It can be overwhelming, but Cities: Skylines also helps you along, keeping things hidden until your city reaches a certain size and your citizens demand them. You create a city from scratch: build roads and other infrastructure supply energy and water control zoning choose tax rates provide public services, public transportation, parks and entertainment, and more. But Maxis and EA dropped the ball with the latest version, and Cities: Skylines picked it up and ran with it.Ĭities: Skylines’ premise is the usual. City-building games helped create the simulation genre, and for years SimCity was the gold standard.
