Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. With a completely new mechanics of a Tycoon type of game, it is widely considered as the best city simulator up to date. If you want to check if you can be a mayor, then this is a game for you. It is going to put your skills in test.

Cities: Skylines has the best simulation of the traffic

One of the main problems connected with most city simulators was lack of proper traffic. Yeah, there were cars, buses, trains etc. traveling through the city. However, it felt artificial. Cars did not behave like they should. However, thanks to the experience Paradox gained during the production of Cities in Motion, they were able to create realistic model of traffic. What does it mean in practice? You must take care of proper road infrastructure. Bad planning might result in traffic jams, which might damage your profits.

Cities: Skylines offers a really nice tool for modders

With the tool for modders, players can create their own maps, buildings etc. The only thing that can stop you is your own imagination. However, the best part of it is the fact that you can present your projects on the Steam workshop. Thus, other players might download it and provide you with an opinion. Who knows, maybe your project is going to be implemented as a DLC?

The importance of the day cycle

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Cities: Skylines gameplay is the day and night cycle. The day cycle has a huge influence on it. During the night, the traffic is going to be much smaller. Furthermore, many of factories etc. are going to work with lower efficiency. As a mayor, you must take this aspect into consideration. After all, you want to see your city flourish, right?

Create an outstanding and perfect city

City: Skylines is all about building a towering metropolis from ground up, or a bunch of farming towns, or a low-density urban jungle. The entire city design is completely up to you!

Feel the joy of creating roads, winding mountain passes, and flowing country lanes. Manage money and strike a fine balance between residential, commercial, and industrial while at the same time make sure that you have the services in place to provide water, electricity, public services, parks, plazas, and schools. Using fantastic systems in cities in motion, Colossal Order have bought a new dimension to public transport with the complex bus, train, and underground systems. A successful city will need to make the best of these features to avoid massive logjams.

An incredible world complexity

Youre going to start with a small piece of land about two kilometers square and as you gain residents, youll unlock more services and more tiles which you can then purchase to expand your cities. Cities: Skylines Deluxe Edition features a fully working day and night cycle. Traffic levels are different during thenight and efficiency is reduced. Drive as many visitors as possible to your town and build restaurants, bars, casinos, hotels, marinas, and many more.

Build prisons to manage high crime rates, because without effective policing and prison systems, your city will fall apart. Discover entirely new weather effects like rain, foggy weather, and snow. Worry about the heating systems, road maintenance, water pipes, and demands changing with electricity due to weather.

Thousands and thousands of mods

Expand your basic game with new buildings for housing, police stations, commercial, fire stations, hospitals, new industries, new industry buildings, new cars, vans, trains, planes, you name it! Use a variety of mods to completely change how you play the game. This part of Cities: Skylines is what makes it so special. Create thousands of buildings for millions of residents. Special mods give road adjustable speed limits and introduce lane changing rules to the city allowing you to fiddle for hours just to make sure that your traffic flow is not disrupted by some irresponsible AI drivers. There are also mods that create events in your city and simulate rush-hour traffic. Discover a variety of different roads ranging from narrow low-density one-way road to massive six-lane motorways like those in American highways.

A unique city building experience

Explore all additional layers of the games depth and enjoy the incredible attention to detail. Cities: Skylines Deluxe Edition is fun, fancy and ruddy brilliant. Dive into the world where are specialized industries like farmland, mining or forestry. Each one of these has their own requirements and produce their own, unique products. Plan and think about how theyre going to work in your city. Spend many hours on a single city before going ahead and trying something new. Create any type of city you want in any rich way.

Cities: Skylines Deluxe Edition

Experience supreme quality of city building as you construct streets, highways, bridges, and train tracks. Buy the Deluxe Edition to gain access to additional content. Get additional, 5 In-game historical monuments, the games original soundtrack and beautiful, digital art book. Five in-game historical monuments: Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, Arc de Triomphe, Brandenburg Gate, and Grand Central Terminal. Original Soundtrack stores 14 exceptional tracks of background, ambient music presented in the gameplay. Digital Art Book includes 32 hand drawn ideas of the game different buildings and show their story.