# City Island 4 Simulation Town

> The best city building game!

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1042336481](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1042336481)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1042336481`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Sparkling Society Games B.V.
- **Category:** Simulation
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (2,997 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.7.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-10
- **First published:** 2015-12-26
- **Size:** 305 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-18
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/city-island-4-simulation-town/id1042336481)
- **Website:** [http://www.sparklingsociety.net](http://www.sparklingsociety.net/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.sparklingsociety.net/privacy-policy/](https://www.sparklingsociety.net/privacy-policy/)

## Description

City Island 4: Simulation Town is a popular city-building tycoon game where you start on a small island and grow into a metropolis across multiple islands. Build 300+ unique buildings, decorate your archipelago, manage services, and transport to keep citizens happy while completing engaging quests.

Play offline or online with high-quality graphics, day-night cycles, and evolving challenges as you expand your city into a bustling metropolis.

## Rankings

- #33,737 — Overall

## Review summary

Players praise City Island 4 for a relaxing, easy-to-pick-up city-building experience with ad-based gold earnings and low-pressure progression. However, repeated concerns include high costs and limited building variety, unreliable ad rewards, bugs such as gold disappearing and missing structures, and a cramped UI with missing rotation features. Customer support is also seen as weak. Overall, the game succeeds as a casual time-killer but struggles with monetization frustrations, technical issues, and UI/feature limitations that recur across reviews.

### Pros

- Relaxing, casual city-building experience that's easy to learn and a good time-killer.
- Option to earn gold by watching ads without intrusive pop-up ads.
- Progression can be achieved without heavy spending, offering a lower-pressure monetization model.
- Fun and enjoyable gameplay that doesn’t overwhelm with complex mechanics.

### Cons

- High in-game costs and limited building variety, making progression feel repetitive at higher levels.
- Reward ads are unreliable—videos often don’t pay out or aren’t available when claimed.
- Technical issues like gold disappearing overnight and missing structures, with poor or slow support when contacting developers.
- UI/UX clutter and cramped screens, plus lack of features like map rotation, which complicates building and viewing.
- Some players feel content and features are removed or not expanded fast enough.

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