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by markwillis82 1986 days ago
Are there any mobile versions that are good and not in app purchases / time based?

I wouldn’t mind paying for a game but not a fan of the time based, gem collecting price models. Would rather pay for the app and just play

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I would have recommended TheoTown but apparently they moved to a time based IAP model with their mobile app. The steam version is still a single time purchase and a great game for the low price.

While checking out TheoTown on the App Store I found out that there is a paid Tropico version that seems to be a full game.

It sucks that TheoTown has a small number of "buy with gems" buildings and offers you normal game money for watching ad videos, but otherwise it really is the closest you can get to SimCity2000 on Android, maybe even better.

Almost everything else is a shitware Farmville clone with city building aesthetics.

OpenTTD has an android port but no ios port (something to do with GPL iirc)
Pocket City is okay