Cities: Skylines II Reviews

This game is trash. I bought it at release and came back a few times to check it out. I probably won't come back to it unless there is an engine and graphics overhaul, but let's face facts: There won't be. I'm back to the Cities Skylines one forever.

Game keeps crashing...Over and Over and OVER and OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!!

It still crashes! Great design features... easy to look at... cool perks... but it crashes! Just spent 45 minutes on some cool little additions to my city only for them to be gone with a crash out of nowhere.

I have to say to start off with I love City skylines and I loved the potential that the second City Skylines has. and when it first came out I really enjoyed playing it. However there are a few problems this game has currently and has been going on for a few month now. 1st: It crashes a lot much more then any game I have played and the crashes are all random you can play for 1 mins to 2 hours then it will just crash really annoying as I know its a lot of fun to play. 2nd: The lag in the game is huge. I know my computer is some what old however doing a bit of research and you will find out even those $5-6k gaming computers will find city skylines to lag at times. Also I have lowered the graphics on the game to help my computer and it still lags. Too be honest I think this game just has too much detail in all areas for most computers to handle even higher spec computers then recommended will have problems. 3rd: Its a pity but like most games today It's not complete and so you will have to keep updating the game which will keep making the game slower and slower with the more detail they add in. So my overall rating of this game is 3/5 and sadly I am going to go back to the old game (City Skylines) as its just a much better game to this at the moment. I hope that I can re visit the game in a few years and all of this will be fixed. Hope this review helps you out! Cheers

After trying as hard as I can to enjoy the game for over 80 hours I can sadly say it is not very good. The simulation is lacking, bugs plague the entire experience, and random game crashes are infuriating. The final straw is lack of support/care for what should have been the easiest win for a studio in history. Cities 1 is better in almost every single way. I feel like even the developers have all but threw in the towel. Save your money or wait for a deep sale.

[h1]I want to love this game.... but I just can't...[/h1] At first I knew that this game wasn't gonna be as good as CS1 and I was very prepared for everything that would come with it. But the absolute blatant lies that were told before launch pissed me off. So many features that just sucked, and good ones removed. Then the bugs... Holy fucking shit.... I bought a brand new PC with pretty high end specs, and it could barely run it, and it would crash almost every hour. Constant problems with controls, mods and everything else... Now the thing that actually made me quit.... THE STEAM CLOUD INTEGRATION.... How is it that when i have only played this game on 1 machine, that all of my saves can just disappear from the steam cloud without any notice??? This was not once, or twice, but like 10 times. I've started making manual backups but I am just so sick of it. I won't be returning anymore.... [h1]Dear Colossal Order[/h1] I expected so much better... I am so god damn disappointed that it turned out this way. I hope you can see your mistakes and do better next time. [h1]Now for Paradox[/h1] Oh Paradox.... what the fuck is ur problem? Can u please, just for the love of god stop.... With every single title you become so much worse..... I am steering clear of anything from u guys. And when I start working in the industry in a few years, I will make sure to never ever EVER work for a company who even has thoughts of working with you... [h1]In summary[/h1] Game is a buggy mess even after almost a year... So many mistakes were made, and there is no coming back from it now. I am sorely disappointed in Colossal Order. And Paradox screwed up yet again... Nothing usual there...

What a real let down of a game especially compared to the original Cities game. 16 months this game has been out and buggy, yes, but i could get by. Lack of diversity in architecture, services, etc, fine, I could get by. Specialized industry all looking exactly the same, alright, but I could get by. Unappealing color palettes and overall muted/flat game coloring, meh, but i could still get by. Putting 37 hours into a city only for it to be deleted by the game, unacceptable. Everything wiped as if i never played the game but i have the achievements. What is the point of playing any game if your save data just disappears. I have hundreds of hrs on the xbox version of Cities, multiple cities going back years, never one issue. The base game is great even without all the add-ons, and once you did get the add-ons, it accentuated the game. I still go back to the original Cities and am amazed by all that I have created. It is truly a game to lost in for days. This new version clearly lost me in 37 hrs and whatever add-ons are available, are there to make the game playable.

Mechanics and game play is good. Optimization and graphics are terrible.

I hate the way that it lags, the way that it stutters, I hate the way that it plays I hate the game, I always need to actually push myself just to start the game and then closed it after the pop up launcher showed up. I was excited to jump into Cities: Skylines II after hours playing cities skyline 1 on steam and my PS4, expecting an improved city-building experience, the ability to build off service buildings, the seasons, and better option at building road (overall yes, more mechanism than CS 1) what I got was a game that runs like a broken-down Porsche Mauser tank. Let’s address the elephant in the room: Cities: Skylines II is horribly optimized. The fact that they list an RTX 3080 as the recommended GPU is ridiculous, frame rates are inconsistent, stuttering is constant, and performance tanks as your city grows. It’s frustrating when a game that should be about creativity and smooth management ends up feeling like an endurance test for your PC/laptop. I was never asking for ultra-realistic, almost dull graphics. The original Cities: Skylines had a clean, semi-stylized look that made cities feel vibrant and inviting. Cities: Skylines II, on the other hand, leans too hard into realism, making everything look too muted and uninspiring. The lighting feels off, textures look muddy despite the “improvements,” and overall, it lacks the charm of the first game. hard to enjoy when it runs so poorly, I really like CS1 the way the semi-stylized look....even though the animations were simpler, they had a certain charm that made the city feel alive. I like to see a dog turns into a car, I like to see thousand of people summoning their own car or bike after leaving stadium with angry after their team losing. It kills the immersion rather than enhancing it. I find myself wanting to go back to Cities: Skylines 1, that's still something that CS 2 can't replicate even after 1 year, 3 months, and 23 days after release.

Over 1 year after the release: - Still tons, tons of bugs?✔️ - Frequent unexpected crashes? ✔️ - Zero compatibility with mods? ✔️ - Still no proper modding tools? ✔️ - Unbalanced economy and population, terrible pathfinding? ✔️ - Zero optimalisation and incredibly high graphic requirements? ✔️ - Still a small portion of content in the SEQUEL, compared to 1st game? ✔️ - Releasing paid DLC's to unfinished and almost empty game? ✔️ Dont buy it, by any means don't do it. The game is in pre-alpha version compared to what should have been and will be for a long, long time given the current "development"