Citywide Crisis

Run the emergency services of a living city. Send police, fire crews, medics and cabs through real traffic, win the trust of each district and push rival companies off the map.

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The city never stops calling.

Citywide Crisis puts you above a whole city, generated from a seed, with thousands of cars driving its streets. Fires break out, crashes block junctions, suspects run.

You decide who goes where, and every unit has to get there through the same traffic as everyone else.

Districts

You run a new emergency services company. The city is split into districts, and each one gives its contract to the company its people trust.

Bid against rivals for your starting district, then build stations and towers to spread out.
Answer calls well and trust grows. Let people down and they turn to someone else.
Up to three AI companies compete for the same streets, at three skill levels.
Hold 70% of the city for five minutes to win.

Quick Shift

One shift, one city, all the calls you can handle. Pick the difficulty, from Calm to Panic, and see how long the city keeps its faith in you.

From a Districts game

What's in it

Everything on the board

A full day in the city has a lot of moving parts. These are the ones you'll be juggling.

Four servicesPolice, fire, medical and taxi, each with its own vehicles and jobs.
17 kinds of callFrom fires, gas leaks and crashes to robberies, hostage situations, pursuits and riots.
Real trafficUnits with lights and sirens get right of way, but rush hour is still rush hour. Close roads, pick routes and place stations where they shorten the drive.
A new city every timeChoose the size, rivers, lakes, hills, highways and forest, preview the map, then play it. Share the seed to play the same city again.
Perk cardsDrafted through the day, they shape what kind of company you become.
Online for fourCo-op and competition for up to four players, joined with a short code.
Narrated tutorialThree short lessons, then you're on your own.
Save and continueFor solo and online games.

Gameplay

30 seconds of play. Music only.

Tester builds

Download for Windows

Citywide Crisis is in closed testing. Your browser will ask for the username and password from your invite. No invite yet? Write to admin.jaflegames@gmail.com.

Get the installer

or the portable zip

Build: Latest
Published: –
Installer: –
Runs on: Windows 10 / 11

Installing

Run the installer. It sets the game up for your Windows account and starts it. There's no admin prompt and nothing to click through.
The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may say Windows protected your PC. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
After that the game keeps itself current. When a new build is ready, the main menu offers Restart to update.
To remove it, use Settings › Apps › Installed apps. Your saves stay where they are.

What you need

Part	Minimum	Recommended
OS	Windows 10 64-bit	Windows 11 64-bit
Processor	4-core CPU, 3 GHz	6-core CPU or better
Memory	8 GB RAM	16 GB RAM
Graphics	DirectX 11 GPU, 2 GB VRAM	GTX 1660 / RX 5600 or better
Storage	1 GB	1 GB
Network	Broadband for online play