The beginning of Cities: Skylines is confusing at first and some might give up. Saving is key you see, and the only problem is that sometimes the pace of daily life can be a bit slow and when everything’s going well there is no button to fast forward time. This means you don’t get too overwhelmed and lose control easily. It has taken me multiple attempts at building different cities to work this method out, but thankfully there is a nice feature whereby you can pause the game progression and deal with all the things you have to do, before un-pausing it when you are ready. Keep them happy, balance the books and don’t build more then you have to – that is the real key to success in Cities: Skylines. The residents will tell you when they are unhappy, usually via Twitter messages and little icons that appear on the screen. The size of the city, and the areas you can expand into, will increase as the milestones get bigger. You can make policies that affect the game and help you save money, like a water policy on saving water or a pet ban to stop littering and help the constant strain on the garbage collection. Here you have to balance the income and expenditure, rise or decrease taxes, or get loans and hope you never have to pay them back. Transport systems, police stations, nuclear power and huge monuments like the Statue of Liberty can all eventually be unlocked.īut the more people and more fancy facilities you have, the trickier the city is to manage. The more people you get, the more milestones you unlock and then you can start to get the really good stuff. You have the option at the start of the game to play with unlimited money and have all the facilities open, but where is the fun in that? In the normal game you have a small number of features to start with like a health centre, or a roundabout, and the key is to entice people to come and live in your paradise. When people start to move to your fair city then that is where the fun begins. When you do get the perfect system though, becoming the king of sewage, if feels so so sweet.
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Now, you have to get this right, it took me at least three attempts, with various cities, to work out how to properly deal with pipe placement, stopping the whole residential area filling with, well, human waste. You start out building small areas of residential, commercial and industrial zones, connecting them all with electricity and, most importantly, water. Then, quoting “Field of Dreams”, if you build it, they will come. The first thing you must do is build a road and connect it to the main highway so people can find you. Do you choose some land near the sea? Or something with a little river flowing through it? It’s up to you to visualise the potential of your growing city. You start the game by choosing a template from one of many landscapes. If you haven’t got any idea what I’m talking about, listen very carefully.
If you’ve played Sim City in any of its incarnations throughout the years, you probably have a very good idea of what this game is all about.
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