#Cities skylines pc review series#

Cars move around realistically, they go to and fro delivering goods here and there. But as my creations grew and grew and grew, I ran into one of the dumbest and most obnoxious problems from SimCity - poorly managed traffic. I wanted to push the game to its limits and see just what kind of weird concoctions I could get away with. I wanted to express myself, I wanted to craft and carve so many different types and kinds of places. My brain filled with all the different possibilities.

#Cities skylines pc review series#

In many ways Skylines picks up where SimCity left off, and it seems to tick off a checklist of features that fans of the series wanted to see. AvailabilityĬities: Skylines is available on PC, Mac and Linux for £22.99 on Steam. Its foundation appears strong - built as it is upon the now-dead legacy of the once-great SimCity - but the cracks are still there. I like Cities: Skylines, but the more I play, the more flawed it seems. My frustration mounts as I realise that the failure isn't my fault. In a few weeks, everyone is dead, my buildings either abandoned or burning, and I've got to admit failure as my budget spirals out of control. I build cemeteries and crematoria on every block, but it's not enough. My city of Buttingham begins to convulse with disease as its infrastructure fails to keep it running. Cities: Skylines is a competent city-builder that lacks a vision of its own - though it leaves space for its community to fill in the gaps.īodies are piling up everywhere.