There’s some humour in these messages but they also mirror the thoughts of people living in your city. Whenever you build something or make a major change, there’s a ticker on the top where people basically tweet their thoughts. Since this release has the After Dark expansion, you get to see day and night cycles, and it is a great feeling seeing your city bustling with activity in the night as you zoom in up close. This disables achievements, but is a welcome option for people who don’t want to deal with that aspect.

I recommend enabling the unlimited money and resources toggles for your first attempt just so you can get a grip on things without worrying about money. You have to think about water and electricity and this will require thinking about piping under the roads or city and more. Thankfully the tutorial is detailed and there’s always a popup to help if you’re stuck.īuilding your city is a lot of fun but you need to keep a lot of things in mind. When you start out with just a blank slate more or less, even just moving around to place roads will be a learning experience. Well, outside of the fact that there’s no quick access to inspect (I couldn’t figure this out). Zooming happens with the triggers and after a little while, everything feels natural. You will be using the analog sticks and d pad a lot. I recommend just spending the first hour or so just getting used to the controls here. Some games get it right like Divinity: Original Sin while others don’t scale as well in the case of Wasteland 2.Ĭontrols are great for the most part. So when Cities: Skylines was announced, I was pretty excited to play it on Xbox and see how the interface and gameplay transitioned to a controller. In recent years, the likes of Wasteland, Divinity, Tropico, and even Diablo have made their way to both PS4 and Xbox One.

This generation has seen a lot of PC only games or genres that were PC specific like CRPGs make their way to consoles. There’s a lot of good news and some bad news with this port from Paradox Interactive and Tantalus Media. I can’t imagine anything out there right now that comes close to Cities.

It has been more than two years since Cities: Skylines released and took over the city building genre.

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