EA

SimCity's offline mode is now in the final testing phase according to an update from the game's official Twitter account.

In order to see this embed, you must give consent to Social Media cookies. Open my cookie preferences. Update 10 is in final testing. Almost there Mayors. — SimCity (@simcity) March 12, 2014


Offline mode is coming to the game as part of Update 10 after being in development since August.

DON'T MISS: 'Impossible' SimCity offline mode took over six months to build

The possibility of the mode was initially dismissed by the developers when the game released. A tweet at the time stated: "The game was designed for [multiplayer], we sim the entire region on the server so this is just not possible."

Speaking of the update earlier in 2014, lead engineer Simon Fox explained why the mode has taken so long to implement: "SimCity was written to rely on the servers. The game routinely pings the servers for critical pieces of data (region status, workers, trading etc.) and it relies on that information to keep the simulation moving. This meant rewriting the entire system, which previously existed in Java, and putting it into C++."