History VideoGame / CitiesSkylines

* TemptingFate: The scenario "By the Dam" has the description "A nice city. Next to a dam. [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong What could happen?]] [[SchmuckBait Hard difficulty.]]" [[spoiler:A meteor is due to strike the dam and flood your entire city unless you start building in the mountains ''fast''.]]

* UnexpectedlyRealisticGameplay: New players will probably be astonished by how complex the water physics are, and might well not discover this until they place a dam and find the uplands flooding.

* In addition, smaller pieces of DownloadableContent have been released periodically, including additional music for the in-game radio (''Relaxation Station'', ''Rock City Radio'', ''All That Jazz''), or Content Creator Packs developed by members of the modding community (''Art Deco'', ''High-Tech Buildings'', ''European Suburbia'').

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Just like in ''[=SimCity=]'', residential, commercial, and industrial zones are green, blue, and yellow, respectively. Office zones are teal in color.

* NotInMyBackyard: Just like any other city builder game, choosing where to place your industrial areas is important.
** Not just for industrial pollution but noise pollution of commercial areas as well. One of the policies in ''After Dark'' that can be enacted is literally titled [[FunWithAcronyms NIMBY]] that shuts down the otherwise 24/7 leisure district(s) for the night with the drawback of forfeiting the income during that time

* InUniverseGameClock: Starting with the ''After Dark'' [=DLC=], the game had a day/night cycle, and the days went by on the in-game calendar. However, multiple weeks would pass between a sunrise and sunset, and it could take a citizen many days to drive to work. One calendar day took only a few real-time seconds, but the game simulation ran in real time. Recent updates have somewhat changed this, as although days and nights cycle at a ratio of 1 second IRL to 1 minute in-game, the calendar now displays the day of the week and time (down to the minute!) the game is currently in, and vehicles tend to travel fast enough to feel like a normal commute.

*** And now, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pybzTnfmyw Fun with dams series]].

** One possible use of the landscaping tool is to build a Dutch-style dike in a body of water. Once a section is closed off and the water pumped out (it'll evaporate on its own but a pump will speed things up), you're left with perfectly-usable ground to build on. There's almost never a reason to do this--the only time it's a semi-feasible strategy is the Marin Bay map to expand the smallish island you start on--but it was possible even before the addition of landscaping tools (albeit much more difficult). The reclaimed land even grows grass over time unless its a beach, meaning the [[DevelopersForesight developers expected]] ''someone'' to try it at some point.

** One possible use of the landscaping tool is to build a Dutch-style dike in a body of water. Once a section is closed off and the water pumped out (it'll evaporate on its own but a pump will speed things up), you're left with perfectly-usable ground to build on. There's almost never a reason to do this--the only time it's a semi-feasible strategy is the Marin Bay map to expand the smallish island you start on--but it was possible even before the addition of landscaping tools (albeit much more difficult). The reclaimed land even grows grass over time unless its a beach, meaning the [[DeveloperForesight developers expected]] ''someone'' to try it at some point.

''Cities: Skylines'' is a city-building SimulationGame released in 2015 by Colossal Order and published by Creator/ParadoxInteractive. Due to the lukewarm reception 2013's ''VideoGame/{{SimCity|2013}}'' (and Creator/ElectronicArts shutting down Maxis in the same month ''Skylines'' was published), many fans see ''Skylines'' as "what ''[=SimCity=]'' should have been". ''Skylines'' is single-player and doesn't require online access, with heavy emphasis on improved traffic AI.

* RuleThirtyFour: Not only can you rename people, buildings, routes, and roads, you can use editors to go further in regarding trope:
** [[https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1339999675 Bonehenge]], anyone?

*** Furthermore the Natural Disasters DLC includes the ability to trigger tsunamis at will

[[http://www.citiesskylines.com/xbox The game was released for the Xbox One]] in April 2017, with a Playstation 4 release in August of the same year and a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch release in September 2018.

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''Cities: Skylines'' is a city-building SimulationGame released in 2015 by Colossal Order and published by Creator/ParadoxInteractive. Its premise is basically "a ''Simcity 2013'' that doesn't suck". Due to the lukewarm reception 2013's ''VideoGame/{{SimCity|2013}}'' (and EA shutting down Maxis in the same month ''Skylines'' was published), many fans see ''Skylines'' as "what ''[=SimCity=]'' was meant to be" before ExecutiveMeddling turned ''[=SimCity=]'' into an online game. ''Skylines'' is single-player and doesn't require online access, with heavy emphasis on improved traffic AI. However, opinions may vary.

* ''Natural Disasters'' (November 2016), adding natural disasters and early warning/response systems as well as including radio stations for relaxing music and [[ParodyCommercial Parody Commercials]].

* DownloadableContent: As noted at the top of the page, the game has a ''lot'' of DLC packs. Some of which introduced features that many players thought should have been in the game at launch, leading to accusations of [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo selling the game piecemeal to extract more money]]: Disasters, a genre staple since the original ''VideoGame/SimCity'' and which even EA weren't mercenary enough to lock behind a DLC paywall, cost almost half as much as the price of the base game.

* ModernStasis: From 2015 (the game starts at your computer's time) to the 23rd century or whenever, the architecture never changes. Mods in the Workshop allow you to change the architecture of the buildings.

* FictionalSocialNetwork: Chirper is where your city's residents post their thoughts and feedback. The blue bird representing the social network also acts as the game's mascot, visible in menus, loading screens, and some special buildings.

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: Anyone who has played the ''VideoGame/SimCity'' games is going to be rudely surprised if they expect to play ''Cities: Skylines'' in the same manner. For example, the standard industrial zone spreads air pollution, so putting them next to residential zones will make your citizens sick. Then they have to go to the hospitals, which creates traffic...

* LowLevelAdvantage: This used to be an factor, as buildings would grow taller and more complex as they leveled up so players trying to achieve a specific look would need to either cap leveling up on a building using a mod or avoid providing services to the area, thus avoiding buildings leveling up. Similarly the building policy High Rise ban caps
level up to avoid buildings growing too tall. Averted with the Industries DLC, which offers the option of historical, allowing buildings to level up without changing its appearance.

* LowLevelAdvantage: This used to be an factor, as buildings would grow taller and more complex as they leveled up so players trying to achieve a specific look would need to either cap leveling up on a building using a mod or avoid providing services to the area, thus avoiding buildings leveling up. Similarly the building policy High Rise ban caps level up to avoid buildings growing too tall. Averted with the Industries DLC, which offers the option of historical, allowing buildings to level up without changing it's appearance.

* HelloInsertNameHere: You can actually rename literally ''anything'' in your city for your personal preferences; from buildings, to cars, to even the citizens. This is probably the first time an actual City-Building Game featured the ability to rename more than just certain buildings, which continues the great tradition of player immaturity. You can even rename roads and districts.

* FictionalSocialNetwork: Chirper is where your city's residents post their thoughts and feedback. The blue bird representing the social network also acts as the game's mascot, visible in menus, loading screens, and some other gameplay elements.

* FictionalSocialNetwork: Chirper is where your city's residents post their thoughts and feedback. The blue bird Chirpy also acts as the game's mascot, visible in menus, loading screens, and some other gameplay elements.

* FictionalSocialNetwork: Chirper is where your city's residents post their thoughts and feedback.