Cities: Skylines

my combined steam workshop assets are larger than the base game plus all of its DLCs and CCPs one of the best ways i've found to waste my life no notes 10/10

This is the first review I’ve ever written for a game. Obviously, that’s because this is the best game I have ever played. Where do I even start? I originally built my gaming PC with flight sims in mind, stuff like MSFS, DCS, and similar. I figured those were the only kinds of games I’d ever touch. Honestly, I don’t even really consider myself a “gamer.” That said, I’ve always been in awe of huge cities. I live in a medium-to-small city myself, but I’ve been lucky enough to travel to some major ones, and from the very beginning, I’ve loved everything about them. The hustle and bustle, the giant highways, it all fascinates me. I’d heard of Cities: Skylines a while back but never paid it much attention. I didn’t realize a game could actually simulate that specific love I have for cities. Then one day I saw it on sale on Steam, read some reviews, and thought, “Why not? I’ll give it a shot.” And for the first time since childhood, I was glued to a game. Time flew. I played for six hours straight after installing it, but it felt like half an hour. It was like discovering my first Minecraft cave when I was 12, all over again. I had never gotten addicted to a game so quickly. It was wonderful. This game makes you feel smart. Proud. Like a problem-solver, a designer. A city builder. It’s not for everyone. Not everyone’s going to enjoy spending hours figuring out how to optimize traffic flow from the industrial zone to the commercial zone, all while managing raw materials, worker supply, and outside connections. But the crazy part? I didn’t think I would, either. News flash: I do. And it feels great. Seriously, solving those little logistical puzzles makes you feel amazing. Sure, the game has its quirks, some small bugs here and there, but nothing out of the ordinary for a game of this size and complexity. The only one you’ll probably notice early on is how vehicles change lanes, which can cause some traffic issues. But honestly, I wouldn’t even call that a bug. It’s just the game mechanics. So yes. I highly recommend this game. To everyone. If you’re reading this and even slightly think you might enjoy it, buy it. Sale or not, this thing is worth a million bucks. Even now, with Cities: Skylines II out for over a year, I can only hope that, with time and updates, it’ll capture the same magic this first one did. Thanks for reading—and good luck with your city!

~ DIFFICULTY ~ 🔲 My 90 year old grandma could play it 🔲 Easy ✅ Normal 🔲 Hard 🔲 Dark Souls ~ GRAPHICS ~ 🔲 MS Paint 🔲 Bad 🔲 Meh 🔲 Graphics dont matter in this game ✅ Good 🔲 Beautiful ~ MUSIC ~ 🔲 Bad 🔲 Not special ✅ Good 🔲 Eargasm ~ STORY ~ ✅ This game has no story 🔲 Like playing Temple Runners for the story 🔲 It's there for the people who want it 🔲 Well written 🔲 Epic story ~ PRICE ~ 🔲 Free 🔲 Underpriced 🔲 Perfect Price ✅ Could be cheaper 🔲 Overpriced 🔲 Complete waste of money ~ REQUIREMENTS ~ 🔲 You can run it on a microwave ✅ Average 🔲 High end 🔲 NASA computer ~ LENGTH ~ 🔲 Very Short (0 - 3 hours) 🔲 Short (3 - 15 hours) 🔲 Average (15-50 hours) 🔲 Long (50-90 hours) 🔲 Extremely long (90-110 hours) ✅ No ending ~ FUN ~ 🔲 I'd rather watch paint dry 🔲 Hard to enjoy 🔲 Repetitive ✅ Actually pretty amusing 🔲 Ride of your life ~ REPLAYABILITY~ 🔲 It's a one-time experience 🔲 Only for achievements 🔲 If you wait a few months/years 🔲 Definitely ✅ Infinitely replayable ~ WORTH BUYING ~ 🔲 No 🔲 Wait for sale ✅ Yes ---------------- Cities: Skylines is a highly engaging city-building simulation that delivers a deep and satisfying urban planning experience. From its detailed mechanics to its flexible design options, it offers players the chance to build sprawling metropolises from the ground up. With intuitive tools and a vast array of options, the game caters to both casual players and hardcore simulation fans. Its emphasis on creativity and problem-solving makes it an enjoyable and rewarding experience. Gameplay in Cities: Skylines is meticulously crafted, offering a wide variety of systems to manage including traffic flow, pollution, budgeting, and public services. The learning curve is well-balanced, with helpful tutorials and community mods that enhance the experience further. Players can specialize cities around different industries or cater to specific population needs, which keeps gameplay fresh and dynamic. Strategic planning is essential, and success feels genuinely earned. Visually, the game presents an impressive and detailed world with a clean, modern aesthetic. The user interface is well-organized, making it easy to navigate complex systems. Cities come to life with bustling traffic, flowing rivers, and dynamic day-night cycles that add immersion. The graphical fidelity is strong, and zooming in reveals the thoughtful design of individual structures and city elements. Overall, Cities: Skylines stands out as a polished and rewarding city-builder that encourages strategic thinking and creativity. Its deep mechanics, combined with strong visuals and an open-ended structure, provide endless hours of engaging gameplay. The experience is made even better by a passionate modding community, offering virtually limitless customization. It’s a benchmark title for the genre and remains highly recommended for simulation enthusiasts. Cities: Skylines gets a 7/10. For more reviews check my Steam profile Hope you enjoyed my review, god bless you

Great game if you can grab this on a deal with all the DLCs. Still waiting for the sequel to reach the heights of the original. If you liked Sim City or enjoy city builders, then this is definitely for you.

Cities: Skylines is a deeply satisfying city builder with unmatched flexibility and depth, especially once you explore its full range of mechanics. Managing traffic, services, and zoning becomes an addictive puzzle that rewards smart planning. Highly recommended for players who enjoy complex systems and creative freedom.

Rating: 8/10 Cities: Skylines is one of the most robust and satisfying city-building games available today. Developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive, it offers players a rich sandbox to design, manage, and optimize sprawling urban environments. The game excels in simulation depth. From traffic management to public services and zoning policies, Cities: Skylines gives you full control over your city’s development. The interface is clean, mod support is extensive, and the variety of tools available makes city planning feel both rewarding and realistic. It's incredibly satisfying to watch your creation evolve from a tiny village into a thriving metropolis. The modding community deserves special mention—thanks to Steam Workshop support, the game has essentially limitless replayability. You can customize almost every aspect, from buildings to traffic AI, giving the game a long life beyond its base features. While the core gameplay loop is engaging, there are still some pain points. Traffic AI can behave unrealistically at times, leading to frustrating congestion that feels out of your control. Some features, like natural disasters or advanced public transit systems, are locked behind DLC, making the base game feel slightly stripped down unless you're willing to invest more. Performance can also become an issue in large cities, even on capable systems, and the learning curve may be steep for newcomers unfamiliar with the genre. Despite its flaws, Cities: Skylines is a standout city-builder that rewards creativity and problem-solving. With great visuals, smart systems, and unparalleled customization, it’s a must-play for fans of the genre. A few rough edges hold it back from perfection, but it still stands tall as a modern classic.

This game consistently crashes at launch and leaves me with a black screen and I am unable to open my task manager to close the application, resize or minimize the window using keyboard shortcuts and I have to manually shut down my computer using the power button. It will also crash in the middle of game play so I'm having to redo things in the game due to automatic saves only very 10 minutes. I has crashed so many times but my final straw was it crashing 3 times last night, and now again this afternoon. I am so utterly frustrated and disappointed and I was very excited to purchase this game and play it. My computer has never had a game crash and I do not have this issue with any other games I currently play either, only this game is a problem. I've made sure all of my drivers are up to date, graphic settings are optimized, all computer settings are optimized, my computer components are new and working properly, temperatures and fps are fine, and I've checked the integrity of all game files through steam and it's still an issue. I am very sad to give this bad review as I actually enjoy the game but constantly going through this is ruining the game for me.

it could be good, but they lock trams behind a dlc making traffic a massive issue. i already payed 30$ for the game and it wants me to pay more to enjoy the game? you can f##k right off.

The best game in its genre, where you can enjoy hours of construction with its own unique songs and many other challenges.

It is a very fun game, very nice, so nice ! Almost 60 hours already !!!

Try to play the game you bought? F you. This bloated spyware can't even install with admin privileges - because apparently my own security settings offend it. What exactly does this dumpster fire need to install that's so important? I could literally double-click the executable myself, but no - we need this special needs launcher for mentally challenged.

The game has a lot of potential, but ultimately is very empty. You NEED DLC to have most features that SHOULD be included by default. Even with the DLC, there exists a problem in the base game that cannot be fixed without heavy modding and micromanaging; the elderly The elderly kill your city and there is nothing you can really do. They will just NOT die for decades and waste space. Cities become stagnant because so many people turn into elders and stop working. It can get to a point where 40%+ of your population will be unemployed elders who do nothing but cause problems. You CAN get around this, but unless you know this problem exists ahead of time, you can potentially end up with a stagnant city. To prevent this, you basically need to have zero elder care and lower funding on sick care so the elders get sick and die, something the game pretty much encourages you to NOT do, but it's really all you can do to get rid of them so your town can continue to grow. Mods can help, but it's a core issue with the game that they never did anything to try to fix Back to the drawbacks, there's just nothing really to this. You can't lose really. If you start to go bankrupt, you can get a bailout of 50k to bounce back, but there's no "You Lose" to the game other than getting softlocked by having negative money with no population so you'd have no ways to get money back into positive. So there's really no "risk" to the game so you might as well enable infinite money because it's ultimately meaningless. You can argue that the challenge is in making sure you DON'T go into negative, but with a basic understanding, you can easily avoid it Mods sadly don't overhaul much and more just add new buildings, themes, and maps. No new gameplay mechanics for the most part. If mods weren't here though, this game would have gotten very boring much faster. The game needs more. The sequel doesn't seem to really do much to change it from what I've heard. Sadly there really aren't many good city builders out there. The BUILDING aspect is good. Terraforming is a bit clunky, but it works. Not much depth in the mechanics though which is unfortunate. If you have the Disasters DLC you at least get random disasters happening, but it's really not much. If base game, you REALLY don't have anything to do other than to just keep drawing your city up

Great City builder and Management game. Has some limitations and certain achievements require DLC otherwise decent time waster and a good pick up on sale

I spent the entire afternoon managing traffic in my city. Definitely Recommend this game!

very fun. I love the support for mods and custom assets that really elevate the game. traffick control is really challanging and fun.

[h2] Best city building game so far, 10/10 [/h2] - Much better than CS 2, also recommend buying the Natural Disasters DLC with it. The only problem is that there is too much DLC's.

I'd not really recommend this when its at normal price, but when its 70% off its the best £7 I ever spent. It has its slight issuses as its like 10 years old now, but Colossal order still update it, and its works fine on decent devices. My Galaxy Book 5 dosent even have a GPU, and it gets 30 FPS just fine. Its more of a services game, but you can adjust taxes, put in polices, follow the social media feed for it (its a in-game knock-off facebook where your citizens complain) I definitely think you should go for Cities: Skylines 2 though if you have 3 5090s.

if you want to play this game there are addons/build/become anminams/add naurtle disasters well thats all see ya guys!

Don't play this game too much - its more addicted than drugs and gambling.

perfect sandbox city builder game, fairly easy to understand and a lot of fun

Really addictive and you can try out all sorts of maps and different mods. got it for 3 buck while on discount.

This game is very fun and I have spent so many hours on building a city just for traffic flow to be 30%. Would recommend.

Excellent game! Very well optimized, I play on a RTX 3050 LAPTOP and the performance is great really great. The game provides a great experience, and infinites options of combination to create your very own. The amount of add-on and mods is incredible, and are from very good quality. This city builder totally worth the price. Maybe the start is frustrating, not everyone is an urban planner… Really good experience. The DLC are nice, maybe could be less DLC and more content for each one, but after all is a fabulous and fantastic game. Hours of gameplay are guaranteed.

If 400+ hours in this game doesn't speak for itself, let me spell it out — Cities: Skylines is the ultimate city-building sandbox. Whether you want to create a realistic metropolis, experiment with absurd traffic layouts, or just flood your town for fun (we've all done it), this game delivers endless creativity and challenges. The modding community is incredible, the DLCs keep expanding the experience, and no two cities ever feel the same. Yes, traffic will haunt your dreams. Yes, you'll spend hours tweaking a roundabout to perfection. And yes, you'll proudly zoom in to admire the tiny citizens living their little lives — only to realize you've forgotten to build schools. After all this time, I still find myself saying, "Just five more minutes" — and then suddenly, it's 3 AM. Highly recommended for anyone with a love for strategy, creativity, and urban chaos.

This game i good for creativity, Finances, Polices and more...

Very good game design! The road construction can be improved. I cannot merge highway without using a mod

This game is amazing. Its also incredibly addicting. Notes: RTSS (RivaTuna Statistics Server) causes the game to crash randomly, which really sucks, but disabling it while I play fixes it easily. The mod community for this game is also phenomenal, and makes the game soooo much better. 100% worth the money with or without sale. DLC are expensive but not necessary.

Its entertaining but in my opinion, you quickly reach the limits of the game, even with mods and DLC.

A solid game in of itself and some of the DLCs are good as well. However it's only some. Basically only the non content creator pack and radio DLCs are even worth thinking about. And the game is sadly....insanely greedy with how much it splits up DLCs and the pricing of them. Basically beware of Paradox Interactive games. All of them have a lot of DLC and at a certain point they are not worth it at all for the DLC. So again, good game, but greed on the DLC that might be trying to put evil EA to shame

It took me a while to get into, SimCity and Transport Tycoon style games drew me in but once I got started it is a lot of fun. Traffic can be tough to manage but the overall city building and planning means the game has a lot of playability.

Still fun to play. Love that my old computer can handle all the Paradox created DLC.

This game is amazing! Especially the part where your big, perfect city gets destroyed by a tsunami. Peak Gaming.

This game can be a bit buggy sometimes, and is not well optimized, but it is fully worth it, this game literally puts me into a 6 hour trance when I start building a city. If the base game is not enough for your liking, there is a ton of ways to mod it or expand on the types of houses etc... I highly recommend it.

Fun and relaxing game to play, untill my entire population all just decide to kill themselves.

This game is fun, but I have some concerns about the pro-colonialism messaging.

Super fun and addicting! Build and build and stress your computer XD

This is what the last Sim City should've been. Building mechanics are a little clunky, but it has all the fun of city management down pretty well.

Great Game, I like that there are continually updates and map packs available to enhance our experience in the game.

very good game, alot of dlcs but you dont really need all of them so its fine

There's a lot of popular community mods that should be intergrated into the game, specially road management, everything else is perfect

good game build stuff good stuff good building game

amazing game! later on if you like it, upgrade to city skylines 2!

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You might feel totally confused first but there are tons of tutorial videos out there and once you get the hang of it, you just can't stop playing. Very addictive. Endless fun.

epicde 120 saat daha var ancak atölyesi için steamden aldım oyun alışana kadar beyin skiyor ama alıştıktan sonra kendinizi ekrem imamson gibi hissediyorsunuz 10/10

worth it , combination of a manager game and a building game

Easily the best city building game out there. An incredible experience, only held back by the sheer amount of paid DLC and mods needed to get the most out of it.

this game is so much fun when yk what ur doing. it really doesn't even need a sequel its so much fun the way it is.

I am sorry Jerma i misjudged you. The only reason i got this game is to prove how easy it is to Jerma985 after seing how bad he was at it . After 4 hours of restarting my city ... i can say for sure i am not a city designer and this mf game doesn't tell you if you want to upgrade your roads you will demolish buildings.