Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
A deep, beautiful city builder with great road tools that has improved a lot under Iceflake. It still has performance problems, bugs and pricey DLC; skip it on a weaker PC.
Great for
Fans of detailed city building and road design with a strong PC who enjoy mods and buy on sale
Main risk
Poor performance and crashes in big cities, plus costly DLC for a game that feels unfinished
151 recent reviews
Recent positive reviews say the game runs and crashes less since Iceflake took over, with steady updates. Negative recent reviews focus on the expansion pass price, so the lean is moderate.
151 recent reviews
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“The game runs much better, there have been so many QOL improvements made, and I am overall more excited to play the game now than I was a few months back.”
Steam review · 354.7 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“it lets you build whatever you want, in any shape and form.”
Steam review · 3.2 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“with them you can litterally build any city you can imagine.”
Steam review · 375.4 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“I love how much more realistic the graphics are compared to the original Cities Skylines.”
Steam review · 1691 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews
“The systems are deeper, the city feels more alive”
Steam review · 8.4 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews
“$45 for expansion packs for a game that feels incomplete compared to CS1 is craaaaaaazy work.”
Steam review · 131.8 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“Cities Skylines 2 is incomplete and dishonestly marketed.”
Steam review · 62.4 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“Intel I7 14700k, 64gb DDR5, RTX 5070Ti and I can get it at an average 38fps.”
Steam review · 32.9 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“it still crashes randomly all the time sometimes i can get a couple hours in, sometimes 10 minutes”
Steam review · 15.2 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews
“It's more graphically appealing, but it feels empty.”
Steam review · 32.2 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews
“The Traffic is abselut garbage in this game.”
Steam review · 100.5 h played ↗
From the Steam store page
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Recommended
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+ Excellent Steam Workshop mods
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