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
Charts
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.
Genres
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Add-ons
DLC economics
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.
Recommended81h played3 found helpfulJul 2026
особенно понравилось то что можно отыграть роль настоящего СНГ-шного мэра и построить что-то хуже Борисполя или Житомира, например херануть развязку на 17 полос на въезде в город, сливать говно в реку из которой пьет народ, играть роль мэра который коллекционирует бабки на швейцарские оффшоры
Если вы хотите косплеить советских инженеров и херануть гидросооружение которое осушит всю реку и там построить город с говорящим названием «Водянск» то флаг вам в руки! Хотите построить БАМ через всю карту ударными темпами? Флаг вам в руки!
Истинный симулятор ценителей бюрократии, или откатов, коррупции, обмана и подобных нюансов жизни!
Media
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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
Not recommended17h played3 found helpfulJun 2026
The truth is I enjoy building games, but this game was a bit different because when I finally started to figure it out, But then I came to stand still It seems like. I keep hitting these difficulty levels that I can’t figure out how to complete.
Recommended20h played3 found helpfulSep 2026
Строил город часа 4 нажал сохранить вылетела игра однозначно рекомендую
Recommended27h played3 found helpfulJun 2026
Cities Skylines 2 is still developing among other city builder games. Cities Skylines 1 is best and optimized for my hardware currently. I am recommending this game because of longevity of development AND fun it can bring with mods on PC playing.
Not recommended0h played3 found helpfulJul 2026
Forced Arbitration in EULA
Recommended95h played3 found helpfulAug 2026
you can build a small river city in Ohio, surround it with AI data centers, and watch the river evaporate in realtime. no other game brings this level of realism.
Recommended178h played3 found helpfulJun 2026
This game is incredible! It's deep, engaging, and challenging. Albeit it's not the most realistic simulation, it provides a satisfying balance between complexity and accessibility, making it enjoyable for any form of play! I especially love the modding community, which is an absolute goldmine.
One heavy downside is the existance of DLCs and CCPs, which adds up really fast in price. The base game feels very bland without them, making the DLCs feel more like a cash grab. Still, the core gameplay is strong enough to warrant a recommendation. Overall, I highly recommend Cities: Skylines to anyone who enjoys strategy, creative, and simulation games!
Not recommended15h played3 found helpfulJul 2026
Graphics are ♥♥♥♥ and there is little variety in buildings, causing weird instances of 2 or 3 of the exact same shop right next to each other.
Recommended7h played3 found helpfulSep 2026
Good and fun game but after a while it gets repetetive and boring
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Active players
Estimated daily and monthly active players (DAU/MAU) modeled from peak concurrency.
