Release Date: March 10, 2015
An economic strategy game belonging to the popular genre of city builders. This one was created by the Finnish studio Colossal Order, creators of the Cities In Motion series. The game is a response to the popular SimCity franchise from Maxis Studios. In contrast to the previous titles from the Finns, this one is not limited to public transportation, letting you build up a whole virtual metropolis from scratch.
Cities: Skylines is a economic strategy game developed by the Colossal Order team, known for Cities in Motion and Cities in Motion 2: The Modern Days. This time the developers decided not to be limited to the topic of urban transport and challenged SimCity-type projects.
Cities: Skylines is a classic representative of the city builder strategy genre. Goal of the game is to build an efficiently functioning city while maintaining its financial stability. The player starts on an area of 4 square kilometers (over time it can be expanded to a maximum of 36 square kilometers) and has to build roads, place residential, commercial and industrial zones, design public transport routes and keep people happy. More elements related to city management are unlocked gradually as the population grows.
There are several types of roads at the player's disposal, which provide different capacities. All of them (except highways) also allow for the construction of various buildings and residential, commercial and industrial zones. If a given street is too narrow to guarantee the smooth flow of vehicles, traffic jams will appear, making it difficult to transport goods and move people.
The city needs proper infrastructure to function - electricity, water and garbage collection - as well as buildings to ensure the safety of its citizens - police, fire department, health care and funeral services. Additionally, the player may also decide to introduce public transport, such as buses. However, his role is not limited only to constructing the appropriate structures - he also has to mark out the lines along which the vehicles will run.
Each structure, however, requires sufficient funds. The city can guarantee its income through taxes, exports of goods and profits from public transport.
Cities: Skylines also allows you to divide cities into districts. Each district can differ in its specialization, tax rate, emphasis on education, and laws.
Cities: Skylines only allows you to play in single player mode.
Cities: Skylines offers simple but appealing graphics. The player can freely manipulate the camera.
Platforms:
PC Windows March 10, 2015
PlayStation 4 August 15, 2017
Xbox One April 21, 2017
Nintendo Switch September 13, 2018
PlayStation 5 February 15, 2023
Xbox Series X/S February 15, 2023
Developer: Colossal Order
Publisher: Paradox Interactive
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Cities: Skylines Review - Farewell SimCity
City building games lovers finally got what they asked for. With help from Paradox Interactive, Colossal Order's Cities: Skylines is a worthy successor of SimCity.
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May 23, 2023
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April 27, 2023
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April 26, 2023
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March 21, 2023
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February 28, 2023
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Top downloads for Cities: Skylines Video Game:
trainer Cities: Skylines - v1.12.1-f2 +5 Trainer - June 17, 2019
trainer Cities: Skylines - v1.11.0 +5 Trainer - November 5, 2018
trainer Cities: Skylines - v1.06b +1 TRAINER - May 6, 2015
mod Cities: Skylines - Move it v.1.16.0-f3 - January 20, 2023
mod Cities: Skylines - Show it v.1.16.0-f3 - February 5, 2023
mod Cities: Skylines - Advanced Vehicle Options v1.16.0-f3 - February 3, 2023
mod Cities: Skylines - Buldoze it v.1.17.1-f4 - January 8, 2025
mod Cities: Skylines - Toggle district snapping v.1.17.1-f4 - August 19, 2023
mod Cities: Skylines - Empty It v.1.16.0-f3 - February 5, 2023
mod Cities: Skylines - Unified ui (uui) v.1.1.7.f4 - August 20, 2023
System Requirements for Cities: Skylines Video Game:
PC / Windows
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.
List of Game Expansions for Video Game:
Expansion
March 26, 2020
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The ninth major expansion to the economic strategy Cities: Skylines. In Sunset Harbor, players can design cities on picturesque bays, and among the novelties are additional industry (fishing) and urban transport issues.
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Expansion
May 21, 2019
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Eighth major add-on to the 2015 economic strategy Cities: Skylines. Enlargement focuses on education. It introduces into the game the possibility of creating special academic zones and introducing scientific projects.
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Expansion
October 23, 2018
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A DLC for Cities: Skylines, in which the authors focused on expanding elements related to the industry. In Cities: Skylines - Industries, players can create specialized districts and build unique buildings, such as warehouses and factories.
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Expansion
May 24, 2018
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The fifth large expansion pack to the popular economic strategy game Cities: Skylines. It focuses on various parks – from amusement parks to nature reserves. It introduces various decorations and buildings related to parks, eleven new laws and new tourism options. The building system was improved as well – the players don’t need to place the buildings next to roads while in park districts.
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Expansion
October 19, 2017
Strategy
Another expansion to Cities: Skylines - a popular city builder strategy game developed by Colossal Order. As the title might suggest, this add-on allows a player to create environment-friendly cities. Apart from over two hundred new buildings (e.g. shops selling healthy food), Green Cities introduces new specializations for particular districts (which can be developed as one progresses through the game), four new types of regulations, and a number of cosmetic novelties - a player can erect a special monument to honor his services to the environment. Even though in Cities: Skylines - Green Cities, one can erect entirely new and eco-friendly cities, which do not pollute the environment at all, there is nothing standing on his way to utilize the new solutions for the infrastructures he has already built, e.g. to balance the previous construction plans.
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Expansion
August 17, 2017
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Another add-on to the economy strategy game Cities: Skylines, developed by Colossal Order. This time the player, assuming the role of a mayor, gets a chance to organize a variety of music festivals in their city. Your duties include not only erecting new buildings, where you can invite stars and idols, but also managing individual concerts, running advertising campaigns and securing the budget (for example for the event’s security) by introducing new laws. Expanding the festival area results in a better show and makes it possible to hold more people, which translates to more profit coming onto your virtual account. The last innovation left to mention, of those introduced by Cities: Skylines - Concerts, is Live, a new radio station devoted strictly to music.
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Expansion
May 18, 2017
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Cities: Skylines - Mass Transit is the fourth expansion to Cities: Skylines developed by the Finnish studio Colossal Order. Mass Transit requires the base game to be playable. This add-on expands the aspects of public transport, introducing new means of transportation for our citizens to use. Now, people who live in our virtual cities can travel by ferries, cable cars, monorails, or even by zeppelins. Communication centers, special buildings where quick transfers between buses or means of transportation happen, play a crucial role in this expansion. The list of novelties introduced by Cities: Skylines - Mass Transit is closed by new types of roads, bridges, buildings, and political plans. The expansion also introduces bonus scenarios where players will have to face challenges connected with traffic management and solving communication problems.
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Expansion
November 29, 2016
Strategy
The third paid expansion to the successful economic strategy game Cities Skylines in which the player is building modern cities and manages their economy and industry. As the title suggests, Cities Skylines – Natural Disasters expansion introduces various cataclysms that can devastate player’s cities. Among them there are fires, meteor impacts, hurricanes and earthquakes. In order to deal with new challenges, the players can use various preventive means, such as an early warning system or evacuation. A radio is used to warn the people, and during peaceful times it can be used for listening to new music tracks. The Natural Disasters expansion introduces a long-awaited novelty – scenario mode that enables the player to create custom missions with a selected starting city and winning conditions. The created missions can be shared through the Steam Workshop.
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Expansion
February 18, 2016
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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. Apart from rain and fog, which are both purely cosmetic events, a heavy snowfall can be a serious problem for the mayor as it paralyzes traffic and necessitates additional spending for snow clearing. Furthermore, the expansion offers a myriad of new buildings connected to the theme of winter, improved city transport management, and the long-awaited trams that complement the list of available means of public transportation.
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Expansion
September 24, 2015
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An official expansion to Cities: Skylines, an economic strategy game released in 2015 and developed by the creators of Cities in Motion series - Finnish studio Colossal Order. In accordance with the add-on’s title, the biggest innovation it introduces is a dynamic day and night cycle. More importantly, this is not just a cosmetic feature, because at night your citizens engage in entirely different activities, and the traffic is reduced. The expansion adds a set of new, typically night-themed buildings and options. It also introduces commercial area specializations, which depend on their location. The authors also included taxi services, bikes and bike lanes, huge international airports, and prisons, where criminals caught by the police are incarcerated.
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List of Game Add-Ons and DLCs for Video Game:
DLC 90's Pop Radio May 23, 2023
DLC Content Creator Pack: Brooklyn & Queens May 23, 2023
DLC Content Creator Pack: Industrial Evolution May 23, 2023
DLC Content Creator Pack: Railroads of Japan May 23, 2023
DLC Hotels & Retreats May 23, 2023
DLC Piano Tunes Radio May 23, 2023
DLC Pop-Punk Radio March 22, 2023
DLC JADIA Radio March 22, 2023
DLC Content Creator Pack: Shopping Malls March 22, 2023
DLC Content Creator Pack: Africa in Miniature March 22, 2023
DLC Content Creator Pack: Sports Venues March 22, 2023
DLC 80's Movies Tunes March 22, 2023
DLC 80's Downtown Beat February 15, 2023
DLC Calm The Mind Radio February 15, 2023
DLC Carols, Candles and Candy February 15, 2023
DLC Content Creator Pack February 15, 2023
DLC African Vibes February 15, 2023
DLC Airports February 15, 2023
DLC Content Creator Pack: Map Pack February 15, 2023
DLC Content Creator Pack: Map Pack 2 February 15, 2023
DLC Content Creator Pack: Mid-Century Modern February 15, 2023
DLC Content Creator Pack: European Suburbia February 15, 2023
DLC Content Creator Pack: Heart of Korea February 15, 2023
DLC Content Creator Pack: Train Stations February 15, 2023
DLC Content Creator Pack: Vehicles of the World February 15, 2023
DLC Content Creator Pack: Seaside Resorts February 15, 2023
DLC Content Creator Pack: Skyscrapers February 15, 2023
DLC Content Creator Pack: Bridges & Piers February 15, 2023
DLC Financial Districts February 15, 2023
DLC K-pop Station February 15, 2023
DLC Radio Station Pack February 15, 2023
DLC Shoreline Radio February 15, 2023
DLC Plazas & Promenades February 15, 2023
DLC On Air Radio February 15, 2023
DLC Paradise Radio February 15, 2023
DLC Pearls From the East February 15, 2023
DLC Synthetic Dawn Radio February 15, 2023
DLC Country Road Radio May 24, 2018
DLC All That Jazz December 5, 2017
DLC Rock City Radio May 18, 2017
DLC Relaxation Station November 29, 2016
DLC Content Creator Pack: High-Tech Buildings November 29, 2016
DLC Stadiums: European Club Pack October 18, 2016
DLC Content Creator Pack: Art Deco September 1, 2016
DLC Match Day June 8, 2016
Game Ratings for Cities: Skylines Video Game.
Cities: Skylines Review - Farewell SimCity
City building games lovers finally got what they asked for. With help from Paradox Interactive, Colossal Order's Cities: Skylines is a worthy successor of SimCity.
PC WindowsGameSpot: 8 / 10 by Brett Todd
Smart attention to details like zoning and policy decisions make Cities: Skyline the most authentic city-builder you can play.
Metro GameCentral: 8 / 10 by Roger Hargreaves
The true successor to the SimCity legacy, and even though it only restates what was great about the original it still does a better job than the last decade or so of official games.
PC Gamer: 86 / 100 by Christopher Livingston
A handful of flaws, but this fun and addictive city-builder still climbs high.
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