Cities Skylines is the first domino on the new boom of people caring about city planning, walkability, public transit, micro-mobility, etc.
People build extremely dense cities then go “wait but traffic” dig into how to fix it and ultimately end up building far less car dependency into their cities as the easiest solution
The people who made Cities: Skylines previously made a public transit business game series called Cities in Motion. Skylines was started from that point design wise, so it makes sense that it’s a transit heavy game.
I actually had played Cities in Motion and Cities in Motion II before Cities Skylines was released. The first Cities in Motion is actually really well done, the second one feels too much like a city builder that doesn’t want to be a city builder
Also the first step in realizing that suburbs will strangle your city and its economy due to the low density (and therefore lower tax revenue), high traffic demands, and high service costs compared to more dense parts of the city.
The big difference between any Sim City game and Cities Skylines is Cities Skylines has an extremely in-depth traffic simulation that actually punishes bad road design and encourages non-car modes of transit. Meanwhile Sim City always made nods to traffic, it never bothered with actual per person routing where you can focus on tweaking a single intersection for hours trying to get it to flow nicely
Cities Skylines is the first domino on the new boom of people caring about city planning, walkability, public transit, micro-mobility, etc.
People build extremely dense cities then go “wait but traffic” dig into how to fix it and ultimately end up building far less car dependency into their cities as the easiest solution
The people who made Cities: Skylines previously made a public transit business game series called Cities in Motion. Skylines was started from that point design wise, so it makes sense that it’s a transit heavy game.
And Cities: Skylines succeeded because EA shit the bed with SimCity.
I actually had played Cities in Motion and Cities in Motion II before Cities Skylines was released. The first Cities in Motion is actually really well done, the second one feels too much like a city builder that doesn’t want to be a city builder
If only they have Afterdark, plaza, and park life build into the base game.
Also the first step in realizing that suburbs will strangle your city and its economy due to the low density (and therefore lower tax revenue), high traffic demands, and high service costs compared to more dense parts of the city.
SimCity was released in 1989. It’s essentially the same game as Cities Skylines.
Absolutely isn’t the same.
You can see design evolution. It wouldn’t be too hard to describe C:S as Sim City 5.
Same genre for sure, totally different game in how it functions. It’s like saying Quake is the same as Call of Duty because you shoot things.
C:S had a lot of similarities to the Sim City that was released as its contemporary.
SimCity: open-ended city building game.
Cities Skylines: open-ended city building game.
Call of duty: first person shooter
Doom 1993: first person shooter
They are essentially the same game!
The big difference between any Sim City game and Cities Skylines is Cities Skylines has an extremely in-depth traffic simulation that actually punishes bad road design and encourages non-car modes of transit. Meanwhile Sim City always made nods to traffic, it never bothered with actual per person routing where you can focus on tweaking a single intersection for hours trying to get it to flow nicely
One thing SimCity (except 2013) has is much better city management system. In C:S it feels almost trivial compared to SimCity.