You’re never lack for information, but the deluge of data can purposefully be overwhelming. You can get thoroughly granular details about how much you’re spending on each city service, specific breakdown on the number of citizens you have of varying ages, the city’s ground pollution percentage, and color maps of high traffic areas. The game does a remarkable job tracking and presenting all the different data points on your town. For every fire I put out, three more would spring up somewhere else. The people then get upset about their taxes.
I go to put in a hospital, but I don’t have enough money, so I raise taxes. My town of Rennes (randomly generated and not nearly as successful as the proper French town) grew large enough that the citizens started to require schooling, so I put in a school. The balancing act this game presents then comes from constantly managing the growing assortment of necessary services. You’ll unlock schools, hospitals, police departments, and even large landmarks as you progress. As your population grows, so do the people’s needs. These are the basic building blocks that the game adds on top of.
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You’ll start by placing a road from the freeway and quickly learning how to zone spaces for different types of buildings (residential, commercial, and industrial) and how to provide water and power to your buildings. My only complaint having played the Switch version of the game is that, while entirely playable and often incredible and cathartic to tend my digital garden while on a plane for instance, it simply lacks the precision of a mouse and keyboard when small scale revisions are necessary.Ĭities: Skylines does an admirable job easing you into many of its broader concepts. I had endless fun trying to piece together a functional city by the seat of my pants and constantly having to put out some fire (both literal and figurative) in my ever expanding town. If God really is just a kid on an anthill with a magnifying glass, then it makes sense, but Cities: Skylines never relents. I can’t just snap my fingers and solve my mounting energy issues, but I can bulldoze a road and prevent any access to parts of the city on a whim. I was also tasked with keeping up with the demands of my citizens. I may only be the mayor, but that wouldn’t stop me from raising taxes exorbitantly for a month or two whenever the mood strikes. You can shape and build your city exactly how you see fit, but that moniker is maybe a misnomer.
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