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 cha...
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.
i like it, they have updated some of the bad things that were in one, i did have one crash but otherwise i have been able to play it without issues. just wish i knew how to get mods for it.
I've play console City Skylines (1) for years, so changing over to CS2 and PC was quite a learning curve (for an old man like me). I don't like the controls via keyboard and mouse and I also am slightly disappointed by how the game looks, compared to what I see on YouTube from the likes of Biffa. I can't seem to get the perspective right and it seems to be more night than day in the game. Probably a matter of tweaking settings and using mods, but that is way too technical for, again, an old man like me.
I also don't like the shaking cars.
What I do like is the actual gameplay, even while this is much more complicated than CS1 on console. You really have to use your noggin to be successful, just like real life. But even on the easy mode, you run out of money quickly if you don't balance everything right ftom the get go.
Completely bugged game, played 5 hours and after 2k population I get instant crash to desktop everytime I hit play. Shame this game is in this state after so much time after realease.
Way better than CS 1, more realistic, lots of DLC from CS 1 are included in the base game, lots of good mods on paradox modes, Road design, layout, zoning, industries etc… makes much much much more sense. I was sceptical because of the online review but boy were they wrong. This is way way better than CS 1. If you wish to make something real, ofc if your wish is to make the most dense city you might struggle, but let's be real, this game can be played for tens of hours without reaching 20'000 citizen just because you can spend time detailing, making really pretty layout, city, use find it to place building by hand, be thoughtful, redo neighborhood that look bad, think public transit and improve it.
At first I was scared, I did a lot of checking. Then I came across this page and it seemed legit and it is legit. Gonna buy a different game definitely.
This is a big improvement over CS1, and I bet will get even better as more mods are made. The traffic works much more realistically with proper multilane use and merging.
Better traffic
Less-cartoony cities
The FREE region packs are really great
Cell placement on roads a little bit more tricky sometimes
Despite a rocky start, the game is well worth the effort. With 77 hours of play at the time of writing this review, I can only recommend that you pick it up. The only downside is that I bought the pre-order version and it wasn't specified that the DLC had to be activated in the Steam settings. Apart from that, perfect!
Vastly more detailed than Cities: Skylines 1. It's a different way of playing that is more focused on customisation and detailing, which makes it feel more realistic and less like a simple formula to follow.
DLC included
More realistic and detailed than C:S
Lots of customisation possible in game and in settings
In a nutshell, the game is very good (in my opinion, of course). You have a ton of things to work with, like traffic, noise, building the city overall. It feels very packed. Also, the graphics are insane! Now they also added mods (not like the 1 version but good overall).
Is it perfect? Not even near. Yes, the game is heavy to run. On an RX 6700XT with ultra preset, it runs at 40 - 60 fps. Using FSR really helped here. It also has some glitches here and there as well.
But overall I think the game is really nice. I played it before buying and enjoyed to the point of wanting to buy it.
Graphics
Very feature pack
Relatively new, so expect improvements and new features
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