Cities: Skylines
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"Cities: Skylines is the best city-builder on the market right now. The game's presentation is stodgy, but it is all but guaranteed to provide you many hours of carefully crafting cities, laying out zoning, and establishing districts for specifics residential and industrial uses…all free from real-world mayoral headaches like 6 a.m. phone calls griping about snowplowing." [Gamespot ]
About the game:
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating maintaining the a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
From the makers of the Cities in Motion franchise, the game boasts a fully realized transport system. It also includes the ability to mod the game to suit your play style as a fine counter balance to the layered and challenging simulation. You’re only limited by your imagination, so take control and reach for the sky!
Key features:
Multi-tiered and challenging simulation: Constructing your city from the ground up is easy to learn, but hard to master. Playing as the mayor of your city you’ll be faced with balancing essential requirements such as education, water electricity, police, fire fighting, healthcare and much more along with your citys real economy system. Citizens within your city react fluidly, with gravitas and with an air of authenticity to a multitude of game play scenarios.
Extensive local traffic simulation: Colossal Orders extensive experience developing the Cities in Motion series is fully utilized in a fully fleshed out and well-crafted transport systems.
Districts and Policies: Be more than just an administrator from city hall. Designating parts of your city as a district results in the application of policies which results in you rising to the status of Mayor for your own city.
Extensive modding support: Build or improve on existing maps and structures. You can then import them into the game, share them as well as download the creations of other city builders on the Steam workshop.
Customer reviews
90
A true successor to SimCity 4
Chlorophile | July 16, 2015 | See all Chlorophile's reviews »Ever since SimCity 4, there's been a gaping void in the pure city builder genre. Both of EA's attempts to make a sequel failed miserably and Focus' Cities XL was quite possibly even worse. Finally though, over a decade after SimCity 4 was released, it has a true successor - Cities: Skylines. Cities is a brilliant city simulator. Of course there are some imperfections but you really do have to nit-pick to find them. Whilst Cities doesn't have the old isometric charm of SimCity 4, visually, it is still very pleasing and performance is good. There is a very good selection of buildings and whilst growable buildings do start to get a bit repetitive in very large cities, the variety is expanding (particularly since one of the later free content updates) and of course, there's the modding community. Modding was great in SimCity 4 but it's even better in Cities, a game that was built with modding in mind. The modding community is excellent and the developers have actively embraced them - you can see the result on the Steam Workshop. Like any sandbox game, you have to make your own fun. Cities isn't for everyone. If you're the kind of person who gets bored quickly without a good story or constant action then obviously, this isn't the game for you. If you enjoyed SimCity 4 though (or you're interested in other similar sandbox games) and you're wondering whether Cities is worth the investment then I'd give a resounding "Yes!". If the base game isn't reason enough, then hopefully you'll be convinced by the outstanding modding community that is going to continue to pump out quality content for the foreseeable future, and devs that are still actively working on the game.
99
Best Dam City Sim Ever!
Shuhac | July 14, 2015 | See all Shuhac's reviews »The work that has been done by Colossal Order to make the base game puts it at #1 for city builders. The access the modding that Colossal Order and Paradox have provided will keep it at #1 for years to come. Great work Colossal Order, and Paradox. This is what we asked for and you delivered. This is a must buy for any city builder fans.
85
excellent city building game with a couple problems
deadeyekiwi | July 14, 2015 | See all deadeyekiwi's reviews »First off this game i would like to say that part of the reason this game is as good as it is is that there is very little strong competition for it. There are very few competent city building games, so this might be just the thing for a lot of people, it also has mod support which might be a big plus for others. Aside from being the most complete city building experience in years, it also has a lot of replay value because of different areas you can build cities in. There are however a couple problems in that it does not have the greatest tutorial and it has a problem where I can't change the resolution even if I hit apply if it is not the resolution my desktop is set to. aside from those and other small technical problems there is no real reason not to buy the game.
57
Too expensive for a "1% better version of SimCity"
Armannn | July 9, 2015 | See all Armannn's reviews »Funny how some games cost as much as only rich people can buy them (metaphorically). The game is actually fun and definitely better than EA's SimCity (somehow, I could even say: "EA, you should make a city builder like this."), but still, from my 10 minutes I spent trying to find a fix on how to start the game after its crashes to the fact that mods look pretty bad and don't work in most cases, this game costs simply too much and unless you get $10000 monthly, refrain from getting it. Beside that, there's something really annoying in this game, and that is Twitter (I better don't talk about it). The user interface looks like it's made in real life on a potato and the weekly income seems to be like random. If nothing, the game (unlike many other) supported modding from the day of its release.
90
Complex, but still very fun
Kveni | June 20, 2015 | See all Kveni's reviews »Remember back in the day, when Sim City was the game to get? Well, I've never had so much fun with a city builder game SINCE Sim City! Cities Skylines is literally a super good looking, GREAT controlling, and extremely expansive city builder experience, a game that you can play for HOURS, just watching your city build, and population grow. There are SO many different options to choose from when creating your city, and no two cities will ever look alike! The possibilities seem close to endless, and as your city grows, problems come up as well. The game is fun, complex, and delivers a very, well, "alive" (I guess that would be the word for it) experience, one that city building fans would not want to miss!