r/CitiesSkylines • u/AutoModerator • 28d ago
Discussion ❓ "Is Cities: Skylines II Worth It?" megathread
"Is Cities: Skylines II Worth It?" 🤔
... is one of the most common questions we see on the subreddit at the moment, leading to dozens of duplicate posts asking essentially the same thing: Should I buy the game or not?
It is our intent that this megathread will help collect information to help you make your decision, and provide a place to ask for more subjective opinions from community members.
General FAQs
If you're after general information about or help with the game (e.g. features, minimum or recommended specs, the situation related to modding, when the game will release on consoles), check out our wiki articles below. They'll provide you a decent base level of knowledge and help you understand more about the features and limitations of the game.
- Getting Started
- Common Gameplay Issues
- Hardware Advice
- Downloadable Content (DLC)
- Modding and Custom Content
Patches and Bug Fixes
As of the start of this month, there have been over a dozen patches for the game. You can review the change log for each patch on the Paradox Wiki:
What have the devs been saying?
The main channel for "formal" communication from the developers comes via the Official Information & Announcements section on the Paradox Forums. We maintain an accompanying megathread for each post which captures a lot of player feedback and reactions to the news shared each week.
The best way to catch up on past posts is to browse the Dev Diary and/or Announcement flairs and dip into the more recent ones. Unfortunately, these links may not work on Reddit's mobile apps (please tell Reddit if you'd like this fixed) but in the meantime you can go to the main page of the subreddit and use the "filter by flair" options provided.
Live Gameplay Videos
If you're interested in seeing how the game is playing today, you can check out recent videos or streams from YouTube and Twitch. These will show you the "real" game, not marketing videos. As there is only limited mod support for the game at this stage, what you see will broadly be vanilla gameplay and will help you understand how the game is performing at the moment.
- Cities: Skylines II game page on YouTube, sorted by Recent
- Cities: Skylines II category page on Twitch, sorted by Recent
Reviews
Many critic reviews aren't necessarily reflective of the current state of the game. That said, reviews are helpful sources of information to help you decide whether or not to drop your cash on any new game, not just Cities: Skylines II.
- Metacritic Page (includes both critic and player reviews)
- Steam Review Page (you may wish to use the provided filters to show more recent reviews)
- Microsoft Review Page (you may wish to sort by "recent")
Try Before you Buy
If you're still unsure, Cities: Skylines II is available on Microsoft Game Pass for PC, which is a subscription service at a much lower monthly cost than the full retail price of the game. Microsoft is currently offering an initial 14-day trial for as low as £1/$1/1€ (which renews at full price after the 14 days).
- US$1 Game Pass Trial
- £1 Game Pass Trial
- 1€ Game Pass Trial (this link goes to the Xbox Ireland store, check the local Xbox site for your country before proceding)
Refunds
If for any reason you can't make use of a discounted Game Pass for PC subscription (i.e. it may not be available in your region), you have the option of purchasing the game and refunding it within the store's refund window.
- Steam: Request a refund within 14 days of purchase, as long as you haven't accrued more than 2 hours of total playtime
- Microsoft Store: Request a refund within 14 days of purchase, as long as you haven't accrued "a significant amount of play time"
Recognising that you may not be able to reach the "late game" within 2 hours, you can use this 100k benchmarking city to establish whether or not you're comfortable with the performance on your system.
Specific Questions
If you've got specific questions about items not covered in these FAQs, feel free to ask them below. If you've been redirected to this post by a removal notice, please understand that this is done to help keep the subreddit tidy by providing a centralised and dedicated location for all information related to this topic.
These megathreads are scheduled to post at 00:01 on the first day of each month. If it's late in the month, you may want to wait for a new post to appear. Please send us a ModMail with any suggested improvements!
r/CitiesSkylines • u/AutoModerator • 28d ago
Monthly FAQs ❗️ READ ME BEFORE POSTING! Monthly FAQ Thread: Fixes for Common Issues, Troubleshooting Guides, and Tips for Beginners
👋 Hello, welcome to /r/CitiesSkylines
Our little community has grown to over half a million subscribers, so as you can imagine things get a little busy in here. The purpose of this thread is to provide new members a jumping-off point to find the information that they need to get started, whether they're a seasoned player of the game or a brand new mayor.
We get a lot of posts which ask very similar questions, so we've pulled together this post to help address our most Frequently Asked Questions, and give you a place to ask simple questions which only need a quick answer, not warranting a dedicated thread.
Before you post, please consider if one of our sister-subreddits would be more appropriate:
/r/ShittySkylines - memes, reaction images, tenuous and obscure references, real-life photos that remind you of the game, and gags based on in-game activities like "a dead person is waiting for transport at shop-til-you-drop" all go here
/r/CitiesSkylinesModding - if you have a request for a mod, want to commission an asset, or need help with your own mod/asset/map creation it should be posted here
If you still think that /r/CitiesSkylines is the right subreddit, please first check the FAQ below.
Please be aware that if you create a new thread which is addressed by the answers or links in this thread, it will likely be removed with a message directing you back here. This is not done to stifle conversation, but rather to help keep the subreddit tidy and provide as much space as possible for mayors to share their creations and inspire others.
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The format of this update thread has been simplified with core information rehosted on our subreddit wiki. This enables us to update the content more quickly and reliably, and to reduce the visual impact of a 2000+ word thread.
✌️ Cities: Skylines II
Frequently Asked Questions
- Getting Started
- Common Gameplay Issues
- Hardware Advice
- Downloadable Content (DLC)
- Modding and Custom Content
🏙 Cities: Skylines
Frequently Asked Questions
- Getting Started
- Downloadable Content (DLC)
- Modding and Custom Content
- Common Gameplay Issues
- Troubleshooting, Error Messages, and Crashes
- Mods broken by the most recent free update
- DLC Buyer's Guide Survey Results
Mod Lists
Troubleshooting and Help
- Basic troubleshooting to get you back up and running
- Why game updates can break mods
- Mods broken by the most recent update
- The importance of log files and where to find them
- How many assets can I run on [xx]GB of RAM?
🎮 Cities: Skylines Remastered
Frequently Asked Questions
These megathreads are scheduled to post at 00:01 on the first day of each month. If it's late in the month, you may want to wait for a new post to appear. Please send us a ModMail with any suggested improvements!
r/CitiesSkylines • u/Rainy55 • 3h ago
Sharing a City Photorealistic City [Part II]
galleryr/CitiesSkylines • u/marcCat83 • 15h ago
Sharing a City From 1 to 10, how horribly planned is the interchange?
r/CitiesSkylines • u/JYHoward • 6h ago
Discussion CS1 is So Much Cozier Than CS2!
In many ways CS2 is much better than CS1 - The road tools are more elegant, the overall artstyle of the game looks more realistic. But after spending the last two months doing a CS2 build which I just finished, I popped back in to CS1 to continue a build there. And it really hits you just how different the vibe is.
I've always loved the feel of cities: The sense that they are these bustling, vibrant places filled with life and joy. And my love of city builders has inevitably been an extension of that admiration for cities themselves. CS2 cities have the potential to look more real, but CS1 cities feel more real.
The good performance and fast simulation speed helps a lot. It's nice feeling like fast speed actually goes fast. It's nice seeing people bustling around. In CS1 it just feels easier to role play yourself as someone immersed in your creation. CS2, despite its advantages, feels more tedius, and less like an adventure.
I'm sure I'll continue playing both games. But the more I play each of them - Right now I've got about 1,000 hours in CS1, and 1,000 hours in CS2 - the more I realize that they really don't replace each other. And yet, the fact that after more than a thousand hours in CS2, I still am putting hours into CS1 speaks for itself.
CS2 is a game that looks perfect on paper in so many ways - but in the end, CS1 wins because it has something CS2 still hasn't fully discovered yet: Authenticity.
A Downtown Seattle-Inspired Build, Starting Off on a Snowy Map.
r/CitiesSkylines • u/ImTechnoThePig • 12h ago
Help & Support (PC) Why does oil industry import large amounts of oil?
Land has lots of oil underneath, yet the area is a net oil importer. Don’t have industry DLC.
r/CitiesSkylines • u/Rainy55 • 20h ago
Sharing a City Photorealistic City [In development]
galleryr/CitiesSkylines • u/OfficCloverPie • 5h ago
Sharing a City MonoLake, California Map for Cities Skylines 2!
galleryr/CitiesSkylines • u/RaaatRang3r • 23h ago
Sharing a City Sunken Commercial Tram/LRT Station
galleryr/CitiesSkylines • u/PinappleCoin_Gaming • 5h ago
Sharing a City One of my trolleybuses imploded themselves, causing a large traffic jam.
r/CitiesSkylines • u/Ok-Commercial-8473 • 3h ago
Sharing a City Importing road data with 1:1 scale from OpenStreetMap using GeoSkylines mod
galleryr/CitiesSkylines • u/Dry_Elk_9283 • 1h ago
Sharing a City Ride to Downtown New Lake
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r/CitiesSkylines • u/PM-Me-Your_PMs • 2h ago
Sharing a City Found this very old screenshot of one of my starting cities in CS1, just realized it kinda looks like some alien art and wanted to share.
r/CitiesSkylines • u/CityEnthusiast2344 • 4h ago
Sharing a City is this better than your typical cloverleaf?
r/CitiesSkylines • u/ratcorporation • 7h ago
Sharing a City Photos of My City at Night
galleryr/CitiesSkylines • u/gay_boy_0 • 14h ago
Help & Support (PC) Is there a way I can remove these "micro roads" and make everything controlled by one light?
Its causing traffic because cars wait until the "micro road" is unnoccupied before they go but if they treated it like one big road it would improve the flow.
r/CitiesSkylines • u/BaloneyMacaroni69 • 4h ago
Sharing a City Brand new Chinese city (WIP)
galleryr/CitiesSkylines • u/JM120897 • 1d ago
Discussion Why isn't grass put in place with the surface tool affected by snow?
r/CitiesSkylines • u/Guonsian • 19h ago
Sharing a City I've created an asset pack with custom Tram Stations
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r/CitiesSkylines • u/Felkyr • 2h ago
Sharing a City After a break from the game, I decided to start a new city and be a bit more creative. Here's my little 2,500 pop' village. It's going well so far. It occasionally struggles with the limited space, but I'm determined to get it working really well before building on the bigger landmass.
r/CitiesSkylines • u/No_Independence4595 • 8h ago
Game Feedback Tips on making better grids?
r/CitiesSkylines • u/BeepBeepImASheep98 • 10h ago