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Cities: Skylines

by Colossal Order

  • Released Mar 10, 2015
  • $29.99
  • 16 h to beat
  • Google Stadia
  • Linux
  • Mac
  • PC (Microsoft Windows)

93%positive reviews

270,182 positive20,752 negative

What players say

Pros

  • Deep, rewarding city-building with strong simulation

  • Good gameplay and a fun creative loop

Cons

  • DLC is priced high for an older game

  • Privacy policy changes caused concern

Mixed

  • Some call it a great city builder, others say the DLC model spoils it

Media

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System requirements

Minimum:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit

Processor: Intel® Core™ I7 930 | AMD® FX 6350

Memory: 8 GB RAM

Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTS 450 (1 GB) | AMD® R7 250 (2 GB) | Intel Iris Xe G7 (Tiger Lake)

DirectX: Version 9.0c

Network: Broadband Internet connection

Storage: 4 GB available space

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Cities: Skylines is a single-player city-building simulation game. Players manage all aspects of a growing city including zoning residential, commercial, and industrial areas, constructing infrastructure such as roads, public transit, and utilities, and balancing budgets through taxation and…

Ratings

  • 80IGDB players708 ratings
  • 76Critics13 reviews
  • 78Overall721 scores

Time to beat

  • 16.4 hStory onlyto the credits
  • 87.7 hStory and extraswith side content
  • 56 hCompletionist100%

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Languages

LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
Chinese (Simplified)
English
French
German
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Russian
Spanish (Spain)

Links

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