SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Fair · Strategy · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9975% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.13/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 9,919
- Genre rank
- Top 7% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 9.4h
- To 100%
- 170.6h 18.1x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 79 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 December 2022
- Sale every
- 49d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 309 now
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 84% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
79 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rail Route ($24.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins ($19.99, scores 56).
More about SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 1,379 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 9.4 hours. Doing everything runs 171, 18 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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What players say
SimCity 4 is a citybuilder game, the classic and essential one in fact. Its biggest strength is its involved systems, which for the time had you managing a staggering amount of variables for your city. It's still one of the better city builders you can get for extremely cheap and run on almost anything. However, you should keep in mind this is an old title. It doesn't play like its modern equivalents, and it can...
2 more reviews
Well, this is the best game I've ever played, but had to uninstall it, because I play at nights and I need sleep, please.
Getting this game to run for longer than 10 minutes is a truly Sisyphean feat of human resilience. On its own, just zooming in more than once in 10 seconds has your hard drive turning into thermite. If you have more than 2 cars on a main road, you'll have the first episode of Chernobyl acting out live on your desk. I play games released as far back as the early 90's, and I've never played a game that runs this badly...
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 32MB supported Direct3D capable video card with DirectX 7.0 or greater, 1.6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/24780/simcity-4-deluxe-editionReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.