Cities: Skylines
Single-player city builder about growth, budgets, traffic, and public services
Colossal Order · Published by Paradox Interactive · Released Mar 10, 2015
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 93% of 292K
- Recent reviews
- Very Positive
- 89% of 896 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 6,362
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 5 months ago
- Apr 15, 2026
Metacritic: 85/100 (critic reviews)
What is Cities: Skylines?
A single-player city-building simulation where you develop a city from the ground up. You manage its economy, traffic, utilities, public services, districts, and policies as it expands through a day-and-night cycle.
For you if...
- +you enjoy open-ended city planning and economic management
- +you like solving traffic and public-service problems
- +you want support for custom maps and buildings
Not for you if...
- −you prefer guided campaigns over sandbox building
- −you dislike balancing budgets, traffic, and city services
- −you want multiplayer city building
What players say
93% of 292,400 reviews are positive · 89% of 896 in the last 30 days
Players praise the city-growth simulation, traffic planning, economic management, and scope for detailed construction. They frequently criticize the amount and cost of DLC. Recent reviewers also object to data-collection consent they say is required to play, while mod users report that updates can break mods and saves.
Screenshots and trailer
Cities: Skylines system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit
- Processor
- Intel® Core™ I7 930 | AMD® FX 6350
- Graphics
- Nvidia® GeForce™ GTS 450 (1 GB) | AMD® R7 250 (2 GB) | Intel Iris Xe G7 (Tiger Lake)
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 4 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
Recommended
- OS
- Windows® 10 Home 64 bit
- Processor
- Intel® Core™ I7 2700K | AMD® Ryzen 7 2700X
- Graphics
- Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 580 (1.5 GB) | AMD® Radeon™ RX 560 (4 GB)
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Storage
- 4 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Achievements
- 135
- Steam features
- Workshop, Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
Steam Deck: Playable
- The launcher or setup tool may need the touchscreen or virtual keyboard
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Text only: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese.
Tags
- City Builder
- Simulation
- Building
- Management
- Strategy
- Sandbox
- Singleplayer
- Economy
- Moddable
- Resource Management
- Mod
- Realistic
- Replay Value
- Casual
- Modern
- Real-Time with Pause
Recent updates
- Apr 15, 2026 · Patch Notes for 1.21.1-f9
- Apr 7, 2026 · Patch Notes for patch 1.21.1-f8
- Mar 17, 2026 · Patch Notes for patch 1.21.1-f7
- Mar 9, 2026 · Race Day Patch 1.21.1-f4 - State of Mods and Patch 101
- Mar 6, 2026 · Dev Diary - Race Day #3 - Free Update
76 DLC available.
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