Getting Started with the Digicity: City Builder Beta
About Digicity: City Builder
Start small. Think big. Build a city that feels like yours. Digicity is an isometric city builder for iPhone, iPad and Mac with Apple silicon. Turn a randomly generated 128x128 landscape into connected neighbourhoods, busy industry and a city shaped by your decisions.
CHOOSE HOW YOU PLAY
Open Build is a free sandbox with every building tool and the whole map. No ads, energy meters or play timers. Saving requires a purchase.
Scenario guides a new city through four historical eras, with goals and report cards as it develops. Era purchases unlock Scenario one era at a time; Ultimate includes them all.
Everyone can preview 11 established challenge cities. Ultimate is required to start them, including the new recovery challenges The River That Burned and Aftershock. Take over a working city, tackle its problems and follow suggested approaches and live goals.
BUILD A CONNECTED CITY
Zone homes, shops and industry. Lay roads, tram lines, freight rail, power lines and water pipes. Connect residents to jobs, provide essential services and balance tax income against upkeep. Traffic, pollution, land value and demand shape what grows.
BUILD ACROSS THE WATER
Add rivers when founding a city. Connect the banks with low or high road bridges, extend local routes with secondary terminals and watch boats travel usable waterways. High bridges leave room for shipping; low bridges can block it. Inspect access and locate known blockages before planning your next crossing.
CHOOSE YOUR CITY RULES
With Ultimate, choose Standard, Relaxed or Custom rules before founding a Scenario city. Everyone can inspect the conditions. Decide which pressures apply, including pollution, fires and earthquakes. Rules stay fixed for that city. When enabled, river fires, earthquakes and aftershocks create new recovery problems. Review debris clearance costs before rebuilding.
UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR CITY NEEDS
Use data overlays, tile details and the city overview to explore population, finances, utilities and transport. In Scenario, choose transport priorities and emergency-service funding, compare city figures after policies take effect and pursue optional ambitions. Pause to plan or choose Normal, Fast or Fastest.
SAVE AND RECOVER
Saving and Ultimate are one-time purchases that include named saves and device-local autosaves. Without saving access, your city is lost if the app closes or the system terminates it. Autosave is on by default and keeps up to three recent recovery versions per city history. Force quitting can lose changes made after the last successful autosave.
Ultimate includes saving, all Scenario eras, city rules and all 11 challenge cities. Purchases are not subscriptions and do not expire. Purchasing Saving or Ultimate supports future updates and continued development.
PLAY IN YOUR LANGUAGE
English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch are available. Digicity follows a supported device language or falls back to English; choose another supported app language in Settings. We use AI for translations from English. They may contain mistakes; share suggestions through Translation feedback in the city menu.
Play in landscape on iPhone, build on iPad or use a Mac with Apple silicon. No account or sign-in is required.
