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SimCity™ 3000 Unlimited

Maxis · Electronic Arts · 2024-03-07

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

CasualSimulationStrategy

Franchise: Sim, SimCity · Modes: Single player

Releases: 2001 (Linux), May 16, 2000 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

SimCity 3000 Unlimited brings you the classic strategy gaming of SimCity 3000 with all-new scenarios that open up a whole world of city planning and building possibilities! The thrills of the classic SimCity 3000 are here again!

49
playing now
84%
positive of 777 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
86/100
IGDB user rating (18 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

49 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

SimCity 3000 is a city building simulation video game released in 1999, and the third major installment in the SimCity series. It was published by Electronic Arts (EA) and developed by series creator Maxis. It was released for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and, through an arrangement with Loki Games, Linux.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 24% of 9,678 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 16k–35k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 777 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$4.99-50%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Epic Game Store (2026-06-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 56 of 70 observed days · $4.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

81352026-08-11 20:00 — 51 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 35 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 35 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 59 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 39 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 59 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 72 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 50 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 66 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 69 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 45 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 65 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 64 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 43 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 60 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 56 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 49 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 58 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 81 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 39 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 54 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 60 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 41 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 54 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 57 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 36 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 74 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 68 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 49 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.242016-07-142026-08-302016-07-14 — best price $4.992017-03-06 — best price $2.492017-11-21 — best price $2.492018-06-04 — best price $2.492018-11-21 — best price $2.492019-05-15 — best price $2.492019-09-13 — best price $2.492020-01-22 — best price $2.492020-08-25 — best price $2.492021-02-10 — best price $2.492021-05-28 — best price $2.492021-11-26 — best price $2.492022-02-14 — best price $2.492022-05-23 — best price $2.492022-09-29 — best price $2.492023-01-06 — best price $2.492023-07-17 — best price $2.492023-11-28 — best price $2.492024-03-20 — best price $3.492024-05-08 — best price $9.992024-07-19 — best price $9.992024-11-11 — best price $4.992024-12-19 — best price $2.492025-02-13 — best price $2.492025-04-24 — best price $4.992025-06-03 — best price $9.992025-08-07 — best price $2.492025-09-29 — best price $2.492025-11-25 — best price $4.992026-01-08 — best price $4.992026-02-12 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $5.002026-05-08 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-08-10 — best price $1.242026-08-28 — best price $4.992026-08-30 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

236742026-05-29 — 107 pageviews2026-06-01 — 109 pageviews2026-06-04 — 75 pageviews2026-06-07 — 105 pageviews2026-06-10 — 77 pageviews2026-06-13 — 84 pageviews2026-06-16 — 109 pageviews2026-06-19 — 155 pageviews2026-06-22 — 217 pageviews2026-06-25 — 113 pageviews2026-06-28 — 148 pageviews2026-07-01 — 111 pageviews2026-07-04 — 129 pageviews2026-07-07 — 118 pageviews2026-07-10 — 118 pageviews2026-07-13 — 107 pageviews2026-07-16 — 218 pageviews2026-07-19 — 149 pageviews2026-07-22 — 128 pageviews2026-07-25 — 204 pageviews2026-07-28 — 120 pageviews2026-07-31 — 123 pageviews2026-08-03 — 112 pageviews2026-08-06 — 113 pageviews2026-08-09 — 171 pageviews2026-08-12 — 161 pageviews2026-08-15 — 115 pageviews2026-08-18 — 130 pageviews2026-08-21 — 165 pageviews2026-08-24 — 144 pageviews2026-08-26 — 141 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Dutch

Player tags

Retro1990'sCasualClassicStrategyIsometricSimulationCity BuilderSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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