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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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
81 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“very enjoybale city building game, manages to stay modern even though its over 11 years old and dispite that its still much better than cities skylines II, also runs perfectly fine on my latop with integrated graphics”
“Still the best city simulation game on the market, which is kinda sad. It is showing signs of ageing and adding dlc on top with bad integration to the previously existing dlcs, as is expected from a Paradox game. It's…”
“The game is genuinely engaging, but to be honest, it becomes boring quite quickly. First of all, there is very little additional content. I bought the Deluxe package, but there really is not much included in it. What…”
11 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“For the longest time I've been coming back to this game, every other few months or so and for years since I've had it. Building your city in this game is moderately investing - however my main focus has always been on…”
“This game is perfect for playing constantly for about 3 weeks then not touching it until months later.”
“Timeless game with endless mods and features that allow you to build any type of city”
8 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Excellent Game, Very Easy To Play, Superb Graphics And Definitely A Good Way To Cure Boredom.”
“If you've ever dreamt of constructing your own city from scratch, Cities: Skylines is definitely a top choice for you. The game revitalizes the classic city-building genre, offering an impressive level of control,…”
“A challenging and engaging game - beyond my expectations.”
8 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“There are few games that are as addicting as Cities: Skylines! There are sooo much content in form of DLC and user created content, not to mention all the fantastic mods that really enhance the game play. You can really…”
“love this game. Its a game for when you want to chill and can kill an entire weekend and realize you've not touched grass”
“Cities Skylines is a fantastic city-building game with deep mechanics and great freedom. It’s easy to learn, but offers enough complexity to stay interesting for a long time. Highly recommended for strategy fans!”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“very enjoybale city building game, manages to stay modern even though its over 11 years old and dispite that its still much better than cities skylines II, also runs perfectly fine on my latop with integrated graphics”
“insanely addictive, and a lot more optimized than the sequel”
“just not that many feaatures compared to the sequel and it runs great on my laptop with maxed out grapics”
14 of the 103 reviews raise this · 10 of them still recommend the game.
“⚠️WARNING⚠️ Most of the game content is locked behind 390€+ in DLC despite having a 30€ base price. Following an 'update', you're now forced to use their terrible launcher which has data collection.”
“At around $120 worth of DLC, This game is a waste of money, you pay $40 for it to be followed by a paywall on every single major update, this game is from 2015 yet they are charging these mad prices, no thanks.”
“Workers Union Soviet Republic did it better and without scraping my arsehole with overpriced DLCs and a classic Paradox move always relying on mods”
11 of the 103 reviews raise this · 11 of them still recommend the game.
“Ok, where do I start, the game is great unless you are new. you NEED the fps fix mod in order to apreciate the game, and once you do that the game becomes way more fun to learn. when i installed the fix it made the game…”
“Hard at first, but listen to a tutorial or two, and youre good”
“I keep going bankrupt because my city turned into Manila-- traffic is hell, money just disappears, and somehow everything is still not enough. I’m not even playing anymore, I’m just reliving real life..”
10 of the 103 reviews raise this · 10 of them still recommend the game.
“can we have some update for optimizing the game, currently I'm using laptop intel celeron, please. My laptop can run the game but so much lagging and frame drop, but sill playable. here my experience playing the game,…”
“i got decent frames but on big citys like 5 filled outplots it dropped like 10 frames max really cool game i love it”
“For the longest time I've been coming back to this game, every other few months or so and for years since I've had it. Building your city in this game is moderately investing - however my main focus has always been on…”
7 of the 103 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Constant updates break the entire game if it's modded. And it MUST be modded because the vanilla version is so lame it's unbearable. Paradox seems fixated on pastel cartoonish colors and buildings that look ubsurdly…”
“Workers Union Soviet Republic did it better and without scraping my arsehole with overpriced DLCs and a classic Paradox move always relying on mods”
“It is a great game but it is dated in terms of what you can truly design without mods.”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“The game is genuinely engaging, but to be honest, it becomes boring quite quickly. First of all, there is very little additional content. I bought the Deluxe package, but there really is not much included in it. What…”
“It's not a bad game per say, but the DLC structure of it is slop. The base game comes with just a few maps, enough to sort of re-live the SimCity gameplay. I think if SimCity 2013 wasn't such an utter failure by EA,…”
“For the longest time I've been coming back to this game, every other few months or so and for years since I've had it. Building your city in this game is moderately investing - however my main focus has always been on…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 93.0% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“At its core, this is a genuinely strong city building simulation that successfully recaptures the feeling of classic titles like SimCity. There’s a real sense of satisfaction in watching your city grow from a small town into a sprawling urban center, and the foundation is…”
— a player, Steam review · 183 hrs played“Great game! Wish I didn't need a mod to turn on infinite money. Frankly I just unlock everything and just build my dream city, I find that to be the most fun way to play! Great for city management and mass-transit, especially with the DLC's. I do wish at least some DLC's were…”
— a player, Steam review · 1,568 hrs played“This game has seriously been so important to me. I just absolutely love all the logistics that go into it. I bought a whole laptop specifically to play this game more. I have been playing for almost 10 years and it still is so amazing.”
— a player, Steam review · 555 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 12:05 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Patch Notes for 1.21.1-f9
We have a very small update for you all today that covers the bugs reported to us over the past week. We think that this will be the last one! This update is very minor and should not affect mods and
Patch Notes for patch 1.21.1-f8
Race Day 1.21.1-f8 Patch NotesHello Mayors! We have a small patch for Cities: Skylines - Race Day. This patch should have little to no effects on Mods functionality. Here are the Patch Notes: All plat
Patch Notes for patch 1.21.1-f7
Hi all! We have a small patch today with several fixes listed below. Changelog: All platformsFixed the races and parade event cost to match that shown in the UIFixed Motor Racetrack with Single Curb i
Race Day, Iconic Brutalism, and Renewed History is live!
The wait is over, mayors. The anniversary content for Cities: Skylines is live now.Starting today, you can hit the streets with Race Day, the brand-new expansion developed by Tantalus Media. Build ded
Race Day Patch 1.21.1-f4 - State of Mods and Patch 101
On March 10 at 10 AM CET, the latest patch for Cities: Skylines will go live. Along with the new Expansion, there is also the free patch, given to and released to EVERYONE who owns the game.There are
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | City Builder · Simulation · Building · Management · Strategy · Sandbox · Singleplayer · Moddable · Economy · Resource Management · Mod · Realistic (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Includes level editor · Remote Play on Tablet · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese |
| Achievements | 135 |
| Estimated owners | 10,000,000 – 20,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit Processor: Intel® Core™ I7 930 | AMD® FX 6350 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTS 450 (1 GB) | AMD® R7 250 (2 GB) | Intel Iris Xe G7 (Tiger Lake) DirectX: Version 9.0c Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 4 GB available space