Cities: Skylines News

Steam Winter Sale

We celebrate the season with up to 75% off on Cities: Skylines content during the Steam Winter Sale! ☃️❄️

https://store.steampowered.com/app/255710/Cities_Skylines/

Cities: Skylines mods - the best mods and maps

Cities: Skylines is a prospective civil engineer's dream come true. It's been a staple city-builder for a few years now, and in that time the modding community has turned its sharp eyes and impressive creativity to the city builder and management sim in a big way. Today, there are literally thousands and thousands of Cities: Skylines mods available on the game's Steam Workshop page, which makes it understandably daunting to find the best ones.

Luckily, you have us. We've gone ahead and handpicked a suite of the best Cities: Skylines mods that will make any city better and help you manage your citizens efficiently. Below you'll find a mixture of purely aesthetic mods, and quality of life tools that will make managing, creating, and destroying a breeze. Turns out there's quite a lot you can do with the mod tools for this building game.

No matter if you're a casual builder or a hardcore city planner, you're sure to find something appropriate in our Cities: Skylines mod list. So, without any more preamble, here are the best mods for Cities: Skylines.

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The complete Cities: Skylines DLC guide

Cities: Skylines is a Paradox game to the core, and a really decent city-building game to boot. The vanilla package alone is perfectly playable, but most of the creative freedom and meaningful options are locked behind several DLCs and expansions; if you want to place bus lines, build a university, or construct a single park with a few trees, the vanilla title is perfectly capable. But if you want to design your own Central Park or a University campus, or build a full transport hub complete with taxis, metros, trains, and even blimps and cable cars, you will need to fork out money.

As the full package can easily surpass a hundred pounds outside Steam sales, the inevitable question of "which DLC should I get?" raises its ugly head. With a varying degree of quality and the inherent personal interest in each separate package, it can be hard to identify which expansions to spend your hard-earned money on.

That's where we come in. We looked at every single DLC out there, so you wouldn't have to. We've started this guide just covering the major expansions that add new mechanics. There are a lot more DLCs that are essentially just cosmetics - we'll come back to cover those later.

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The 9 worst neighbourhoods in PC games

One Off The List is our monthly list feature. Is there something you think doesn’t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next month it may be struck off.

Many of you are by now bathing in twinkling neon ravelights and swooning into the metal arms of Cyberpunk 2077‘s humourless unhunks, who stalk the streets of Night City like animatronic pizza restaurant mascots gone feral. That is fine. There are worse places to find oneself in the labyrinthine hell of video games. Places such as these. Here are 9 neighbourhoods you wouldn’t want to bring up your children in.

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Cities: Skylines kicks off 15 days of free games on the Epic Games Store

There’s just over a week to go ’til giftsmas day – and while I’m sure we’re all panicking over what to get our friends, loved ones and recurring villains, what’s the harm in picking up a little treat for yourself? The Epic Games Store’s holiday sale begins today, giving away a new free game for the next 15 days alongside the usual slew of store-wide deals. Your first gift is Cities: Skylines, with plenty more to come over the next two weeks.

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