Recent reviews by signum_temporis

Visually a very nice builder with amazing colors, very relaxing. The building tools allow you to create surprisingly different structures. The game has a lot of potential. I hope to see more resources (plants, flowers, furniture) and more advanced tools soon.

Beautifully looking and pleasurable to play game. Didn't notice any issues. During further development it will become, I hope, even more interesting by adding such elements like bigger maps and ability to build medieval cities.

The best city builder but only in case if you use some crucial mods and a lot of nice assets from Steam workshop.

Amazing quality. The best looking buildings across all DLC. What is nice most match nicely to european style cities.

I expected better simulation and better visuals than in modded CS1 and I'm very disappointed. Cities look dull and gloomy. The buildings are mainly painted in strange, dark colors. Simulation of daylight is horrible. Volumetric clouds even on high settings look much worse than CS1 with a nice cubemap. Saplings instead of adult trees are irritating, you don't know what they will look like when the trees grow up and you have to wait a long time for it.

CS2 doesn't run great on my PC (Ryzen 5 5800X, 64GB RAM, NVMe SSD, RTX 2060 Super), but with mixed settings I got 30 FPS and don't need more. Technically it is well playable. The game haven't crashed once (42 hours), but that's all that's good.

There are currently serious problems with the simulation. The number of workers in high-density offices, factories, schools and universities is too low. Even with the European style selected, CS2 forces us to build huge suburbs with houses in each of which lives often only 1 person. I won't talk about many bugs, some make CS2 unplayable now. Anyone can check the current status on the forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/cities-skylines-2-bug-reports.1162/

Very fine DLC. Fishing industry is great. That is so interesting feaure for all maps with larger water bodies. Inland Water Treatment Plants are great replacement of older type of water treatments. New waste management with Transfer and Processing facilities is also interesting feature. Trolleybuses are interesting option to diversify public transport. Finally helicopters - maybe they can't transfer too many people but definitely help to create modern city look. It is pleasurable to watch them flying especially that we can control air corridors where these are flying.

The promenades themselves are nice and useful, but the rest of the content in this DLC is terrible. Wall-to-wall residential, commercial and office buildings are ugly, most are very dark, almost black, with garish patterns on selected walls. Totally useless if you want to create a nice looking city. Another issue is related to the vertical scale of all buildings caused by too small height of floors. Worst DLC from all I have. Buildings I will never use only take a place in ram. Not worth the price.