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About this title:
  • Single Player
  • Genre: Simulation, Strategy
  • Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. It introduces new gameplay elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

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    • Offer valid from March 10, 2022 through March 17, 2022.
    • This deal offers a 100% savings off the listed retail price of $29.99.
  • Ratings & Reviews:
    • This title has earned an 85% positive review score on Metacritic.
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Cities: Skylines
A modern take on the classic city building simulation
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city building simulation. With new gameplay elements, the game will bring you the thrill and challenge of building and maintaining a real city while expanding on the well-known city-building experience. The game from the creators of the series "Cities in Motion" comes up with a sophisticated transport system. It also offers modding options to adapt to your own playing style, which perfectly complement the multi-layered and demanding simulation experience. Your imagination knows no boundaries. Take control and aim for the stars!
Complex and challenging simulation
City building is easy to learn but difficult to master. As the mayor of your city, you must not neglect any of the central requirements such as education, water, electricity, police, fire brigade and health care and must always keep an eye on the realistic economic system. Your city's residents respond seamlessly, consistently, and relatably to a variety of gameplay scenarios.
Comprehensive public transport simulation
Colossal Orders' extensive experience in developing the Cities in Motion series has been used to create a fully fleshed out and mature transport system.
Neighborhoods and Policies
Be more than just an administrator who only sits in the town hall! Define individual neighborhoods for your city and apply policies to them. Only then will you really become the mayor of your own city.
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It's a repeat freebie for me.

They have 3 free add-ons [epicgames.com] for the game too. Need to claim the main game first then you can get the add-ons.
It has been free before, on Epic. I sunk over 100 hours into it - it's very addictive, especially with mods. I also like it better than Sim City.

Pro tip - get a traffic mod, because otherwise your game will turn into a traffic simulator, not a city simulator - and not in a good way!!
It's apparently still an issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSk...ce_issues/
However, many of the people with low FPS (<20) also have detail set all the way up, 5,000 mods, and other things going on so that will affect performance.

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It's a repeat freebie for me.

They have 3 free add-ons [epicgames.com] for the game too. Need to claim the main game first then you can get the add-ons.
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03-08-2022 at 07:55 AM.
03-08-2022 at 07:55 AM.
I was going to buy this. Good thing I searched here first.
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03-09-2022 at 08:29 AM.
03-09-2022 at 08:29 AM.
Quote from SlickDealio :
It's a repeat freebie for me.

They have 3 free add-ons [epicgames.com] for the game too. Need to claim the main game first then you can get the add-ons.
how does it play? i have it on steam and the last time i played it, years ago, the game suffered from performance issues. eventually you'd hit a point where traffic would cause the game to run painfully slow because of the lack of multi core support.
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03-09-2022 at 08:54 AM.
03-09-2022 at 08:54 AM.
Definitely a fun game that's a good fill in for SimCity.
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03-09-2022 at 08:54 AM.
03-09-2022 at 08:54 AM.
Quote from dayv :
how does it play? i have it on steam and the last time i played it, years ago, the game suffered from performance issues. eventually you'd hit a point where traffic would cause the game to run painfully slow because of the lack of multi core support.
It's apparently still an issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSk...ce_issues/
However, many of the people with low FPS (<20) also have detail set all the way up, 5,000 mods, and other things going on so that will affect performance.
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03-09-2022 at 10:41 AM.
03-09-2022 at 10:41 AM.
Quote from dayv :
how does it play? i have it on steam and the last time i played it, years ago, the game suffered from performance issues. eventually you'd hit a point where traffic would cause the game to run painfully slow because of the lack of multi core support.
FWIW, I have no noticeable performance issues on my system with a 5600X.
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03-09-2022 at 10:04 PM.
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Quote from PlatinumButterfly :
FWIW, I have no noticeable performance issues on my system with a 5600X.

I have a 5600X. Also using a GTX 1660, and nvme in raid 0, and have performance issues due to GPU only. I run many mods. CPU never gets above 20% usage. Decreasing resolution to 1080 from 4k helps only slightly. I was required to use settings limiting detail while zoomed out. This slightly affects my ability to locate traffic pinch points before they happen since I have to zoom in and follow streets intersection by intersection to see traffic backing up. Even with the detail turned down, it looks ok to me. With the detail turned up, no issues on a small city.
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03-09-2022 at 10:07 PM.
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I really enjoy the game. A lot more fun than Sim City for me. The mods help gameplay substantially. Some of the required services are unrealistic, but it's only a game.
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03-10-2022 at 04:07 AM.
03-10-2022 at 04:07 AM.
Still shows $29.99 wasn't the deal supposed start today ?
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03-10-2022 at 04:30 AM.
03-10-2022 at 04:30 AM.
Quote from AlwaysBePirate :
Still shows $29.99 wasn't the deal supposed start today ?

I was just about to comment that same thing.
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03-10-2022 at 06:49 AM.
03-10-2022 at 06:49 AM.
Quote from AlwaysBePirate :
Still shows $29.99 wasn't the deal supposed start today ?
Quote from sportsweetie318 :
I was just about to comment that same thing.
Download goes live at 11am EST.
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03-10-2022 at 06:57 AM.
03-10-2022 at 06:57 AM.
Quote from AlwaysBePirate :
Still shows $29.99 wasn't the deal supposed start today ?
11AM EST the sale starts
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03-10-2022 at 07:49 AM.
03-10-2022 at 07:49 AM.
I feel like I've gotten this game for free multiple times and played it once 🤣. Watch YouTube videos of some players building crazy cities
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