Cities: Skylines

Many complex features but easy to understand. Progression is very well built to keep you playing without getting that bored.

It is challenging but still so entertaining. I love the city simulator play style! This is the perfect game for me when I am not playing The Sims.

Everything is locked, theres well over 60+ DCLs 12 bucks each and some of them is just bs like the after dark DLC which is exactly what it sounds like, just different lighted buildings. Without any mods (which are free, surprisingly the developers haven't put a paywall behind it yet) this game is very bland and boring. For a 30$ game it surely under delivers. There are better games for that much, don't waste your money on this.

Beats SimCity. Modding simple stuff like auto bulldoze makes it even more enjoyable.

I've been playing this game for years now, and even after Skylines 2 has released, I have stuck to the original. If you're into any city/world building games, then you will no doubt get at least your money's worth. It's fairly intuitive, there overall mechanics are easy to learn, and there is still new content being put out by the community. My computer couldn't run the new one, so if you're in the same performance boat, Cities Skylines is an easy sell

alot of mods are not compatible and cause issues . fix this problem and maybe ill give it a better review

Best city builder out there, but really needs better options for non American style cities that are more walkable and leverage transit more. This game is far too car centric unfortunately, which ruins immersion a bit for non Americans.

I love this game, I never thought I would spend so much time at a city builder, but nonetheless here we have Cities Skylines, a game with so much content that you dont even need mods to have a great experience, but modding this game makes it an entirely different thing, you can go from casual city building to highly detailed cities with road networks that most real cities would envy with mods. The only downside is that the game has some limitations due to how the code works, for example it has a limit to how many entities can spawn at once, and mods can only take you so far about changing those settings.

Anyway this game is awesome, I highly recommend buying this on sale! If you dont have much cash to spare but want the full experience, just don't bother buying the radio expansions.

I cannot over state how overwhelming this game is at first and I would highly recommend starting with vanilla.
However, it's very satisfying once you get it. Youtube is your best friend; don't be afraid to google "how to build roads" bc this game does not even bother asking if you'd like to hold hands crossing the street and a civil engineer I am not.

wonderful game. definitely recommend over cities skylines II just because it will satisfy your needs while still being affordable.

Great game if you are into City/Building-Sims. 10/10. Very good Mod community and DLC support. Yeatimus my brother.

Fantastic. Have played more of this game in two weeks than I've played anything else the past year.
One of the modern classics of city builders.

Fun game to take up some of your time, in my mind there is something peaceful in watching a city just build up as you make new roads and terraforming the land

I enjoy building and running stuff,planning and watching the city grow ,fun game.

I havent played long, but its a game i find myself thinking about all the time when im not playing.

The last game i played like this was Simcity 3000 (never got the expansion, never played the sequels), at around 10 or 11 years old. too young and dumb to understand the civic duty of creating and operating a city. But now I get it, and its scratching that itch exceptionally well.

im annoyed that ill probably have to pony up for lots of dlc to diversify the experience, but at least the game looks good and runs well, unlike a certain sequel!

8/10 Pretty Good!

Amazing city simulator, great fun, easily moddable, and fun to pick up and just play

I want to recommend this game, but what kind of developer makes an add on for an old version of a game that they have a new version of and CHARGE people for it. i don't understand who buys these things. i mean you can download modpacks and all that stupid shit. maybe im just in a bad mood today, but seeing this really put me over the edge. i mean who does this? i guess the whole industry now. The gaming industry is plagued with these weak willed, loser developers with no soul left.

In fact I am getting actually really motivated right now to make my own game, because I'm just so tired of this space, so tired of all the micro charges to get more of the same. where is the creativity, where is the love and passion. Truly fuck you developers, there is a special place in hell for you and I'll be waiting there to tell you everything that you did wrong for all eternity.

It's a lot of fun to see and learn from the game (a lot to learn and experience). The game is well-made and it provides a lot of enjoyability overall.

I did it again. Problem with Paradox games is that they are fun. So yes, it's fun to build a city, solve traffic. Well most of the time you are solving traffic. Money grab of Paradox is insane and I feel like victim of Stockholm syndrome. I bought hame on sale with some DLCs on sale so for normal price for a game and still don't have most of the content that is in game. So as in every other Paradox games half of DLCs should be part of default game. And this is the last game from them I bought. Really.

hating the start. not fun at all nor is it intuitive. it is more confusing then fun. should not have purchased

great game to just let your mind loose and go full engineering mode the only issue is its only after you play for a couple hours and your city is thriving is when you realize how terrible of an engineer you actually are and you spend the rest of the time just trying to fix ALL the problems killing off your citizens having mods helps though

After playing this game since 2020, and playing almost this game exclusively, spending hours in many cities, I should have write a review long time ago, the first thing I can say is that I love this game!. The good side, is that there are dozens of DLC and cosmetic packs, and if thats not enough, there is the workshop, filled with almost anything you can imagine to craft your city, from buildings, vehicles, maps, etc. If you love citie planning, or if you like architecture, or if you like landscaping, you will spend lots of hours crafting and tuning your city. If you are just a regular player, well, the game also will be fun also. The cons, the game is almost 10 years old, the vanilla assets doesnt look realistic right now, and for me, playing the vanilla game without mods, is not as fun as playing with them. Overall, the game is 10 of 10, and I will recomend to anyone.

I strongly recommend this game because it relaxes me and it gives me good feelings

Enjoyable, great game or product to use for city planning

recent updates completely broke every mod/ asset. this game needs mods and assets

Not recommended due to EA business strategies of micro subtracting content from the base game and putting it into and endless pool of DLCs.

The game itself is really good, but this method makes it beyond unattractive to buy. Just like with The Sims series, nobody wants to have to pay extra for 2-5 DLCs just because each of them add 1 thing that they want respectively. I mean just look at the bundle and see where we are at now: 400-600$

The new City Skylines game that they have made could have been the solution to all problems this game had, but it turned into a dumpster fire instead. So they now double down on DLCs for their first game.

Loved this game from the first time I loaded it up, despite all the flaws in simulation. Now that this game is unsupported, figured it would be time to get any remaining content on sales, and be able to play without patches messing things up. Now after a year of no support, they are releasing more content, new content, no support = new bugs. Colossal Order is to not be trusted, they only care about your money, not making good games. CS 2 and these actions are proof of that, this only signals that they are hurting for money.

---{ 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

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One of my, if not the favourite casual/relaxed games out there. Spend hours upon hours upon hours just being creative, evolving your cities and solving traffic. Mostly solving traffic.

Not fully onboard the list of DLC:s tho. Then again, the base game and like all the biggest most valuable DLC:s combined are still less than a modern AAA game, so they get a half-pass.

This was an amazing game until Paradox forced their third-party launcher on it.

I played some this morning and enjoyed it.
Now that my Paradox launcher updated, suddenly I can't get into the game anymore.

This is just another case of a good game ruined by companies forcing third-party launchers that don't even work properly.

My other Steam games are working fine, guess I'll just go play those instead.

The game becomes boring literally after 30 min. You don't have much stuff to build in base game and forced to buy DLC. Still can't build underground metro , no idea why.

One of the only few games that allow me to generate electricity through a poop dam. 10/10

If you like a simulation game that doesn't just roll over for you but requires real strategy with a lot of immersive details, then this is for you.

While I enjoyed playing this game, it required mods to be fun. As per usual with most companies these days, Paradox is another example of predatory practices. They advertise a game where you can build a city fully functioning, then hide basic and other items behind a paywall. This game has OVER $400 OF "DLC", if you can even call it a DLC, its more like microtransactions out the ass. Its unfortunate the greed that these companies have as they only care about draining your wallet. Aside from the obvious cash grab and predatory practice Paradox is doing, I did enjoy the game. Though I enjoyed it, the fact of dozens of items being behind a paywall, I simply cannot recommend this game.

I enjoyed this game a lot; I've watched other people play it for years and finally got it just so I could build my own creations. I was in debt for a long time but eventually got out of it, and now I've actually made a functioning little town. Could play this for hours on end.

Graphics are amazing, the same as the gameplay

Wanted this game for years and finally got it. Enjoying it very much :)

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

The game was full of game. However, be careful of the game's mods. Some will crash your game

Love it - don't try to build a hydroelectric dam though. Maybe I'm just an idiot (very possible) but every time - even if it says possible power generated before building - it never operates. Pain. I just want sea power god**mmit, then I can cultivate air power and ~desert power~.

Even without mods, this game is the definitive city builder. With mods, it is a license to create whatever the heck you want to create. Whether it's building your dream utopia or simply seeing how many people you can cram onto one map, City Skylines lets you do it (well, if your hardware says yes). With mods, the game looks almost as good as Skylines II, but with ten times or more the content.

If you can find this and the DLC on sale and you enjoy city builders, just buy it.

A fun and engaging city builder.
The game and its expansions are a bit challenging in the beginning, but it quickly reaches a point where money is just a number that goes up. I wish the simulations where a bit harder (and that the traffic got more realistic) but the game itself is really fun.

This game is fun an increasing creativity mind and critical thinking.

Me personally, i recommend this game to other players. All though it's only good if you added mods, But i do not mind that part besides its very fun to add tiny little details to your city.

The best city builder. Great fun as a sandbox lego set/model train simulator. Peaceful and enjoyable.

Only caveats are that most of the DLC are pretty much mandatory to have the best experience, and if you wanna get into high detail cities with lots of assets, like the YouTubers, you need 32 GB RAM minimum, ideally more.

Very good game! It's very well made, and why is the sequel game like twice the price- wait!?

This game is really amazing to me, because of its fantastic graphics, design, and gameplay.
This game requires a fairly complex mindset, because it is not just building but we also have to think about how to make everyone happy living in the city, how do you manage traffic jams, how do you make good plans for all industrial sectors which of course will ultimately increase the finances and happiness of your citizens in the game.

Cities: Skylines is a great city builder, and with mods, DLC, and custom assets, it's absolutely phenomenal!

playing this is like the 2 week annual minecraft phase. pretty adictive type of game that holds up. too bad the second game cant run good on my pc.

---{ 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

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☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template