Best Layouts to use in Pocket City

Pocket City is one of the most fun and interesting building sims on the mobile market out there currently. The game starts off with an easy-to-follow tutorial, which can be helpful till a certain point, until the game starts getting a little too intricate for basic tutorials to be helping you.

A key aspect of getting better at the game is making sure you have a good city layout. There are multiple types of city layouts you can experiment with, but for this guide, we will talk about one dependable layout that can be tweaked here and there to suit your needs and preferences.

What is the Best City Layout in Pocket City

Start out with concentrating on your Power Plant and Water Tower in order to provide the basic necessities of power and water to your townspeople.

Collecting resources like power and water comes at a cost of both money and space. While this won’t be much of a concern at first with the entry-level power plant and water tower, you’ll eventually have access to better structures that provide power and water to a wider area. 

When opting to upgrade these structures, you’ll lose a few buildings in the immediate area around the resource building you choose to upgrade — unless there’s already free space. Low-level resource buildings take up one square space on the map while higher levels take up a four-square space.

To effectively build your city, you’ll want to pay attention to the three primary “zones” used in the game: residential, commercial, and industrial. Each of the bars represents one of the three primary zones: green for residential, blue for commercial, and orange for industrial. When one of the bars has color on it, it means you need to add more buildings of that zone type.

Transportation management is important. Starting out, it’s not terribly difficult to manage. Building highways is a great way to alleviate traffic, but unlike other games where you put down power lines to distribute electricity and water to your citizens, Pocket City relies on basic roads to do that. So when you want to lay down that four-lane highway, just be sure you’re ready to set down more resources on the other side — even if it means losing some other buildings in the process.

While planning for the essentials, don’t forget to leave room in your neighborhoods for the nice things. Parks, theaters, and other leisure venues are important to your citizens, so always keep an eye out for enough recreational activity.