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Cities: Skylines (2015)

Colossal Order

Google Stadia · Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

3.74 from 1664 ratings

6394 members have it in their collection · 225 playing now · 1984 backlogged · 291 wish listed

How long? Main story 20h (from 6 logged playthroughs)

Cities: Skylines is a single-player city-building simulation game. Players manage all aspects of a growing city including zoning residential, commercial, and industrial areas, constructing infrastructure such as roads, public transit, and utilities, and balancing budgets through taxation and services. The game features a transport system, modding support through the Steam Workshop, and a progression system that unlocks new buildings and services as the city's population grows.
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Developers
Colossal Order
Publishers
Paradox Interactive
Genres
Simulator, Strategy
Themes
Business, Sandbox
Series
Cities: Skylines
Steam
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Release dates

  • Mar 10, 2015 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • May 17, 2022 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Google Stadia

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çöp by Rerogshi · 298 games · 0
God tier OST by Pinapplo · 62 games · 0
Finished Games by Luitenant_Gruber · 84 games · 0

Rating distribution

5 stars
347
4 stars
710
3 stars
470
2 stars
109
1 star
28
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Arion

Status Arion Aug 22, 2023

This game really sucked me in for a week. I went from not being interested in city sims to being full on obsessed. I even started to study up on city planning and design philosophies to apply in the game. I was dreaming of managing traffic, setting up public transport routes and putting together the perfect quaint little neighbourhoods. Very …

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This game really sucked me in for a week. I went from not being interested in city sims to being full on obsessed. I even started to study up on city planning and design philosophies to apply in the game. I was dreaming of managing traffic, setting up public transport routes and putting together the perfect quaint little neighbourhoods. Very excited for the sequel.

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peter

Status peter Apr 16, 2021 Abandoned

Has anyone tried this on the switch yet? It’s on sale for $10, and I’ve been kind of jonesing to play some kind of city builder or farming game for a while now. I enjoyed it on the PC quite a lot a long time ago.

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Cantstopdrew

Status Cantstopdrew May 29, 2018

Capsule thoughts here, full link to text discussion at the end of my thoughts.

No city building game caught my attention quite like the SNES version of SimCity. Caesar 2 on the PC came close, but as SimCity moved from one iteration to the next, culminating in the disastrous SimCity 2013, I found myself less enamored with the …

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Capsule thoughts here, full link to text discussion at the end of my thoughts.

No city building game caught my attention quite like the SNES version of SimCity. Caesar 2 on the PC came close, but as SimCity moved from one iteration to the next, culminating in the disastrous SimCity 2013, I found myself less enamored with the city running concept.

Enter Cities: Skylines, not quite as complex as the later SimCity games but with more depth than the SNES SimCity that captured my heart. What you get out of Cities: Skylines is more a reflection of your personality than it is a satisfying simulation. I did my best to create a public works paradise that models socialism as close as I possibly could. My writing partner crashed his city into bankruptcy with too rapid expansion on little taxation.

Folks wanting more complexity would do well to seek another city building game, but Cities: Skylines gives me the right amount of time-passing satisfaction and fulfillment in construction.

http://www.cantstopthemovies.com/2015/09/cities-skylines/

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GigaDeathNullGolem

Status GigaDeathNullGolem Dec 28, 2017

lukewarm genre for me so have avoided games like this for a while but decided to give this a go (as it looks to be one of the better ones) so far is fairly fun and not too bad with learning curve or micro... i am liking scaling up and getting the hang of balancing. game seems to have a …

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lukewarm genre for me so have avoided games like this for a while but decided to give this a go (as it looks to be one of the better ones) so far is fairly fun and not too bad with learning curve or micro... i am liking scaling up and getting the hang of balancing. game seems to have a good balance of how things work in game and allow player to customize every little thing heavily or streamline things

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AlfredoSalza

Status AlfredoSalza Feb 28, 2017

Stopped playing after 2 hours.

I mean, the game works OK but it lacks the necessary charm and humor of other titles like Tropico or Sim City 3000. It needs a better OST too.

Not the classic I was expecting.

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