Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
🇺🇸United Statesshown above$29.99USD
🇬🇧United Kingdom£24.99GBP
🇩🇪Germany€27.99EUR
🇫🇷France€27.99EUR
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Chart position by market
daily · last 30d
Each storefront's own chart, in its own country — the closest public signal to sales where none is published. A country missing from a list is one we don't collect there, not one where the game doesn't chart.
Steam · Top Sellers
No United States chart position — it charts only in the markets below.
🇨🇳China9d#69
🇧🇷Brazil8d#72
🇦🇺Australia
Discounts
What happened when the price fell
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Price cut of Aug 14
15 markets
🇺🇸United States$29.99$8.99−70%no chart position on both sides of this date
🇦🇺AustraliaA$42.95A$12.88−70%no chart position on both sides of this date
🇧🇷BrazilR$115.99
About
About the game
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience. You’re only limited by your imagination, so take control and reach for the sky!
Multi-tiered and challenging simulation
Constructing your city from the ground up is easy to learn, but hard to master. Playing as the mayor of your city you’ll be faced with balancing essential requirements such as education, water electricity, police, fire fighting, healthcare and much more along with your citys real economy system. Citizens within your city react fluidly, with gravitas and with an air of authenticity to a multitude of game play scenarios.
Extensive local traffic simulation
Colossal Order's extensive experience developing the Cities in Motion series is fully utilized in a fully fleshed out and well-crafted local traffic simulation.
Districts and Policies
Be more than just an administrator from city hall. Designating parts of your city as a district results in the application of policies which results in you rising to the status of Mayor for your own city.
Utilize the Day and Night Cycle
The city changes during the hours of the day and affects citizen schedules. Traffic is visibly slower at night and some zoned areas do not work with full efficiency. Cities: Skylines will put you in control of managing the different aspects of the day and night cycles.
Extensive modding support
Build or improve on existing maps and structures. You can then import your creations into the game, share them as well as download the creations of other city builders on the Steam workshop.
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Add-ons
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DLC / add-ons
40
on Steam
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
This game across stores
3 storefronts
Combined estimated revenue
$204.8M
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Playtime distribution
Median 34.8 h
<1h
36
1%
1–5h
147
6%
5–20h
727
28%
20–50h
640
25%
50h+
1K
40%
Reviews
What players mention
Themes across 2577 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Gameplay & combat
88% · 263
Visuals & world
82% · 110
Value & content
81% · 107
Performance & bugs
Reviews
Player reviews (2,594)
Not recommended585h played4 found helpfulAug 2026
I have almost 600 hours this game. I LOVE cities skylines. It's my most played game on steam for crying out loud. But making me AGREE to you collecting my "personal data" to even play the game now? It's absolutely insane, no way am I agreeing to letting you collect my data for a single player game. Sad to say I won't be playing again, hopefully others follow in my footsteps after this insane update.
Not recommended30h played4 found helpfulJul 2026
♥♥♥♥ this ♥♥♥♥ company, absolutely unnecessary launcher that tries to collect your keystrokes
i will never buy a paradox product again. period
may your company die in hell and your executives hunger
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Latest in each market: best CN #69, worst PL #95 · 6 markets collected
R$34.79
−70%
no chart position on both sides of this date
🇨🇦CanadaCA$39.99CA$11.99−70%no chart position on both sides of this date
🇨🇳ChinaCN¥138.00CN¥41.40−70%no chart position on both sides of this date
🇩🇪Germany€27.99€8.39−70%no chart position on both sides of this date
🇫🇷France€27.99€8.39−70%no chart position on both sides of this date
🇬🇧United Kingdom£24.99£7.49−70%no chart position on both sides of this date
🇯🇵Japan¥3,990¥1,197−70%no chart position on both sides of this date
🇰🇷South Korea₩33,000₩9,900−70%no chart position on both sides of this date
🇲🇽MexicoMX$460.00MX$138.00−70%no chart position on both sides of this date
🇵🇱PolandPLN 125.99PLN 37.79−70%no chart position on both sides of this date
🇷🇺RussiaRUB 1,759.00RUB 527.00−70%no chart position on both sides of this date
🇹🇷Türkiye$20.99$6.29−70%no chart position on both sides of this date
🇺🇦UkraineUAH 809.00UAH 242.00−70%no chart position on both sides of this date
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 24.71/day in the week to Aug 14 → 38.14/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 2.6K reviews with recorded playtime.
66%
· 74
Story & quests
78% · 27
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Recommended78h played4 found helpfulJul 2026
I'm still trying to build a city where I would like to live.
[b]10/10 city builder simulator[/b]
Not recommended1h played4 found helpfulSep 2026
i would not recommend this game to my worst enemy i bought it today and it cant be played without internet access which means if your internet goes down you can play it and pass the time while the internet is down in the description it didn't say it had to be played on the internet or i would not have bought it
Recommended42h played4 found helpfulJul 2026
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Not recommended192h played4 found helpfulJul 2026
bad game, bad update, modders did more to fix it than devs
Recommended3h played4 found helpfulJul 2026
Наконец-то игра, где я могу построить идеальный город... и понять, почему в моём реальном городе всё так плохо. Оказывается, быть мэром — значит постоянно слушать, как твои жители жалуются на шум, мусор и налоги, пока ты пытаешься понять, куда делись все деньги. А ещё пробки. Боже, эти пробки. Покупал игру ради расслабления — теперь у меня повышенное давление. Спасибо, Cities: Skylines.
Not recommended31h played4 found helpfulSep 2026
forces you to download some jewish third party launcher which never used to be the case probably spyware. it also forces you to read some terms of service or something which say something about that the jewish developers own you and that you will get sacrificed to baal if you break the terms of service and some talmud quotes i dont recommend.
Recommended73h played4 found helpfulJul 2026
After seeing that Cities: Skylines 2 is still being “finished” - although I’m glad it’s in a much better state now than it was at launch - I finally decided [i](bought some free time)[/i] to check out how the original game holds up after all these years.
Just as it did when it first came out, this city-building simulator can still swallow up hours of your life. For a casual player like me, it has become the definitive city-building experience: during the first hour, you have to carefully balance your finances to avoid slipping into the red. After that, you’re free to decide which of your city’s problems you feel like tackling.
Without fail, two or three hours later I find myself hopelessly stuck designing road interchanges, trying to create the most efficient routes for traffic. Then I spend another hour admiring the fact that I’ve somehow managed to make everything even worse. Overall, the simulation, objectives, and available tools are all designed in a way that makes the game incredibly difficult to put down. Despite having played it before, I immediately lost another 4.5 hours to it.
A subscription granting access to all the DLC is available at a perfectly reasonable price. I can’t say that every piece of content is particularly “high-quality,” but there is now so much of it that the constant “don’t forget to check out this new building” notifications start getting a little annoying after a couple of hours. Still, I think there’s something here for everyone - especially those blessed with a good imagination and plenty of free time.
City builders may not be the most popular genre in gaming, but it’s both impressive [i](and a little sad)[/i] that even after 11 years, Cities: Skylines still has no real competition. And it still plays wonderfully.
Recommended11h played4 found helpfulAug 2026
I was aware i wasn't a good person however this game gave me some ideas. see you guys in 15 years.
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Active players
Estimated daily and monthly active players (DAU/MAU) modeled from peak concurrency.
