Sure you can barrel through, just placing things willy-nilly without thought, and probably get yourself a decent sized city, but problems can get out of hand quickly. That’s not to say that the game isn’t hard.

That is, assuming that you have had even the minutest exposure to city-building sims. It also makes up for the fact that the game lacks a real tutorial, as playing through it the first time you will get the gist of it pretty quickly and you’d have to really try to mess things up. This is good on many levels as it prevents you from over-investing in infrastructure and services that you can barely afford as it is.

Notice a lot of the heavy-duty goods lorries are barreling down through your sleepy suburbs streets to their destinations and not using the handy-dandy multi-laned, faster speed limited road you built for that exact purpose? Set the district to ban large trucks and, voila, trucks go around the district and onto the proper roads, just as you intended.Ĭities: Skylines also does a good job of pacing the development of your town, Most things will be locked and unavailable to build in your town until certain milestones, usually populations size, are met. The “Danny is Awesome District” you say? Don’t mind if I do!ĭistricts aren’t just purely aesthetics though as you can set different policies for each district to better cater to what you want those districts to be like. You can now draw out what constitutes a district and actually give it a name. Speaking of districts, that’s also another pretty cool feature that Cities: Skylines brings to the table.

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