History VideoGame / CitiesSkylines

*** Furthermore, while traffic is very well developed in-game, parking is decorative at best. There's no requirements for any type of building to have enough parking, ''specially'' egregious with high density commercial. Some buildings have some parking but nowhere near enough for the supposed number of people in them (for example apartment buildings with 15 families in them will have 3 parking spots on the back at most), and while Cims can park in smaller roads it's all decorative as they'll just put their car in their pocket if there's no parking available. It's absence is notable due to parking vs public transit being a current sore point in city planning.

[[https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/media/press-releases/press-release/paradox-interactive-announces-cities-skylines-ii-the-next-generation-city-builder A sequel]], ''Cities: Skylines II'', is in the works, set to release on UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS, and PC sometime in 2023.

* PermanentElectedOfficial: The player.
* RealTimeWithPause

** You're also expected to build public transit. Like many IRL cities that are permanently collapsed in traffic due to poor public transit, not having one in this game will make your city a dysfunctional gridlock.

** In general, Cim movement is based on how modern European cities do urban planning. That is, if you can make places accessible via walking, Cims will do that over taking some sort of vehicular transport. And if the destination is too far for them to walk or bike to, they'll consider public transportation over cars. If one tries to apply traditional American based urban planning (i.e., expects everyone to drive so just make big wide roads), this is what grinds cities to a halt.

* SurpriseCreepy: Whenever you start a new game, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM0PHpv5-8w "Lehto Electronics"]] will play, which is a ''creepy atmospheric track'' which wouldn't sound out of place in a ''VideoGame/SilentHill'' game

* ArtificialStupidity: A Cim calculates their route from point A to point B at the start of their journey based on average speed, regardless of traffic volume, and doesn't deviate from it, so pre-existing traffic jams will take a long time to clear even if a bypass is built.

** Due to the sharing capabilities of the [=PlayStation=] 4 and [=PlayStation=] 5, the console is always recording so you can click the Share button and immediately save and upload a video of the last few minutes of gameplay. If you select to select Gold F.M. on the radio, the console will stop recording and a pop up notification will confirm so.

[[http://www.citiesskylines.com/xbox The game was released]] for the UsefulNotes/XboxOne in April 2017, with a UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 release in August of the same year and a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch release in September 2018.

* StreamerFriendlyMode: While most radio stations feature original in-house music that can be played without any issues with copyright-sensitive content platforms, one station features licensed music and is designed to be disabled if the game is being streamed.

[[https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/media/press-releases/press-release/paradox-interactive-announces-cities-skylines-ii-the-next-generation-city-builder A sequel]], ''City: Skylines II'', is in the works, set to release on UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS, and PC sometime in 2023.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To both the aforementioned ''[=SimCity=]'' and to ''VideoGame/CitiesInMotion'' by the same company, especially as designing efficient transportation is a major focus in this game.

* ArtificialStupidity: A Cim calculates their route from point A to point B at the very start of their journey and doesn't deviate from it, so pre-existing traffic jams will take a long time to clear even if a bypass is built.

* ''Plazas & Promenades'' (2022), expanding on pedestrian streets and city centers.

* [[BaseonWheels Base on Wheels]]: In the Industries DLC, the Ore Industry section has the Large Ore Mine which has a bucket-wheel excavator; a mining vehicle so big it ''is'' the building itself and is as tall as some ''skyscrapers''. The Medium Ore Mine house the smaller but still ridiculously huge walking dragline excavator. On the other hand of the spectrum, the ChirpX launch facility houses a crawler-transporter that is big enough to carry the launch vehicle to its platform. These vehicles are treated more like landships than a traditional building structure and are among the largest ground vehicles in the game.

* CoolStarship: The ChirpX is a rocket launch facility that could house a rocket-boosted launch vehicle into space and the crawler-transporter that carries said launch vehicle. The launch vehicle is one of the only spaceships that could go into orbit in the game outside of mods.

* [[BaseonWheels Base on Wheels]]: In the Industries DLC, the Ore Industry section has the Large Ore Mine which has a bucket-wheel excavator; a mining vehicle so big it ''is'' the building itself and is as tall as some ''skyscrapers''. The Medium Ore Mine house the smaller but still ridiculously huge walking dragline excavator. Both of these vehicles are treated more like landships than a traditional building structure and are among the largest ground vehicles in the game.

* [[BaseonWheels Base on Wheels]]: In the Industries DLC, the Ore Industry section has the Large Ore Mine which has a bucket-wheel excavator; a mining vehicle so big it ''is'' the building itself. The Medium Ore Mine house the smaller but still ridiculously huge walking dragline excavator. Both of these vehicles are treated more like landships than a traditional building structure and are among the largest ground vehicles in the game.

* BaseonWheels: In the Industries DLC, the Ore Industry section has the Large Ore Mine which has a bucket-wheel excavator; a mining vehicle so big it ''is'' the building itself. The Medium Ore Mine house the smaller but still ridiculously huge walking dragline excavator. Both of these vehicles are treated more like landships than a traditional building structure and are among the largest ground vehicles in the game.

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

** Electric infrastructure: instead of having a series of transmission lines and transformers that allow buildings to tap into them, electricity can flow through buildings into neighboring buildings. In real life, this type of transmission would have a litany of problems, one of which being that if one building's power were to be disrupted somehow, it would cause the power in every other building in the same circuit to go out.

* SceneryPorn: As good as you can get for a game with slightly bizarre architecture.

** Incineration plants are a clean (albeit noisy) way to dispose of trash and create energy at the same time. In real life, burning trash releases very toxic substances such as dioxin and heavy metals that can contaminate the surrounding land and air.