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BOOMTOWN

Build a living city

Your town, your rules: zone neighbourhoods, keep the lights on through heat waves and cold snaps, feed your people and watch traffic come alive.

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City builder · iPhone · iPad · Android

Turn a single dusty road into a thriving metropolis.

Boomtown is a relaxing but deep city builder. Paint homes, shops and industry, connect power and water, and watch your citizens move in, raise families, commute to work and tell you exactly what they think.

Build a living city

Zone it, power it, watch it grow

  • Every car is on its way somewhere: commuters pick routes, jams form at rush hour, and better roads or bus and train lines fix them.
  • Residential, commercial and industrial zones in standard, suburban and old-town styles.
  • Grow from hamlet to village, town, city and all the way to megacity.

Every season matters

Snow, heat waves and storms change how your city runs

  • Heat waves push air-conditioning demand, cold snaps need heating.
  • Clouds dim your solar farms, storms spin your wind turbines.
  • Snow blankets the town in winter, trees turn gold in autumn, harvests peak in summer.
  • New cities follow your hemisphere's seasons with the Local calendar, on by default.
City Hall People tab with age pyramid, life expectancy and births and deaths

Generations that grow up

Residents are born, grow old and pass on

  • Every home has kids, parents and grandparents who age year by year, and young adults move out to start their own households.
  • Kindergartens raise birth rates, doctors raise life expectancy, schools fill up and empty out, and cemeteries slowly run out of space.
  • Set the retirement age and parental leave, then watch your age pyramid shift a decade later.

Farms, mines & trade

Grow food, sell the surplus, dig for ore

  • Farms feed your people: sell the surplus, store part of it in a food reserve or pay for imports.
  • Mines dig ore from the mountains until the vein runs dry.
  • High-tech industry moves in once your city is well educated.

See what your citizens need

Data maps reveal traffic, pollution and land value

  • Residents judge everything: jobs, commute, safety, schools, parks, noise, pollution and the cost of living.
  • Tap any building to see how it's doing and exactly why it isn't growing.
  • Colour-blind friendly data maps.

Turn your town into a destination

Landmarks, old towns and pedestrian streets draw visitors

  • A Ferris wheel, stadium, opera house, Sky Tower and more pull in tourists, and an airport flies them in by the planeload.
  • Hotels collect a tourist tax. When they're full, visitors rent flats your residents can no longer live in.
  • Crowds bring crime, noise and rising rents, so cap short-term rentals or double the tourist tax.
And so much more

Deep when you want it

Traffic & transit

Every car picks its own route. Car-free households walk or ride transit. Run bus, tram and train lines, pedestrianise streets and open an airport.

Policies & budget

Set taxes per zone, fund each department, take out loans and choose from 14 policies.

Research & grand projects

17 technologies, from trams to nuclear power, and wonders like the World Expo and the Space Center.

Fires, storms & protests

Fires spread from house to house, storms damage buildings and unhappy residents take to the streets.

26 data maps

Traffic, pollution, groundwater, wind, crime, age, visitors and more, with a colour-blind mode.

Missions & milestones

Eight ranks from hamlet to megacity, timed missions, 25 achievements and surprise news events.

No adsNo in-app purchasesNo trackingPlays fully offline
Made for touch

Built for iPhone, iPad and Android

Place, preview, confirm. Hold any button to learn what it does, undo your last moves, and switch on left-handed mode or a larger interface (UI size).

iPhone and Android play in landscape. iPad also supports portrait.

Boomtown on iPhone: the zoning menu over a growing city Boomtown on iPad
Requirements

What you need

iPhone & iPad

iOS 15 or later.

Android

Android 7.0 (API 24) or later, phones and tablets.

Orientation

Landscape on iPhone and Android. iPad also plays in portrait.

Connection

None. Plays fully offline.

Six maps

From easy river valleys to hard deserts

🏞️
River Valley
Easy
🌊
Coastline
Normal
🛶
Lake District
Easy
🏝️
Archipelago
Hard
🌵
Desert Oasis
Hard
🌲
Boreal Forest
Normal
Modes

Four ways to play

Relaxed

$120,000 to start. Upkeep ×0.8, fires half as likely, and no bankruptcy.

Normal

$60,000 to start. Go 12 months in the red and the city is bankrupt.

Hard

$30,000 to start. Upkeep ×1.25, fires 1.5× as likely, same bankruptcy rule.

Sandbox

Unlimited money and every unlock free. Achievements don't count.

Choose the city size, terrain, generation pace and calendar for each new city.

Progression

From hamlet to megacity

Hamlet, Village, Town, Small City, City, Metropolis, Megalopolis, Megacity.

25 achievements

Kept across all your cities. Sandbox cities don't count.

Timed missions

12 kinds of goal with cash rewards. They expire, so pick the ones you can reach.

17 technologies

Plus 5 grand projects, from the World Expo to the Space Center.

Your town is waiting

Coming to the App Store and Google Play.

4.99 · one-time purchase · no ads, no in-app purchases

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