# City Island: Winter Edition - Builder Tycoon - Citybuilding Sim Game, from Village to Megapolis Paradise - Free Edition

> Strategy

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id767352693](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id767352693)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id767352693`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Sparkling Society Games B.V.
- **Category:** Strategy
- **Rating:** 4.10 / 5 (14 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.5.1
- **Last updated:** 2016-01-20
- **First published:** 2013-12-14
- **Size:** 71 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/city-island-winter-edition-builder-tycoon-citybuilding/id767352693)
- **Website:** [http://www.sparklingsociety.net/](http://www.sparklingsociety.net/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.sparklingsociety.net/privacy-policy/](http://www.sparklingsociety.net/privacy-policy/)

## Description

If you are familiar with our game City Island, or if you played games like CityVille before, this new 'sim city style in the snow' edition is definitely something you need to try!

In City Island: Winter Edition you will be responsible for building a city on this cold and snowy Island instead of the exotic paradise of City Island. Build houses for your citizens and create jobs with commercial buildings to earn money. At the same time, be sure to build enough decorations and community buildings to keep them happy. If you succeed, maybe Santa Claus will visit your city someday!

Gameplay in this edition is the similar to the original City Island, but with the winter season ahead of us, this city building game with snowflakes dropping from the sky, provides you a completely new user experience.

In this romantic scenery, simulate a wonderful virtual city with a choice of approximately 100 unique buildings, like hotels, cinema's, offices, bakeries, restaurants, and even an oil platform. Catch some fish with your boats in the docks, make people happy by building schools, churches, parks, museums, libraries and much more. Furthermore, share codes with your friends in the community and be rewarded with extra cash and gold! A mini simulation of life on an island in its best form!

Try this free builder game now and enjoy many hours of free play!

- Tycoon and simcity features
- More advanced, than a regular farm game

## Rankings

- #302,125 — Overall

## Review summary

Players generally praise City Island: Winter Edition as a fun, addictive city-builder with strong ties to the original, but frustration centers on slow resource generation, high costs to progress, and monetization pressure. Repetition and bugs (crashes, payout issues, feature load problems) dampen the experience. The game remains appealing to genre fans, yet stability, content variety, and balance improvements would broaden its appeal.

### Pros

- Fun and addictive city-building/tycoon gameplay
- Highly regarded by players as one of the best island/city-builder games
- Feels true to the original City Island series with familiar mechanics that fans enjoy
- Pleasant visuals and the snow-themed edition add charm

### Cons

- Gold/coins are slow to earn and expansion/upgrades are expensive
- Monetization pressure and ads related to progress (buyers still see ads; calls for more balanced payouts)
- Perceived lack of new content or novelty vs. previous versions (repetitive feel)
- Several technical issues (crashes/glitches, cruise ship/feature loading problems, treasure chests not paying out, happiness points bug)
- UI/UX gaps (unclear road costs, no universal collect-all button, no daily bonus)

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