Cities: Skylines for Windows

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Cities: Skylines by Colossal Order is a simulator game that lets you design and build your megalopolis from scratch. You can micromanage it to perfection or install mods to further spice up your gameplay.

Beautiful and flexible

Cities: Skylines takes a more elastic approach to the genre of city simulations, creating a fresh experience. It lets you create a city and see it grow from both Windows and Mac computers (if you want to play on mobile, you can try Bit City).

The city size possibilities are varied, letting you go as big as you want. The map editor helps you gauge where and how you want your creation to look. You can play this game offline, too.

The gameplay is quite intuitive. You just start by choosing a map and naming your city. You then set up some statistics that change your environment to begin building.

Grow your town

The game will then take you on the map. Here, you'll find all the options lined up at the bottom of your screen for easy accessibility.

Once you have developed a city, you can micromanage it to perfection, too. Each neighbourhood can get a specific set of rules and policies, which adds a fun, realistic aspect to the game. The inhabitants are interactive and will act according to how you organize them.

Perhaps the most exciting portion of the game is its mod-ability. The community created a wide array of extras you can add to make the game suit your needs precisely.

There are over 35,000 community-created mods already, that let you, among other actions, fly around your city, add skateparks, improve the citizens and traffic AI.

A fantastic game

Although this game is not perfect, it comes quite close to it, especially if you get mods involved in the picture. The graphics are beautiful, the gameplay flexible, and your possibilities close to endless. Cities: Skylines clearly dominates its most significant competitor, SimCity, and it is one of the best such games available.