What is your favourite city? Where do you make most of your saves? I love Blissbay above everything because irl I live in a centric, busy city like Dowon and I guess I love how wide the streets are in Blissbay, how relaxing walking around feels, and of course I love the beach! It just feels like the pace of life in Blissbay is more chill, if that makes sense?
I have a soft spot for Cahaya which is the first one I played - it’s great for ‘rags to riches’ gameplay. I love the visual contrast between each half of the city. Other things I like about it are the underwater visuals, sailing boats, and the deserted island.
No love for Dowon I see… I like Dowon because the layout is more interesting than Bliss Bay (though also more confusing to navigate), and the Korean-style architecture and decor feel unique and refreshing. But all the cities are gorgeous in their own way.
A bit unfair to Cahaya as it’s absolutely stunning and I love it… But Bliss Bay’s actual schoolyard for kids to play with friends, combined with IMHO better pre-generated families and bigger population, and more lots (I think), makes it a more interesting town overall.
But Cahaya is a close second. If they made it a bit bigger, and better designed (to accommodate larger families) pre-build houses/lots, it would probably take the lead for me. Like if we could edit the entire premise, changing the houses, and the families (detailed editing would be required) ? That would rule. Technically you could, but you’d have to redo it each time you want to start a new game.
Dowon is indeed far behind the other two. Too urban for my taste, has a few nice location but unless you want to play a small family or alone (or with a partner but no kids), IMHO it’s not that interesting. To each their own !
Voted for Bliss Bay but actually could not really decide between Cahaya and Bliss Bay. As it has been stated Bliss Bay kind of has both a bigger city and still a beach and more green areas then Dowon, but Cahaya really has his own charm. I have active save files in Bliss Bay and Cahaya but Dowon somehow never really catched me entirely.
As @Samuriko I also see the benefit that Bliss Bay has a real school, hospital, courthouse (even though currently only partly functional). If they would add this to Cahaya - even if a very rural version of it - it would probably make Cahaya my favorite.
Adding a schoolyard for kids (at least until elementary is finished - as it was stated that there was no real school in Cahaya, which for mean means elementary only) would help a lot with kids making friends and for us the players getting to know those kids. Small little details like this matters imho.
Blissbay is top city for me but Dowon is very cool too! I like traveling here and dancing with Koreans in disco club Cahaya is cool but im more big cities person than island’s