Pocket City
Worth it · Strategy · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 8h 8.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.37/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 276 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 567 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
A casual city building game. Become the mayor and create your own metropolis! Create residential, commercial, and industrial zones. Build parks and recreation spots. Respond to crime and disasters. Watch your city come alive!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 13 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 81 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, TheoTown ($9.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Two Point Campus ($29.99, scores 69).
More about Pocket City
None of the 261 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to July 2026.
What players say
This is some good cheap city building. Its simple. Its fun. Some UI problems, but thats all. 7/10.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is the closest to Sim City that I have found. It is amazingly fun, and the changes implemented that make this game unique are all great additions. 10/10.
Unlike most city builder games, currently there is no way to hold down ctrl and continuously build, reopening of the building menu and select your choice again is mandatory after every single placement, then there is this confirmation that pops up after construction placement making it extremely annoying and repetitive.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Pocket City scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2004440/pocket-cityReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.