Cities: Skylines
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A city builder where you lay roads, zone neighbourhoods and fight traffic as your town grows into a metropolis. It filled the gap left by SimCity's stumble and became the genre's king.
Kit's verdict · 8.6/10
The city builder that dethroned SimCity, and modding keeps it alive forever.Kit · Sadkitty Games
Loved
- Huge maps with real freedom
- Deep traffic simulation
- Massive Steam Workshop library
Not so much
- Expansion count gets expensive
- Economy is too easy once you're established
Play it if planners who love solving traffic puzzles and building pretty skylines.
Skip it if players who want tough economic challenge.
Cheats & codes
No cheat codes
Cities: Skylines doesn't have cheat codes. The tips and secrets below are the next best thing.
Tips
Play it better
- Use one-way roads and roundabouts to cut traffic jams at busy junctions.
- Don't put intersections too close together; cars need space to change lanes.
- Place water pumps upstream from sewage outlets so you don't drink your own waste.
- Keep industry away from homes and downwind of them to limit pollution complaints.
- Build public transport early, since buses and metros take cars off the road.
- Use districts and policies to tune taxes and rules for each neighbourhood.
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Trivia
- Colossal Order is a small Finnish studio that previously made Cities in Motion.
- It launched in 2015, sold around 250,000 copies in its first day and outsold the troubled SimCity reboot.
- Its sequel, Cities: Skylines II, launched in 2023 to performance problems.
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