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Meridian Rise

Zone · Power · Grow

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  • Free
  • No ads
  • No account needed
  • No install — plays in your browser

About the game

Zone homes, shops and industry, wire up the power and keep a growing city solvent.

An original offline city builder. Paint residential, commercial and industrial zones and they develop by themselves - if a road reaches them, the power grid carries current that far, and the land is worth living on. Demand, land value, pollution and crime are simulated on live data maps; tax and upkeep settle once a year in City Hall. Close a year in the red and the region grants an emergency bailout - spend the last one and the run is over. A Map Studio lets you shape the land first, then build on it.

How to play

  1. Paint residential, commercial and industrial zones. People and businesses move in by themselves - you only decide where.
  2. A zone with no road beside it never develops. Roads cost upkeep every year, so build the network you need, not more.
  3. Every zone needs power. Build a plant and link it with power lines - or let zones touch each other, they pass power along. One plant only supplies so many zones.
  4. The R / C / I bars show what the city wants next. Homes need jobs, shops need customers, industry needs workers - keep all three in balance.
  5. Tax comes in every month and upkeep goes out with it; City Hall shows the year's books. High tax slows growth; low tax empties the treasury.
  6. If the year ends in the red, the region grants an emergency bailout and you lose one. Spend the last one and the run is over. Police and fire stations keep crime and fires down.

Controls

Touchdrag to move the map, pinch to zoom, tap to build.
MouseClick to build and drag to move the map; roll the mouse wheel to zoom in and out.
Keyboardarrows move, Enter builds, 1-9 pick a tool, M toggles the map, P pauses.
Gamepadleft stick moves the cursor, A builds, LB/RB change tool, RT fast-forwards time, Y cycles the data map, B backs out, Start quits to the menu.

Screenshots

  • Title menu over a 3D city: the Meridian Rise logo, Zone · Power · Grow, a gold Play button and five menu cards
  • A 3D city by day: houses, apartment towers, offices, a factory with chimneys and a park; goal Reach 5,000 residents
  • The city at night: lit windows in the apartment towers, glowing street lamps and cars driving along the roads
  • Homes growing: four new two-storey houses on a lawn by the road, with +220 residents floating above them
  • Map Studio in 3D: a grass island with a lake and a bay, over Land, Water, Trees, Random, Clear, Back and Build Here
  • The city in Japanese: the goal 人口 5,000 人をめざそう over offices, towers and houses, tool dock in Japanese

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