Besides random events, there are unlocks that require you to go back and do some redesigning on your city.

Your city is situated in a hotspot for tornadoes and underground volcanoes, which can do monumental damage to your city if you’ve designed it poorly or are not prepared. Other aspects that keep the game interesting include the random events. Their missions can be as easy as building a new building, or as difficult as finding a spot where your citizens do yoga. A gardener with an eco-friendly attitude and many more including the police chief, fire department and bank manager. Street thugs who seek to disrupt your town with crimes such as muggings and car theft. There are several individuals that issue quests to you, a personal advisor who gives you objectives to aim for in the long run like a larger population. Your focus can now shift onto something more specific, quests. So, you start the game following the instructions of the bars, but that’s not all there is to do. Green represents residential areas, where are your civilians going to live? Blue shows commercial areas, where are you townsfolk going to spend their money? Orange represents the industrial area, how will your people spend money if they have nowhere to work. The bars are colour coded to show what areas your city needs more than others. At this point, you have unlocked nothing special so your focus is to please the bars in the top right corner. Start off career mode by building your city. Pocket City adds more than enough content to keep you entertained for hours. Now that I’ve got the IAP stuff off my chest, I can focus more on how the game plays. The only way to earn more virtual money is to well, earn it. There is only one currency to keep track of, and you can’t buy more of it. Pocket City avoids all these problems by allowing gameplay to unlock content. Whether it was annoying ads, wait times or a level cap that could only be broken by additional purchases, city builders just felt charmless. The primary focus of city builders was to annoy you into purchasing something you didn’t need. I have avoided these types of games on the App Store for one reason, it always felt like gameplay was the secondary focus. There are no IAPs, no advertisements nothing to stop you from sitting down and enjoying the game, which is a breath of fresh air. Pocket City has a unique focus when compared to games in the same genre, it cares about your experience. If you’re going to make a city building game, you need to do something special to stand out.