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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.
92% of 219,300 Steam reviews positive
Metacritic 85
At a glance
● Pros
- Steam reviews: "Very Positive" (92%)
- Metacritic critic score 85
- English supported
● Cons
No notable downsides in the data.
Great for
- Relaxed building, managing and life sims
- Thinking ahead and managing resources
Summarized automatically from Steam reviews, Metacritic, language support, price and spec data.
What players talk about
How often each topic comes up in 49 Steam reviews (English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese) · 94% of them recommend the game
- Amount of content👍 10
- Graphics👍 8
- Performance👍 8
- Difficulty👍 7
- Price👍 6
- Bugs👍 4
- Grind & repetition👍 4
- Story👍 3
- Music & sound👍 3
- Multiplayer & co-op👍 3
Counts how many reviews mention each topic, split by whether the review recommends the game.
“I like playing cities alot. I have Cerebral Palsy and use a HeadMouse to work the computer.”
About the game
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.
Source: Steam store page (provided by the developer/publisher)
PC requirements
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
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
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Updated October 27, 2026 · Source: Steam