Is it now worth playing?

[Fenris_Helheim]

have had this on the wishlist a long time. is it now worth buying? or is it still a broken game?

[Pestilence]

Still broken.

[martinolund]

Still plenty of bugs and unfinished features.

[R-TEAM]

If you like City Painters -> good game
if you like an Simulation -> at best medicore (with many mods and the drawbacks like update trouble)
Stability is heavy depending on your system ... improved - but can still be problematic

[lukas]

This simulation is a joke. So you can place few bricks here and there but nothing more really happens.

[br0]

the citizens dont even interact with the city

[Aeternull]

Can someone elaborate what are the main issues with the game currently. I played it during release. Thinking of replaying it.

[Arbore]

Not worth the time, still broken, unfinished, fake economy, no optimization. Just a money grab at this time.

[mikelleh63]

I play it a lot. It is much better. The last two patches did a lot. It still has issues, and sometimes crashes, but not nearly like before. Despite an ardent core of haters who seemingly have nothing better to do but hate on a game, I recommend it, IF.......
1 You have reasonable expectations -
This game was a big swing at the next gen of city builders. In my opinion they tried to do too much in some areas and failed. This game eats resources. Your CPU and GPU will be tested. They have done a good job of improving optimization in the last 2 patches. My game used to top out at around 365k population. At that point the simulation would start dragging and eventually become unplayable. My current city is at 510k and still not dragging at all. Better.
2 You dont take it personally if the game still struggles at times.
As I said before, it is much better than at launch, but has a long way to go to be considered 'fixed'. Some of the economic simulation doesnt work well and there are lots of somewhat minor issues that are bothersome. A lot of people (me and br0) are waiting for the animations to be returned to CS. No firemen at fires, nobody playing sports in arenas, etc.
3 You have a reasonable degree of patience.
I had CS1 and almost all of the DLCs and built some great cities. (Almost 7000 hours worth) As the established game, there was/is lots of extra content. CS2 does not have the diversity of content yet, but they have released quite a bit recently. It will take a while for the devs and modders to catch up. You also need patience in the form of troubleshooting. If you use mods there is an overhead of effort to keep things running smoothly.
4 $50 to $100 bucks isnt your whole budget.
I am in for about $100 as I have purchased some of the asset packs they released. I have about 1800 hours on the game, so I think I got my moneys worth. A lot of the hater crowd feels like they have been robbed and make it their sworn oath to kill the game and the company that makes it to salve the wound of 'being ripped off' by buying the game. Personally I spend that on a night out to watch a game.

[Lil Quack]

If you like a game that crashes randomly with no error messages, even if you run no mods, yea it's worth playing.

[Agamemnicon]

I say "no".
They just HAD to put mods on pdx instead of Steam, presumably for compatibility and stability, but not only is their interface 10x worse than Steam Workshop, there's absolutely zero benefit to the player that their mods are managed through Paradox. I'm still getting error messages and crashes from mods. I though that was supposed to be a thing of the past!
They still don't have fully functional mod/asset support. What's it been now.. TWO YEARS since launch? Absolutely pathetic. This company will never get another dime from me.

[kornel.garvanovic]

Mod situation not good tbh, it takes way to long to download something like a dlc.

[Cosmic Sea]

Originally posted by R-TEAM:

If you like City Painters -> good game
if you like an Simulation -> at best medicore (with many mods and the drawbacks like update trouble)
Stability is heavy depending on your system ... improved - but can still be problematic

No. It can't be a good city painter since there still isn't a an asset editor.

[Danya]

Definitely yes! But you need good CPU and decent amount high mhz RAM.

[Major Kudos™]

Vanilla is far from broken, PDX mods and region packs are crashfest trash.