Vision Pro Gets Its First Native City Builder Game Next Month

Apple Vision Pro isn’t exactly brimming with XR games yet, although starting next month you’ll be able to jump into a classic city builder that has been updated to include full mixed reality support.

Magic Fuel Games is releasing Cityscapes: Sim Builder (2023) for Vision Pro soon, bringing with it a new immersive view so you can manage your city as the god-like mayor you always wanted to be. It’s slated to arrive on July 3rd via Apple Arcade.

“They’ll use their hands to lay down roads, build neighborhoods, and ultimately grow their city into a thriving, profitable, and sustainable place to live,” Apple says in a press statement.

Cityscapes: Sim Builder has been available across all Apple devices since its initial iOS launch in mid-2023, taking the Apple Arcade Game of the Year as well as an Apple Design Award finalist.

While we still think the platform could benefit from more ports (and proper motion controllers) this follows the release of a few top mixed reality games that make use of the headset’s hand-tracking, including Game Room, WHAT THE GOLF?, Super Fruit Ninja, Where Cards Fall, Crossy Road Castle, and Solitaire Stories. 

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.roadtovr.com/vision-pro-cityscapes-sim-builder-release/

Posted By: u/GTA2014 on r/VisionPro


Funny, because I don’t game on the AVP much but I’ve been trying Apple Arcade games and this one, even in 2D, caught my eye. It got me hooked for a whole afternoon and every 5 minutes I’d think, “Man if only this was a native game in 3D it would be so cool…” and I am shocked that Apple and Magic Fuel Games have actually gone and done it. This game has literally been waiting for 3D and it’s exciting that the developers committed to it.


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Well with AVP being a strong MR device. These types of games makes perfect sense. Add avatars and you could have refreshes old games like Battle Chess with playing against a friend.

Apple is definitely doing things that is pushing XR forward. We just have zealots on both sides clouding things.

The pass through cameras for example I read one fellow doing compares with PCL and Quest 3. PCL/Crystal is very primitive B&W lots of static. Q3 decent but AVP takes the cake as he remarks that he can read text on his smart phone. Making the AVP the goto MR device; especially in a production office environment