Cities: Skylines II

Single-player city builder with economies, seasons, and citizen life paths

Iceflake Studios, Colossal Order · Published by Paradox Interactive · Released Oct 24, 2023

Reviews: Mixed; 56% of 93K
Recent reviews: Mostly Positive; 72% of 846 in 30 days
Playing now: 8,955; right now
Steam Deck: Unsupported
Last update: 1 week ago; Sep 15, 2026

What is Cities: Skylines II?

A single-player city-building simulation where you choose a map and lay roads, infrastructure, and public systems while managing districts, trade, industry, citizen needs, and the budget. Cities change through day-night cycles, weather, seasons, pollution, and economic shifts.

For you if...

+you enjoy open-ended city planning and economic management
+you prefer single-player sandboxes built around gradual growth
+you want to follow citizens through changing seasons

Not for you if...

−you want multiplayer rather than a solo city sandbox
−you dislike balancing infrastructure, budgets, and citizen needs

What players say

56% of 92,801 reviews are positive · 72% of 846 in the last 30 days

Players praise recent updates for improving performance, stability, traffic behavior, quality-of-life tools, and mod and asset support. Common complaints say bugs and poor optimization remain, the base game still feels thin compared with the original, and some expected bridge content has been placed in paid DLC.

Screenshots and trailer

Cities: Skylines II system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-6700K | AMD® Ryzen™ 5 2600X
Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 970 (4 GB) | AMD® Radeon™ RX 480 (8 GB)
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Storage: 60 GB available space

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Full controller support
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 44
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing

Steam Deck: Unsupported

Not supported on SteamOS

Multiplayer and co-op

Single-player

Languages

Text only: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Spain.