Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines was developed by Colossal Order and is a building simulation game that lets players turn a vacant plot of land into a thriving city.  Players can't just build a city that looks nice, however, as they need to think about real-life city-planning conundrums such as noise pollution, education, and transportation.

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Cities: Skylines Tag Page Cover Art
City Builder
Released
March 10, 2015
ESRB
E For Everyone
Developer(s)
Colossal Order
Publisher(s)
Paradox Interactive
Engine
Unity

Cities: Skylines is a modern take on a classic city builder. With original gameplay to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city. Boasting fully realized transport and economy systems, Cities: Skylines is designed to suit any play style - and now, anytime, anywhere.

Multi-tiered and challenging simulation: Constructing your city from the ground up is easy to learn, but hard to master. Playing as the mayor, you’ll be faced with balancing essential requirements like education, healthcare and much more along with your city’s real economy system. Citizens in your city react fluidly, with gravitas and an air of authenticity to a multitude of gameplay scenarios.

Extensive local traffic simulation: Colossal Order’s extensive experience developing the Cities in Motion series is put to work in fully fleshed out, 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.

After Dark: Focused on leisure and tourist specialization, this expansion’s central feature is to utilize the day and night cycle and alter the approach to managing your city. Will you construct a bustling city that lives and breathes at night, or succumb to the perils and misadventures of the dark hours?

Snowfall: The difficulty heats up when the city cools down, thanks to this expansion’s added challenges and assets, like snow maps, streetcars, and heating systems. There are in-game temperature readings, cosmetic weather enhancements, extra parks, and infrastructural demands to keep your citizens warm and safe from freezing conditions.

Cities Skylines Water Pumps
Cities: Skylines - Water and Sewage Tips

Water and sewage systems are closely connected in this city builder, and almost every single building in the game needs a water supply to function.

Cities Skylines Deathcare
Cities: Skylines - How to Handle the Dead

Cities: Skylines is a game that covers multiple lifetimes, and that includes figuring out what to do when a lifetime ends.

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Cities: Skylines: How to Rotate Objects

Most buildings and objects don't need rotating to line up properly with a road, but the exceptions make the rotation function very important.

Cities Skylines Panoramic View
Cities: Skylines: How to Buy More Land

If players want to reach every population milestone, the starting square is too small. That's why it's essential to know how to buy more land.

Cities Skylines Road Types
Cities: Skylines - How to Upgrade Roads

Players can choose from dozens of road designs that unlock at different population levels, so it's important to understand the upgrade function.

Cities Skylines Farming District
Cities: Skylines - How to Build Farming and Forestry Districts

Specialized districts are a great way to avoid pollution or take advantage of natural resources, but it helps to understand how specialization works.

Cities Skylines Power Lines and Windmills
Cities: Skylines - How to Connect Power Lines

While the water lines deliver water and sewage service wherever players put them, power lines are harder to understand thanks to the way power works.

Cities Skylines Incinerator Pollution
Cities: Skylines - How to Avoid Pollution

Pollution is an eyesore that sinks property values and causes health problems. Here's how to keep it far away from population centers.

Cities Skylines Garbage Dump Full Empty
Cities: Skylines - How to Deal with Garbage

Garbage is a fact of life for city dwellers, and like any good mayor players will need to figure out a way to get rid of it.