Game overview
Cities: Skylines II
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis. Push your creativity and problem-solving with deep simulation and a living economy: there’s a map waiting for you in Cities: Skylines II. If you can dream it, you can build it.
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- 19,279
- Recorded peak
- 19,279
- 24-hour change
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- Steam reviews
- 57.6% positive 65,110 reviews · via SteamSpy
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Every city starts as an empty map. Consider it a personal invitation to build a metropolis that only you can imagine.
Foundations come first. Roads, pipes, power lines—this is the infrastructure a city needs to operate day to day. It’s also the backbone of urban expansion. Because once these core elements are set, choices about the future of your metropolis start stacking up.
How you make those choices is your call. Plan it all out or wing it. Either way, stay on your toes, because every change will change something else. That ripple effect is the deep simulation doing its job. It’s why the economy has ups and downs you might not see coming. It’s why people move, traffic gets messy, and crime rates rise and fall. Life doesn’t stand still in real cities, and it won’t in yours.
Cities start with a few roads, some housing, and enough industry to prop up basic services. At first, the city’s budget goes a long way. That won’t last long. Your city will expand, and the bigger it gets, the more there is to manage and problem-solve while you keep the lights on.
As you build, life goes on a lot like it does in the real world. Day rolls into night, seasons cycle, and years pass. Citizens age and new ones are born. Materials wear down and systems get upgrades. And your metropolis evolves exactly as you planned, and in ways you can’t quite explain.
Cities: Skylines II is city-building designed to inspire.
Build to create. Build to solve problems. Build to surprise yourself.
There’s a map waiting for you.
Great cities are a patchwork of places that all feel like somewhere. Cities: Skylines II lets you build each part of your city how you want. So, go on. Build a metropolis worth getting lost in.
This isn’t just about calling the shots. You’ll make so many calls, it’s pretty much inevitable that your city will reflect who you are. Cities: Skylines II lets you take personalization all the way with deep customization.

Make a call and watch it play out. Deep simulation and real-world economics mean everything’s connected, so your decisions will have a knock-on effect somewhere. Good thing they put you in charge.

Pick your map, pick your climate. While you build, nature does its thing. Day turns to night, seasons change, and weather rolls through. But it’s not decoration. It’ll impact what you build and how.
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Windows
Minimum
Minimum:- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-6700K | AMD® Ryzen™ 5 2600X
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 970 (4 GB) | AMD® Radeon™ RX 480 (8 GB)
- Storage: 60 GB available space
Recommended
Recommended:- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit | Windows® 11
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-12600K | AMD® Ryzen™ 7 5800X
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ RTX 3080 (10 GB) | AMD® Radeon™ RX 6800 XT (16 GB)
- Storage: 60 GB available space
Game details Languages, features & support
- Publisher
- Paradox Interactive
- USK rating
- 0
- Brazilian rating
- l
- Steam Germany rating
- 12
- Achievements
- 44
- Controller support
- full
- Features
- Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing
- Languages
- English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Spain
- Support
- Support site ↗
Compatibility & accessibility Steam Deck, controllers & access features
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Steam declarations and Valve's Steam Deck compatibility result. Missing data is shown as unknown, never unsupported.
Structured language support (12)
| Language | Interface | Full audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | No | No |
| French | Yes | No | No |
| Italian | Yes | No | No |
| German | Yes | No | No |
| Japanese | Yes | No | No |
| Korean | Yes | No | No |
| Polish | Yes | No | No |
| Russian | Yes | No | No |
| Simplified Chinese | Yes | No | No |
| Portuguese - Brazil | Yes | No | No |
| Traditional Chinese | Yes | No | No |
| Spanish - Spain | Yes | No | No |
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Buy Verdict
Decent deal at 30% off, but might drop further. Watch for better opportunities.
Player Health
Stable player base with low churn risk.
Multiplayer Viability
Strong player base for matchmaking.
Update Momentum
19 patches and 19 news items in last 180 days. Latest patch effect size: 0.00.
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