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Build a city with a deck of building cards, scoring residents to clear blocks and make room for more.
Released 23 Sep 2015
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A city planning deck-building game. Place buildings using cards in your deck and earn new ones as you progress! A genre-blending game packed with cool ideas that swaps micro-management for a more puzzle-like approach to city planning.
Developed by ColePowered Games · Published by ColePowered Games
Concrete Jungle casts you as a city planner in a card-driven puzzle game. Rather than managing a sprawling simulation, you use selected building cards to shape a compact city.
Place buildings so their effects on nearby spaces help residents earn points. Reach a block's required score to clear it and open more room to build; as the city grows, residents make greater demands.
Progress by adding and refining building cards, with eight playable characters offering distinct cards, play styles, and skill trees. The game includes a story campaign, competitive play against AI, and local competitive or co-op play for up to four players.
Reviewers who enjoyed Concrete Jungle often praised its puzzle-like building placement and deck strategy, describing the combination as a fresh, engaging challenge. Some also liked its quick-session appeal, humor, and voice acting. Others expected a more traditional city-building simulation and were disappointed by the compact puzzle format; complaints also mention unclear scoring or card information, lengthy dialogue, and frustration with card draws or the lack of an undo button.
A new take on the city-building genre that swaps micro-management for a more strategic and puzzle-oriented style of deck building.
You have a deck of selected cards, which you can use to place buildings. Each building will affect its surroundings in different ways. The aim of the game is to clear city blocks by gathering the required number of points from your residents, giving more room to build. As the city grows, bigger and better new buildings can be added to your deck!
As you get opportunities to hone and refine your deck, residents will demand more from you. You'll find yourself inadvertently creating zoning puzzles- playing against your own past planning decisions.
Alternatively, engage in competitive city planning against challenging AI or local players. Take it in turns to place buildings in the same city and battle over the affection of your citizens!
Over 230 cards available (no micro-transactions)
8 Playable characters, each with their own skill trees, unique cards and play style.
Hilarious, fully voice-acted story mode!
Competitive city planning featuring challenging AI in 'Versus' mode.
Local competitive/co-op multiplayer for up to 4 players or AI.
Gorgeous, vibrant, detailed isometric graphics, day/night and weather effects.
Rich and atmospheric soundtrack featuring Xerxes, Saad Ali, D.P. Kaufman & Mokhov.
Steam achievements, stats, trading cards & leaderboards.
Support for any resolution, borderless window, full-screen and controller support.
Featuring voice talent from Angela Mayans, Ben Britton, Ruth Rosen, Ed Bretten, Kyle Chapple, John Mondelli and Barbara Hawkins.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 13 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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| Metacritic | 76/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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