Start from the real map
Each city is built from open map data, then filled in by hand with the markets, churches, hotels and junctions people who live there would look for first.
Game studio
Living cities you can play.
SimCityNova builds social life sims set in real places. Our first is Aba Life: the streets, markets and nightlife of Aba, Nigeria, in 3D, in your browser.
Our first game
Aba Life
Aba Amala Mma
A 3D social life sim of Aba, built from the city's real street map. Make a character, rent a room, pick a trade, and find your way from a face-me-I-face-you to a mansion. It runs in a phone browser. There is nothing to install.
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A real city
Ariaria, Ekeoha, Osisioma, St Michael's Road. The roads and landmarks are where they are in Aba.
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A life to run
Seventy trades, weekly rent, markets to trade between, tents to rent, plots to buy, and daily missions.
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Other people
Greet, befriend, call and visit. Spray money in the club. Go live on camera and receive gifts.
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A street with rules
Cross the wrong person and Operation Crush comes after you. Run home in time, or call a lawyer.
Play Aba Life
For players 18 and over.
How we build
Games that feel like the place they are set in.
Any phone, no download
Our games open from a link and are tuned for modest phones and expensive data. If it does not run well on the phone in your pocket, it is not finished.
Free to play, fair to pay
Playing costs nothing. What is sold is optional, priced in naira, and never taken from one player by another.
Talk to us.
Press, partnerships, advertising inside the game, or a bug you found. We read everything.
Email us
hello@simcitynova.com