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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1,151.1 hrs on record (81.1 hrs at review time)
Posted: Apr 16, 2015 @ 8:44am

Cities: Skylines is a brand new city-building game in the vein of Simcity but built with modern sensibilities.

What is Great about this game:

- The city-building simulation is deep, complex, and incredibly satisfying to master
- The agent and traffic simulation is particularly deep and compelling to manage
- A variety of tools are available to manage almost any problem that arises in your city
- The game looks and runs beautifully
- Available areas for expansion are massive (and truly huge with easy to acquire mods)
- Modding and Steam Workshop support is pervasive in the game, and the modding community is prolific

What is Good about this game:

- Good use of Steam features (cloud saves, trading cards, achievements, etc)

What is Bad about this game:

- Some of the mechanics of the simulation (e.g. freight train depots, RCI) are not well surfaced so it can be a challenge to know how to answer certain problems

Conclusion:

Cities: Skylines is the new benchmark in city building and city simulation games. This is the game to get if you are at all interested in the genre, and everyone should at least try it once.

10.0 / 10.0
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