Cities: Skylines on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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.

Cities: Skylines is a city builder, simulation and building game developed by Colossal Order Ltd. and published by Paradox Interactive.
Released on March 10th 2015 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 9 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Korean.

It has received 273,442 reviews of which 254,189 were positive and 19,253 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. ๐Ÿ˜

The game is currently priced at 27.99โ‚ฌ on Steam, but you can find it for 7.02โ‚ฌ on Instant Gaming.


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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windowsยฎ 10 Home 64 Bit
  • Processor: Intelยฎ Coreโ„ข I7 930 | AMDยฎ FX 6350
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidiaยฎ GeForceโ„ข GTS 450 (1 GB) | AMDยฎ R7 250 (2 GB) | Intel Iris Xe G7 (Tiger Lake)
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: OS X 10.11 (64-bit)
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.0GHz
  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 5670, 512 MB (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics Cards)
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit)
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+, 3.2GHz
  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 5670, 512 MB (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics Cards)
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 4 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025
"Z:\Games\steamapps\common\Cities_Skylines\Cities.exe" %command% Right click the game in your library Go to properties Paste this line under launch option, replacing the file path with your own Enjoy the game without needing paradox's dumbass launcher
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March 2025
By far my favorite city builder, and much better than the sequel! However, a lot of the DLC should just be included in the base game... paying 200$ just for DLC on top of the entry fee is just ridiculous... otherwise a great game tho!
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Feb. 2025
expectation: build the dream city you wanna live. reality: learning actual road hierarchy. learning how to balance tax and budget so i wont go bankrupt. learning where to place hospital, police station, fire station, and school so my citizens will be able to use it 100%. build the dream city you wanna live.
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Jan. 2025
Pretty fun game, although for the life of me I cannot figure out how to decongest traffic... Maybe one more road will fix it... Just one more road, bro, I promise one more road will fix it...
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Nov. 2024
---{ Graphics }--- โ˜ You forget what reality is โ˜ Beautiful โ˜ Good โ˜‘ Decent โ˜ Bad โ˜ Donโ€˜t look too long at it โ˜ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- โ˜‘ Very good โ˜ Good โ˜ It's just gameplay โ˜ Mehh โ˜ Watch paint dry instead โ˜ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- โ˜ Eargasm โ˜ Very good โ˜‘ Good โ˜ Not too bad โ˜ Bad โ˜ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- โ˜ Kids โ˜‘ Teens โ˜‘ Adults โ˜ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- โ˜ Check if you can run paint โ˜ Potato โ˜ Decent โ˜‘ Fast โ˜ Rich boi โ˜ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- โ˜ Floppy Disk โ˜‘ Old Fashioned โ˜ Workable โ˜ Big โ˜ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive โ˜ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it โ˜ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- โ˜ Just press 'W' โ˜ Easy โ˜ Easy to learn / Hard to master โ˜‘ Significant brain usage โ˜ Difficult โ˜ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- โ˜ Nothing to grind โ˜ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks โ˜ Isn't necessary to progress โ˜‘ Average grind level โ˜ Too much grind โ˜ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- โ˜‘ No Story โ˜ Some lore โ˜ Average โ˜ Good โ˜ Lovely โ˜ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- โ˜ Long enough for a cup of coffee โ˜ Short โ˜ Average โ˜ Long โ˜‘ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- โ˜ It's free! โ˜‘ Worth the price โ˜ If it's on sale โ˜ If u have some spare money left โ˜ Not recommended โ˜ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- โ˜ Never heard of โ˜‘ Minor bugs โ˜ Can get annoying โ˜ ARK: Survival Evolved โ˜ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- โ˜ 1 โ˜ 2 โ˜ 3 โ˜ 4 โ˜ 5 โ˜ 6 โ˜ 7 โ˜ 8 โ˜‘ 9 โ˜ 10
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Cities: Skylines
9.2
254,189
19,253
Online players
8,346
Developer
Colossal Order Ltd.
Publisher
Paradox Interactive
Release 10 Mar 2015
Platforms
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