
Thankfully, there are no wait timers or energy bars to make you wait for ages or spend real-life currency. It only takes a few seconds, depending on what you are building. It kind of does, but you don’t have to wait for minutes. You get the idea, right? Does Pocket City have timers? There are other factors like Health, Traffic, Crime, etc, which affect the gameplay. Each building draws some resources, so you will need to ensure that there is sufficient water and power for all buildings. Water and Power (electricity) are required for buildings to function. This is how the game lets you replenish your cash flow, by charging sales tax from the zones. You should build this after building a residential zone.Ĭommercial zones provide stores, restaurants, etc where your citizens can buy stuff with the money they earn.

Industrial zones provide jobs for your citizens, and is the heart of the city’s economy. This is how your city grows, and is always the first zone to build. You need to build Residential zones to allow people to move in to your city. If you have played Sim City, it is basically the same. Use the on-screen buttons to select the corresponding option (building, stats, quests, etc).Tap the screen and drag your finger to move around.Glad to see that CodeBrew Games, that’s the developer, isn’t one of those. It is true to an extent, but given the number of Android devices, an ad-ridden game installed on thousand (or millions of devices) could possibly make the game developers more money than a premium iOS version does. Many game developers publish their game on the App Store as a premium paid version, and release the same for free with ads on Android, using piracy as an excuse. Pocket City is also available for iOS, and I did play it on my iPad and it offers the exact same experience on Android, including the price tag of free, which is quite rare to be honest. And unlike the majority of games of this genre which are available on the Google Play Store, Pocket City has no IAPs, that’s right, no In-App Purchases. The premium of the game version has no ads, so depending on your spending power you can buy the paid version or play the free one. It isn’t that bad to be honest, the ads don’t pop up during gameplay. The name literally means you can manage a virtual city from your pocket. Welcome to Pocket City, a place refreshingly devoid of money laundering IAPs.ĭon’t get the wrong idea, the game isn’t going to cost anything from your pocket. Ever since then, fans including myself had been looking for a good city builder game on Android, and by that I mean one which doesn’t have timers, or energy limits, or in-app purchases.
