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Cities: Skylines - Snowfall

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Cities: Skylines Expansion Pack

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Release Date: February 18, 2016

Strategy, Economic, Sandbox, City Builder, Singleplayer

The second large expansion for Cities: Skylines, an economic strategy game developed by Colossal Order. The Snowfall add-on introduces changing weather conditions and temperature fluctuation that can significantly influence the functioning of our city. As the temperature goes down, the citizens consume a lot more power, requiring us to meet the increased demand for electricity or build a municipal central heating system.

7.3

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6.1

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7.9

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Snowfall is the second expansion for Cities: Skylines for PC, PS4 and XONE. The production, being a classical city-building simulator, debuted in March, 2015, and was well-received by players who waited for a worthy successor of the classic SimCity 4 for years. The title sold over a million copies worldwide, and thanks to the incessant support of the developers and the modding scene it still attracts new players. The expansion and the original game were developed by Colossal Order, which specializes in economic strategy productions and created the Cities in Motion series. Similarly to After Dark, some of the novelties introduced in Snowfall were given at no cost to the owners of the vanilla game in the form of a free patch.

Gameplay

Cities: Skylines – Snowfall for PC, PS4 and XONE introduces changing weather and temperature which actually influence the functioning of our city. As temperature goes down, citizens use a lot more power to heat their homes and workplaces. Our task is to face the fluctuating demand for electricity. We prevent any potential problems by developing power plants and transmission lines or by deciding to build a municipal central heating system. Apart from rain or fog, which are both purely cosmetic, a heavy snowfall can pose a real challenge for the mayor since it may paralyze the street traffic. The players have to ensure that snow removal be performed as well as to provide an adequate number of snowplows. But snow is not only a difficulty; it can also be used to build new kinds of parks and special buildings. All of the above options and structures are available on the new winter-themed map.

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Platforms:

PC Windows

PC Windows February 18, 2016

PlayStation 4

PlayStation 4 November 21, 2017

Xbox One

Xbox One November 14, 2017

Developer: Colossal Order

Publisher: Paradox Interactive

Game Series

Cities: Skylines - Snowfall
Cities: Skylines - Snowfall
Cities: Skylines - Snowfall

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Cities Game Series

A series of strategy games of the city builder type, allowing us to build modern cities from scratch. The series is overseen by Colossal Order studio, a Finnish development team, which has gained experience in creating productions of this type, working on two genre-related games under the banner of Cities in Motion. The publisher of the series Cities series is Paradox Interactive, a company specializing in the strategy genre..

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Cities: Skylines

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News

Cities: Skylines Snowfall - a new expansion to a highly acclaimed city-builder announced

Paradox Interactive revealed an upcoming expansion to Cities: Skylines and this time around we get to build and maintain the city in winter landscapes. New content includes weather cosmetics, expanded public transport, new services and infrastructure.

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Mike Manka

January 19, 2016

Cities: Skylines Snowfall - a new expansion to a highly acclaimed city-builder announced

System Requirements

System Requirements for Cities: Skylines - Snowfall Video Game:

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Minimum System Requirements:
Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz/AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2 GHz, 4 GB RAM, graphic card 512 MB GeForce GTX 260/Radeon HD 5670 or better, 4 GB HDD, Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 64-bit.

Recommended System Requirements:
Intel Core i5-3470 3.20 GHz/AMD FX-6300 3.5 GHz, 6 GB RAM, graphic card 2 GB GeForce GTX 660/Radeon HD 7870 or better, 4 GB HDD, Windows 7/8 64-bit.

Ratings

Game Ratings for Cities: Skylines - Snowfall Video Game.

7.3

OpenCritic Rating

Game is Recomended by 51% of Critics. There are 16 Critic Reviews.

OpenCritic

Cubed3: 5 / 10 by David Lovato

Cities: Skylines - Snowfall adds some features that make sense and look nice, but for the price, there's just not much content here. The graphical updates are beautiful, but the content is severely lacking—those loading an existing file are likely to just dump all of their money into new pipes, while players starting anew can just build hot water pipes from the gate and might not know anything was even added. The changes make sense (excluding locking weather to certain maps) and they work well enough, but are so slight as to be almost offensive for their price tag.

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Hardcore Gamer: 4 / 5 by Mark Steighner

Cities: Skylines just keeps getting better. Thanks to lots of dedicated fans and modders, and the official After Dark and Snowfall expansions, the game offers endless fun and creativity. For the price, Snowfall's content is right on the border of being a just little thin and non-essential, especially if you don't really care about adding trams or transportation hubs, but the snow effects are nice and I will be happy to have added them come August when I'm sweltering in late summer heat.

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Game Revolution: 3.5 / 5 by James Kozanitis

That's what is really at the core of the discussion on Snowfall—not simply if it added enough, but if it added enough for its asking price. At $13 on Steam right now, Snowfall is a difficult case to make for bang-for-your-buck, even while recognizing the amount of work I'm sure went into this expansion. Still, I'm left with a positive takeaway because Colossal Order never seems content with its already-enormous amount of moving parts. They continue to add more factors and more elements if only to show that they can juggle as many objects as you want to throw in their path. It's truly an impressive circus act, both playing and developing Skylines, and Snowfall is yet another example of Colossal Order flexing its muscles.

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STEAM Score

All Reviews: Mixed (1,067)

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