As any SimCity veteran will tell you, one of the great joys of playing a city-building game is the flow state you can enter as you build roads, lay out your city, and manage the complex systems that run through it. Hours can disappear as you dig deep and manage the urban sprawl of your own creation.
The New Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Cities Skylines 2
Cities: Skylines 2 is a worthy successor to Paradox’s original. You can play at every level of granularity, from painting roads and zones across your ever-expanding territories to getting super-handy with taxes, transportation systems, and even the lives of your little townspeople.
Developer Colossal Order is bringing some welcome quality of life improvements to Skylines 2, like new road tools to help you quickly create your grid. I can’t tell you how nice it is to create a grid of roads with a single mouse drag, or to make an easy turn without any hassle. You can even cross roads over roads, something that made the first game super difficult without mods. Roads are essential, because (also new in this version) they automatically connect your power and water pipes underground.
This second game has smaller map tiles (the area you use to fill in roads, houses, shopping areas and city services), but more per map. That gives you four times as much space to play in, but also a much denser play area, since you start in a much smaller area.
