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Revision as of 16:25, 22 November 2022

SimCity Societies
SimCity Societies cover
Developers
Tilted Mill Entertainment
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows November 13, 2007
Reception
Metacritic 63
IGDB 67
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres Building, Simulation
Themes Contemporary
Series SimCity
SimCity Societies on HowLongToBeat
SimCity Societies on IGDB
SimCity Societies guide on StrategyWiki
SimCity Societies on MobyGames
SimCity Societies on Wikipedia
SimCity
Subseries of Sim
SimCity (1989) 1989
SimCity 2000 1994
SimCity 2000 Network Edition 1996
SimCopter 1996
Streets of SimCity 1997
SimCity 3000 1999
SimCity 4 2003
SimCity Societies 2007
SimCity (2013) 2013

General information

SimCity Wiki
Simtropolis

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SecuROM 7 DRM.
Windows
Origin
Origin
Windows
A free demo version is available from GameFront.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Destinations
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Origin

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Italian
Retail only.
German
Retail only.
Brazilian Portuguese
Retail only. Released as "SimCity Sociedades".
Spanish
Retail only.
Portuguese
Retail only.

Issues fixed

Doesn't launch on Windows 8/8.1/10

Use alternate launcher[1]
  1. Instead of using the executables in the installation's root folder to launch the game, find \Launcher\SCSocietiesLauncher.exe.
  2. Set this to use compatibility mode for Windows Vista (Service Pack 2) and use this executable to launch the game.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP2, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1.7 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.1 GB
4.2 GB for Digital Delivery
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


References