SimCity 3D: Build Your City — an honest story about a game that owns your evening

Sometimes the simplest-looking game hooks you harder than a blockbuster. This is exactly that case: the rules take a minute to learn, and putting it down is much harder.

What this game is

SimCity 3D is a real browser city-builder powered by three.js. Lay roads, raise residential, commercial and industrial zones, run power lines from a power plant, and watch the population grow. Steer the camera: right mouse to rotate, Ctrl+right to pan, wheel to zoom. On phones: drag to orbit, two fingers to pan and pinch-zoom, tap to place buildings. Russian and English UI.

How to play, in short

1. SimCity 3D is a real browser city-builder powered by three.js.

2. Lay roads, raise residential, commercial and industrial zones, run power lines from a power plant, and watch the population grow.

3. Steer the camera: right mouse to rotate, Ctrl+right to pan, wheel to zoom.

4. On phones: drag to orbit, two fingers to pan and pinch-zoom, tap to place buildings.

5. Russian and English UI.

A few final tips

• Check out the demo mode on the game page — the AI shows how it is played, and repeating it yourself gets much easier.
• Play in short sessions: the best results come with a warmed-up head.

Simple on the surface, deep underneath — exactly the kind of game that never ages. Ready to try? "SimCity 3D: Build Your City"