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In 960 A.D., the Zhao Song Dynasty was established. As the mayor, you'll need to help the townspeople settle down, cultivate the land and expand. However, when the emperor issues a national mandate, conflicts between factions threaten city development—what strategy will you adopt?

Thriving City: Song is a simulation, city builder and strategy game developed by White Star Studio and published by IndieArk.
Released on May 29th 2024 is available on Windows and MacOS in 2 languages: Simplified Chinese and English.

It has received 2,921 reviews of which 2,373 were positive and 548 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 12.94€ on Steam with a 30% discount, but you can find it for 5.21€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Thriving City: Song into these genres:

Simulation City Builder Strategy Historical Resource Management Casual Strategy RPG Drama Agriculture Building Quick-Time Events Real Time Tactics Base-Building Choices Matter Management Inventory Management Hand-drawn Economy Mining Trading

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Microsoft Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i5-4590
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 750ti
Storage: 2 GB available space

MacOS

OS: MacOS
Processor: 苹果 M1 或英特尔酷睿 M
Memory: 16 GB RAM

User reviews & Ratings

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April 2025

Rise as mayor, build a bustling city, and keep everyone fed—until bandits, drought, and imperial taxes make you wish you were a wandering poet instead. Expand wisely, govern fairly, and pray the emperor doesn’t send an edict that ruins everything. 8/10, would hoard rice again. 🌾🏯📜 Follow my curator page for more dynastic dilemmas, poetic plagues, and emperors with very expensive tastes! 🏯📖✨ [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42602807-Osiris-Reviews/] https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42602807-Osiris-Reviews/

April 2025

If you are english player, I would say the language is serviceable and not the worst i have ever seen. However, as always the text overflow might trigger you a little bit. On the gameplay itself, I only played the story mode which is a controlled environment that has locked features in each of the stages. I would say this game is not bad and has the potential to be one of my favourite city builder game with chinese culture twist. The learning curve is not that steep but I would really like they explained more about the priority setting and jobs. That system is a little bit clunky but not game breaking. I would recommend this game to be bought during sales unless you like this type of game a lot.

Oct. 2024

The best Chinese city-building game ever! Absolutely love the graphics, and it's fantastic that I can play it on my Mac. It's often difficult for Mac users to find great games, but this one is top-notch. Totally obsessed—love, love it!

Aug. 2024

Great game. Beautiful art and soundtrack, buildings and people are well designed Very reminiscent of Caesar and Pharaoh but has it's own charm. The difficulty is good, not too easy and not too hard but you can min/max too. Progression feels right, research feels right, campaign is great and gets you to grips with the mechanics while taking you through the Song Era. A few words are off screen due to localisation but that's fine, I think I've had one mid-level bug where the mission says it's not completed but it is and I could progress anyway. I'd recommend this if you like city builders.太好了

Aug. 2024

Loved this game. Very challenging and complex. The major issue I saw was the frame rate starts to slow down when I hit 1000 population. I hope they have a sequel for this and optimize their engine.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Thriving City: Song is currently priced at 12.94€ on Steam.

Thriving City: Song is currently available at a 30% discount. You can purchase it for 12.94€ on Steam.

Thriving City: Song received 2,373 positive votes out of a total of 2,921 achieving a rating of 7.84.

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Thriving City: Song was developed by White Star Studio and published by IndieArk.

Thriving City: Song is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Thriving City: Song is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Thriving City: Song is not playable on Linux.

Thriving City: Song is a single-player game.

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Thriving City: Song does not support Steam Remote Play.

Thriving City: Song is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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