Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines

---{ Graphics }---

☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---

☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---

☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---

☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---

☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---

☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---

☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---

☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---

☑ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---

☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---

☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---

☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---

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Worked for a day, and was a great game, but 2nd day it stopped launching, tried on a different PC, also followed the guide to fixit, nothing worked any more, seems to be lots of issues with the game starting, too much hassle requested a refund

Coma simulator.

Does the game suck?
Well, try our $200 worth of DLCs. Maybe that'll help....

Fun game lots of learning how it all works but it will keep you immersed for hrs on end to the toon 16hr will fly buy before you even realize it.

awesome game. but the way DLC is handled gives it a thumbs down. All of the good content is locked behind the DLC's. Each one being 20$ a piece is outrageous. And for the game being over 10 years old at this point the fact that the DLC's don't go on sale for lower than 10$ a piece is criminal

Since when do I need Paradox Launcher to play this.
The installer for said launcher doesn't even work, won't install, so I guess I just can't play this anymore.
L devs

Its the kind of game you can get lost in, its not hard to spend weeks on just one map tweaking it

Fun game, haven't played in a while, but when I did, it was a very fun experience, but still a fairly challenging game for a new player.

Please bundle the whole game in a $50 package; it's been 10 years and a sequel has been released during that time. Paradox's DLC practice is the only thing preventing me from recommending this game.

They have a SUBSCRIPTION for a SINGLE PLAYER game.

That alone is something I can't recommend. Let alone the massive amounts of paid DLC. Insanely greedy business practice. I will not be supporting such behavior.

Game is good otherwise.

this gsame is incredible! it's fun to play, and it mixes in challenges and skills like problem solving, city planning and management, and creativity!

A bit daunting to learn at first. This game is complex, and has a lot of moving parts.
Give it some time and love though, and you'll have one of the best chill time sinks you could ask for. Cities: Skylines has become my go to game for over a month straight now, with a huge modding community via steams workshop, and plenty of DLC for additional functionality, there is a lot to love about this game.

My biggest complaint is that a lot of features you really need are broken out into multiple DLC packs. For example you have to buy a DLC that adds winter maps to be able to build a tram network in your town.
Many DLCs work like that, introducing a mode of transit that you'd really like to get your hands on. Except you need to spend a bunch of money to get it.

If that isnt a problem for you, then you will have no issues.

And if the base game is enough, you can still have a great time.

I love this game, but the dlcs are so scummy. They interlace absolutely useless features with almost necessary ones so you have to pay like $5-$15 just for one thing that you want in your city. They should make a collection dlc that excludes the more useless features but includes things like bikes, trams, and industries.

Just wanted to say fuck these guys for making me make an account to play their dipshit game.

A cool game that let us players create the cities of our dreams.

Cities: Skylines is an incredibly deep and rewarding city-building simulator that lets you design, manage, and expand your own metropolis. The game offers a vast amount of control over every aspect of your city, from zoning and infrastructure to policies and utilities. The level of detail is impressive, with realistic traffic systems, public services, and economic models that challenge your planning and management skills. The graphics are clean, and the interface is intuitive, making it accessible even for those new to city builders. The game’s biggest strength is its flexibility—you can build sprawling cities or small, specialised areas, experiment with different layouts, and see the consequences of your choices. Mods and DLCs further expand the game, offering even more content and customisation. The main drawback is the steep learning curve, especially when it comes to managing traffic and keeping your city’s services balanced. At times, it can be hard to get things running smoothly without hitting major roadblocks. That said, the satisfaction of building a thriving city is incredibly rewarding. Cities: Skylines is a must-play for fans of city-building games. It’s complex, but its depth and creative freedom make it worth the effort.

Install mods because vanilla is just boring, cartoony garbage
game gets updated with crap that no one asked for (Like, who the fuck wants a big ass Chirp statue?!)
mods conflict, game breaks
game is unplayable

The greatest city builder of all time. Got this game for 3 bucks on sale and have loved it.

So let me tell you a fun little story, Hmmm? The first time I played this game I was having a blast. City had just reached 40,000 or so and its growth had no no signs of stoping. But a made a fatal mistake. I took two loans out at once, which made my income drop dramatically. Then, well before I was close to paying off any of my loans, I started to have electricity issues. It was okay at first, only a small portion of my city was out of power and I figured I could just wait until I had enough cash to build a coal plant or and then I would be fine. But before I could earn enough currency to do that people started moving out. Once the residential zones started to empty the industrial zones did not have enough workers to operate, and commercial zones were starved of customers. Then they started to empty. Once this started to happen I was well and truly screwed. This vicious cycle ripped through my entire city in a matter of weeks. I could not afford an electrical plant because without my tax revenue I was loosing money each week and was falling into rapidly increasing debt. Everything stoped and my wonderful town went from boom to bust, literally. Every single building in the city was abandoned.
Has this happened to anyone else or am I just really bad?

The EA-killer itself. Amazing what the development group produced with this game. After SC2013 was such a let down, they knock it out of the park. Here's hoping the sequel doesn't suck.

~just my opinion~
---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☑ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☑ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
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☐ 10

>puts all types of schools everywhere
>most of the populaton is dumb
>gets education improvement mod
>people are too smart for normal jobs
10/10 no joke

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☑ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
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☐ 10

spent 20 min trying to figure out how to change the direction of a road, had to start a new game, in the new game i had 0 roads unlocked for some reason and couldnt place anything so i tried to start a third game and it crashed. time to uninstall

This one just wasn’t my cup of tea. I love life sims and management type games and decorating but I think that without the people watching it just fell short for me. I definitely appreciate the appeal of this game tho and it is well made it’s just a bit boring for me

Game is not complete. Devs rigged game so cities fail without DLC. Come on have to pay extra just to get roads that should have been in game. And you had to know that the cargo train station runs to slow and causes traffic jams. Do not buy this unless it comes with all DLC for less than 20 dollars.

pretty fun and a solid, challenging simulator even without dlcs

Cities Skylines is a strong city-building game that offers plenty of tools to craft your dream metropolis. While the traffic management for the citizens can be downright maddening, with endless congestion even in seemingly well-designed networks, it does add an element of strategic thinking to the gameplay. The DLC packs expand the game significantly, introducing new features and options to enhance the experience, but they can be quite expensive if purchased all at once.

One fun aspect is seeing them go about their daily lives—watching them head to work, visit shops, go to school, and return home gives the city a lively, realistic vibe. One of the game's best features is its vibrant modding community. With custom assets and mods available through the Steam Workshop, you can tweak almost every aspect of your city, from unique buildings to tools that improve traffic flow. Overall, it's a solid choice for fans of city management simulations.

It's essentially more of a dumb AI traffic clogging simulator rather than a city builder. Used to play Cities: Skylines on and off for as long this game was out, until I finally decided to buy it on Steam. 10 years have passed and developers still haven't fixed their stupid driving AI, nor their road building incorrect lane connecting mechanics, that is the root cause of hard traffic jams. Game basically requires TMPE mod so you could even attempt to fix this BS. I think some of functionalities from TMPE mod were supposed to be implemented in the base game, like lane connecting and separation on multiple lane roads and crossing, etc.
Some of the DLCs are supposed to be in the base game as well. rather than being sold separately for a 10 year old game that's full of flaws.
Anyways, it's kinda fun to grow your city only until ~40-50K population, after that it's just pure frustration, headaches, annoyance and despair as you watch how completely dumb AI clogs your roads, even with roundabouts.

Far too many hours spent trying to re-balance the game settings on each "update".
Since the 2025 10 year update, I've spent almost 12 hours, so far, trying to discover what is causing major clipping interference well into game play.

I've removed all mods the game kicks up as "broken" or needing "updates".
Still unreliable game platform. Clipping remains since update.

The day before the update, was fine sailing.
Since then, sheer headaches.

At 3463 hours of play in the last ten years, this is one of the worst updates since promenades.

The sheer amount of dlc makes me regret buying this game. And on top of that it hasn't been reasonably priced even 10 years later. I got 20 hours out of this game and never touched it again because the base game is missing a lot. Not sure why the simulation genre is so riddled with this horrible trend where there are 100s of dlcs all priced 10+ dollars each. And on top of that, Paradox requires their useless launcher for the game. I won't be buying Cities Skylines 2 and I am now wholly uninterested in games made by paradox.

This game has made me rage quit more than any first person shooter game I've ever played. It's addicting but extremely complicated, and the tutorial was hardly a tutorial. I find myself constantly googling how to do various things because the "tutorial" did not show me how. Once i think i'm in the clear, things go straight back into the shitter, and end up losing all the money I've made, and is damn near impossible to get back. I thought this was going to be a fun and relaxing sim tycoon game, but I was very very wrong. So glad i bought this when it was on sale for $2.99 instead of paying full price. Could be a skill issue, sure. I will continue to play the game because I do enjoy playing it when things go well, and hope to get better in the future, but i'm just not understanding why it has to be so extremely difficult from the get go. Again, the tutorial was hardly a tutorial. For a game that is so in depth, it needs an in depth tutorial.

No matter what you do the populous complains to the point where I just want to go Joseph Stalin on them all, the balancing act of maintaining a city is more annoying than anything, ESPECIALLY when you carefully plan things out logically and to the methods that a REAL city would thrive from, NOPE not in this game, the algorithms are there to punish you rather than provide rewarding realism based on real world economics and logic. Oh and the "chirper" which is essentially a simulated twitter feed from city residents in game is an abomination that constantly chirps and cannot be shut off.

I'm not review bombing over DLC or the state of CS2. But I'm coming back to this game after a bit of a hiatus. In the meantime, I've played Workers and Resources, OpenTTD, Transport Fever 2, and Rail Route in this niche of gaming. The thing that just baffles me right out the gate, starting a new map, is just how bad the road laying tools are. Not that W&R gets credit for being easy, it's not. But it's amazing to me that this game had the success it did, with the positive reviews it had (until now) with these major flaws.

First off, you're starting a map with a divided highway going through it. Yet, you don't actually have those types of roads unlocked, namely high speed on and off ramps. So you can't even manipulate the goofy interchange they put on the map for you. OK fine, I'll use the one way single lane roads with a low speed limit. And as much as I hate them IRL and in game, let's see if I can build a cloverleaf so I can just get stuff started. The way roads connect and interact is so bad, I just can't even continue. Even with anarchy, which really just makes your roads look glitched and stupid. You can't create a proper angled ramp. It's basically a little intersection that curves steeply off the road you're connecting to. The way this game cannot properly handle road connected at angles makes it a fundamental no from me. I've seen plenty of content creators trying to solve this problem to try to create semi realistic intersections and interchanges. The fact that you have to sit there and fiddle with something that should be EASY in a game like this is just sad. If I want to sit and fiddle with complicated things, I'll play Oxygen not Included or W&R. CS is supposed to be approachable. But instead of trying my hand at city design, I'm spending the last hour trying to work around the limits of this game before even planting one zone.

Have been playing this since it came out, so over 10 years now. This is definitely THE BEST city building game. Enjoy every second of it. Especially with the mods from Steam workshop, you can make everything you want come true in this game. Yes there is a Cities: Skylines II but you should not go for that given all the crappy bugs. CHOOSE THIS ONE instead.

"Z:\Games\steamapps\common\Cities_Skylines\Cities.exe" %command%

Right click the game in your library
Go to properties
Paste this line under launch option, replacing the file path with your own

Enjoy the game without needing paradox's dumbass launcher

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☑ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☑ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☑ 7
☐ 8
☐ 9
☐ 10

Cities: Skylines is a fantastic city-building game and, unfortunately, still far superior to Cities: Skylines II. Even after a decade, it remains the best in its genre. The level of detail, modding support, and creative freedom make it a must-play for any city-building enthusiast. Highly recommended!

I cannot play this game. It doesn't run. I have not even seen the main menu screen. I guess the company/devs require a launcher to be installed. I don't know. I can't play tech wizard just to run a game. I use steam for the ease of double click game and play, but I can't even have that luxury.

Getting very tired of the forced updates. These ALWAYS break the game. CS should leave this game to those that love it and support it, and not provide unnecessary updates which NO ONE who plays and loves this game asked for. Looks like just 'another company trying to earn money from their past achievements'>

there is one thing i don't understand....this game is on xbox so why is there no controller support on steam...makes no sense add controller support and i'll give more than 5 stars 5/10

Good game for the price, especially with the sale. However, I cannot recommend the devs. Please look at the extra content available for this game that could have been included if it were not for these devs: 69 ADDITIONAL ITEMS. SIXTY-NINE. This is like No Man's Sky in reverse. Normally, if these devs were more attentive to the will of the playerbase, they would include more in the base game. Instead, ever since I bought this game, all I see are extremely minor updates that really don't affect the gameplay, PLUS some super cool DLC that costs even more money than a $30 game. I like the game, but I can't support these devs or Paradox for the above reasons.

Death by a thousand cuts.

The base game is very basic, and you'll be quick to find things that where included in Transport Tycoon Deluxe (1995) or SimCity2000 are blatantly missing and packed into tiny tiny DLCs. So yeah, even if you buy the base game at 90% off I consider it to be so stripped down it's not worth considering it to be a playable city builder. So then you check what DLC you might want and quickly find that to even get to a point where a basic city builder experience is achieved you are spending well beyond what a AAA game would normally cost.

To top that, if you are a completionist and want the whole thing you are looking at spending $400 or more. At that price point it's hard to see the value proposition making sense from a consumer standpoint.

Just to see what the full game with all DLC is actually like, I "played it at a friends house". It's quite good, but not $400 good. Maybe if the base game wasn't stripped down to a point where it's boring to play for more than an hour and the full DLC experience wasn't this ridiculously priced it might have grabbed me more... but in the end I regret buying the base game, regret spending time on it and I am committed to never buying the DLC unless the entire purchase comes down below $35. I just wouldn't be able to enjoy myself knowing I paid more than that.

They keep updating it. News flash: you have the sequel out already, stick to ruining that and leave CS1 alone.

I love this game but the choice to update it in such a way that breaks some of the best mods keeping this game alive in 2025 while you flounder over your absolute dumpster fire of a sequel is dastardly and and a P.O.S move. the game was fine. We literally dont care about whatever 10 year content you wanted to throw in. get a grip

$10 a month subscription service lmfao

It feels like the developers released an unfinished game, expecting modders to fix everything while selling overpriced DLCs. Without mods, traffic is a mess, the economy makes no sense, and you spend more time fighting the game than actually building a city. Tropico 5 may be simpler, but at least it's fun—and being a dictator there is way less frustrating than being a mayor in this chaos.

Paradox DLC policy and selling are obscene, it's not worth the prices

fuck off with subscription services! Just get the game and all DLC through "alternative sources." A "FIT GIRL" who likes to "REPACK" might be able to help you if you look around on Reddit ;)

Imagine making a subscription-based service for a 10 year old game. Atrocious.

good game, but for ducks sake, the dlcs cost (at least in the current sale) almost 30x the base game price... also why do you have to have your own launcher? it get's annoying and makes it harder to play on linux