Engineering the PERFECT city layout in a new puzzle game! 

It's yellow

This is a fantastic game to show how city planning is done on a council level. You can't (for the most part) tell people what to use the houses for, but you can make certain requirements for zones and built infrastructure. The colors in this (aside from green, which represents general quality of life features) are so-called lighthouse projects that you can (and must) plan for and/or around. The only thing that is still unrealistic (aside from the overt simplyfication, that is) is that you get to built a new city from scratch. That almost never happens anymore, so it would be cool if there was a second game mode where you have a city already "done" with 80% of the meter filled up and you get random pieces to _replace_ existing blocks. Maybe with the possibility of paying one point to replace two old blocks with one new, so you keep the (costly) option of reshaping the grid.

This seems to have a much more realistic city mechanic than the more advanced city building games even. They always encourage non mixed used and zoning for different purposes. The American type of "city" where you need a car for everything.

From official website: "This game was made by the developer of Ostriv (🏝️) during russian invasion of Ukraine, as he had to flee his home with not much more than a cat and a laptop." 🇺🇦

Looks like this is the way my city planners are using to determine where trams are needed

Didn't realize you were color blind. Good work keeping it relatively disguised this long.

I wonder if You know the story behind this game. It was made by Yev, the dev behind Ostriv in his downtime when Russian invasion pushed him out of his home and he could no longer work on his main game because he had to leave his workstation behind. Tile Cities was a game created so that he does not stop working while he can still earn a living. He ended up using the money earned to support Ukraine in their war effort and even provided Ostriv and Tile cities as stress reduction software for ukrainian soldiers who have access to computers.

Finally a city builder that rewards public transit and greenery.

we have different definitions of “yellow” haha

Needs more paddy segments

I really do enjoy these simplistic city builders. Even if there's not much to them, I think it's a great way to experiment on concepts. I love the complexity of typical city builders and how much of a difference the right buildings make and their variety, but I do think there's a market for making the design aspect of them not simpler but more...organic. My first real city strategy game was Tropico 4 because it was one of the only big hits that I could play on the Mac Desktop I had at the time along with Borderlands 2. I loved the 100+ hours I put into Tropico because it was a game someone like me could still enjoy even while only having a basic understanding of the mechanics the game tells you. It even had a very basic "Recommended" building prompt that if nothing else made it easier to select what you knew you had to build. That said, I always found myself in skyrocketing debt in my sandbox games for a variety of reasons I can only really guess at. Dockworkers not getting to the boats on time so you build more docks that no one uses, teamsters taking forever to move goods so you build more of their buildings and increase wages but there's no one working them because everyone at near endgame for me was too educated for it, the list goes on. The point of my tangent was that I wouldn't mind if more mechanics in city builders like traffic in Tropico 4 were more deterministic like they are in Tile Cities here. Like, I understand the purpose, benefit, and use of the metro lines here than I ever did than the ones in the Modern Times Tropico DLC. Oh, you need more purple in Tile Cities? Try attaching one to a metro line. Worker's not getting to where you need in Tropico? You can do -this,- this,- or -this- to fix it. I think the idea of "gamification" of the minimalist, bare essentials of city building and then fleshing it out into a full fledged city strategy game is really worth pursuing.

its very hard to keep up when you constantly confuse orange and yellow and green (park) xD

The bottom left grid is an optical illusion, fantastic!

Is it just me or is the “yellow” ones look orange?!

Have you played Shapez? It's a cool factory game which you can definitely overengeneer!

Instant buy! What a great little game. Plays right into my adoration of maps

11:55 I thought he was gonna say:” Every triangle is a love triangle if you love triangles” cit.

Real Civil Engineer before: "Tram line" Real Civil Engineer after: " Metro line"

This reminds me of that puzzle boardgame "rivers, roads, and rails"

Pretty good game. Would have been better if there was a ✨BRIDGE REVIEW✨

I am so pleases that you downloaded and promoted this. The developers need all the help they can get

The pond in that first park has a very strong shape, very well designed

This game looks real cool!

Pls play this again, it was really entertaining!

This may be the best I've seen RCE play *any* game ever

looks great mate

Wow, this was fun to watch!

I've lost track of so many hours playing this game. Very addictive!

It’s like midnight for me but instead I choose to watch this.

im think you will love "until we die" a very good game i discovered. its set in post apo train station. your goal is to survive 25 days and expan your "colony" and defend it from verd monsters. and there are engineer-unit. (i vill be honored if you would play it)

14:57 He did some off camera grinding

I think you'd have a decent time with a game called Townscaper. It's not all that exciting, but it is a neat city designing game.

RCE is the most entertaining youtuber

@2:10 Is it just me? or is that Orange? Not Yellow???

neat game, it'd be awesome to see you do a challenge in this game

RCE! You should totally play Mindustry, it's a little tower defense strategy type game.

I know Russia's not popular right now. But calling them architects is a bit uncalled for. Brutal.

Your channel is growing so fast, you allready get 1k views in 4min

Can you remove a earlier placed tile and place another similar shape in it spot and move the earlier tile to a more advantageous spot ? Or is a tile once it placed locked there forever ?

I maybe think that saying blue is commercial purple is skyscraper kinda thingy and maybe yellow is work place

This game seems super fun

Is it me or is the yellow he's talking about orange?

Peace love and city tiles!

I understand a second language, but I'm not fluent. I felt like i was watching in that second language everytime he said a color, because i had to translate on the fly. It was a bizarre feeling

i just finished up the the freeways series, and i've quite enjoyed this, chance there's more of this coming? i'm also enjoying the cities: skylines, and the infraspace series as well and of course, the editing is good times too

How many times did you have to restart the game to start with a strongest shape pond?

Where was this masterpiece when I was in college!?

I can see Tile Cities being addictive

Hi i love your videos

That's a very orange looking "yellow" Matt 😂😂

That's orange. Yellow is on the bottom 🤷

Your hardhat is a lovely shade of orange; hardhats in the wild are yellow. But that's just me nit-pickin'

Nice game!

This is so confusing but it's a pretty cool game to watch

Certainly a clever puzzle mechanic and visually appealing game, but calling this a 'city builder' game feels a bit like changing the coloured tiles on a Rubik's Cube into six different building types and calling that a 'city builder cube'! 😂

Hi

“Peace, Love, and Tile Cities.”

I'm sorry but with the shape of the lake and how you kept saying it was "satisfying" the different tiles I couldn't stop laughing 💀😭

“Architect Russians” I’m dying 😂

Ha, got this before RCE, brill little game!

You should try Tower Tactics Liberation. Towers defense game with cards

Collect your here within a minute award here

you play so many games that make me more and more sure that you're colour blind

this game is rly cool

14:55 When minecraft youtubers do "a little" grinding of camera.

RCE... that's orange.

0:15 Oh no, that's the very first thing I saw and I've had the very same thought, but I'm just a Software Engineer…

Who wants to start a good old flame war over whether or not the color is yellow or orange?

Im so exitet about the poster i ordert :D

Planet crafter when... miss that game man

matt the entire video: Yellow me: that's orange matt!

could you try BANISHED? its like timberborn but also also not

1:55 RCE confuses orange for yellow. 👷‍♂️

good as always

Yo Rce The devs that made this also made another city builder called ostriv I reccomend it, it is a very good game

This game makes me summon my inner OCD

this game needs a dark mode

Reminds me of sprawlopolis

As an urban designer this is a nightmare

Please play Ostriv(island) it's also a city building game from the same developer and it's really nice

oh that is a game made by the same dev that made Ostiv, they are very talented

interesting game^^

This seems interesting

Nice

Happy July 4th

Real Civil Engineer you should try out the game Zeus master of Olympic to see how good your Engineering really is

do more of this

You might want to try Mindustry, it combines factory building and base building into a fun game which will leave you saying "What monstrosity of a thing have I created."

CIVIL THE BUILDER CAN WE FIX IT? YES WE CAN!!!!!

I will some day become engineer irl

PLANET CRAFTER

Hello Matt.

How you didnt noticed the stringest shape in the first central park tile?)

This game has a night mode, you know ☺

Do you have a video showing how to edit softs????

Can you play mindustry? i think you will like that game!

You should play Battle of polytopia!!!

Russia is indeed a bunch of architects

0:12 it's so... Efficient

what does the tramline do?