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Cities: Skylines

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Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

City Builder Simulation Building Management Strategy
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Steam reviews
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Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience. You’re only limited by your imagination, so take control and reach for the sky!


Multi-tiered and challenging simulation

Constructing your city from the ground up is easy to learn, but hard to master. Playing as the mayor of your city you’ll be faced with balancing essential requirements such as education, water electricity, police, fire fighting, healthcare and much more along with your citys real economy system. Citizens within your city react fluidly, with gravitas and with an air of authenticity to a multitude of game play scenarios.


Extensive local traffic simulation

Colossal Order's extensive experience developing the Cities in Motion series is fully utilized in a fully fleshed out and well-crafted local traffic simulation.


Districts and Policies

Be more than just an administrator from city hall. Designating parts of your city as a district results in the application of policies which results in you rising to the status of Mayor for your own city.


Utilize the Day and Night Cycle

The city changes during the hours of the day and affects citizen schedules. Traffic is visibly slower at night and some zoned areas do not work with full efficiency. Cities: Skylines will put you in control of managing the different aspects of the day and night cycles.

Extensive modding support

Build or improve on existing maps and structures. You can then import your creations into the game, share them as well as download the creations of other city builders on the Steam workshop.

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System requirements Windows · macOS · Linux

Windows

Minimum

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ I7 930 | AMD® FX 6350
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTS 450 (1 GB) | AMD® R7 250 (2 GB) | Intel Iris Xe G7 (Tiger Lake)
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 4 GB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 bit
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ I7 2700K | AMD® Ryzen 7 2700X
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 580 (1.5 GB) | AMD® Radeon™ RX 560 (4 GB)
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 4 GB available space

macOS

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS: OS X 10.11 (64-bit)
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.0GHz
  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 5670, 512 MB (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics Cards)
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 4 GB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • OS: OS X 10.11 (64-bit)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-3470, 3.20GHz
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB or AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics Cards)
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 4 GB available space

Linux

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit)
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+, 3.2GHz
  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 5670, 512 MB (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics Cards)
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 4 GB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • OS: Ubuntu 14.10 (64-bit)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-3470, 3.20GHz or AMD FX-6300, 3.5Ghz
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB or AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics Cards)
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
Game details Languages, features & support
Publisher
Paradox Interactive
USK rating
0
Brazilian rating
14
Steam Germany rating
12
Achievements
135
Metacritic
85
Features
Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Steam Cloud, Includes level editor, Remote Play on Tablet, Family Sharing
Languages
English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese
Compatibility & accessibility Steam Deck, controllers & access features

Can I Play This?

Steam declarations and Valve's Steam Deck compatibility result. Missing data is shown as unknown, never unsupported.

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Windows: unknown
macOS: unknown
Linux: unknown
Steam Deck
playable
Valve compatibility test
Launcher interaction may require manual input.
Input
Controller support: unknown
Structured language support (10)
LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishYesNoYes
FrenchYesNoYes
GermanYesNoYes
Spanish - SpainYesNoYes
PolishYesNoYes
Portuguese - BrazilYesNoYes
RussianYesNoYes
Simplified ChineseYesNoYes
KoreanYesNoYes
JapaneseYesNoYes

Third-party requirements shown by Steam

Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA Cities: Skylines EULA
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Buy Verdict

Wait — $29.99.

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Update Momentum

Moderate Updates — 1 patches in last 30 days.

1 patches and 1 news items in last 180 days. Latest patch effect size: 0.00.

▬ 1 patches this month

Value Score

Great Value — 100th percentile.

Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 100th percentile. Priced as Market at $29.99.

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Genre Benchmarks

Player Count Top 47%
Growth Rate Top 25%
Value Ratio Top 0%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Cities: Skylines worth buying right now?
Wait — $29.99. Wait for upcoming sale in ~13 days for potentially better pricing.
When does Cities: Skylines go on sale?
Wait for upcoming sale in ~13 days for potentially better pricing.
Is Cities: Skylines still getting updates?
Moderate Updates — 1 patches in last 30 days. 1 patches and 1 news items in last 180 days. Latest patch effect size: 0.00.
Is Cities: Skylines free to play?
Cities: Skylines costs $29.99 on Steam.
What genre is Cities: Skylines?
Cities: Skylines is a Simulation, Strategy game.
Who developed Cities: Skylines?
Cities: Skylines was developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive.
What platforms does Cities: Skylines support?
Available on Steam for Windows, macOS, Linux.

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