Cities: Skylines 2 Lost 70% of Players, but History Shows It's Not a Problem

Cities: Skylines II, which debuted on Steam three weeks ago, has been abandoned by about 70% of users, who played the city builder at the time of its release. The drop may seem drastic, but it doesn't necessarily mean a big problem for the developers.

1. Cities: Skylines II - our review

Cities: Skylines II is losing players

The second installment of Cities: Skylines hit Valve's platform on October 24. On the day of its release, the title recorded as many as 104,697 concurrent players, which to this day is the best result of this game.

1. After three weeks, the number of players has shrunk significantly. The average of the last four days is about 31,000 users playing at the same time, which is less than 30% of the record set on the day of release.
2. Interestingly, in the case of the previous installment, we had to deal with an almost identical situation. Cities: Skylines hit the market on March 10, 2015, and at the time of its release it reached a peak of 57,421 players at the same time.
3. Four weeks after that date, the average of several days at that time was about 18,000 simultaneous users. This means that less than 31% of the people who enjoyed gameplay on the day of release were playing Cities: Skylines.

Should such a decline be considered a failure of the latest installment of Cities: Skylines?

Not necessarily. The first part is still being played by at least several thousand users at the same time, and the last daily record for the game was 14,261 players. What's more, the game has accumulated almost 250 thousand reviews, of which as much as 93% are positive.

The same may be true of Cities: Skylines II, which, it's worth noting, is so far recording much better numbers than its predecessor. The developers are releasing more patches and updates to fix the detected problems - the latest patch was announced a few days ago. In addition, the game will receive quite a few free DLCs, which will bring a total of 2,500 fresh objects to the game (including those from Eastern Europe).

Thus, the latest game from Colossal Order still has a lot to offer and an opportunity to improve its average ratings. After the release of the aforementioned updates and expansions, many players will surely still return to their cities in Cities: Skylines II.

Let us finally point out that for the moment Cities: Skylines II has received almost 33,000 reviews on Steam, but only 58% of them are positive. The title can also be played via PC Game Pass, and next year it will also debut on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

1. Cities: Skylines II - the game's official website
2. Game Pass on Steam

Cities: Skylines II

October 24, 2023

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