SimCity 4: Deluxe Edition (2003)

Build an industrial town, a commuter suburb or a commercial centre, then connect them into a region whose places depend on one another. Within a city, land value, services and access to work shape which homes and businesses develop. Deluxe includes Rush Hour's transport additions, making routes an especially useful way to understand a district. Its older simulation works at a different scale from modern persistent-citizen games; read the patterns rather than expecting a biography for every resident.