After growing in early access since 2021, Polycorne's modernized city-builder, Silicon City, will be getting its full PC release on June 22. It offers a few distinctions from the city-builders of the past, but perhaps the most important is that all those little people milling around the city streets actually matter. In fact, failing to keep them happy could very well get a player ousted from their mayoral position and thus relieved of their power to control their city's development.

Indeed, players cannot just do whatever they want in Silicon City. They need to keep the "Silizens" happy in order to maintain control, and doing that first requires finding out what they want. Fortunately, Silizens are only too happy to tell their mayor exactly what they want via the city's Twitter-like app: "Bakr". One can also either read the proposals they submit or just observe them directly for awhile. Other distinguishing features include procedural generation of districts and a range of visualization tools to help get one's city just right.