With now over 200 hours in this game, I think it's time to write a review about this game. I really like base building and city building games, which is why I decided to get cities skylines. I have played SimCity for a long time and have become very accustomed to this genre. I have mostly pros about this game, in addition to a few cons (minor cons however). I will try to keep this review short and sweet, but there's a lot of pros to this game, so it might end up being a longer review.

Pros:

Huge building space - It's WAY bigger than SimCity's building space, and that gives you so much freedom and expandibility as a player. This aspect of the game is definetly my favorite.

Great modding community - There are tons of high quality mods that you can download, which really enrich your experience with the game. Theres not only mods however, as there are color grading packs, assets packs (like new buildings and such), and even road layouts you can download.

Good DLC - Now let me make this clear. I think the DLC is overpriced and I think the content of the game relies to heavily on the DLC. I don't think the DLC was a good idea, BUT, the DLC that the game does have is pretty enjoyable.

Traffic Managment - I really like how there's a lot of aspects to your city layouts. You have to actually design intersections and city road plans like you would in real life. It adds a lot of immersion to the game and I really like this. This is the opposite of SimCity, as there weren't that many options for building roads and intersections. I think Cities: Skylines did the traffic in this game wonderfully.

Economics - There are a lot of different ways to earn money in this game, which I really enjoy as it allows you to create a city that is completely different from your last. You could go a tourism route, office building route, industry route, and more. In SimCity, there was just commercial and industrial. This has specialized commercial buildings that you can make and specialized industry, which is cool.

There are way more pros, but this review would be a massive chunk of text that frankly, I dont think most people want to hear about.

Cons:

Excessive DLC. - This game has a ton of DLC. While I like the DLC and i think they're great additions to the game, they are way overpriced for what they give you and I think they should've been part of the main game. This is by far the worst thing about this game.

Long loading times (sometimes) - Sometimes it takes forever for the game to load. I have a fairly decent hard drive, so I know thats not the issue. Sometimes it can even take over 30 minutes to load a map. Ontop of that, sometimes I might click out of the screen while it's loading. I then come back to see that the game froze and crashed. I tend to play with mods a lot of times, but even with lots of mods and big maps, I still think the loading times should be faster. This doesn't happen all of the time, so it's not a very big problem for me, but its just something I wanted to pick out.

Bad car AI - The car AI is generally good, but could of been way better. The cars don't act like normal humans, instead they are all the EXACT same for every car. Highway logic is completely crazy with cars causing massive traffic james while there is an entire lane free on a highway. Because of this, my service cars literally get stuck on roads for years in game time. Then they dissapear. This always causes dead body buildups and then my entire city gets sick. Then all of my ambulances are trying to go cure people and then they clog up the roads even more. t became so terrible at one point, I had to get a mod that gives me massive roads, because they kept clogging everything up. I know theres traffic in real life like that sometimes and cars just seem to go on endlessly, but this happens all the time in the game, and i think cars need to have more dynamic AI.

Small amount of advanced utilities - What i mean by this is that there is only basic utilities. There are only water pumps and water towers. There are only a handful of power choices. There are only a few trash collection buildings. Basically what i'm trying to show is that there are only basic utilities. All you ever do is expand these few basic utilites exponentially everywhere. I would have really liked it if there were advanced water pumps and more advanced police stations, fire stations, and hostpitals. I know there are the big hospitals and big fire stations ect., but i still need a ton of these to satisfy my citizens. I liked how in SimCity you could upgrade these types of buildings over time. Power problems? Just add another smokestack to your powerplant. But in this game, that doesn't happen. You just have to keep endlessly expanding these forever, with almost no option for future upgrades.

Overall:

I love this game. Please don't let any cons that I listed discourage you from getting the game. I went hard on the existing cons because there's barely any. I highly reccomend this game if you like base building or city building games as the developers of this game executed this genre very well.

With now over 200 hours in this game, I think it's time to write a review about this game. I really like base building and city building games, which is why I decided to get cities skylines. I have played SimCity for a long time and have become very accustomed to this genre. I have mostly pros about this game, in addition to a few cons (minor cons however). I will try to keep this review short and sweet, but there's a lot of pros to this game, so it might end up being a longer review. Pros: Huge building space - It's WAY bigger than SimCity's building space, and that gives you so much freedom and expandibility as a player. This aspect of the game is definetly my favorite. Great modding community - There are tons of high quality mods that you can download, which really enrich your experience with the game. Theres not only mods however, as there are color grading packs, assets packs (like new buildings and such), and even road layouts you can download. Good DLC - Now let me make this clear. I think the DLC is overpriced and I think the content of the game relies to heavily on the DLC. I don't think the DLC was a good idea, BUT, the DLC that the game does have is pretty enjoyable. Traffic Managment - I really like how there's a lot of aspects to your city layouts. You have to actually design intersections and city road plans like you would in real life. It adds a lot of immersion to the game and I really like this. This is the opposite of SimCity, as there weren't that many options for building roads and intersections. I think Cities: Skylines did the traffic in this game wonderfully. Economics - There are a lot of different ways to earn money in this game, which I really enjoy as it allows you to create a city that is completely different from your last. You could go a tourism route, office building route, industry route, and more. In SimCity, there was just commercial and industrial. This has specialized commercial buildings that you can make and specialized industry, which is cool. There are way more pros, but this review would be a massive chunk of text that frankly, I dont think most people want to hear about. Cons: Excessive DLC. - This game has a ton of DLC. While I like the DLC and i think they're great additions to the game, they are way overpriced for what they give you and I think they should've been part of the main game. This is by far the worst thing about this game. Long loading times (sometimes) - Sometimes it takes forever for the game to load. I have a fairly decent hard drive, so I know thats not the issue. Sometimes it can even take over 30 minutes to load a map. Ontop of that, sometimes I might click out of the screen while it's loading. I then come back to see that the game froze and crashed. I tend to play with mods a lot of times, but even with lots of mods and big maps, I still think the loading times should be faster. This doesn't happen all of the time, so it's not a very big problem for me, but its just something I wanted to pick out. Bad car AI - The car AI is generally good, but could of been way better. The cars don't act like normal humans, instead they are all the EXACT same for every car. Highway logic is completely crazy with cars causing massive traffic james while there is an entire lane free on a highway. Because of this, my service cars literally get stuck on roads for years in game time. Then they dissapear. This always causes dead body buildups and then my entire city gets sick. Then all of my ambulances are trying to go cure people and then they clog up the roads even more. t became so terrible at one point, I had to get a mod that gives me massive roads, because they kept clogging everything up. I know theres traffic in real life like that sometimes and cars just seem to go on endlessly, but this happens all the time in the game, and i think cars need to have more dynamic AI. Small amount of advanced utilities - What i mean by this is that there is only basic utilities. There are only water pumps and water towers. There are only a handful of power choices. There are only a few trash collection buildings. Basically what i'm trying to show is that there are only basic utilities. All you ever do is expand these few basic utilites exponentially everywhere. I would have really liked it if there were advanced water pumps and more advanced police stations, fire stations, and hostpitals. I know there are the big hospitals and big fire stations ect., but i still need a ton of these to satisfy my citizens. I liked how in SimCity you could upgrade these types of buildings over time. Power problems? Just add another smokestack to your powerplant. But in this game, that doesn't happen. You just have to keep endlessly expanding these forever, with almost no option for future upgrades. Overall: I love this game. Please don't let any cons that I listed discourage you from getting the game. I went hard on the existing cons because there's barely any. I highly reccomend this game if you like base building or city building games as the developers of this game executed this genre very well.