In Cities: Skylines, money isn’t too hard to make. Once the city reaches a few tens of thousands – assuming it’s relatively well-managed – you’ll probably be sitting on a few million in the bank and have enough to build pretty much whatever you need. But in the early games, it can be difficult to…

‘Not enough workers!’ 13% unemployment and 800 jobs unfilled. What’s going on?  In Cities: Skylines, something a lot of us run into is buildings saying they don’t have enough workers when it seems like there’s more than enough to go around. In fact, sometimes it makes no sense at all. Hundreds, even thousands of jobs…

Always dreamed of building a waterfall in Cities: Skylines but didn’t know how? Well, me too! But then I found out about the Fresh Water Outlet. It’s a service building that arrived in the Natural Disasters expansion.   The Outlet pumps water when there’s excess water production. It’ll shut off automatically if your city’s water…

Why is everyone dying? The dreaded ‘death wave’. Everything is ticking along nicely in your city when, all of a sudden, everyone is dead! There are increasingly urgent skull icons everywhere. No matter how many hearses you put out, it’s never enough. What’s going on? You are experiencing what’s known as a ‘death wave’. Here,…

In Cities: Skylines, as in life, crosswalks (or pedestrian crossings where I’m from!) let pedestrians, cyclists and dogs get from one side of the street to the other safely. They get added automatically at junctions and intersections. Most of the time crosswalks just do what they do. Which is good, because there’s no way of…