Virtual City Playground: Build

In-app purchases
4.1
392K reviews
5M+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this game

Build the city of your dreams… and then run it in Virtual City Playground®: Building Tycoon!

● Build dwellings and industrial buildings.
● Manufacture a variety of retail goods and deliver them to your sleek and enticing shopping malls.
● Set up a mass transit system to transport your city dwellers to parks, cinemas, stadiums and more.
● Make your city greener and healthier by recycling garbage, planting trees, upgrading buildings and adding hospitals and fire stations.
● Reward your happy, responsible citizens by organizing truly spectacular public events for them!
● Take your city to towering new heights! Construct well-designed Apartment Towers, an Eco Skyscraper, an Airport, a Stadium, a Casino, a Hangar, an Ice Castle and even a Shuttle Launch Pad.

While this game is absolutely free to play, you have the ability to unlock optional bonuses via in-app purchases from within the game. You may disable in-app purchases in your device settings.

Includes:

● Over 500 uplifting quests to tackle as you grow and enhance your city
● Nearly 200 buildings, landmarks and decorations for city beautification
● About 100 challenging achievements to earn and celebrate with your friends
● Google Play game services support

***Did you know? Your minimized game continues transporting goods, making you money while you sleep!***

You can play this game whether you’re offline or online.
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Game available in: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish.
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Compatibility notes: This game performs best on high-end smartphones and tablets.
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Updated on
Dec 3, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App info and performance and Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.1
313K reviews
Xplosive Wordzz
June 15, 2025
This isn't a game for anyone looking for a long-term free to play experience, unless you're ok with doing the same mundane tasks repeatedly. The energy replenishment is a matter of having patience. However, the diamonds (which is what you need to keep progressing to a bigger city) is something you'll only have enough of by buying more. Otherwise, you quickly reach a point where you have no space to expand or means of getting more diamonds without paying, not even by watching ads.
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Tabitha Applebee
June 23, 2025
I have only played for about an hour so far. Seems like a neat game, but I'm unhappy to see that at least 2 "quests" require me to connect to and "like" you on Facebook. I have no interest in creating a social media account just so I can continue with the game. At least offer a "no thanks" option to skip it. Or, better yet, don't force people to like you on social media. EDIT - energy required to build and upgrade?! This is so unnecessary and caps play time. It's like devs want the game to fail.
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Kory Davis
June 2, 2025
Disappointing. The game is based on the Virtual City games that were on BigFishGames. A great game that was like the old-school Sim City games from the 90s. This however is a cash grab version. You only have so many things you can do before you have to wait for more energy, or pay to play more. You have to do nonsense tasks to unlock more buildings, or pay to instantly unlock. I would have been 100% happy with a one-time pay to buy the game. Another great game ruined by pay-to-play.
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What’s new

Now a game with support for wide screens and new devices! Let your Virtual City experience be state-of-the-art.

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