Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines is a simulator game developed by Colossal Order and released in 2015. It was published by Paradox Interactive. It is available on Google Stadia, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are business and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 135 achievements to unlock.

Cities: Skylines holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 57% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 78, across 719 votes.

The main story runs about 114 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $8.69, that works out to about $0.08 per hour of the main story.

The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ I7 930 | AMD® FX 6350, 8 GB RAM and Nvidia® GeForce™ GTS 450 (1 GB) | AMD® R7 250 (2 GB) | Intel Iris Xe G7 (Tiger Lake). An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 4GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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The cheapest verified price right now is $8.69 at Fanatical, 71% below its usual price.

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Cities: Skylines launched on 10 March 2015, within three weeks of Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0 and Pillars of Eternity. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0, Pillars of Eternity.

We have tested and published 24 cheat entries for Cities: Skylines — 1 cheat code, 18 console commands and 5 mods. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.

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