Cities: Skylines is one of the popular city building games. If you play city building gamesbuild cities, it's the best you can get. Never before have I had the feeling that I could just walk up to a huge piece of land, open up some tools and just... build whatever I wanted, however I wanted. Straight roads, winding roads, special office buildings, districts with their own tax rules, it's all at your fingertips.
Skylines starts small, but as your city grows you can unlock more and more of the surrounding countryside. It's gotten to the point where you can start building satellite communities just because your main city is so damn big.
You never feel constrained, as if you have to pack a certain area, because you will stumble upon an invisible wall. I mean these walls will show up sooner or later, but I've been playing this game non-stop for over a week now and haven't come close to getting off the map. Trust me, if you've filled in every area that you can eventually unlock, you've made a really big city.
Above is the result of that week. It is a huge city, big enough to spawn secondary business centers and a few industrial/rural settlements. However, below you will see that it does not even occupy half of the available territory.
Setting the game's default difficulty is easy, which is good news for artists and builders . In total, during the work withSkylines I built three cities, and never once did I have problems with money. The in-game demand displays (showing how many houses you need to build, etc.) did the trick and I always had a constant flow of money, so I always had money for the next road or building or bus stop or whatever .
If you're struggling, then the game comes with several mods that can be activated to change things up. Some will unlock the entire area, others will unlock every unique building, still others will give you unlimited money, and one will flip it all over and turn on "hard mode".
Cities: Skylines is a great video game.Not in the sense of "video game graphics"; even with max settings everything still gets a bit blocky (there's just no anti-aliasing). But he intends to recreate the atmosphere of a model city/toy railroad, from a brightly colored palette, in fact he even has a tilt shift setting in his menu.
It may sound trite, but it's really cool! After all, your job as a player in these kinds of games is to act like a god-like figure, creating a fake city out of nothing. Instead of trying in some way to portray "real" or even as a video game,Skylines yearning for something more tangible. This plays a big role. I liked to just scroll through the streets of my city, enjoying the beauty and order. all this.
You will be doing very big things, such as planning entire regions and suburbs, but you will also be doing very small things.. There is a surprising amount of micromanagement in the game as you advance and choose, and while some of it isn't great, other parts are great. Public transport is one such highlight: instead of just mapping depots, stations and stops,Skylines allows you to actually plan specific routes for each mode of transport. Being able to manually assign bus routes and subway lines is great, as if you have more precise control over how people move around the city.
Probably the highlight of the game for me is just the many tools and options to customize. . I love how painlessly you can raise roads to create freeways. I love how you can build sidewalks and walkways between buildings and then drop individual trees to create tiny freestyle parks. I love that the game has strong Steam Workshop support, so you can create your own churches (like the one above), houses, and town halls, and everyone else can just add them to the game, adding an insane amount of variety and specialization to match. aesthetics of your city. Sounds trite, but then again, we're building model cities here, so the better they look, the better.
Do you know what else is good about building your own city? Being able to name it and everything inside it . And I really mean everything. You can name a city, you can create and name neighborhoods, you can even name individual shops. And you will really feelowner city that was created.
However, districts are more than just names. In other city games, it always seemed strange that when you set taxes and set rules, you do it for the whole city at once. Instead, Skylines allows you to divide your city into districts that you manually draw on the map, and after that you can not only name them, but also set their own policies and tax rates in a way that you would like to do just for that particular place. Want to ban heavy vehicles from entering your city center? Ready. Want to offer free public transportation to a troubled industrial area? You can do it. Establish legal drug use on vacation beaches? Certainly.
