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Satirical city-building game says the city would rather you didn't

Original: A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

A satirical browser game flips the city-building genre: instead of designing the city of your dreams, players face a city that resists every attempt to build housing. The game doubles as a commentary on zoning rules, permits and the housing shortage, and it struck a chord online, quickly drawing hundreds of upvotes and debate about why building homes is so hard in real cities.

Why now: It satirises the real-world housing crisis and zoning bureaucracy, topics people are already heatedly debating.

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