They may walk or take a bus or train, but you’ll mostly notice them driving, creating traffic which fundamentally represents the health of your city, a pulsing network that’s driven by Cities: Skylines’ beating heart:ĭeveloper Colossal Order was no stranger to transit when it started making Cities: Skylines. You can watch each citizen make its way through your creation, from home to place of work, and from there to visit a park. Oh, and an incidental byproduct of a good road system is the growth of a city around it.Ĭities: Skylines is a sim that feels uncommonly alive and reactive to your planning. Its lovely set of road-building tools allow you to scribe beautiful curved boulevards into the gentle slopes and combes of virgin lands, and it has inspired 19-page forum topics entitled Show Us Your Interchanges and Steam Workshop lists 24,482 interchange designs.
Ĭities: Skylines is a game about building roads. This is The Mechanic, where Alex Wiltshire invites developers to discuss the inner workings of their games.
