Cities: Skylines Reviews

Cities: Skylines is ranked in the 89th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
8 / 10
Mar 26, 2015

It is, after all, the best city simulator released since aeons before, and with signs of a lot more to come from the mod community and the developers, the future is looking seriously bright for Cities: Skylines that could see it become the king of city simulation.

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Mar 10, 2015

Cities: Skylines somehow lives up to the unfair expectations heaped upon it, presenting one of the best city builders in years.

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7.5 / 10.0
May 5, 2017

Cities: Skylines on Xbox One console is the same great, complex and unique city builder, avaiable on PC from 2015. For all console gamers, this game is the perfect city building simulation.

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6 / 10.0
May 9, 2017

Some missing features, specifically the ability to speed up time, holds Cities: Skylines back but it's still a competent city builder.

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CGMagazine
Top Critic
8.5 / 10.0
Apr 21, 2017

Still one of the best games in the genre, Cities: Skylines – Xbox One Edition, is the best city sim on consoles.

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9 / 10.0
Dec 19, 2017

Cities: Skylines is definitely a must-own for fans of the genre, or gamers with a nostalgic itch for SimCity that EA certainly won't scratch.

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GameSpace
Kiwi
Top Critic
8.6 / 10.0
Jun 13, 2018

I hope every building simulator fan out there gives this DLC a try because it's jam-packed with considerations to be made definitely worth investigating!

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NEOsite
aysnel
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Aug 23, 2017

Classic city simulation genre from PC is letting us design, make and manage the dream metropolis on PS4. Concrete jungle, industry valley or green eco-city – it all up to us!

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8 / 10
Apr 26, 2017

Cities: Skylines – Xbox One Edition does make a few mistakes along the way, but it provides players with a great and mostly feature-complete city-planning experience that has been sorely missing in the console space.

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80%
Apr 26, 2017

Cities: Skylines is a pretty damn good city building sim game for consoles. It's got its problems and it's incredibly limited in its scope, but if you're looking to kill more than a few hours with one of the most therapeutic game in some time, this is it.

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8.5 / 10.0
Apr 21, 2017

If you harbour even the slightest desire to build then you have to experience Cities: Skylines. It provides most of the complexity of Maxis' 2013 Sim City but isn't bogged down with restrictive city size and a focus on co-operative building. The customisation and mods will keep this game alive for a long, long time and Colossal Order are due great praise for their embracing user created content.

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7 / 10.0
Aug 15, 2017

In the end, whether you prefer to whittle your hours away building the city of your dreams with unlimited resources, or chase down trophies as you build your way toward things more deliberately, I don't think you'll find a superior sim anywhere on PS4.

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8 / 10.0
Dec 26, 2016

Natural Disaster is the third DLC of the acclaimed Cities Skylines: a precious add-on which increases the difficulty level of the product.

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9 / 10
Mar 10, 2015

Cities: Skylines is absolutely the best city-builder I've played since SimCity 4. From macro to micro, from the sprawling transport networks and city-wide policies to the fine-tuned districts and street-level detail, it impresses. Its size and flexibility creates a fertile space for experimentation, making each new map, or even each new plot, a place to try out new plans for a hyper-efficient green utopia, filthy industrial powerhouse or anything in between.

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Mar 24, 2015

"Cities: Skylines" brings us forward, while looking over the shoulder and providing an ever so slight nod to the proud history of city management games.

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Unscored
Mar 18, 2015

Let me put it this way—Cities: Skylines made a sim game fun for me, and that's quite a feat. Though it's not something I would normally play, I had a lot of fun fiddling around with the options and just figuring out how things worked. I didn't feel like my hand was being held, but I also didn't feel like I was being asked to fly a transcontinental flight just because I had watched a documentary about World War II fighter planes. Maybe it's not the most accurate city simulation, but in my opinion, it's definitely the most fun.

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ACG
Top Critic
Wait for Sale
Apr 21, 2017
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7 / 10
Dec 21, 2018

Cities: Skylines has been adapted to the Nintendo Switch in a way that does its job in a fun and competent way. The size constraints of the Nintendo Switch screen do set some limits that do not allow for the entirety of the game's characteristics to be fully reproduced but the experience is nonetheless fun and interesting and fits perfectly with the fans of the city simulation genre.

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9 / 10.0
Feb 21, 2023

The definitive version of Cities Skylines on console brings quality-of-life improvements and a fresh coat of paint to the visuals. A worthy upgrade for one of the best sim games on PlayStation.

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8 / 10
Apr 29, 2020

With Cities: Skylines, developer Colossal Order has laid the foundations for the city-building genre to return to consoles. Simple controls, immeasurable details, and accessible gameplay all ensure that the urban planning sim is a fun yet challenging experience.

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