Cities: Skylines II

I am a diehard Cities player, with 10,000 plus hours dedicated to cities 1 and 2000 plus hours logged in cities 2. After the last patch update, I am now abandoning the game. I paid 100 plus dollars at release, only to not be able to play the game for more than an entire year, I then spend 3 grand on a new system (entirely just to play this game!), and then was plagued by stupid gameplay bugs, breaking save files, and at least the game was playable although glitchy. Now, a delayed update is forced upon me, I find that the game is entirely broken and unplayable (AGAIN URGHHH). I am calling time of death on this. I am sick an tired of 7 years of self-troubleshooting, repairing, an fixing my own game just to play a sub-par experience because of the bugs. I hate paying the money I do just to have to fix sh*t myself. Im done. See ya paradox, its been a good ride.

💥 "Optimization" means I can’t even open the game anymore — brilliant work! I saw the latest update and thought, “Finally, they fixed something!” Guess what? They did. They fixed my ability to enter the game. Launch? Black screen, crash. Load save? If you're lucky enough to get there, enjoy 15 seconds before a spontaneous game vanishing act. 100-hour city? Now a digital fossil, left behind in the ruins of this so-called “update.” Seriously, this isn’t optimization — it’s digital exile. The game now runs so smoothly, it skips the whole “running” part entirely. They said they improved CPU threading. Yeah, I can see that. My CPU's working overtime — not to run the game, but to write my obituary in Task Manager. 🔧 Bug fixing? Nope, just bug relocation — from the UI to the bootloader. 📉 Performance? So stable now, it flatlines before it even starts. 🧠 AI pathfinding? Still lost — just like my faith in this development team. 🪦 Final thoughts: Thank you, devs, for optimizing me out of my own game. It’s bold, it’s visionary, and it’s probably the first time a patch note doubled as a restraining order. If you're a new player — don't worry about stutters or frame drops. You might never get far enough to experience them.

This is early access. If you expected a complete and polished game, this is not it. I've sunk 5000 hours into CS1 and it's my favorite game ever. So naturally, I couldn't wait for CS2 to release. In hindsight, the release should have been pushed back a few years. I know nobody would've liked that, but right now it's missing too much for me to enjoy. I'm an asset modder for Cities Skylines 1 and I was anticipating the new asset editor of Cities Skylines 2 along with the improvements and unfathomable new opportunities that would come with it. The asset editor has been pushed back to probably 2026 given the recent statements from CO. I've admired their close relationship to the (modding) community and when they announced those modding improvements for the second game, I was stoked! The game is playable, yes. But it's missing so many features you've come to expect in CS1. There are no bicycles at all and transport options in general are limited. I'm well aware that CS1 didn't start out as complete and polished either, but after 10 years, standards for what to expect from a city builder of this size have risen and it's frankly disappointing that CS2 didn't start out as strong as it could have been. Right now it's more delays, delays, delays and I'm not saying they shouldn't take their time. Absolutely they should take the time to make this game the best it can possibly be. I'm sure CO will deliver a great city builder eventually, I absolutely believe in their abilities and ideas. But the time has not yet come.

Buggy and unplayable at the moment, they released the Quay update, which completely broke the game, and instead of fixing the bugs, they gave us a "guide" on how to fix it, which does not work. UPDATE: Game works with no mods, which is absolutely dogshit considering the base game lacks a ton of mechanics. Though it is still playable, I am just being picky. Furthermore, garbage is not being produced in my city by any of the residents, which sounds like a good problem to have, except that my Garbage Trucks decide not leave the depo and instead deploy 0/30 of my trucks, leaving my power plants uncollected - which is reducing my power production efficiency 50% - bankrupting my city by importing power at an exorbant rate. Fuck PARADOX!

It pains me to give this game a negative rating as I have been a huge fan of the franchise since 2015. I have more than 9,000 hours in Cities 1, and was extensively modded. Cities 2 has its charms and scant strong points, but are overshadowed by its plethora of failings and shortcomings. It's such a massive disappointment. 2 years in: - No Steam Workshop modding support. - No finished asset creator for modders. - No bicycles in the traffic simulation. - No monorail. - Not able to roll back game version. - Every time Colossal Order updates the game, they cause game-breaking crashes and freezes. This latest patch caused a critical error right in the start menu. Since you cannot access the game mods without access to the main menu, you have to play 4D chess with your own game to make it run again. In Cities 1, you were able to go into the Steam Workshop and disable the broken mods after every patch, then enable them again after the modders fixed it. It took time troubleshooting, but you could still have a playable game. - The developer team is not responsive enough to update their game. They take multi-month long vacations at critical times and leave players to simmer in their unfinished mess. At this point you would have a better experience playing Cities 1, or even Sim City 4 with mods.

This is a complicated review for me to write as a prolific city builder player since I could use a computer. The PROS of CS2: - The roadbuilding and other infrastructure tools are top-notch and easily the best in any city builder. Certain mods make it even better, like lane direction tool. - The mod library is growing weekly and it is making the experience better. - If you have a half-way decent PC, this game is technically better than CS1. Graphics, sounds, simulation, etc... and you can grow larger cities per amount of PC horsepower used... CS1 came out in the quad-core CPU era, and this game is in the 6 - 8 core mainstream PC era and if you have those resources, this game will use all of it. - The simulation is more in-depth than CS1, but it is half-baked because Colossal/Paradox needed more development time for this game. There are a lot of nuanced characteristics which dictate how citizens own houses in the game, for example, but Colossal/Paradox are always tweaking those variables in each patch because of how unprepared it was. The CONS of CS2: - This game needed easily another year of development time. Like I mentioned, the simulation has more variables to it, but they weren't properly implemented. Each patch tweaks these variables to make the game better, but the devs are kinda playing a game of whack-a-mole because each change they make has cascading effects. - If you have a low-end PC, don't bother running the game. Like I stated in the PROS section, if your PC has some oomph behind it, you can and will be able to build BIG. If you're on a PC from the CS1 era - quad core, GTX 1060, 16GB RAM era, this game will run like poop. The game picks up very well when you give it a Ryzen 2000+ 8-core CPU (or Intel 9700k 8-core CPU), 32GB RAM and an RTX 3060/6700 XT or better GPU. I run this game on a Ryzen 6900HS/RTX 3070 Ti/32GB RAM laptop and it's pretty good. - The specialized industries are half-baked at the moment. They were a DLC in CS1. They come with the base game here. The devs needed more time to flesh this aspect of the game out properly. - Most of the statistics the game shows you are nebulous and inconsistent. This is because of all the tweaks they make in each patch, and what the devs decide to present to you. You can't really trust them and instead should use common sense and classic querying/watching/observing to get an idea for how your city is flowing. If you go based on what the game's stats tell you, you'll run out of money pretty quick. TL;DR: Technically better than CS1. Needed another year of development time to actually be better than CS1. I recommend and don't recommend it at the same time.

It's not ready. Maybe in a few years it'll live up to its predecessor, but today is not that day. There are some tools that are amazing and have much more flexibility than CS, but it comes at the cost of infuriating "features". One of the biggest issues that prevent you from building huge cities is the nightmarish traffic AI. Vehicles will randomly pull illegal turns without any clear rhyme or reason. You *must* build separated highways, because the 4 lane will result in traffic jams as civs will pull a U-turn in the middle of the road. Civs will also do left-hand turns from the right lane, cutting off traffic and causing traffic lights to switch. Also, there are no bikes. So if you want to foster a walkable city, good luck because most civs will still drive. I challenged a friend to a build competition and after 10 hours, I am spending all of my time just trying to get civs to drive like actual humans and follow the rules of the road. Double yellow lines mean nothing in this game. Based on the current state of the game, it is not worth the price.

This is a buggy disappointing mess. It runs worse than the first game, and despite having better vanilla road tools, it has a fraction of the simulation as the original.

Cant even load in, lost a 30k city because of this most recent update. I love this game but I can't in good conscience recommend it in its current state.

After pushing through 1300 hours of bugs, glitches and very hard BSOD crashes, I can't continue on. The latest update 1.3.3f1 on 6/11/25 completely killed the game for a lot of us. The game no longer loads with our saves at all. You either get a blurry ocean background or a black screen that hangs indefinitely. It has been 48 hours now with no acknowledgement from CO. While my play time has been relatively fun, I can NOT recommend this game anymore and will move on to something else. The lack of communication, persistent bugs/crashes, very slow updates and now the fact that the game doesn't even run anymore has killed the mood.

7/10. This is a very cautious recommend- if you really enjoyed the first one and it's on sale I'd say it's worth picking up. Several caveats, however: - "Normal" difficulty balance is all out of whack, primarily because of the speed of the game. It's unbelievably slow - I don't need to be building New York in 20 minutes but in other citybuilders there's a ramp-up in growth that is missing here. Developing your city is extremely tedious and you get the sense that you're being punished for expanding. Easy is a little too easy but overall far more entertaining. - The lack of custom assets is starting to really show. The existing asset packs are nice, but your cities began looking like clones of each other quickly. The 'row house' zoning option nicely hides this lack of assets because row house neighborhoods in many cities (DC, Brooklyn, Philly) are all very similar looking IRL, so that's a nice bit of accidental realism, I suppose. - The cities feel lifeless and dull. Zooming in on parks nobody is doing anything other than walking around. I miss the little sprites of kids running and playing in parks, people chatting outside of restaurants, etc., from SimCity 4. All of this said, I went back to CS1 and found it really showing its age. The road design tools are great and the scale of the cities feels far better than CS1. Still not quite as good as the classics, but until we get a remaster of those I think this is the best option for a citybuilder out there.

I would always play Cities Skylines I and pray that they make a second game just as good as the first. Well they definitely made a second game but a do have to say it is not all that. WHEN THE GAME IS PLAYABLE it is actually a pretty fun and flawless game, on my PC this game runs very smoothly up until I have a population of around 600,00 Citizens. But most of the time THE GAME DOESN'T EVEN LOAD INTO THE MAIN SCREEN. This is especially saddening for me because i had been mourning for this game to release and this is probably the main reason i got a high power PC and PAID $90 FOR IT. THIS GAME IS NOT ALL THE HYPE DO NOT BUY. IS A WASTE OF MONEY AND TIME IF YOU ARE TRYING TO GET THE GAME TO WORK. Overall 3/10. !!!!!!!!DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!

With Cities Skyline I as reference and all mods that have been created over the years to improve quality of life you would expect that Cities Skyline II would be a winner as of day one. The opposite is true, game was released broken and a almost all the things they could have learned and adapted from the mod community were ignored. Game simulation is still broken, detailed city and economy management is missing and for quality of life still heavily leaning on third party mods. Latest update broke my game, even reinstalling didn't solve. In this state not woth your money

Despite all the hate I actually liked this game, key word is "liked" the latest update completely broke the game and even following the fix guide doesn't work. It has even been a month and they haven't done anything about it. Just to think the mods were just starting to get somewhere too like road builder which that mod should've been built into the game from the beginning. Honestly reinstalling city skylines and going back. RIP the custom maps I was making, and my larger cities. ps any devs out there please allow update selection like HOI4.

Cities 2 is getting better but is still not good enough, BUT it's still the best city building game without any gimmicks and it's still fun. If you don't like trouble shooting don't buy this game beceause it sometimes just randomly crashes.

Paradox should be ashamed of themselves. The game is a shadow of the original title.

kinda regret pre-ordering this. two years in, still no actual expansions. performance is hell. paradox mod is worse. game-breaking bugs. you'll have a 500k pop city that has more than 100 attractiveness but only has 50-100 tourists. firefighters don't even have extinguishing animations. this game is extremely forgettable after purchasing.

I have been defending this game and the devs since launch day. No more. The latest Quays and Piers brought me back to the game. Unfortunately, 1 day later and I cannot even launch. I've had enough. Goodbye CSII.

This game has great features that makes it difficult to go back to Cities 1. Building roads has never been easier and it's so fun to do. However, I cannot recommend this game in this state. The cavalier disregard of the playerbase is crazy with months and months of time between posts and patches or...ANY information whatsoever. I understand the dev team does not need to keep posting and giving us more and more broken promises, but keeping us in the loop/in the know is a better strategy than keeping us in the dark - especially when faith in your product is fading. This game released in October of 2023 and yes, it has gotten marginally better, however we still do not have the notorious Asset Editor, and they're going to try to peddle a DLC in the near future (if it doesnt't get delayed..AGAIN). PDX Mods has caused me personally so many errors, bugs, & crashes, that I honestly miss the robust design of the Steam Workshop. It was perfect for Cities 1 and virtually any other game that utilizes it. You have to go in your game to resolve mod conflicts that churn out thousands of error pop-ups and unless you have an auto-clicker you will actually want to rip your hair out and close the game in frustration before you can even troubleshoot what is actually happening. I cannot entirely blame the dev team for that, though, as they have little control over modding - but it is a note of frustration that many others have shared elsewhere. AN HONORABLE MENTION, but let us not forget about the Traffic mod incident on PDX Mods as well. Part of me wants to say I enjoy this game, because I do. My playtime is a testament of that. Will I play it again? Possibly. Especially when they roll out updates for us. Would I buy it again if I had to (knowing all of this?) No, absolutely not. In fact I wish I could get a refund as this is not the game I was expecting to have - but it is far too late for that. With a little more communication from either Paradox or C.O. I think I would have a lot more respect and understanding for the state that the game is in, however, we have been left in the dark for far too long and it just feels absolutely nasty that their most recent post(s) have been about peddling their paid DLC that they have since delayed twice now. As a consumer I feel cheated and disgusted by whoever is responsible for that. At least those behind Victoria III saw it through to actually fix their game before charging for DLCs... EDIT: Also, let's not forget the waterfront/beach DLC they tried to release and got flamed for and made it part of the base game. AND the Southwest Region Pack, where there are several missing assets which causes fun issues like floating signs and fences which STILL has not been fixed. >.>

Sigh, i wanted to like this game. I really did after being such a big fan of cities 1... But I just cant. with how long the game has been out and how bad the game performs is unacceptable. I've waited until now to leave a review because of their recent updates. "free patch" "Our tips to fix" are you joking? after releasing paid content on a broken game that doesn't nearly live up to the standard as advertised, how dare you release a "free patch"... it had better be fuckin free. The entire game should be free when you have to release a how to fix OUR game update... What an absolute scam and joke of a company. Hope to god we can all get in on a lawsuit and get some of our money back.

I love this game but its completely unplayable unless your basically a software engineer and can fix the game for paradox who has apparently completely given up on usability

The game crashes all the time and doesn't load old saves. It's fun, but it's unplayable.

After finishing up a few other games, I just recently relauched this after a year. I have tried across several days to really sink in, only to feel very disappointed. First off, to the developer that changed the settings in the most recent update to not automatically save, I hope you stub your toe everyday until this is fixed. The game is crashes all the time. It seems to be an issue with the latest update and I hope it gets fixed however, I'm not wasting anymore time on this game until this is fixed. The number of times that I have reached a milestone to have the game crash and have to try again is making me doubt my very existence. The amount of building I need to support a population of 50,000 seems excessive. The city I live in is 10x the size but with way fewer high rise apartment buildings. I think this is miss calculated. I also don't agree with how far you have to get into the game before you can create a risen highway. By the time I unlock this I have to basically demolish my town and start all over. The incoming traffic also gets backed up for miles even though I only have a population of 20,000 seems off. I can't create any train tracks on inclines (seems like it should automatically add risers to accomplish this and then base the cost of the track off of the risers needed to build.). I tried to use the tool to adjust the slops and it seems to not work at all now. I know that this game came out without the polishing work, but it seems like the company is more focused on producing poor DLCs then fixing the many issues.

I’ve waited and waited. Im tired of the people constantly defending you, what improvements have actually happened all of the content we have got has been made by content creators and modders not devs. I think the problem, is laziness I honestly find it really unlikely this is being worked in by a team for 40hrs a week. If that’s the case how have we still not got a game that will even play. This sucks! It’s my favorite game. Obviously im pissed. I just don’t see how you can take everyone’s money and then for one, not even give us what we paid for. Maybe im wrong but over a year and the game won’t even play now, especially on GeForce now , a place where we had hope of getting mods like every other game on GeForce, but no not cities. I hope someone that has passion for this kind of game can make something we can play. Or at least not keep giving us a run around because no work is being done or at least anything noticeable especially when it won’t even play

There is no purpose to playing this game other than aesthetics. If you want to build a nice good-looking city buy the game. Other than that, the game is still broken and still has to go through many changes. Traffic is broken, homelessness is broken, all the parks must have people living in them for some reason, soccer fields have tents on them and are not used by NPC's. NPC routing is broken. Not sure why would anyone play the game other than building a good looking city that is barel functional. FIX YOUR GAME THAT YOU ARE SELLING FOR $70 CAD. its so frustrating to see the potential to what this game could have been vs what it really is right now. Every couple of months there is a new update that literally breaks my city, and not to mention that this is not yet ready for consoles. Amazing work Colossal Order. Get your ** together guys common

The game itself is fine but from what I've heard or seen, CS1 is way better than the sequel. If you have an older PC don't even consider buying this game if you don't want to play in 14 fps. Every single update ruins your whole save, forcing you to start a new city every time. The biggest problem is the performance of the game. It's been out for almost 2 years yet I see close to no difference in the gameplay experience. At this point I can't even play the game because my PC doesn't allow it and even the menus are impossible to go through. My inputs register after 10 seconds or so (bcz of the lag) and it takes over 40 minutes to just update the mods. I don't want to spend over 800$ to buy a new pc just to play this. My 1050TI is catching fire whenever i open this game and oftenly crashes after 30 min of gameplay. Absolutely horrible. Just buy CS1🥀🥀🙏

Every single major patch can break the game. Even after reinstalling the game and loading into with mods disabled, the game doesn't boot up properly or just crashes.

The latest quays and piers "patch" made my game unplayable. It only displays a blurry render of the ocean and the sky. This was one time too many. It seems every time there is an update it glitches out another part of the game. I can't recommend it until colossal order polishes it more. Also the bus lanes are useless since the game doesn't let you ban cars from them.

This should really be a mixed review, but for the general person I wouldn't recommend this game. There's lots of great stuff over cities 1, more buildings, better roadbuilding, a bigger map. BUT, I feel like I speak for a lot of people when I say the single most wanted feature was a game that doesn't lag. And its just worse than cities 1. Also, why does my seemingly megacity only have 300K population? It's just another KSP2 it seems, hopefully in a few years this will become the city builder game it was meant to be but for now the jank factor is just too great. Bottom line is definitely get it if you're a massive simcity fan and love detailing. Otherwise, wait for a sale at best. And why the move from the steam workshop, it's been ages and the paradox mods feature is just straight up worse. It's just a straight step in the wrong direction especially for a game so reliant on mods

Since the game wont open, I can truly say 1 star is a perfect rating. It gets stuck on a sky screen and does not proceed to the main menu. Numerous critical errors that won't go away even after reloading the game. Wouldn't encourage others to buy this game. Updated review. The game says I played 631 hours since my review. Impossible since I wrote the review less than 48 hrs ago. I followed the "Our tips to fix" and still cannot open the game. I hear music but no menu or main screen...just a black screen instead of the water and sky issue mentioned in the original review. Not getting my monies worth if I can not play it.

Latest update has, once again, broken the game! CO & Paradox are really having a laugh; it's been more than a year and a half since release and the game still has issues of constant crashing and poor optimisation, settings are never saved, broken game mechanics with missing statistics, still poor traffic AI (like, awful) - now issues with launching, again. CS2 has its moments, but overall a complete headache, and for £42 they really need to do better...

I got this game on launch and played a bit of it after loving the first one but could tell it was severely lacking. almost 2 years later i still don't see any real reason to return.

Love the game but it almost never works. Everytime I feel the desire to play, I almost always spend an hour trying to problem solve an issue to get the game to work and give up on playing it.

Genuinely insane they released a game in this state, i mean with the insane ghosting artifacts and how little work was put into the disasters this game should not even be close to how much it costs. Great job.

DO NOT BUY<<<< DO NOT BUY<<<< I had this game on my wish list for a long time. I love this type of game. Decided to buy it. Despite the bad reviews because some people had said the game was much better now that 2 years had passed. I am here to tell you. DO NOT buy. The game it's self "May be" okay, If it worked. Constant crashing, conpoents of the building tools are clearly not completed, glitches all over the place. Honestly you will need to install a bunch of mods to finish out the game to a more playable level. This is a beta level game. Takes more computer to run than it should and all. Worst part is you will likely not see how incomplete the game is till it is way past getting a refund for. Games like these take some time to learn and even get to a place you need to use many of the components. When that time comes you will see they stopped making the game, and you will be out your money. They are just straight up scamming people. Steam really should delist this game. With all that said. Can you have fun with the game? Sure you can. You just have to be willing to constantly tinker deep inside the game files to keep it working, not every time you want to play will it load with out spending time figuring out how to fix an issue caused from the last patch, read guides on how to fix issues, load and keep mods up to date, know the game will crash likely every time you play it. Maybe loosing progress. And be willing to pay money for all of that. After the last "patch" of fixes. I havent been able to figure out how to get the game working for 2 weeks not. Hours spent not playing. Just reading about things to try in order to "fix" the issue caused by the patch!!!!

I enjoyed the first 40-50 hours. But after that its been a slog of waiting for the game to get content and bugfixes. 2 years later, I am still waiting. Its unacceptable. In its current state, the game is resource heavy, there are bugs, a lot of the assets are extremely ugly and they still have not released the asset editor. There are barely any good mods. Do not buy this game!

The game doesn't launch two years after its release. One of the greatest failures in gaming history.

Honestly? What a let down. 600 hours in, update the game, break it, I cant play it no matter how hard I try troubleshoot. Congrats on a legitimately terrible game

Devs dont even know how to release new content. New update broke the game completely. Stay away from this trash company.

Been playing for a while and noticed that the stability of game needs improvement. I have a pretty decent PC that can run games like this, so obviously it's the developers that are at fault.... fix your game Colossal Order.

I absolutely love this game. It's beautiful and brilliant. But as others have said, its not finished. There are too many issues to consider it finished. My favorite part about these games is managing traffic with a rising population and the traffic system is completely broken. The road system itself (building, maintenance, decor, etc) is phenomenal and scores above CS1. But what's the point if the traffic AI has no idea how to drive? CS1 had similar (albeit less serious) issues with traffic, but you could manage it through lane change rules at every road segment. CS2 can't even do that as far as I know. I've waited 20 months for the devs to fix the traffic before giving this game a positive review. But here we are. Traffic is still broken. I can't recommend this game until the traffic works. Stop working on DLC PLEASE until the base game is performing how it should. Once the traffic is fixed I will recommend this game despite all of the other issues, because it really is that good.

Do not buy if you have an integrated graphics card. There is a bug that causes the whole map to become yellow and impossible to see, which makes it unplayable. Save your $50.

The game itself is great, the simulatuion and city building aspects are fantastic and an awesome step-up from the previous city builders ive played in the past, however ive experianced some serious issues that just prevent me from playing the game at all. The issue is not fixed, but support is pretty good ig

Absolute joke of a game, don't bother giving it any time, you just lose it all because the game crashes half the time you try to save it and save recoveries don't work. Not to mention it runs like shit with big cities even on high end computers.

I am so freaking beyond done being frustrated with this game. CANT EVEN LOAD GAME VANILLA AFTER PATCH! I HATE THIS! I reinstalled, turned off every mod, turned off modding, uninstalled the mods, reinstalled the damned game, and HERE WE ARE! It loads me in the game engine directly and lets me float around above the water, can't even get to the main menu I didn't even want your broken update. I was playing one moment, and it CRASHED, and the you FORCED ME TO UPDATE, and NOW IT DOESNT WORK YET AGAIN, AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN LET ME CHOOSE IT HATE THIS !!!! I HATE IT!!! Just let me play it ike I was! without DESTROYING MY EXPERIENCE YET AGAIN!!!!!!! I HATE THE WAY YOU DEVELOP!!!! I HATE IT!

Worst game ever and best game ever. When u can start it without any errors, and u actually start playing after 3 hours off fixing issue in ur notepad in their game files, that they create with their "new" patch, ridicules i know. ITS THE BEST GAME EVER. DONT BUY IT, PLEASE!

I wouldn't speak badly about the game. But i can't recommend it in its current state. I've given it time, nearly a year to come get the updates it needed but its missing things that made the CS1 so much fun. I can't get past that all the residential buildings look identical, that the buildings no longer upgrade themselves, Yes its pretty but your city just feels stagnate. In CS1 it felt like it was aging as the city grew. Now you build a neighborhood and the buildings always look the same and never change. You never want to visit the same parts of town again. Idk guess its just the high expectation of CS1. Then to see their already trying to sell DLC for a game that's i wouldn't even consider finished is very sad.

I would recommend this game only to people who liked the first game. This sequel game still has fewer features than the game it follows. It is poorly optimized, laggy often, and there have been multiple occasions where I have had to troubleshoot serious issues to even open the game due to developer updates that entirely brick games with modded data. (this game is so underdeveloped that it highly neccesitates mods and yet they cannot be used often for fear of completely bricking the game) Paradox games should be ashamed of how poor a job they've done with this game. I love this series and will continue to play CS2 as it updates but it is such a trainwreck that I cannot in good concious recommend it to anyone unless they are getting a discount or it is free. Developers have given up on interfacing with the community because they can't take the heat over how they've done the bare minimum at every turn. I still have faith that they may fix many of its issues because the previous title got updates for more than half a decade after its release, but its been nearly 2 years since release and I don't think its even neccesarily good enough that it would deserve to be released...at all.

Unlike a lot of people, I think this is a good game. My computer is fortunately powerful enough to run it just fine, and the base game integrates a lot of features that I needed mods for in CS1. It's the same gameplay experience, just with an updated game engine and more integrated features. I do play it regularly and will continue to play it. However, I can't honestly recommend it while they still require you to use their proprietary mod platform. Steam workshop is inherently better, because it's built into the platform I'm already using. Paradox, Implement support for it, like you should have before the game launched.

Latest update causes instant crash even after following their advice to fix. The game was finally good and in one fell swoop, they killed it. If anyone knows a way to revert to the previous update, let me know! Aside from that, newcomers beware!