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Cities: Skylines II

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

Developer
Iceflake Studios, Colossal Order
Publisher
Paradox Interactive
Franchise
Cities: Skylines
Release date
Oct 24, 2023
Store page updated
Sep 15, 2026
Price
−30% $49.99 $34.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

41.6/ 100

Based on 410 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 74% of 785
All time 😐 Mixed 56% of 92,620
“game is refined and enjoyable with great QOL features”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-0.56
Freedom +1.19
“best way to build your own cities available, love spending hours in it” (15)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+0.33

Not enough data — only 3% of reviews mention this.

World +1.15

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
-1.49
Volume -1.02

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+1.31
Visuals +1.71
“improved industry mechanics and special building unlock system” (49)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
-0.25

Not enough data — only 4% of reviews mention this.

Community +0.17

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-3.12
Monetization -3.01
“removing railway bridges over water to sell as DLC is predatory monetization” (26)

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-2.61
Developer support -1.58
“no consistent effort to improve, focus on paid DLCs instead” (28)

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
20%40%60%80%
Oct 2023Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 759 reviews, peak 48/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 408 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English30%
  • Chinese15%
  • Russian11%
  • German9%
  • Portuguese8%
  • French6%
  • Other20%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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