The Population Must Grow

The Population Must Grow

Helmi Blub · 2025 · Simulation, City Builder, Colony Sim, 2D, Cartoony

PC
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About The Population Must Grow

This is a very simple city builder game with the main purpose of scaling up your population. You can place build orders for your citizens to build new homes, plant food or plant new trees.The more citizens you have the faster the city can grow. For me as the developer of this game, the purpose was to try to write efficient code to see how much a PC can handle before it begins to slow down. So try out and see how many citizens your device can handle.

What Steam players say

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

Recommended Mar 2, 2026
borderline dog slavery simulator there is no joy to be found in life for these dogs
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Not recommended Jul 15, 2026
the game crashes, impossible to grow population to total earth quantity. Was fun until it keeps saying that wasnt responding. The game should be: The Population Must NOT Grow !!
Recommended Jul 11, 2026
i like much. i made a town that looks like atem bomb. i like doggies. this game goes well with domino pizza. happy 🤩
Recommended Jun 4, 2026
perfect way to test your pc capabilities! Of course i got every achievement.
Not recommended May 6, 2026
Steam crashed while I was grinding toward China. I've put 70 hours into this game over the last several weeks and was at close to 700 million. Now it's showing one citizen even with an entire screen of millions of citizens. Wasted weeks letting my PC implode with the ever increasing demand on my CPU. No response posting about the glitch.
Not recommended Mar 8, 2026
nah

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