Cities: Skylines News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

has had a rocky launch, with multiple bugs and problems arising in the game that required its developers to rush in putting out patches to repair everything. Now, the previously announced roadmap of planned DLC for the coming year is going to be facing delays, but this is a good thing for fans of the city-building game. As many have already pointed out, perhaps the entire launch of would have benefited from being delayed as well, so extending the roadmap for additional content seems like a wise choice.

Cities: Skylines 2 developer Colossal Order has posted a clear apology over the current state of the game and is issuing refunds for the recently released Beach Properties DLC, which went down like a lead balloon with the community. The console release of the game has been further delayed as a consequence of a renewed focus on improving the base game on PC.

Cities: Skylines 2 is introducing modding support, its first-ever asset pack, and another DLC on March 25. The addition of mod tools is bound to ennoble the game's replayability, while also addressing some common complaints that the fandom has previously aimed at Cities: Skylines 2.

CEO of Colossal Order, Mariina Hallikainen, has revealed that her «biggest regret» about the studio's recent release, Cities: Skylines 2, was a lack of mod support. With Cities: Skylines 2 now just over four months old, community frustration at the state of the game remains extremely high.

The CEO of Colossal Order, the studio behind Cities: Skylines 2, addressed the issue of toxicity within the game's community. She explained how Cities: Skylines 2 could be damaged by the negativity directed towards its developers and other community members.

Cities: Skylines 2 developer Colossal Order has announced that they are delaying planned premium DLC while they continue to work on optimising and fixing their recently released city builder and management sim, as well as putting a priority on getting mod support added in.

Cities: Skylines 2 developer Colossal Order has announced that they are delaying planned premium DLC while they continue to work on optimising and fixing their recently released city builder and management sim, as well as putting a priority on getting mod support added in.

Taxes can be one of the most confusing aspects of , you have to walk a fine line between not going into debt and keeping your citizens happy. Since you can get so specific about how each district, Residential, Commercial, Industrial, and Office, is taxed, determining the best rate among them all is a whole process in itself. Thankfully, the process isn't as difficult as it may initially seem.

provides a considerable amount of tools that enable players to build and create unique cities or attempt to recreate places from the real world in the game that can be intricately detailed. The city-planning game is intricately crafted to provide beautiful graphics and an AI for things like traffic patterns and even individual sims walking around the world, giving it a sense of realism. The large skyscrapers, unique special buildings, and the Developer Mode tools give users the ability to be as artistic as they want, or simply play the game and let the city build itself as it will.

A new feature in allows players to export excess water to earn extra money for their city. While that sounds simple in theory, and it is in practice, you must first clear a few hurdles before you can begin exporting your goods for a profit. However, because of the money you receive in return, it is well worth your time to pursue this lucrative money-making method early in the game.

Constructing your own metropolis from the ground up in is an exciting and overwhelming task, but trying to make money while doing so is even more difficult. The good news, however, is that there are a few tricks of the trade to help you turn aside a profit or, at the very least, break even. After all, the last thing you want is to see your citizens packing their belongings and shuffling to the next town over because their mayor ran the city into debt.

In , Pollution can quickly threaten any up-and-coming metropolis, and quickly removing it is incredibly important. Left unchecked, Pollution will negatively affect the health of your citizens, kill trees, and spoil natural resources. This, in turn, has knock-on effects on other aspects of city life. Managing Pollution is key to a healthy, happy city.

has proven essentially unplayable for many people, and a potential reason for the situation is strangely granular and more than a little bit silly. As a follow-up to the hugely successful city building simulator, the newest game from developer Colossal Order Ltd. had some major shoes to fill. It's possible that the game will be able to live up to its predecessor, but it's difficult to have a conversation about features and improvements when performance is getting in the way of doing much of anything.

has a lot to live up to as a sequel to one of the best city-building games around. Although it doesn't have the benefit of all the DLC and mods yet, it is still off to an excellent start. Developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive, the simulation game is a beautiful work of art with impressive graphics, fun radio stations, and an incredible array of tools for customizing and building cities. Clean and useful tutorials help make it not overwhelming despite the plethora of options in this very intricate game.

is here, bringing many updates and changes to the original, beloved, city-planning simulator game, ​​​​​, which has been around since 2015. The series remains true to its roots with several familiar elements and then adds in new quality-of-life features such as better tools, and entertaining AI enhancements in addition to the stunning new graphics and soundtracks available. It is a truly massive game, five times larger than the original, and yet many of the new changes are seen in the intricate details.

While it’s less common to see these days, there’s countless instances throughout history of people simply deciding to up sticks and not just move to another town or city, but actually go and found a brand new one. It might well be time to do exactly that for city builder fans, leaving of a game that’s eight years old, and jumping across to the shiny new development and greener pastures of Cities: Skylines 2. It’s a sequel that comes with a lot of mod cons built in from the start, but will old hands miss some of the creature comforts of DLC left behind?

Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive have delayed the console version of Cities: Skylines 2, pushing the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S release date back to Spring 2024. The PC version of the game is still expected to launch on 24th October 2023.

Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive have delayed the console version of Cities: Skylines 2, pushing the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S release date back to Spring 2024. The PC version of the game is still expected to launch on 24th October 2023.

When you think of city builders over the last decade, there’s only one name that still comes to mind: Cities: Skylines. The breakout success for Colossal Order and (at the time) the biggest game launch Paradox Interactive had ever seen, it’s effectively came to represent the entire genre, as other city builder franchises faded away. Having gone hands on with the game, Cities: Skylines 2 looks set to repeat the feat and cement itself at the top of the genre.

Cities: Skylines 2 aims to improve on the previous city-building game with a massive simulation upgrade that gives life to every single citizen in your city and lets you go full surveillance state on their major life events.

Recent dev diary announcements have given me hope for the future of Chirper in Cities: Skylines 2, and well as a method (and an excuse, as if I needed one) to creep on my citizens' rich lives.

As we get closer to the Cities: Skyline 2 launch, developer Colossal Order has been highlighting various features of the city builder with weekly video releases. Today’s video highlights the new Game Progression system which looks more in-depth than the original Cities: Skylines.

Paradox has posted a Cities: Skylines 2 developer diary in which it discusses the new game's rather elaborate-sounding economy simulation. This follows equally knotty breakdowns of the game's zoning tools, which allow you to mix architectural styles, and its road traffic system, which will hopefully dispense with some of the original Cities: Skylines' pathfinding issues. In unravelling how individual agents - households, businesses or city services - function within the simulation, the post also touches on the topic of homelessness, a subject the 2014 game left unaddressed.

The Cities: Skylines 2 devs have offered some insight into how the game's economy works, simulating economics all the way down to layoffs and homelessness.

Natural disasters are coming to Cities: Skylines 2, developers Paradox have confirmed. Natural disasters, familiar to Sim City fans and those of us watching the real-life climate crisis roll out around us, was previously only available in Cities Skylines if you bought a DLC. 

The Cities: Skylines 2 devs have just dropped a fresh round of details on the game's climate and weather systems, and it looks like some of the best features from the previous game's DLC are going to be included here as part of the base experience.

The Cities: Skylines 2 devs have finally detailed the exact map size in the new city builder, and while it can't rival the modded maps for the original game, we're still looking at a map size of 159 square kilometers.

Developers Colossal Order have been explaining the nitty gritty inner workings of Cities: Skylines 2 during their weekly development diaries, and this week’s update boasts about how massive the urban management sequel really is. The newest video (embedded below) says the sequel’s playable area is “five times bigger than before,” and it also details how map tiles and themes work this time around as well.

As we continue inching closer to the release of Cities: Skyline 2 in October, developer Colossal Order keeps feeding us more information about the city building sequel with new videos and dev diaries.

Developer Colossal Order and publisher Paradox Interactive have released a new trailer for upcoming city builder Cities: Skylines 2, this time around focusing on the game’s water, sewage, and electricity system. Check out the trailer below.