Heian City Story

Heian City Story

Kairosoft Co.,Ltd · March 17, 2025 · Casual, Simulation, Strategy, City Builder, 2D Platformer

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Heian City Story price by region

Heian City Story costs £6.99 in the United Kingdom, €7.99 in Europe (EUR), $8.99 in the United States, CA$8.99 in Canada, $8.99 in Georgia (USD), NZ$11.39 in New Zealand, A$11.50 in Australia, zł32.99 in Poland and R$33.99 in Brazil right now.

Cheapest Heian City Story offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £6.99 £6.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €7.99 €7.99 — 1
United Statesyour region $8.99 $8.99 — 1
Canada CA$8.99 CA$8.99 — 1
Georgia (USD) $8.99 $8.99 — 1
New Zealand NZ$11.39 NZ$11.39 — 1
Australia A$11.50 A$11.50 — 1
Poland zł32.99 zł32.99 — 1
Brazil R$33.99 R$33.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Heian City Story

Travel back to olden times and become Director of your own city!

Attract new residents and try to become the greatest city in the land! Add buildings like restaurants and teahouses to make your town a place where samurai and commoners alike will want to live.

This is the past, so don't forget to add some touches of traditional culture! Features like temples and gaming halls can give your city a lot of personality, especially when arranged in harmony with the surrounding environment. You might end up attracting tourists to the town, who will move in if they like it enough.

It's not all fun and games in the mists of history. Sometimes ghost, demons, and other baddies will come to attack your city. You'll have to summon your own Guardian Spirits to banish the evil ones and keep your townsfolk safe. Consider your spirits' abilities and placement for the best effects - strategy is the key word!

With a whole host of land expansion options, facilities, and residents to collect and customize, it's never been easier to create a city that will go down in history.
Start building your ancient city today!

▼Game Flow
Build and manage your own city! Grow the population and add new stores to earn money. Add plants and other buildings to increase the value of your land and create the greatest city history has ever known!

▼Increasing Population
New residents will move in when you add new buildings, raise your Land Value, or increase your city's Progress level. Tourists may also recommend your city if they leave satisfied.

▼Facilities
Improve residents' stats, and earn Gold and Research Points using facilities. Once enough people are using a facility, it can be leveled up and remodeled.

▼Facility Combos
Placing facilities with good compatibility near each other can give a street a whole new personality! Combos you've discovered are saved in your Street Index and can be carried over into New Game Plus.

▼Items
Items can be used to upgrade your residents and facilities. Using an item on a facility will affect all facilities of that type.

▼Yearly Rankings
At the end of every in-game year, your city's Culture level will be evaluated and assigned a score. Getting a star rating comes with special bonuses, so do your best to work your way up to five stars!

▼Protecting Your City
Monsters and animals will try to attack your city from time to time. You can drive them away with certain defensive facilities, or by using Guardian Spirits. Defeating enemies may also earn you Research Points.

▼Ending
The game "ends" at the end of Month 3, Year 12. Your money and points will then be saved as your high score, but you can keep playing as long as you like.--Try searching for "Kairosoft" to see all of our games!!Developer Homepages. Feel free to follow me♪

Heian City Story — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Verified
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players appreciate Heian City Story as another solid Kairosoft experience with charming pixel art, quirky dialogue, and satisfying city-building mechanics, though some find the gameplay formula repetitive and generic compared to other city sims. The main complaints center on achievement hunting being tedious and sometimes requiring counterintuitive design choices, along with frustration that Kairosoft continues recycling the same gameplay loop without significant innovation or optimization improvements despite premium Steam pricing. Most recommend it as a pleasant, rewarding pastime for fans o

Recommended Aug 13, 2026
[h1]A lot of good things, but one bad thing make this game a meh.[/h1] This is the third game Kairosoft has made with a feudal Japanese theme, and there are a lot of good things I can say about it. The building combos are a lot, giving you plenty to try and discover. The variety of villager jobs is also huge, too huge, if you ask me. There are also several minigames to enjoy, such as horse racing, ball kicking, and sumo wrestling. And the feature they mostly proud of, is the tower defense style combat system. Enemies will follow the paths you create through your town, so you can design bottlenecks and build a bunch of arrow towers to create deadly kill zones. You can also summon units to help defend your city. There are enough different unit types for you to experiment with, upgrade, and find combinations that suit your playstyle. However, there is one thing I absolutely hate. The achievement that requires you to reach Progress Level 999. It is a horrible experience because the game does a terrible job of explaining how Progress Level is actually calculated. The only thing that reliably gives you an infinite amount of Progress Level is Practice Battle, meaning you have …
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Recommended Sep 10, 2026
Afterall I had played all the old kairosoft city buiding games, I thought this wouldn't be much interesting. Surprisingly no. Now Heian City Story is my favourite. The management and relaxing elements are really well balanced. I like the music too.
Recommended Jul 11, 2026
This one is a bit of a mixed bag. It has a lot of systems and is really engaging for the first ten or so hours as you get familiar with everything! The setting and theme is really fun and charming to me, and the tower defense-esque minigame was a pleasant surprise. This title also has competitions with minigames, everything from sumo to horse-racing! It's full of things to do, store combos to unlock, professions to discover, and more. It's really impressive what Kairosoft accomplished with Heian City Story! But as you keep playing, the systems never quite... cohere into a cohesive experience, at least for me. There are many things to do, but they never quite connect to a full gameplay loop the way they do in Tropical Resort Story or Dream Town Island. The NG+ carryover is also disappointing: only the stats of villagers will transfer. Given the sheer volume of things to unlock and scale up in this game, not being able to carry any of that progress forward is unfortunate. Heian City Story has three different maps to design on, but the slog of starting almost entirely from scratch tarnishes the appeal of building a fresh new town. Overall it's still a very solid entry! I'll def…
Recommended Jun 27, 2026
fun game, more minigames than most kairosoft games. very rewarding to play
Recommended Jun 18, 2026
I played Kairosoft games in android phone before and love it. Now buy game and give positive review!
Not recommended May 12, 2026
The last ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Kairosoft game that I hope I don't have to play for a long time. Jesus its just a great value copy of like Sim City on the phones, again no optimization, no better pricing, just the same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ price on the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ google play store, should you be surprised all this time? Its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Kairosoft, they have like a few bangers, some that could be but they ♥♥♥♥ it up by being generic as hell, having slow gameplay, and still having predatory tactics that you would see from a mobile game STILL in the game even if its on Steam. It's just sad, playing every single Kairosoft game and 100% completing them made me just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate their titles. I hope to never go back to one in a long time.

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