Overview
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition comes from EA - Maxis, Aspyr (Mac) and is published by Electronic Arts, Aspyr (Mac). It arrived on Steam on Jul 20, 2010, and it sits naturally among Single-player and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.
Players and reviews
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 226 players at 22 September 2026 - 08:16:24 UTC, with a tracked peak near 5,128. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 82% positive across 9,675 reviews.
Language and system requirements
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition is available in 8 languages including:
11 regional rating boards including esrb, pegi, usk, oflc, and kgrb
| Platform | Type | OS | Processor | Memory | Graphics | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows | Minimum | Not listed | PIII 500 or equivalent | 256MB | 32MB supported Direct3D capable video card with DirectX 7.0 or greater compatible driver DirectX®: DirectX 8.1 Hard Drive: 1.6GB Supported 3D Accelerator Hardware: SimCity 4 Deluxe / Rush Hour requires a 32MB 3D Direct3D chipset, and a display that is at least 800x600 in size, and supports 16 or 32-bit color. It is recommended to always install the latest certified drivers for all your hardware Supported Graphics Chipsets Cards with these chipsets are officially supported by the SimCity 4 hardware graphics driver: nVidia: nVidia TNT2, TNT2 M64, & TNT2 Ultra nVidia GeForce SDR, GeForce DDR, GeForce Quadro, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 MX, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce3, GeForce4 MX, GeForce4 Ti 4200/4400/4600/4800 SE, and GeForceFX 5200/5600/5800/5900 ATI: ATI Radeon 7000, 7200, 7500, 8500, 9000, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800 Known Issues: Due to hardware limitations with the ATI Radeon series, some buildings and graphic effects will be temporarily turned off while scrolling. There is a known ATI driver defect that results in SimCity advisor animations dropping polygons. To fix this, please download ATI driver 7.79 or later (also referred to as CATALYST 02.4) from on the Internet. Matrox: Matrox G400, G450, G550, Parhelia SiS: SiS 315, Xabre 400 Software Mode: SimCity 4 also provides a software-based graphics driver which will work with most video cards. 32MB of video memory is recommended. The graphics mode driver can be selected from the Graphics Options panel in the game, or may be run from the command line using the switch -d:Software. The following video chipsets will run the game properly in software mode: PowerVR KYRO, KYRO II Trident Blade 64 | Not listed |
| macOS | Minimum | 10.12 (Sierra) | 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (Dual-Core) | 4 GB RAM Hard Disk Space: 2 GB Video Memory: 256 MB Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 3870 / NVidia Geforce 8800 / Intel HD 3000 Additional: Macintosh mouse and keyboard required. NOTICE: This game is not supported on volumes formatted as Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive) NOTICE: The following video chipsets are unsupported for SimCity4 Deluxe: ATI RADEON HD 2400, 2600, NVIDIA 8600m, Intel Integrated GMA 950, Intel Integrated x3100 NOTICE: SimCity4 Deluxe Mac is localized into French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Japanese | Not listed | Not listed |
| macOS | Recommended | 10.12 (Sierra) | 2.2GHz Intel Quad Core or better | 4 GB RAM Video Memory: 512 MB Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 5750 / NVidia Geforce 650M | Not listed | Not listed |
Sales, recommendations, and streams
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition has sold up to 570,000 units and has 8,498 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $7,100,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.