Much like Cities XL, Skylines also gradually unlocks new buildings, infrastructure, and services as the city grows. Navigating through the menus is comfortable and intuitive, and it doesn't take up very much screen space. The game also has a very simple interface that looks good and is easy to read. This game has very vibrant and attractive graphics and art styles that make the city look alive. The color contrasts also make them very easy to read and understand at a glance. The various overlays are also very vibrant and have their own animations that show the flow of traffic along roads or water through pipes, and these overlays are also very pretty.
But if these effects become too bothersome, then you can always turn them off, and the game still looks great without them. The depth of field effect only focuses on the center of the screen, which can look weird when you zoom very far in to look at certain objects. There's also some film grain and depth of field filters that can provide an immersive sense of being in the city when you zoom in.
The animations are very smooth and fluid, which makes the map look very organic and alive. The graphics have a very slight, cartoonish quality with very bright, vibrant colors. Well now that search can finally end, because I think I found my new, definitive city-builder: Cities: Skylines!Īlmost immediately after starting a game, Skylines stands out as a very pretty game.
Cities XL held me over for a while, but my interest in it waned, and I was back to searching. Since the SimCity reboot in 2013 turned out to be a bust, I've been desperately searching for a modern game to fill the hole that was left after I moved on from SimCity 4. I've been on quite a city-builder bender this past eight months or so, and I've gone through quite a variety of games! From Tropico 5, to Cities XXL, Banished, and even a foray into the mobile game SimCity Buildit. The lack of interaction between cities removes a lot of the need to keep building new cities, but both a map and asset editor, and an in-game mod browser, means that there's unlimited variety in cities for you to play.įull of little simulated people living little simulated lives. Music is mellow but not annoying, and ambient sounds are all appropriate. The slightly-exaggerated cartoonish graphics, vibrant overlays, and smooth animation are absolutely gorgeous and make the game look alive and organic. Map starts out small, but you actually buy additional land as your city grows. Buildings unlock fairly early, but balancing your limited starting budget prevents you from immediately plopping all newly-unlocked buildings and services, leading to exceptional pacing.
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