Cities Skylines: The misadventures of Steppenwolf

[Puddy]

Aight people, listen up. Dis here sim city challenger just got released. Good reviews so far, 8's and 9's with around 88+ metacritic.

 

 

I just bought it and I'm gonna try to get some playtime in soon. Will post my review later.

[Mazy]

I really want a good SimCity like game, but hasn't this series been....not particularly good so far? Eager to hear your impressions~~

[DrywallDreams]

I really want a good SimCity like game, but hasn't this series been....not particularly good so far? Eager to hear your impressions~~

This is a new thing, not cities xl.

It's pretty good! They got so much right.

[Psy]

I don't play city builders. *plays Cities : Skylines* WHERE HAVE THESE GAMES BEEN ALL MY LIFE?!

[2d-chris]

yeah the name is very misleading for sure, anyway, totally sold on this I've bought it and will give it a run this weekend.

[Mazy]

 

I really want a good SimCity like game, but hasn't this series been....not particularly good so far? Eager to hear your impressions~~

This is a new thing, not cities xl.

It's pretty good! They got so much right.

 

 

Ahh, I assumed it was in the (old/other) Cities series, with Skylines just being a fancy name for the latest entry.

[Steppenwolf]

This game is fun. It's like classic Sim City but with awesome road tools.

 

I tried building a town to be as shitty and unpleasant as possible but still have growth last night. Only used dirt roads. Crime soon hit 45%. Things started to get interesting when i got close to 5000 population. Thanks to having landfills and industry in the center of town and no clinics a public health crisis happend. I lost 2000 people rapidly with their corpses rotting in the streets. Even after building 3 hospitals i had over 2000 sick people and only 300 hospital beds. Thanks to drastic budget cuts and tax raises i managed to turn still a profit. There was dead, decay, fire and crime everywhere. It was like managing an African town during Ebola outbreak. Eventualy i cashed out with over 130k $ in the bank and almost all citizens dead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pampers]

I see Incest Farm expanded quite a bit

[FrieChamp]

This game is fun. It's like classic Sim City but with awesome road tools.

 

I tried building a town to be as shitty and unpleasant as possible but still have growth last night. Only used dirt roads. Crime soon hit 45%. Things started to get interesting when i got close to 5000 population. Thanks to having landfills and industry in the center of town and no clinics a public health crisis happend. I lost 2000 people rapidly with their corpses rotting in the streets. Even after building 3 hospitals i had over 2000 sick people and only 300 hospital beds. Thanks to drastic budget cuts and tax raises i managed to turn still a profit. There was dead, decay, fire and crime everywhere. It was like managing an African town during Ebola outbreak. Eventualy i cashed out with over 130k $ in the bank and almost all citizens dead.

 

 

 

 

Keep up the good work, mayor! 

[Steppenwolf]

I actualy got an achievement for being a most unpopular mayor.

 

I started to build a serious city last night tho. I can really recommend the game if you liked Sim City when it was still good. This game feels very similar but what i like most are the road tools because you can make cities that have a very natural looking layout. The modding scene also seems to become strong but i haven't even dived into this yet.

[AyzOn]

http://www.pcgamer.com/the-strange-tale-of-a-cities-skylines-town-with-only-one-house/

I thought that was quite fun.

[Warby]

i really want to try this but i gotta finish skyrim hotline miami 2 and ori first D:

and by the time that that happend i am sure 10 other awesome games got released  FML

[Thrik]

Looks excellent, I might have to get this. So it has actual gameplay unlike the other Cities series which seems to basically just be building?

I wish they'd figure out getting this genre on consoles and/or tablets though, it's the key to its future.

[2d-chris]

The game has nothing to do with the other cities games, it's a different developer and IP - just super weird naming, how they could not see this coming is beyond me, unless it was intentional somehow

 

I played sim city 3 on my phone for quite a while, was pretty good actually, perfect game to play when stuck in an airport ;P

Edited March 12, 2015 by 2d-chris

[Vilham]

Its because they made Cities in motion, but I agree the name makes it seem like its a Cities XL game.