It may seem like it will take forever to get your modest plot of land into a buzzling, sprawling mastodon of a city, but you will get there remember, Rome wasn’t built in a day! Watching your creation slowly come to life is one of the best aspects of Cities: Skylines as, when you have finished, there isn’t much else to do apart from obviously maintaining the city itself.
You may be desperate to get in and start building, but you NEED to pay attention to the tutorial, especially if you are a newbie to the city-building world or, like me, you haven’t played one in over a decade. Much like Paradox’s other titles, such as Stellaris, noticeable pop-up will, well, pop up throughout the game, which can be helpful, especially if you’ve forgotten something you were shown ten minutes prior. The tutorial, where informative at the time, does act a bit like a fed up substitute teacher, in that it will show you something once and once only. You choose a plot of land from a dozen or so maps, you are given a sum of money to get you started, and you are then guided through an informative tutorial about how various aspects work while building a city, such as providing power and clean water, setting up public transports and various other infrastructures you can imagine being discussed in a city council meeting on a Monday morning. When you start a game in Cities: Skylines, you are faced with nothing. If you haven’t played or even heard of Cities: Skylines, and you have never really bothered with any city-building game before, here’s a quick catch up. Due to just how big the game can be, a port to the Switch was spoken about on various forums (more hope than anything), but it didn’t look likely to happen, and then at the Nintendo Direct conference earlier this month, not only was it announced for the Switch, but Cities: Skylines for Nintendo Switch was released that very day. It was a major hit on the PC, and in 2017 it also made its console bow as it was released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Over the years, the city-building genre has suffered a bit with no real decent releases for a long time however, that all changed in the spring of 2015 when Paradox Interactive released Cities: Skylines. There really was no better feeling than getting the idea of your very own Metropolis out of your head and onto a screen.
One of the most popular games of this ‘build your own’ genre was the incredible Sim City. Rollercoaster Tycoon, Theme Hospital, Civilisation and many more have been the reason why countless players have spent hours upon hours locked away creating. Some of the most popular video games ever released are blank canvases, just waiting for your vision to be created.
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