SimCity: 4 Deluxe Edition Hits Steam

Since having a full time job I’ve had to do one thing that I regret the most – stop playing SimCity. It’s a game that can quickly eclipse all other games, jobs and social interactions. Gone are the weekends where I spent 30 hours straight building my perfect city to then attempt to destroy it – gone are the weekends feeling like a god of my mighty city – well at least I thought they were gone.

The genre defining city builder that stole many gamers free time has hit Steam in the form of SimCity: 4 Deluxe Edition. The deluxe edition contains both the original game as well as the expansion [What did ever happen to expansions?] Rush Hour. So get your construction gear on and be ready to take control of thousands of Sims. The game is on Steam right now for $19.99 or £9.99.

Simcity 4 was one of the best games in the series - plagued with performance issues on release this could be your chance to play it on a more modern system - and let’s face it with the underwhelming Simcity: Societies and Cities XL we might not be seeing another any time soon.

So thank you EA & Maxis – thank you for trying your best to get me addicted again after all the hard work I put in going Cold Turkey. You and Steam are working together better than a drug pusher with an excess of stock. The deluxe editions seem to be the standard one rather than a localized version such as SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition UK which you can grab on Gamersgate for £9.95.