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Helmi Blub · Published by Helmi Blub
Mostly Positive — 76% positive (54 reviews) · 100 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Start with just one citizens to build up your city. Grow it more and more and more. There is no limit in size. Just the limit of your own PC.
Indie, Simulation, Free To Play · 2025 · More free games
Embark on an endless growth journey as you manage and expand your city, starting with just one citizen. The only limit is your PC's capacity in this free-to-play simulation by Helmi Blub.
About this game
This is a very simple city builder game with the main purpose of scaling up your population.
You can place build orders for your citizens to build new homes, plant food or plant new trees.
The more citizens you have the faster the city can grow.
For me as the developer of this game, the purpose was to try to write efficient code to see how much a PC can handle before it begins to slow down. So try out and see how many citizens your device can handle.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- Additional Notes: Graphics Card needs to support Vulkan Graphics API
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Additional Notes: Graphics Card needs to support Vulkan Graphics API
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Fixes and Prestige Option
- added community suggested prestige option which reset everything but the citizen counter - fixed a crash which could happen when two threads played a sound at the same time - changed graphics card selection behavior to hopefully be betterRead full article on Community Announcements (Helmi)Patch NotesOfficial
Crash on Startup try to Display Error to User
- added a graphics backup which hopefully give user message why it failed instead of just instantly crashing - game timer changed to hours minutes secondsRead full article on Community Announcements (Helmi)Patch NotesOfficial
Fix Crash on Startup
deactivated vulkan validation layers which i forgot to deactivate crashing the game on startupRead full article on Community Announcements (Helmi)Patch NotesOfficial
Bugfix Visual Artifacts
fixed some issue with visual artifacts on far zoom levelsRead full article on Community Announcements (Helmi)Patch NotesOfficial
removed dependecy "shaderFloat64"
hopefully no more problems after removing dependencyRead full article on Community Announcements (Helmi)
