Free to play on iPhone, iPad and Mac
Digicity is an isometric city builder. You get a 128×128 map, a handful of tools and a clock that starts in 1900. Nothing appears because you placed it: buildings arrive when the demand is there, the power reaches, the water arrives and the land is worth building on, and they stall when it is not.
Residential, commercial and industrial demand answers what you have already built, so every road and every plant changes what grows next.
Mark land residential, commercial or industrial, at light, medium or heavy density.
Drag out roads, power lines and water pipes. A lot without a road, power or water will struggle to grow.
Buildings arrive when the city wants them and the land is worth building on. You set the conditions; the city decides.
When a district stalls, lay an overlay over the map and see which of those conditions it is missing.
In Open Build nothing is locked behind a timer, a level or a purchase. Every tool and every building is there from the first tile. Not sure what one does? Hold it down and choose What is this? to see what it places and what it needs to work.
Roads, tram lines, power lines and water pipes, each drawn by dragging.
Two coal plants, hydro, wind, nuclear and a gas turbine, plus a district heat plant that lowers what a district draws.
Water pumps, water towers, and an artesian well that draws from under the city rather than from beside it.
Police stations, fire stations, treatment works that clean fouled water, and a reclamation yard that puts stained ground back.
Bus and train terminals that extend how far your commute reaches.
Residential, commercial and industrial, each at light, medium or heavy density.
Found a city around an anchor (a port, a university or a hospital) and play it forward through four eras. Each era changes the rules rather than just the date, and report cards in 1930, 1970 and 2010 grade what you actually built.
Scenario mode goes on sale with Digicity 26.9.
Scenario mode and its first thirty years: found a city, site its anchor, and grow it on foot and by streetcar.
Cars stretch the city and then make its streets hard to live beside.
The ground remembers. Old industry stains the land it stood on, and the stain outlasts the bulldozer.
The city has to move goods, not just people. Power and water stop being limitless, and a district drawing more than its plants supply goes dark at its edges.
Every city starts on a randomly generated map, and you can reroll until you find one worth building on. It tells you how much of it is water before you commit. In Open Build you can also start with a small town already standing: ten lots around a street, powered and watered, for you to extend.
Run the clock at three speeds or stop it, with the space bar to toggle. One step of undo takes back the last thing you built and refunds what it cost, including whatever it flattened on the way in.
Space pause and resume
One download from the App Store runs on all of them. VoiceOver labels and keyboard shortcuts throughout, and no account, no sign-in, no analytics and no connection needed to play.
iOS 26.0 or later, Digicity 26.9 or later
Plays in landscape. The whole game, not a trimmed one: the same map, the same simulation, the same saves. iPhone starts with Digicity 26.9; the App Store always gives you the current version.
iPadOS 26.0 or later
Built around touch, with keyboard shortcuts throughout when a keyboard is attached.
macOS 26.0 or later on a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later
The iPad game on an Apple silicon Mac, with its keyboard shortcuts.
Your cities, on every device. With Saving, turn on Keep my cities in iCloud on each device, and your saved cities appear on every device signed in to the same Apple Account.
Open Build, the sandbox, is free and complete. Everything else is a one-time purchase. None of it is a subscription, and none of it expires.
Free
The sandbox, complete. Every tool, every building, the whole map. No timers, no energy meters, no ads.
$9.99
Keep as many cities as you like and come back to them whenever.
$1.99
On sale with Digicity 26.9
Scenario mode, sold one era at a time and played in order: The Rail Era opens it, and each later era extends the calendar once you own the ones before it.
$19.99
On sale with Digicity 26.9
Saving and every era, present and future. Bought once, yours through every update.
Scenario mode and Ultimate go on sale with Digicity 26.9. Open Build is free to play right now, and Saving is on sale today. The rest are priced and waiting on that release.
The free game cannot save. Close Digicity, or let the system reclaim its memory while you are in another app, and the city is gone. Digicity tells you this before you build anything, so you can decide later.
US prices. The App Store shows the price in your country. Restore purchases from the game's menu (☰).
Download on theApp StoreYes. Open Build, the sandbox, is free and complete: every tool, every building and the whole map, with no timers, no energy meters and no ads. What is for sale is Saving ($9.99), Scenario mode one era at a time ($1.99 each), and Ultimate ($19.99), which is saving and every era, present and future. None of it is a subscription and none of it expires. Prices are in US dollars; the App Store shows your local price. Scenario mode and Ultimate go on sale with Digicity 26.9; Open Build and Saving are available now.
iPhone with iOS 26.0 or later, iPad with iPadOS 26.0 or later, and Mac with macOS 26.0 or later on an Apple M1 chip or later. It is one App Store download for all of them. iPhone needs Digicity 26.9 or later, which is what the App Store gives you.
No. On Mac, Digicity needs Apple silicon: an M1 chip or later, running macOS 26.0 or later.
No. On iPhone the game plays in landscape only. It is the whole game rather than a trimmed one, laid out for a screen held sideways.
The free game cannot save. If you close Digicity, or the system reclaims its memory while you are in another app, the city is gone and cannot be recovered. The game tells you this before you build anything. Saving, a one-time purchase, lets you save cities from the game's menu and load them later. There is no autosave, so anything since your last save is lost if the app is closed.
A second way to play. You found a city around an anchor (a port, a university or a hospital) and play it forward through four eras from 1900. Each era changes the rules rather than just the date, and report cards in 1930, 1970 and 2010 grade what you actually built. Eras are sold one at a time and played in order, starting with The Rail Era, or all together in Ultimate, which also covers the eras still to come. Scenario mode and Ultimate go on sale with Digicity 26.9; Open Build and Saving are available now.
No. There is no account and no sign-in, and no network is needed to play. Purchases go through the App Store.
There are no ads and no analytics in the game. Purchases are processed by Apple, and the game checks what you own with RevenueCat using an anonymous ID, so your unlocks can be restored. Your cities stay on your device, or in your own iCloud if you turn that on.
Digicity is built with VoiceOver labels on its controls, and keyboard shortcuts throughout, including the space bar to pause. It has not been through a full VoiceOver audit, so if a screen does not read the way it should, tell us at asc.is/support and we will fix it.
Free to play, with every tool and the whole map. No ads, no account, no connection needed to play.
Download on theApp StoreiPhone · iPad · Mac with Apple silicon