Attractive graphics and street-level view
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“The graphics are incredibly beautiful and you can zoom in right up close to the action”
Steam review · 243.8 h played ↗
Cities XL Platinum
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mixed · 58%Mixed · 58%Focus Entertainment2013City Builder · Simulation · Strategy
$9.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 2 h ago
The verdict
A big, good-looking city builder with city-to-city trading, but its single-core engine lags and bugs out as cities grow. Skip it if you can get Cities: Skylines.
Great for
Sale-price buyers who love city builders and want multi-city trade, huge maps and mods on a modest PC
Main risk
Single-core engine and memory leaks make bigger cities lag to unplayable, plus bugs and crashes on modern PCs
What players love
Depth, content and replayability
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“There's a lot of depth to the game play, and the graphics are really good too.”
Steam review · 46.2 h played ↗
Multi-city trading and specialization
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews
“a beautifully interconnected resource economy that makes building specialized cities so much more rewarding”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗
Cheap, works on low-end PCs, relaxing
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“If you're looking for a dollar-store cities skylines that can run on a potato, this is your game”
Steam review · 3.3 h played ↗
Huge maps and massive cities
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“The game scales extremely well, allowing for truly MASSIVE cities to be build.”
Steam review · 15.7 h played ↗
Great modding community
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews
“The main draw is the modding community - there are hundreds of mods available on xlnation”
Steam review · 99.2 h played ↗
What players complain about
Outclassed by Cities: Skylines, rehashed releases
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“This is not that game and is inferior in nearly every way.”
Steam review · 0.6 h played ↗
Lag and single-core engine in large cities
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“No matter how good your PC is, the game is limited to only using 1 core and up to 4 gigs of ram”
Steam review · 5.6 h played ↗
Bugs and lost saves
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“The save feature doesn't work and the game is too slow with even a small city of <25,000 people.”
Steam review · 14.2 h played ↗
Clunky roads, UI and controls
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Placing roads is truly infuriating. A single road shouldn't be this hard to build.”
Steam review · 4.5 h played ↗
Memory leaks and crashes
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“with the huge memory leaks, the longer you play (or load a long playted map) the worse the lag gets, eventually it will just chain crash”
Steam review · 7.4 h played ↗
Won't launch or run on modern systems
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews
“No longer seems to work.”
Steam review · 20.6 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable9 GB
Minimum
OSWINDOWS XP SP3/WINDOWS VISTA SP1/WINDOWS 7/WINDOWS 8
ProcessorAMD/INTEL 2.5 GHZ
Memory2 GB RAM
Graphics512 MB 100% DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE ATI RADEON HD 3850/NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 OR HIGHER
Storage9 GB HD space
OSWINDOWS XP SP3/WINDOWS VISTA SP1/WINDOWS 7/WINDOWS 8
ProcessorAMD/INTEL 2.5 GHZ
Memory2 GB RAM
Graphics512 MB 100% DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE ATI RADEON HD 3850/NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 OR HIGHER
Storage9 GB HD space
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