“I didn't think that for this low price I could get a game this good. For the record, I'm not an expert gamer but as someone who's looking for a relaxing city building game, I am very impressed. I love the graphics and the game play. The…”
Independent automated assessment · 2 signal sources · 401 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.4 ★22,635 ratings
1M+Downloads
9+Age rating
67 MBApp size
$2.99In-app purchases
About this app
Build your own city as the new mayor. Create residential, commercial, and industrial zones. Build parks and recreation spots. Respond to crime and disasters. Watch your city come alive!
No microtransactions or long wait times! Everything is unlocked and rewarded through gameplay.
Pocket City re-imagines classic city building simulation gameplay for iOS devices.
Note: Landscape and portrait mode can be toggled in the settings menu during gameplay, or by tapping the icon at the top right of the start screen.
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 1.1.451 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.1.451, updated 2024-12-18.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
No theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: States a price, or offers a one-time purchase
The app's own text offers a one-time or lifetime purchase, or reviewers report that the price is stated clearly.
What we saw: Reviewers report clear pricing: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 401 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“This is a great alternative to the micro transaction riddled sim city style games on the play store. One-time purchase.”
“Did a great job making a cute little Sim City game. $3 is a very fair price and it's nice to play a game like this without ads or pushy microtrans.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.0.41.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business model$2.99
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.