Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience. You’re only limited by your imagination, so take control and reach for the sky! Multi-tiered and challenging simulation Constructing your city from the ground up is easy to learn, but hard to master. Playing as the mayor of your city you’ll be faced with balancing essential requirements such as education, water electricity, police, fire fighting, healthcare and much more along with your citys real economy system. Citizens within your city react fluidly, with gravitas and with an air of authenticity to a multitude of game play scenarios. Extensive local traffic simulation Colossal Order's extensive experience developing the Cities in Motion series is fully utilized in a fully fleshed out and well-crafted local traffic simulation. Districts and Policies Be more than just an administrator from city hall. Designating parts of your city as a district results in the application of policies which results in you rising to the status of Mayor for your own city. Utilize the Day and Night Cycle The city changes during the hours of the day and affects citizen schedules. Traffic is visibly slower at night and some zoned areas do not work with full efficiency. Cities: Skylines will put you in control of managing the different aspects of the day and night cycles. Extensive modding support Build or improve on existing maps and structures. You can then import your creations into the game, share them as well as download the creations of other city builders on the Steam workshop.

Colossal Order, studio finlandese che all'uscita del gioco contava appena tredici persone, si era fatto conoscere con la serie Cities in Motion, dedicata ai trasporti nelle città. Il sogno era un simulatore di città completo, come SimCity, e per prepararsi il team realizzò Cities in Motion 2 con il motore Unity.

Le prime proposte all'editore Paradox Interactive puntavano sulla politica: il giocatore sarebbe stato il sindaco e avrebbe emanato regole e decreti. Paradox non le trovò abbastanza forti per sfidare SimCity e chiese di rivederle. Poi, nel 2013, uscì il nuovo SimCity e fu stroncato per molti problemi. Paradox colse l'occasione e diede il via libera.

Uno degli obiettivi era simulare città fino a un milione di abitanti, seguendo i cittadini lungo strade e mezzi pubblici: così il traffico diventava il cuore della pianificazione. Cities: Skylines uscì nel 2015 e conquistò il pubblico che SimCity aveva deluso, anche grazie al grande supporto alle mod.