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Looking for a solarpunk city building game

I want a city building game, where I can build a working, car-free city. I want lots of pedestrians, cargo bikes, bicycles, public transport with trams, trains, subways and some buses. I'd like renewable energy as well for my electricity.
Which game can you recommend?

#solarpunk #citybuilder #citybuilding #linuxgaming
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[–] tinker@infosec.exchange 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

@django @linux_gaming - You might look into taking one of the sim citites and intentionally building it car free (example: https://community.simtropolis.com/omnibus/simcity-4/tutorials/how-to-make-a-roadless-city-r89/)

You can use all mass transit forms except for busses (as building for busses would also allow for cars): https://simcity.fandom.com/wiki/Mass/_transit

Here is one discussion of someone building similar: https://www.reddit.com/r/simcity4/comments/g0cwic/my/_first/_serious/_attempt/_at/_making/_a/_city/_with/_no/

You would focus on renewable energy: (see multple variants both current to our world and future tech: https://simcity.fandom.com/wiki/List/_of/_power/_plants )

Look into various libraries and community centers and mods etc.

[–] theron29@witter.cz 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

@tinker @django @linux_gaming Hmmm... Could you do something like that in Cities Skylines? #CitiesSkylines

I mean - CS has these options by design already built in (although not fully without cars AFAIK)....

It might be worth checking for solarpunk mods, though... 🤔

[–] theron29@witter.cz 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

@tinker @django @linux_gaming ...and to approach this from a slightly different perspective, there is also good old #Anno2070 , where you can choose the path of money-hoarding, planet crushing corpo oligarch-bro😈, or achieve the same with green healthy technologies (and society 🙂 )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkMSpNGQ01s