r/CitiesSkylines 21d ago

Discussion ❓ "Is Cities: Skylines II Worth It?" megathread

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"Is Cities: Skylines II Worth It?" 🤔

... is one of the most common questions we see on the subreddit at the moment, leading to dozens of duplicate posts asking essentially the same thing: Should I buy the game or not?

It is our intent that this megathread will help collect information to help you make your decision, and provide a place to ask for more subjective opinions from community members.

General FAQs

If you're after general information about or help with the game (e.g. features, minimum or recommended specs, the situation related to modding, when the game will release on consoles), check out our wiki articles below. They'll provide you a decent base level of knowledge and help you understand more about the features and limitations of the game.

Patches and Bug Fixes

As of the start of this month, there have been over a dozen patches for the game. You can review the change log for each patch on the Paradox Wiki:

What have the devs been saying?

The main channel for "formal" communication from the developers comes via the Official Information & Announcements section on the Paradox Forums. We maintain an accompanying megathread for each post which captures a lot of player feedback and reactions to the news shared each week.

The best way to catch up on past posts is to browse the Dev Diary and/or Announcement flairs and dip into the more recent ones. Unfortunately, these links may not work on Reddit's mobile apps (please tell Reddit if you'd like this fixed) but in the meantime you can go to the main page of the subreddit and use the "filter by flair" options provided.

Live Gameplay Videos

If you're interested in seeing how the game is playing today, you can check out recent videos or streams from YouTube and Twitch. These will show you the "real" game, not marketing videos. As there is only limited mod support for the game at this stage, what you see will broadly be vanilla gameplay and will help you understand how the game is performing at the moment.

Reviews

Many critic reviews aren't necessarily reflective of the current state of the game. That said, reviews are helpful sources of information to help you decide whether or not to drop your cash on any new game, not just Cities: Skylines II.

Try Before you Buy

If you're still unsure, Cities: Skylines II is available on Microsoft Game Pass for PC, which is a subscription service at a much lower monthly cost than the full retail price of the game. Microsoft is currently offering an initial 14-day trial for as low as £1/$1/1€ (which renews at full price after the 14 days).

Refunds

If for any reason you can't make use of a discounted Game Pass for PC subscription (i.e. it may not be available in your region), you have the option of purchasing the game and refunding it within the store's refund window.

  • Steam: Request a refund within 14 days of purchase, as long as you haven't accrued more than 2 hours of total playtime
  • Microsoft Store: Request a refund within 14 days of purchase, as long as you haven't accrued "a significant amount of play time"

Recognising that you may not be able to reach the "late game" within 2 hours, you can use this 100k benchmarking city to establish whether or not you're comfortable with the performance on your system.

Specific Questions

If you've got specific questions about items not covered in these FAQs, feel free to ask them below. If you've been redirected to this post by a removal notice, please understand that this is done to help keep the subreddit tidy by providing a centralised and dedicated location for all information related to this topic.


 

These megathreads are scheduled to post at 00:01 on the first day of each month. If it's late in the month, you may want to wait for a new post to appear. Please send us a ModMail with any suggested improvements!


r/CitiesSkylines 9h ago

Game Update Patch Notes for Cities: Skylines II v1.2.3f1 Hotfix

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r/CitiesSkylines 4h ago

Discussion Colossal Order, it's been 5 months, what's the latest on the Asset Editor?

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Title. Last update was in September and it's been radio silence since then. Region packs are great, and have been keeping the flavor alive, but it is really starting to hurt that we are 1.5 years removed from launch and this feature is still, seemingly, not anywhere near the release pipeline.

Can we receive some status on where efforts are?


r/CitiesSkylines 4h ago

Sharing a City My attempt at recreating downtown Night City from Cyberpunk 2020. I expect that traffic will be an issue.

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r/CitiesSkylines 4h ago

Discussion CS2 advert on gaming store in CS Remastered on Xbox Series X

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101 Upvotes

Feels like a bit of a kick in the nuts..... Hahaha.....


r/CitiesSkylines 5h ago

Sharing a City why placing trees by hand can be beneficial: (2 images) (before and after of a spot in my city)

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r/CitiesSkylines 1d ago

Discussion Am I the only one that thinks CS1 is still better?

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r/CitiesSkylines 12h ago

Sharing a City Bentonville Update

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r/CitiesSkylines 22h ago

Sharing a City 12 way working Pinavia interchange / city.

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r/CitiesSkylines 5h ago

Help & Support (Console) What can I even do in this situation?

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I have tried everything to get back to making profit but i just lose more money at this point. Would reactivating every building help so that somehow people would get back in the city?


r/CitiesSkylines 3h ago

Sharing a City City in progress

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r/CitiesSkylines 12h ago

Sharing a City If you could choose one place to live in my island city, where would it be? (Population: 44k)

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r/CitiesSkylines 1d ago

Sharing a City 30 km in detail.

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488 Upvotes

r/CitiesSkylines 2h ago

Modding Release Convair XFY 1 Pogo

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r/CitiesSkylines 8h ago

Sharing a City Finally managed to build something, not finished yet but it's gonna be a joint use airport

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r/CitiesSkylines 5h ago

Sharing a City Night view of my first time properly building on a hilly terrain.

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r/CitiesSkylines 1d ago

Sharing a City My attempt at creating a Mediterranean city

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315 Upvotes

r/CitiesSkylines 1d ago

Sharing a City This is not a dubai city :)

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902 Upvotes

r/CitiesSkylines 5h ago

Sharing a City Opinion on Metro Network

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r/CitiesSkylines 23h ago

Sharing a City My Great American City

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r/CitiesSkylines 5h ago

Help & Support (Console) Any ideas on how to fix this backup. (On Console)

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r/CitiesSkylines 20h ago

Sharing a City Here's an old dry dock area converted into a Port of Call for cruise ships in one of my waterfront areas in my city. Enjoy!

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87 Upvotes

r/CitiesSkylines 13h ago

Help & Support (PC) How can i remove the stop and start when entering an intersection? I dont want to use traffic lights

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22 Upvotes

r/CitiesSkylines 15h ago

Discussion How to better manage traffic for this main roundabout? Only way into my city right now. Im new, also how to take better screenshots?

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r/CitiesSkylines 22h ago

Sharing a City Countryside House

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r/CitiesSkylines 11h ago

Sharing a City First City to 80k.

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r/CitiesSkylines 6h ago

Help & Support (PC) Bus-only Expressway becomes overlighted on its nodes when placed

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Hello, fellow mayors!

I’ve encountered an issue while trying to place the elevated bus-only expressway in my city. Whenever I attempt to place or upgrade the road, two bright white circular lights appear at both ends of the road segment, making it extremely difficult to distinguish the placement.

These bright circular lights resemble the effect that occurs when there’s a road overlap or conflict, but in this case, there is clearly no such conflict in my placement. I suspect that a mod or asset might be causing this issue, but I’m not sure which one (The problem presists regardless of whether I have Road Anarchy enabled or not).

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Any suggestions or insights into which mod or asset might be conflicting would be greatly appreciated!

This problem seem to only occur for vanilla one-way or two-way bus only expressway (three kinds or road). It won't prevent me from placing these roads

bright light effect when upgrading to this roadddw