Fit check
Is City 20 worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Survival-game players who want resource gathering and crafting alongside hunger and health management
- Players interested in shaping relationships with NPCs and factions through consequential decisions
- Base-building fans who want property, production stations, and electrical restoration in a ruined city
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a finished, fixed-scope experience, since the game remains in active development and additional content is planned
- Players who prefer a predetermined story, since decisions influence faction goals and the future of characters
- Players who want a game without survival pressures such as hunger, health management, and radiation
Our take on City 20
Its survival systems and faction choices give the city several ways to occupy a session, but that breadth comes with a constraint: City 20 remains in development, so its full content and story scope are not complete.
What is City 20?
In a sealed post-apocalyptic city, survival depends on managing hunger and health, finding supplies, and crafting equipment.
Food can come from farming, hunting, or interactions with NPCs, while materials and parts can be scavenged or recovered by dismantling objects. More than 100 blueprints cover survival gear, furniture, and mechanical, chemical, and electrical systems. Players can buy properties, furnish them with workbenches and appliances, restore electricity, and endure radiation. NPCs follow daily routines and react to interactions. Factions pursue long-term goals that players can influence through decisions, with trust granting access to restricted areas, crafting stations, and supplies. Strange creatures also inhabit the ruins. City 20 remains in active development.
How City 20 plays
- 01Faction relationships
- Choices can build trust for access to restricted areas, crafting stations, and supplies, or provoke consequences.
- 02Property and power
- Owned properties can be furnished with production equipment, while restored electricity opens access to abandoned buildings.
- 03Survival crafting
- More than 100 blueprints cover basic gear, furniture, and mechanical, chemical, and electrical systems.
- 04NPC routines
- Characters work, eat, and rest, and their reactions change as the world develops.
City 20 compared to similar games
Mr. Prepper also combines post-nuclear survival with crafting and shelter construction, while City 20 adds faction relationships, NPC routines, property ownership, and restoration of the electrical grid. Back to the Dawn focuses on prison escape, investigation, and crime within a maximum-security facility rather than open-ended city survival and crafting.
City 20: platforms & release
Is City 20 worth it?
It is worth it if: survival-game players who want resource gathering and crafting alongside hunger and health management. Skip it if: players seeking a finished, fixed-scope experience, since the game remains in active development and additional content is planned.
Where can I download City 20?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens City 20's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is City 20 on?
Windows only.
