LinCity-NG

About

SimCity is Will Wright's open-ended city-building franchise, launched by Maxis in 1989 and continued through several sequels before Electronic Arts wound the series down after a troubled 2013 reboot and the 2015 closure of Maxis Emeryville. LinCity-NG is a city-building simulation and a modernized continuation of the classic LinCity, where the player builds and maintains a city and wins either by reaching a sustainable economy or by evacuating every citizen via spaceship. It's built with CMake for Windows and Linux, is under active development, and is distributed through Linux distro repositories, Flathub, and GitHub releases.

Getting started

It's built from source with CMake (configure, build, then install) or installed as a pre-built package from a Linux distribution, Flathub, or the project's GitHub releases; in-game help is available by pressing F1. Save files from before version 2.13.0 use an incompatible old format and need to be run through an included conversion script first.

Known issues & limitations

• compatibility: Games saved with versions prior to 2.13.0 are not backward compatible; a conversion script is provided.