Designer City: Empire Edition

Name: Designer City: Empire Edition
Rating: 4.9 (903 reviews)
Author: Sphere Game Studios

By: Sphere Game Studios

Design and build your empire

Features & Capabilities

Embark on a journey to construct a historic town that evolves into a thriving metropolis and an expansive empire spanning millennia. This free-to-play offline city-builder has no wait times or restrictions, letting you zone, build houses, markets, libraries, academies, and military structures to attract residents and jobs. Start from a Roman city and expand to civilizations such as ancient Egyptian, Aztec, Byzantine, Persian, Norse, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese cultures, creating grand arenas and entertainment districts.

Plan, design, and upgrade your city with waterways, parks, and iconic structures while managing power, water, waste removal, and food production. Keep citizens content to generate income for further growth. Enjoy absolute creative freedom with a casual, relaxing tycoon experience—offline or online, with some optional in-game items available for purchase.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Games Entertainment Education

By:

Sphere Game Studios

Rating:

4.90

(903) 1 new ratings

Version:

v1.26.5 Last updated: 2026-05-26

Version code:

886114062

Creation date:

2020-05-15

Compatible devices:

Size:

110.63MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-06

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 59,579 ▼ 13

Other platforms

Designer City: Empire Edition (v1.26)

711,720 4.73

(10,415)

For Developers

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Developed by:

Sphere Game Studios

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/designer-city-empire-edition/id1511050675

Website:

http://www.spheregamestudios.com

User Reviews

Players praise Designer City: Empire Edition for its relaxing city-building feel, diverse historical designs, and a monetization-friendly progression. Ongoing updates are a plus. However, stability issues (crashes), inventory/warehouse glitches, and design coherence problems (style mismatches and service placement) are common downsides. Some early-launch bugs are noted as well. Overall, it\'s a strong concept with room for polish and consistency improvements.

Pros

Relaxing, easy-to-learn sandbox-style city-building experience.
Wide variety of detailed buildings with rich historical/European/Asian designs.
Progression that doesn\'t require real money; gold via achievements and accessible gameplay.
Active development with frequent new buildings and content updates.
Unique historical theme that stands out from typical city sims.

Cons

Crashes and stability problems reported on multiple devices (random crashes, boot-outs).
Warehouse/inventory issues (loading freezes and friction with item retrieval).
Design coherence concerns (mismatched architectural styles and limited alignment of services with buildings).
Occasional launch/start bugs and early-use problems (audio-only launch, initial build issues).

Recent reviews

I played this game all day for 4 days straight. Taking time off to sleep of course. I thought if I played long enough with nothing I would slowly build up something. NOPE! If the game is not being used non-stop it shuts down. But I was there. I was waiting for money to build up so I could play. I gave it 96 hours and I still did not have enough to upgrade a tree being as it was like 6 million to upgrade. So I deleted the game and am now heading out to delete empire city 2 (same kind of game) I have already deleted aquatic city for the same reason. I live on 800p/m SSI. So, moral of the story is, if no money, they don’t want u to play their game. I have asked them a number of times to lower prices. I even gave them an economics lesson and they do not listen to an economics major. Too bad so sad for them. I talked my son into not playing their game cause of how stupidity they R. I’m not rich because I fell off a mountain at 20 and broke my back. So I am now handicapped. But oh well, their loss..

by WA*****, 2026-03-15

So I love education and I wanted to find a game about building and history but never found one then in 2022 I found the Designer City Games and in Dec of 2025 I found this game and finally found what I was looking for!

by Br*****, 2025-03-14

This is a wonderful game!!! I love the constant additions of buildings! Two ideas i wish the 1x1 parks acted like roads and two i wish you could flip buildings in all four directions not on,y in two!