If you are one of the many users who, in its time, had great moments of entertainment with SimCity, you should know that currently, one of the best titles based on that one is undoubtedly LinCity-NG. In this case, we find a game developed in open source, especially for computers, thanks to which we will find an excellent real-life simulator for you to build your own experiences.

The objective of LinCity-NG is that, as the leading local authority, you manage to take the city forward in such a way that it becomes a metropolis of enormous dimensions, offering a good quality of life to its inhabitants. Of course, to do this, you will have to be highly attentive to the needs presented to you so that you attract more and more people to settle in the town.

Some of the primary needs of the citizens that you will have to cover are related to housing, food, energy, and the necessary jobs, so you will have to fulfill the classic tasks of a politician. Of course, it will be time for the buildings that can't be missed in these cases, such as monuments, schools, hospitals, and everything necessary for life.

At the beginning of the game, in LinCity-NG, you'll be able to select its difficulty, choosing whether you want to start the entertainment with a city that is in a good moment of development or one that is going through bad times. Thus, you will have to work much harder in the second case, although if you do things accordingly, you can be sure that the results in the long term will be the ones you are looking for.

The point is that the more amenities you offer to the local inhabitants, the more they will start to attract more and more people from elsewhere, and then you will have to prepare the city for the waves of immigrants who also have their own needs. The exciting thing is that you can customize the city's progress to your liking so that it constantly adapts to the type of metropolis you are considering.

If you start the city right from the beginning, you will find that the game will only provide you with the land without buildings and a nearby beach, so think about the first buildings and just fundamental issues required by the citizens. Keep in mind that you will be a kind of superior being in the city and that all the decisions you make will have repercussions on the welfare of your citizens from then on.

You will see that you can develop a large city full of skyscrapers or a quiet seaside town where its inhabitants spend long hours on the beaches, enjoying the tranquility and forgetting their obligations for a moment. But remember that you will need stadiums for significant sports, other venues for cultural events, and so on, so it is advisable to manage taxpayers' money well.

The most important thing is that you should always be balanced in this regard since you will have income money derived from the taxes of your citizens and if you spend more than you get without recovering that investment, you will have problems. Of course, there are some tricks that you can put into practice, such as asking for credits or others, which will allow you to make safer investments to stay calm. When we talk about the user interface and graphics of this title, we have to say that they are well achieved since, although it is easy to see that this is not a game generated with the latest design techniques, the shapes and views of the city more than comply. If we add to the accompanying background music, we have immersive entertainment that will take you several hours.

In our experience of use, LinCity-NG has shown itself all the time as a stable program, consuming much fewer resources than other current games, so you can install it on a non-gamer computer, to call it somehow. No forced shutdowns or frozen screens that, at certain times, can affect us when we run games on machines that are not overpowered.

For this reason, we believe that LinCity-NG is undoubtedly one of the best options in real-life simulators with references to construction that we can take into account to enjoy on our computers. Among its strong points, without a doubt, the possibility of completely customizing the growth of a town is the one that stands out the most. Finally, you should not lose sight of the fact that as LinCity-NG is an open-source game, not only will it always be completely free, but if you know about its development, you will be able to modify it so that it adapts to what you prefer. The only thing to remember is that the larger the population, the greater the challenge, so you better be fully prepared.