Cities: Skylines II

Cities: Skylines II

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Iceflake Studios · City Builder · Oct 24, 2023

It depends on what you're after.

It's at its lowest recorded price, $34.99.

56%
Mixed
91k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 10 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Difficulty: 6 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Crashes: 75 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Performance: 63 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 32 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 91k player reviews · updated 4 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
20% of themes are praise50% are divided30% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
At the time of writing this review the game has cost me $0.001/minute of entertainment.
10 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Difficulty
Players who bring up Difficulty mostly praise it.
Only get this game if you want to take a risk on the new studio in the coming years, or have faith that modders and content creators will fix the game enough and provide enough new buildings without having to fight hard against whatever updates the new devs might push.
6 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love2 themes
Story and characters10 reviews
Difficulty6 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Graphics54 reviews
39%
Optimization45 reviews
24%
Gameplay39 reviews
41%
Monetization28 reviews
21%
Interface13 reviews
15%
Players complain% still recommend
Crashes75 reviews
28%
Performance63 reviews
38%
Bugs32 reviews
19%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 2 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Lowest ever recorded

Currently $34.99 (−30%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

5 points recordedtoday · $34.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
56%
Mixed
Playing right now
Achievements
44
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.

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