Cities: Skylines
Last updated: 2025-05-20
- Deep city management with realistic simulation.
- Extensive modding community provides endless content.
- Engaging gameplay keeps players highly addicted.
- Excessive DLC policy is considered expensive.
- Steep learning curve due to poor tutorials.
- Poor traffic AI causes frustrating congestion.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 2000
- Helpful reviews
- 55%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 44%
- Protest reviews
- 1%
- 87%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 13%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 2159
- Negative points
- 1077
- Gameplay points
- 358
- Perf. points
- 115
- Rec. points
- 653
- Misc points
- 141
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Deep, realistic city management | Cities: Skylines offers deep and realistic city management, allowing players to control every aspect of urban planning, from infrastructure and public transportation to economic policies and public services. The game provides limitless creative freedom for designing diverse cities, enhanced by detailed graphics, dynamic day-night cycles, and weather effects. DLCs further expand gameplay with new systems and mechanics. | 99% |
| Extensive modding community support | The game has a robust modding community and Steam Workshop integration, offering countless user-created assets, buildings, maps, and gameplay enhancements. Mods provide extensive customization, allowing players to tailor the game to their preferences, improve traffic management, and add new features. The Steam Workshop offers a plethora of free custom content, some of which rivals similar DLC content. | 57% |
| Engaging and addictive gameplay | The game is highly engaging and addictive, making players lose track of time and providing a satisfying mix of challenge and reward. The game is immersive, making players lose track of time. The game is so engaging that the reviewer forgot to eat while playing. | 44% |
| Endless possibilities and customization | The game offers vast possibilities and choices in gameplay, with endless replayability due to DLCs, mods, and robust gameplay mechanics. The game allows for the construction of almost anything imaginable, limited only by the player's creativity. The game provides insane freedom, absurd customization options and incredible planning freedom. | 37% |
| Enjoyable and well-optimized game | The game is enjoyable, well-optimized, and worth the price, especially with DLCs and mods. The base game is incredibly solid, even without DLC. The reviewer expresses love for the game. | 32% |
| Visually appealing and detailed | The game is visually appealing, with beautiful and detailed graphics that create a sense of a living and dynamic world. The game's art style has aged gracefully and can look breathtakingly realistic with the right graphics mods. The graphics are detailed and still look good. | 20% |
| Intuitive and user-friendly interface | The game features an intuitive and user-friendly interface, making it easy for both newcomers and veterans of the genre to dive in and start building. Numerous online tutorials and guides are available for both beginners and advanced players to improve their building and management skills. The game is beginner-friendly. | 8% |
| Immersive and high-quality sound | The sound design is immersive, with high-quality sound effects that bring the city to life. The sound design, including bustling city streets and honking, was considered oddly soothing. The reviewer praises the game's music as being very good and adding to the atmosphere. | 5% |