The minimalist city builder.
Tile Cities is a casual/real-time-strategy/puzzle/city builder game developed and published by yevhan8 and released on May 5, 2022 on Steam. The game is a simplistic city builder where the player is given a set of tiles that represent different types of city blocks and must lay them together to build a thriving city. Like any puzzle game, the player is always getting new supplies of blocks of different varieties including tram lines and depots as well as parks, and they must place them together to maximize the efficiency of the city.This game builds the following tropes:
- Casual Video Game: The game is a "city-builder" simulation game but one where the player's only goal is to put pre-made blocks together and build a city that runs all by itself.
- Critical Existence Failure: The city shuts down and your game ends if the city's efficiency level falls below a certain amount and stays there for a long time.
- Endless Game: The game only comes to an end if the player's city becomes inefficient.
- Thriving Ghost Town: There are no "people" to speak of visible in the city. Instead, colored dots show the levels of activity currently going on in the city.
