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CLOUD CITY

I have built a lot of cities in games over the years, and I’ve given my citizens plenty of reasons to flee them. In Cities: Skylines, I flooded their homes in liquid poo. In Surviving Mars, I left them to suffocate. In Anno 1800 – and this is the one that’s actually left me most ashamed – I failed to provide them with enough sausages. Airborne Kingdom, however, is the first city builder where I’ve lost people because the city was leaning too much.

Physics ends up being an excellent replacement for terrain

Before this became a review, my plan was to play an hour of get some gifs, but instead it ended up stealing most of a day, with me finally leaving my floating metropolis at around midnight (maybe a bit after). And then I kept coming back for more. I’m an easy mark for a city builder and rarely manage to escape their grasp quickly, but still manages to

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