I’m a massive SimCity fan but I must have missed the memo that SimCity is all about the cheating as I honestly didn’t know that. But it seems to be such a big thing that EA have actually developed some straight forward cheats in the system for you to try.
Thanks to IGN for the list but apparently if you want some free money or to turn off homeless people then you can do that by simply clicking some hot keys.
- ALT+W – Add §100,000 to City Budget
- ALT+F – Toggle Fire On/Off
- ALT+C – Toggle Crime On/Off
- ALT+M – Toggle Health Issues On/Off
- ALT+A – Toggle Air Pollution On/Off
- ALT+P – Toggle Ground Pollution On/Off
- ALT+H – Toggle Homeless Sims On/Off
- ALT+S – Toggle Sewage On/Off
Just be warned that once you hit a cheat key your achievements are then disabled and since you cannot save a city and go back to it then you could ruin your entire game my hitting ALT+Anything really. Unfortunately, there’s no cheat to enable you to log in to the game by bypassing server issues. Hooray for games that require a permanent internet connections!
I don’t think cheating a required part of SimCity but then I’ve always been a bit anal about people cheating – so maybe it’s just me.
Last Updated: March 6, 2013
umar bastra
March 6, 2013 at 09:51
i don’t mind cheats … those were fun back in the day, complex inputs activates god mode or nets you a quick tank, heck yeah!,its fun when you are not into the main game but ALT + … really? That’s like running a trainer and you’re just enabling crap.
Eric Viljoen
March 6, 2013 at 10:01
allyourbasearebelongtous!
bigdaddy
glitteringprizes
foodforthought
umar bastra
March 6, 2013 at 10:06
lol see we got blizzard man amongst our ranks
Admiral Chief Erwin
March 6, 2013 at 10:12
isn’t bigdaddy AoE?
umar bastra
March 6, 2013 at 10:15
yup, most of the cheats were warcraft and stêr kraft
Eric Viljoen
March 6, 2013 at 11:38
forgot to add e=mc2
and glitteringprizes is warcraft 2
the rest is Starcraft, yes 😛
loftie
March 6, 2013 at 11:19
show me the money
feel the power
hahah the good ol days 😛
Tbone187
March 6, 2013 at 15:15
U,D,L,R,R, A,B,C and then Start and Select together to activate cheat mode in MK1….if I remember correctly…hehe…
Tarisma
March 6, 2013 at 09:51
What is this madness! I thought I would have to pay for cheats!
Admiral Chief Erwin
March 6, 2013 at 09:53
Holy crap, you can cheat in games?
*mind blown*
On a sidenote, when last did you cheat in a game? Or did you outgrow that nonsense?
Twakkie
March 6, 2013 at 10:00
Personally the last time I cheated was in the original Starcraft. But I did help my wife to cheat in Anno 1404 to get the monies.
Admiral Chief Erwin
March 6, 2013 at 10:04
allyourbasearebelongtous?
In my opinion, useless cheat 😛
umar bastra
March 6, 2013 at 10:08
But it’s origin is legendary
Admiral Chief Erwin
March 6, 2013 at 10:12
haha, yeah, agreed.
Twakkie
March 6, 2013 at 11:20
Nee wat, the only cheat I knew was “power overwhelming” and in age of empires the only cheat you needed was “PHOTON MAN”.
Matewis Jubilai
March 6, 2013 at 10:02
‘glittering prizes’ was probably the last cheat I ever used…
Darth_Clericus_The_Ultimate
March 6, 2013 at 11:07
Mind blown – upmark given. Mine was A,B,A,C,A,B,B
DieJason
March 6, 2013 at 11:16
Blood enabled!
Matewis Jubilai
March 6, 2013 at 11:21
lol thought that was from mortal kombat. In those days your parents had to first leave the room before you could use that ‘cheat’…
Nicholas Rowan
March 6, 2013 at 11:31
idspispopd
ifkfa
idnoclip
iddqd
Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew
March 6, 2013 at 11:35
Doom codes
Admiral Chief Erwin
March 6, 2013 at 11:35
XD
Johan du Preez
March 10, 2013 at 11:35
show me the money is the last one I remember from warcraft 1 or 2
Admiral Chief Erwin
March 6, 2013 at 11:36
Best cheats for me were for Rise of the Triad
LUDICROUS GIBBS!!!!!
Nicholas Rowan
March 6, 2013 at 12:38
I need to play that game again now.
Hondsepop
March 6, 2013 at 10:00
“and since you cannot save a city and go back to it then you could ruin your entire game my hitting ALT+”
……..meaning not at all, or only to the state of your city before cheating. If the first, then I can see a lot of half build Cities.
Admiral Chief Erwin
March 6, 2013 at 10:14
I loved those AvP cheats(mods) you could replay a level with, with the big heads and mirror mode etc.
Mikhil
March 6, 2013 at 10:43
The only cheats I use, are the ones for GTA, but only once I’ve completed the story. It’s more just so I can get all weapons and run around causing mayhem as a time killer.
Darth_Clericus_The_Ultimate
March 6, 2013 at 11:06
How can you NOT have a Simcity game without cheats. So awesome! hahaha
Kaya
March 6, 2013 at 11:11
I think this is awesome. It’s a great way to explore different city options and just have fun. I’d love to see cheats that allow you to trigger apocalypses at will!
Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew
March 6, 2013 at 11:31
*facepalm moment*
TriangularRoom
March 6, 2013 at 12:05
The Sims still comes with ‘legal’ cheats that are actually listed in the readme file! So I’m not too surprised that SimCity is the same.
What concerns me from the above is this bit: “…you cannot save a city and go back to it…” I’m hoping that I’m reading that wrong and it doesn’t mean you can’t save your game in SimCity!
Weanerdog
March 6, 2013 at 12:21
I read it that your city saves as it is, no restoring a previous build i.e. one before using the cheat code.
TriangularRoom
March 6, 2013 at 12:35
Ah, that does sound more reasonable. Still, that will make it hard to save your perfect city and then unleash all the disasters on it at once… Man, I hope that is still a thing.
Banana Jim
March 6, 2013 at 17:46
Same here, I love to build a city, and then when I’m tired of the little people and their grumbling I unleash my HOLY TERROR!
I really don’t like where EA has gone with this. In order to latch onto social media and social interactivity, they’ve forgotten about the armchair psychopath .. the guy who loves to set their sims on fire, or create the most worthless sim ever and role-play being the most-worthless, most-annoying unemployed wang to have ever existed on this planet. :/
I mean I want to be an ANC mayor. I WANT TO LEAD MY CITY DOWN A PATH OF NO RETURN! 🙁 Gah! I guess, tonight I’m reinstalling SimCity 2000…
Boontjie
March 6, 2013 at 12:24
But Isn’t this only in sandbox mode which isn’t ranked?
matthurstrsa
March 6, 2013 at 13:09
Is there a way to disable the hot keys? What a lame addition. It seems they ruined Sim City with their tiny city sizes, always on DRM and server issues.
Jorroo
March 6, 2013 at 13:38
Lets see who’s get this one
6031769 … used that freaken 30years ago more or less
Christian
March 6, 2013 at 15:11
Lumberjack
Banana Jim
March 6, 2013 at 17:43
If it wasn’t for the online-DRM I would have bought SimCity this afternoon (for this evening), instead I’m on lazygamer expressing my displeasure at always-online DRM.
Oh… and Fuck you EA! I guess you’re back to being the most hated gaming company…
KidRobot
March 9, 2013 at 17:01
Simcity is for you to play god all the time , so why cheat ???