar or the helipad and I have the max level. I spent so much time building that for me to get nothing. Finally I wish it would be a little easier to get megabucks and I think the video for materials should be more materials or more often. This would bring people back more often. I still love playing this game but some updates would be great.

by Lego Assembler

This game is really great, but there is something that’s been bothering me. Just lately, I haven’t been automatically receiving the buildings I get from the State Contest Chests despite accumulating enough points for them. I should’ve gotten the Melbourne University Building, the Gangnam Finance Center, and the Montreal Tower, all of which I had enough points for. What is going on? Another thing is that when I earned the prize building from completing the Street Racing Event, it was put on top of the space’s previous state as if it was poorly cropped over it. Also, love the new music for the main city! It has such a chill slice-of-life vibe! I also love how you kept the previous music for the State Capital! One more suggestion: Do you think you could bring back the mechanic where when you deploy buses from the bus station you see them driving on your city’s roads?

by Zerblizig

I check in every day, usually more. After two-plus years, I could probably write a user's guide. Don't enter all the contests, be very selective with this else you will develop a city of half-completed projects and be frustrated. Spend your mega bucks on adding friends with whom to exchange gifts. It pays four itself in a week and then keeps on giving. Be connected to a reliable broadband or strong wi-fi, the games saves its status continuously but certain things like moving to another area or tapping on special feature like a train, will cause it to crash if it's in the middle of saving.

It could use a few minor improvements, like the ability to move materials among buildings under construction, and adding treasuries and town halls in the outlying districts. It would be nice to be able to have the option to get rid of contest buildings once the contest is over just so I don't have to look at all those building frames that popped up because I was curious.

In all, it's enjoyable, and a never-ending engineering project. If you like building games, this is a great one.

by Elstar II

I’ve been noticing that I am seeing International Style buildings being added occasionally but we still need more, way more. I suggest looking up “tallest buildings in New York City” on Wikipedia not Emporis and find the international styles and put them in ur game. Also look at all american cities because they have lots of International Style that this app desperately needs. So first can u put the Pittsburgh “4 in 1 Action” on the state piggy bank and repeat the Phoenix wheel of fortune and also repeat Mobil and Tuscon Megabuck special, that one has a boring yet beautiful box buildings. If u could repeat those 4 it greatly appreciate it. Also I highly recommend some new buildings that r International Style, I kinda already said dat but here’s some famous and a few more anonymous ones u can start with.

1. Twin Towers aka old WTC, NYC
2. United Nations Building, NYC
3. Lever House, NYC
4. 28 Liberty, NYC
5. Liberty Plaza, NYC

These r all fairly well known so if you could start with those 5 that would be a nice start. So just keep looking for International Style buildings over time and start implementing them way more often, it would me everyone’s cities looks so much more realistic instead of just using modern ,it gets very boring seeing famous and modern buildings that aren’t a good fit for a custom skyline.