Cities: Skylines II
Colossal Order's city-builder sequel with deep simulation, economy and zoning systems.
24 Oct 2023 · $49.99
About Cities: Skylines II
Expansion Pass 2 - Roadmap About the Game Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into the thriving metropolis only you can imagine. You've never experienced building on this scale. With deep simulation and a living economy, Cities: Skylines II delivers world-building without limits. Lay the foundations for your city to begin. Create the roads, infrastructure, and systems that make life possible day to day. It's up to you – all of it. How your city grows is your call too, but plan strategically. Every decision has an impact. Can you energize local industries while also using trade to boost the economy? What will make residential districts flourish without killing the buzz downtown? How will you meet the needs and desires of citizens while balancing the city's budget? Your city never rests. Like any living, breathing world, it changes over time. Some changes will be slow and gradual, while others will be sudden and unexpected. So while seasons turn and night follows day, be ready to act when life doesn't go to plan. The most realistic and detailed city builder ever, Cities: Skylines II pushes your creativity and problem-solving to another level. With beautifully rendered high-resolution graphics, it also inspires you to build the city of your dreams.
- • Density-based zoning system
- • Deep traffic and transit simulation
- • Citizen lifepath simulation
- • Seasons and weather systems
- • Mod support and map editor
- • Steam Achievements
- • Full controller support
- • Steam Cloud
- • Family Sharing
Gameplay
Like its predecessor, Cities: Skylines II gives the player a virtual plot of land to create a city within. Players can lay down roads, zoning, utilities, and city services to bring in residents and businesses. The player can set city policies like tax rates, fees and ordinances to influence how the city grows, from which they also receive funds to continue to expand the city. Initially the player is limited to nine tiles of space to build on but can expand outward by purchasing additional tiles with city funds as they achieve milestones. Whereas the first game was limited to nine tiles covering 33.1776 km2 (12.8099 sq mi) of area (81 tiles with user modifications) and the remastered edition to 25 tiles covering 92.16 km2 (35.58 sq mi), Cities: Skylines II allows players to build out to 441 tiles representing 171.33 km2 (66.15 sq mi) of area, meaning each individual tile is substantially smaller. With a third-party modification, this can be increased to 529 tiles, which increases the available area to 205.52 km2 (79.35 sq mi). Unlike the previous game which was limited to around 65,000 citizens being rendered at a time, the number of citizens that can be directly simulated in Cities: Skylines II is limited only by a player's computer or console specifications. Each city can earn up to 2 billion currency units. Each map included with the game is based on a preset climate that influences weather behavior. Both the weather and the behavior of the city population follow annual and diurnal cycles, with each in-game day/night equivalent to one month of simulation time. Depending on the climate, the winter months may bring snow and other cold conditions, while summer weather may bring excessive flooding, forest fires and tornadoes. Such disasters can be mitigated with additional disaster response facilities and services within the city. Like its predecessor, Cities: Skylines II operates in a compressed time fashion. Cities: Skylines II improved and expanded upon the city building mechanics of the first game, including fully-realized transportation and economic systems, enhanced construction and customization options, including American and European architectural…
Offline play
Full single-player campaign available offline on PC.
- Developer
- Colossal Order
- Publisher
- Paradox Interactive
- Release
- 24 Oct 2023
- Price
- $49.99
- Modes
- single-player
- Age rating
- E
More details
- Steam achievements
- 44 achievements
Screenshots
System requirements
PC — minimum
- OS
- Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit
- Processor
- Intel® Core™ i7-6700K | AMD® Ryzen™ 5 2600X
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Graphics
- Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 970 (4 GB) | AMD® Radeon™ RX 480 (8 GB)
- Storage
- 60 GB available space
PC — recommended
- OS
- Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit | Windows® 11
- Processor
- Intel® Core™ i5-12600K | AMD® Ryzen™ 7 5800X
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Graphics
- Nvidia® GeForce™ RTX 3080 (10 GB) | AMD® Radeon™ RX 6800 XT (16 GB)
- Storage
- 60 GB available space
