A calm, modern city builder
Lay the first street, zone the first homes, and keep the lights on. Blockline grows a settlement into a city one decision at a time, and always shows you why the city does what it does.
Plays in your browser. Your city is saved to your account.
Watch it grow
Every city starts as grass, a coastline and a charter. Scroll to build it.
A road to the founder's office, the first houses and a corner shop. Farms work the edge of town.
Wind turbines and solar panels, a water tower, the school and the library.
Mixed-use streets, police and fire stations, a clinic and the first parks. Homes grow into terraces.
The railway arrives, industry fills the south-west, and a hotel opens off the high street.
Towers, avenues, a university and a museum. The Police HQ, the City Hospital and the prison open their doors.
The music venue, the botanical gardens and the zoo, plus a cinema, a pool and an arcade for the neighbours.
A stadium and a theme park bring visitors from far beyond the coast.
The grand city hall, a full skyline and a city that keeps itself healthy, clean and in surplus.
Drawn live in your browser by the game's own renderer.
What you do
Walk inside
Open the doors of four landmarks and the map gives way to a living 3D building with its own staff, its own day and its own computer. Each one runs a simulation of its own that feeds back into your city.
Coordinate every station in the city from one headquarters. Split ten squads between patrol, investigations, training and community work, then watch crime and trust respond.
Mini-games Dispatch Drill · Evidence Board
Runs on Precinct OS
Run the city's health service from one site: A&E, wards, surgery, maternity, public health and residency, shared between twelve teams.
Mini-games Triage · Containment Map
Runs on Ward OS
Convicts arrive from the Police HQ's solved cases and the courts. Each one has a name, a sentence and a programme they need before they go home.
Mini-games The Parole Board · The Cell Shuffle
Runs on Warden OS
Bands from sixteen genres apply to play. Call them to the stage, listen to their demo and decide who to sign.
Mini-game Auditions
Runs on Backstage OS
And for everyone else: cinemas, bowling alleys, arcades, playgrounds and swimming pools, each lifting the mood of the homes around it.
How it plays
The city charter sets you one goal at a time. Hold it steady and the next chapter opens, with a grant and new things to build. Nothing is timed. Pause whenever you like: the city waits while you think.
Found a settlement: a road to the town hall, your first homes and jobs.
Opens schools, fibre, the internet exchange and the library.
Mixed use, clinics, police and fire stations, buses, playgrounds and arcades.
Railways, docks, avenues, hotels, cinemas and pools.
Towers, universities and museums; the Police HQ, City Hospital and prison.
The subway, a zoo, botanical gardens and the music venue.
Airports, a stadium and a theme park.
Keep a lasting metropolis healthy, clean and in surplus.
Why it feels different
Select any building to see what it needs. When a street stops growing, the city tells you why: no power, no road access, not enough jobs.
Press U to look beneath the streets at every power line, water main, sewer and fibre run, and spot the one that isn't connected.
Districts become a waterfront, an arts quarter or a garden suburb from what you build there. Families, students and retirees each want different things.
Farms, mills and factories fill your stores with food, timber, steel and more. Buildings need materials; the Trade Center buys and sells the rest at a clear 2% tax.
Research carries the city from the Industrial era into the Electric and Digital ones. Roads and pipes wear out. Fires, floods and storms test what you've built.
A cast of named advisers keeps you posted by letter. Every one is built from what is really happening in your city.
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