Cities Skylines 2 is making road building and traffic management way better, as Paradox and Colossal Order fix our woes with roundabouts and split highways.
Cities Skylines 2 is making road building and traffic management way better, as Paradox and Colossal Order fix our woes with roundabouts and split highways.
Just saw that there’s a sequel coming out and thought I’d revisit the first. Hadn’t played since it launched.
Holy shit you aren’t kidding. Steam wants me to pay $330 to “complete” the game. WTF?!?
You can play the game perfectly fine with just the base. And if you want to have a little bit more traffic control you install some free mods.
For almost all DLCs apart from the really new ones, you can find keys for 2-3$ per DLC and half of them are unnecessary radio stations anyway. I revisited the game last year and had no DLC puchased ever, I spent about 15€ in total to get all the major DLCs up until then. Only for the DLCs and Content Creator Packs that came out after that I paid 10-15€ each.
Some of them may also be available for <5€ already and the Content Creator Packs could be replaced by free workshop assets if you want to save more money.
It’s also worth noting that the game is 8 years old already and still getting new content.
Between mods, the base game, and maybe a DLC or two, you can play the game for cheap. It’ll also likely be on sale with the upcoming Summer Steam Sale, so you could grab it for $8 and a few DLCs and be well equipped. It’s sure to be a viable game for awhile given the great mods. Play CS1 while the inevitable kinks in CS2 are ironed out.