What is Cities Skylines?
Cities: Skylines is a city-building game originally developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive. The console version however is ported by Tantalus Media.
The game is a single-player open-ended city-building simulation. Players engage in urban planning by controlling zoning, road placement, taxation, public services, and public transportation of an area. Players work to maintain various elements of the city, including its budget, health, employment, and pollution levels. Players are also able to maintain a city in a sandbox mode, which provides unrestricted creative freedom for the player.
Overview
- Developer: Colossal Order and ported to console by Tantalus Media
- Release: PC: March 10, 2015 Xbox One - April 21, 2017, PS4 - August 15, 2017 Digital & Physical
- Price: 29,99$ - 39,99$
Other Features
- Extensive water simulation with different water levels, so you can flood your cities with poorly placed dams
- District creation and individual district policies, so you can divide your citizens into neat little parcels
- Natural resources and industry specializations, so you can exploit the land to your own advantage
- Actual public transportation lines with customization, so you can keep your citizens in motion
- Several distinct terrain themes, so you can place your cities in various parts of the world
- Left hand drive option, so you can make your citizens drive on the proper side of the road
Expansion Packs (PC Releases)
- After Dark - 24 September 2015
First announced at Gamescom 2015, After Dark adds new unique buildings, including a casino and a luxury hotel, and settings for expanded tourism and leisure specializations.Its release coincided with a free patch adding a day-night cycle into the game.
- Snowfall - 18 February 2016
Snowfall adds snow and other winter-themed elements, as well as trams/streetcars. Alongside this release, a free update to the game added a theme editor. This feature brought new graphics options that enabled players to create visually different worlds, such as an alien landscape. These customized game maps could then be uploaded to the Steam Workshop.
- Match Day - 9 June 2016
Match Day was free DLC which added a football stadium.
- Natural Disasters - 29 November 2016
At Gamescom in 2016, Natural Disasters was announced, which added natural disasters to the game, in addition to new disaster response and recovery services that the player could add to their city. Other new features included a scenario editor and in-game radio stations.
- Mass Transit - 18 May 2017
The "Mass Transit" expansion, announced in February 2017, includes more diverse options for the game's mass transit systems, such as ferries, cable cars, blimps, monorails and improved commuter hubs, among other additional assets.
- Concerts - 17 August 2017
A mini-expansion, "Concerts", added the ability for players to place event venues for concerts and festivals, and enact laws and regulations relating to these.
- Green Cities - 19 October 2017
The "Green Cities" expansion, announced in August 2017, allows the player to implement principles related to sustainable development to cities, such as solar panel rooftops, electric cars, and other ecological improvements.
- Dev Diary 1: Roads
- Dev Diary 2: Zoning
- Dev Diary 3: Natural Resources
- Dev Diary 4: Public Transport
- Dev Diary 5: Outside Connections
- Dev Diary 6: Map Editor
- Dev Diary 7: Simulation
- Dev Diary 8: Districts and Policies
- Dev Diary 9: Info Views
- Dev Diary 10: Themes
DLC's are coming to Console!
Snowfall is available today as an individual purchase for a suggested retail price of $12.99, or as part of the Cities: Skylines Season Pass, which includes seven different pieces of DLC for a suggested retail price of $39.99.
- Snowfall (full expansion)
- Natural Disasters (full expansion)
- Mass Transit (full expansion)
- High Tech Buildings (content creator pack)
- Art Deco (content creator pack)
- Relaxation Station (radio station DLC)
- Rock City Radio (radio station DLC)
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