# TinyCity

6 Hacker News commenters recommended TinyCity and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Commenters call this free, tiny city simulator for the Thumby console cool and nice work.

## Why people recommend it

- Commenters call it cool (2 comments): "This is cool thanks for sharing!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642799)) "Looks super cool, nice job!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46636688))
- Praised as nice work (1 comments): "Looks super cool, nice job!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46636688))

## What people warn about

- Tax model double counts residential population (1 comments): "the sim seems to double count residential population for taxes, industrial pop gets ignored" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635289))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [SimCity 3000](https://hackerapproved.com/p/simcity-3000.md): 23 recommend
- [SimCity 2000](https://hackerapproved.com/p/simcity-2000.md): 20 recommend
- [SimCity](https://hackerapproved.com/p/simcity.md): 20 recommend
- [Cities: Skylines](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cities-skylines.md): 20 recommend
- [Microlandia](https://hackerapproved.com/p/microlandia.md): 20 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "TinyCity", https://hackerapproved.com/p/tinycity/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).