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Cities: Skylines
Players on Steam at last update
8,329
Source: Steam Web API, as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026.
Compared with the highest reading100%
05:00 UTC reading on November 8, 2026: 8,329, 100% of the highest recorded by Statcade (8,329 on November 8, 2026, 17 readings since October 17, 2026).
- Rank by players
- #112of 309 Steam games with a player count
- Highest reading
- 8,329on November 8, 2026, 17 readings
- Copies sold
- 6 millionPC
- Metacritic
- 85out of 100
- Release
- Mar 10, 2015
Cities: Skylines on Statcade: players online on Steam, copies sold, facts and charts.
At a glance
| Developer | Colossal Order |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Paradox Interactive |
| Release | Mar 10, 2015 |
| Platform | PC (Steam) |
| Genre | Simulation, Strategy |
| Players online on Steam | 8,329 (as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026) |
| Players at the 05:00 UTC reading | 8,329 (November 8, 2026, taken at 05:21 UTC) |
| Copies sold | 6 million (PC) |
| Metacritic | 85 |
About the game
The description from Steam and the story of the game are available in Italian on the Italian page.
Steam price
Price check of November 8, 2026 on Steam Italy (euros). The lowest price is the lowest one Statcade has seen since it started tracking the game (October 17, 2026), not Steam's full price history; free-to-keep periods do not count.
Italian sentiment
Share of positive Steam reviews written in Italian, compared with the share across all languages.
- In Italian93.6% positive reviews1,351 positive out of 1,443 reviews
- All languages92.9% positive reviews270,279 positive out of 291,040 reviews
In line with the rest of the world: the difference (+0.7 points) stays below the 10-point threshold.
Source: Steam, user reviews (all purchases), checked on October 18, 2026. What counts is the language the review is written in, not the reviewer's country; “all languages” includes Italian too. All games: Italian sentiment.
When to play to find the most players
Busiest: 15:00–18:00 (on average 9,619 players) Quietest: 00:00–03:00 (5,522 on average)
| Time slot | Average players | Compared with the daily average |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00–03:00 quietest | 5,522 | 77% |
| 03:00–06:00 | 5,920 | 83% |
| 06:00–09:00 | 6,125 | 86% |
| 09:00–12:00 | 6,889 | 96% |
| 12:00–15:00 | 8,774 | 123% |
| 15:00–18:00 busiest | 9,619 | 135% |
| 18:00–21:00 | 7,611 | 107% |
| 21:00–24:00 | 6,675 | 93% |
Source: Statcade hourly readings from the Steam Web API GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers, since October 18; times in Italian time (CET/CEST).
How we calculate it
Every hour we record the players online on Steam. We convert each reading to Italian time (daylight saving time included), average each hour over all days and then average each 3-hour slot (00–03, 03–06, … 21–24). Hours in which the reading is anomalous for the whole catalogue are excluded. Players come from all over the world, not just Italy: the slot shows how many people are online on Steam at that Italian time.
Game signature
Peak at 15:00 · low at 01:00 · the peak is 1.9 times the low
The 24-hour curve as a circle: midnight at the top, the radius is the number of players in each hour (Italian time), the gold dot is the peak hour.
Data: Wikipedia (en), “Cities: Skylines”, Wikipedia, Steam.
Rivals
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Cities: Skylines II9,093 players at last updatemore players than Cities: Skylines
Steam games with the same main genre (“Simulation”) and the closest number of players online (as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026). Source: Steam Web API.