Cities: Skylines II

I cannot recommend Cities: Skylines II based on the direction Paradox and Iceflake are communicating. The biggest problem is not that the game receives no updates. It does. The problem is that, after months of Iceflake being in charge, the announced direction still looks far too unambitious for a game that needs fundamental improvement. Many players come to Cities: Skylines to build beautiful, realistic, believable cities. Yet some of the systems that most directly limit that experience remain largely untouched. Zoning is one of the clearest examples. The rigid zoning grid affects building placement, curved roads, block shapes, realistic suburbs, European-style streets, gaps between buildings, irregular parcels and the overall visual quality of a city. A serious zoning and parcel-generation overhaul could transform the game. Instead, the official answer is essentially that smaller grids are not planned and better grid control is not even a short-term priority. The same pattern appears elsewhere. Major improvements to integrated public transport infrastructure? No big plans. Tunnel and underground infrastructure improvements? Not currently. Regional hierarchies with towns, villages and multiple settlements? No. Major pathfinding rework? No. Natural-disaster and evacuation improvements? Not planned. More flexible road-building tools in normal gameplay? Maybe someday, while live editing is apparently out of scope. Construction animations and more convincing citizen activity? Nothing scheduled. What is actually being discussed is mostly incremental balancing, bug fixing, performance work, audio, lighting, textures, asset packs and smaller simulation adjustments. Those things are welcome, but they are polish. They do not address many of the fundamental limitations that stop Cities: Skylines II from becoming the city builder it could have been. What makes this even more frustrating is that the modding community has already demonstrated demand for much deeper control over roads, zoning, traffic, detailing, surfaces and placement. Mods are doing transformative work while the official roadmap appears focused on improving the existing framework rather than meaningfully expanding what players can build. There is also a communication problem. The official Steam Q&A directs players to continue discussion on the Paradox Forums, which requires a separate Paradox account, while discussion under the Steam announcement itself is locked. For a company asking players to trust the long-term development of a troubled game, restricting discussion on the platform where many customers actually bought the game is a terrible approach. If you publish a Q&A on Steam, players should be able to discuss the answers on Steam. I do not expect every community request to be implemented. I also understand that rewriting core systems is expensive and technically difficult. But after this much time, I expected to see a much more ambitious vision for transforming the game: better zoning and parcel generation, greater road-building freedom, better terrain and building interaction, deeper traffic-management tools, more realistic city layouts and systems that genuinely expand the possibilities of city building. Instead, the message currently feels like: fix bugs, improve performance, polish visuals and audio, rely heavily on mods for advanced functionality, and keep releasing content around the same fundamental systems. Maybe the upcoming roadmap will prove this assessment wrong. I hope it does. But based on what Paradox and Iceflake are communicating today, I would strongly recommend that potential buyers look carefully at the current state of the game and the developers' stated plans before spending money on Cities: Skylines II or its additional content. Do not buy it based on what you hope the game might become. Judge it based on what exists now and what the developers are actually committing to change.

Shocking that there now charging $40+ for an expansion for a game that doesn't work is disgusting. And when you've paid $90+ for the ultimate edition, just because a new company has taken over. This is the beginning of the end for this series. Citystate Metropolis is going to do to cities skylines exactly what cities skylines did to sim city. CASH GRAB MENTALITY IS DISGUSTING

Pedestrians still cross without crosswalks, traffic cuts over at the last second causing chaos, TAA can't be turned off so cars leave streaks across the screen..... better not fix it! Release DLC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Honestly, not a bad game. But if you have CS1 with all the packs, just stick with that. I was really looking forward to CS2 but the base game lacks the same experience as CS1, and you have to purchase a bunch of add-ons just to get to the same level of game experience as CS1, and the add-on are terrible in comparison to the previous version. Airports and industry were my favourite things to create and manage but that level of detail is missing in CS2.

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I have seen youtubers play this game and I fell in love with it, but playing it myself, its so hard to run it is unplayable even on lowest graphics.

300+ hours of gameplay. you'll be frustrated and disappointed at how much you enjoy this game. the concept of the overall game is perfect. spend your time developing and watching your city grow. the only issue is this game is chock full of bugs. gameplay is impossible without the lane connector mod. and when they patch one bug a side effect from the patch creates another. its extremely frustrating feeling like you have to start from scratch again after spending hours developing a city only to find there's some new bug you have to work around that you could not have foresaw. i love the game but the lack of support can be frustrating at times. it does feel like the devs are at least trying. its just taking a lot longer then it should. 6/10

Great city building game so far. Since there's new ones coming in the future. There is tons of modifications and stylization of your chosen region. Graphics are ok. Better than Sim city. I'm not just that good of a city planner and designer. But this game has all the tools and dlcs you will need.