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Cities: Skylines (2015)

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Cities: Skylines is a city-building game developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive. The game is a single-player open-ended city-building simulation. Players engage in urban planning by controlling zoning, road placement, taxation, public services, and public transportation of an area. Players work to maintain various elements of the city, including its budget, health, employment, and pollution levels. Players are also able to maintain a city in a sandbox mode, which provides unrestricted creative freedom for the player. The game has also had official expansion packs released for it.

Cities: Skylines is a progression of development from Colossal Order's previous Cities in Motion titles that focused on designing effective transportation systems. While the developers felt they had the technical expertise to expand to a full city simulation game, their publisher Paradox held off on the idea, fearing the market dominance of SimCity. However, after the critical failure of the 2013 SimCity game, Paradox greenlit the title. The developer's goal was to create a game engine capable of simulating the daily routines of nearly a million unique citizens, while presenting this to the player in a simple way, allowing the player to easily understand various problems in their city's design. This includes realistic traffic congestion, and the effects of congestion on city services and districts. Since release, the game has added five paid expansions, along with other free updates and support for user-generated content.

The game was first released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux in March 2015, with ports by Tantalus Media for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 being released in 2017. The game received favourable reviews from critics, and was a commercial success, with more than 4 million copies sold by September 2017.

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