Either way, you’ll have fun planning out a city and executing your dreams. It has lovely little graphics, available in map flavors from northern european to tropical island, and allows you to live out your dreams of a hyper-taxed socialist utopia with legal drugs and free public transit, or a highly regulated free market hellscape where pets and smoking are banned and everyone only goes anywhere by car. It’s a nice little game from developer Colossal Order, worthy of hours of your time. Oh, and, I guess, it’s simple and lovely enough that if you’re not obsessed with the same things I am you’ll do really well at it too.
Cities: Skylines speaks to this very fundamental part of my nature. I love to lay out careful patterns of roads, provide lovely public transit, walkable routes, and generally create the kind of gorgeous, convenient places I’d love to live in as an alternative to asphalt-sprawl-choked, highway obsessed modern urban development.
Review copy provided by Publisher.Ĭity Building is a favorite genre of mine.
