New Community Projects Are Coming to Pixelpolis Neon!

The future of Pixelpolis Neon is becoming more than just a collection of buildings. With new community projects, each district is developing its own identity, reflecting the values, interests, and ambitions of the people who live there.

From underground gaming culture to advanced cybernetic technology and traditional community life, these projects bring new character to our neon-lit city.

Synth Punks: Creativity, Freedom, and Underground Culture

The Synth Punks believe that life should be exciting, unconventional, and full of possibilities. Their community projects reflect their love of entertainment, music, personal freedom, and the occasional reckless adventure.

• Gaming Hall: A lively meeting place for gamers, arcade enthusiasts, and competitive players.

• Giga Concert Hall: A celebration of local music styles and the underground electronic music scene.

• Reckless Citizen Rescue Unit: An unusual project dedicated to evaluating local life risks and helping citizens navigate their daring lifestyles.

These projects help shape districts where creativity thrives, music fills the streets, and conventional rules are often treated as optional.

Cyborgs: Technology, Data, and Efficiency

For the Cyborgs, the future belongs to those who can understand, improve, and optimize it. Their community projects focus on technological progress, digital infrastructure, and the systematic organization of urban life.

• Hyper Data Hub: A center for gathering and managing citizen user data.

• Cyborg Police: A project focused on establishing safety rules for a society increasingly integrated with machines.

• Efficiency Control: A system for evaluating how efficiently the city and its inhabitants operate.

• Cyborg Repair Clinic: A place dedicated to maintenance and repair in a society where cybernetic enhancements are part of everyday life.

• Cube of Eternal Memory: A project dedicated to preserving the experiences and memories.

In a Cyborg district, information is power, inefficiency is a problem to be solved, and technological advancement is always just around the corner.

Traditionals: Heritage, Family, and Community

While other groups look toward technological progress or personal freedom, the Traditionals want to preserve the things that make a community feel like home.

Their projects focus on shared experiences, local traditions, family life, and the preservation of cultural knowledge.

• Heritage Library: A place for preserving local history and historical records.

• Community Gardens: Spaces where residents can pursue gardening and share their hobbies.

• Heritage Theater: A venue for local storytelling and cultural performances.

• Traditional Clothing House: A place dedicated to local clothing traditions.

• Family Center: A community project focused on local family life.

• Specialty Restaurant: A celebration of local recipes and culinary traditions.

These projects give the Traditional districts a distinct character, showing that even in a futuristic city, history, family, and shared experiences still matter.

Building a City with Different Identities

What makes Pixelpolis Neon special is that its districts aren't simply different arrangements of buildings. They represent different ideas about how people should live.

The Synth Punks want freedom and excitement. The Cyborgs strive for technological perfection. The Traditionals value stability, heritage, and community.

Community projects help express these differences and make each district feel like a place with its own culture and priorities.

As development continues, Pixelpolis Neon is evolving into a city where your building choices help define the society taking shape around you.

Which community would you support? Would you rather spend your time in a neon-soaked Synth Punk entertainment district, a highly optimized Cyborg metropolis, or a Traditional neighborhood filled with cultural landmarks?

The future of Pixelpolis Neon is yours to build!

Giving Pixelpolis Neon a First Try

After trying the game for a few hours, it feels like a fun game, but still missing just that little something. One of the things I dislike the most is the appearance of highly developed city areas. I drew 100 buildings for each color, but still it does not have the perfect diversity. My idea now is to add some 2x2 buildings that appear randomly - a bit like the 3x3 buildings in SimCity 2000, that would appear only if circumstances were right.

Also the arcologies (the big pyramids) are not yet implemented correctly. They will be like an award after reaching high contentment in all 3 groups.

The map "Sector 9" has great square-shaped islands to build districts on. Lots of space for your individual city design!

"Extreme Fanaticism" is a disaster that happens in the Traditionals district. There are a total of 5 different disasters in Pixelpolis Neon! 

Pixelpolis Neon will be Playable in 4 Languages

Pixelpolis will be playable in English, Portuguese (Português Brazil), Spanish (Español de América Latina) and Russian (русский)

The Contentment Value of the Social Groups in Pixelpolis Neon

Contentment values

In Pixelpolis Neon, city growth fully depends on the contentment of each group. The high the contentment, the more citizens will move into your city. On the other hand, low contentment will make citizens decide to move away. The level of contentment of each group is indicated as percentage and will actually constantly and unpredictably slightly change. 

However, you will be able to strongly influence the contentment by making decisions in upcoming disputes among the groups. You may decide these disputes based on your own values - or simply based on the urge of the dropping contentment of a certain group.

Dispute Message in Pixelpolis Neon

Pixelpolis Neon: A Cyberpunk City Builder with Retro Pixel Art

Pixelpolis Neon is a retro-isometric cyberpunk city builder about the future of human society after work has lost its central meaning.

The central question is simple:

What happens to humanity when AI and robots take over most manufacturing, logistics and daily organization — and people no longer define themselves through work?

In Pixelpolis Neon, the answer is identity.

As automation provides the foundation of urban life, people begin to organize themselves around belief systems, lifestyles and ideological convictions. Society splits into distinct cultural groups that still have to share the same city and the same limited resources.

The final version of Pixelpolis Neon focuses on three major social groups:

Synth Punks – Pink
Creative, chaotic, emotional and independent. Synth Punks value freedom, nightlife, expression and personal autonomy. Their districts are colorful, loud and unpredictable.

Cyborgs – Blue
Logical, structured, technological and efficiency-driven. Cyborgs believe in rules, systems, optimization and digital progress. Their districts are clean, advanced and highly organized.

Traditionals – Orange
Family-oriented, responsible, food-focused and closer to nature. Traditionals value stability, community, craftsmanship, good meals and a more grounded way of life.

The player creates the conditions for society to grow. By building service hubs, streets and zones, the player shapes which groups are attracted to the city. Population moves in according to contentment and city’s overall situation.

All groups depend on shared resources produced by factories. These factories are powered and organized through available AI capacity. This creates the central tension of the game: even in a highly automated future, society still has limits. AI capacity, productivity, space and infrastructure must be managed carefully.

The challenge is not only to build a beautiful neon city. The challenge is to keep different lifestyles alive in the same urban system.

The New Service Hubs in Pixelpolis Neon

One important new feature in Pixelpolis Neon will be the service hubs. These special buildings act as the center of each district and define how the surrounding city area begins to grow. Instead of simply placing streets anywhere, every districts street layout starts from a service hub. From there, roads expand outward, and city buildings develop around this central structure.

Each social group in Pixelpolis Neon will have its own type of service hub. The example image shows one of the Cyborg service hubs, designed to represent the technological and upgraded lifestyle of this group. Synth Punks, Cyborgs and Traditionals will each have buildings that match their identity within the society.

Each service hub can be extended upwards. There will be four stages in total, with every upgrade serving a larger population. A district can even have more than one service hub. This allows larger areas to support more citizens and gives players more freedom when shaping their cyberpunk city.