Cities: Skylines Review

If you want to design and manage a city, Cities: Skylines will be the best choice for your taste.

Game Mechanics

Cities: Skylines is basically about resources and structures built on the right squares. If you want your city's population to increase, you need to build houses or apartments in the right areas. If you have the necessary structures to grow the population, but the population of your city is not increasing, the comfort of your city is probably not enough. To increase the comfort of your city, you should make sure that every house has electricity and water infrastructure. If your city lacks electricity or water infrastructure, your city's population will decrease.

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Another method of increasing the population of your city is to provide opportunities to your city. For example, you can make people in your city happier by implementing a free public transport policy for students. Remember, your income depends on the taxes you collect. Happy citizens cause more citizens to move to your city. Therefore, the amount of tax you receive, that is, your income increases.

DLCs of Cities: Skylines

DLCs are indispensable in a game where you manage a city. DLCs and additional packs to diversify your gameplay are available for Cities: Skylines. If you want to add natural disasters to your city or add a campus, you can do this thanks to DLCs. The most critical factor that ensures the replayability of the game is the random development of events. For example, you may lose half of your city due to a natural disaster. Even if you get angry at this point, you will want to continue the game.

Cities: Skylines is a game that rewards you for your efforts. If you position the highways properly or provide electricity and water access to each building, your income will increase in return. For this reason, your progress in the game depends on strategy rather than luck.

Advices for New Players

If you are thinking of buying and playing Cities: Skylines, I have a few suggestions for you. First, you should set the electricity and water distribution in your city. Make sure every home has electricity and water. Second, be careful when positioning your city's roads. For example, a wrongly positioned road may block the entrance to your city or, on the contrary, block the exit from the city. These situations will cause you to lose population and income.

Another recommendation is to read all the commands in the game. If you are going to add a building to your city, you should check the advantages, disadvantages and resource usages of that building. Thus, the probability of making mistakes in the game will decrease and you will develop faster.

Should I Try Cities: Skylines?

If you like simulation games and are looking for a detailed game where you manage a city, you should try Cities: Skylines. It is a game with a complex structure that you must be careful to control.