Guides and tips for everyone's favourite city builder https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/ Just getting started with Cities: Skylines? You’re going to love it. It’s an amazing game with a great balance between challenging systems and sandbox gameplay. This guide is full of tips and tricks aimed at beginners but also people who’ve played a bit and want to learn more about the... Sat, 07 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/getting-started-guide-cities-skylines-tips-tricks/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/getting-started-guide-cities-skylines-tips-tricks/ Campus is Cities: Skylines’ eighth expansion, and gives us a complete overhaul of the higher education system. It brings together ideas introduced in Parklife, Industries and Match Day DLCs and applies them to the university system in the game. It adds a lot of well-designed new assets and lets us... Tue, 28 May 2019 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/guide-campus-dlc-universities/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/guide-campus-dlc-universities/ Campus is here! The new expansion is the eighth major DLC for Cities: Skylines, and gives us a major overhaul of higher education. It leans on the mechanics in Parklife and Industries to let us make education a more significant and functional part of our cities. It’s a big improvement... Mon, 27 May 2019 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/campus-review/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/campus-review/ 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 game,... Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/10-tips-for-making-money-in-cities-skylines/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/10-tips-for-making-money-in-cities-skylines/ How do we make a city feel like a real place? How can we make it feel alive - like it exists independently of us? I am far from an expert. Some of the images that go up on Reddit are little short of extraordinary. But a lot of those... Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/making-natural-looking-cities/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/making-natural-looking-cities/ In Cities: Skylines, land value is one of the factors that let buildings upgrade to their highest levels. Without high enough value, the city won’t be able to earn the big bucks that come from residential taxes. At worst, buildings won’t spawn at all in an undesirable place. If you’ve... Tue, 06 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/land-value-guide/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/land-value-guide/ In Cities: Skylines, every city is unique. The geography, size of your districts, mix of commercial and industrial areas, available outside connections and a hundred other factors will determine the right traffic management solution for each part of the city. That said, the general principles always apply. There’s optimal strategies... Sun, 04 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/traffic-management-guide/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/traffic-management-guide/ Any ‘best DLC’ list is always going to be subjective. I’ve tried to think about which packs are the most impactful and whose additions are useful in pretty much every city. That said, your priorities will change the order: if you’re a tram aficionado then Snowfall might jump up your... Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/best-dlc/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/best-dlc/ Cities: Skylines Industries launched a week ago, marking the seventh major DLC added to the game. As you’ll know if you’ve read my articles about the Supply chain and cargo trains, I already enjoy the way the game handles industry, but I always felt there was scope for more depth and... Wed, 31 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/industries-expansion-review/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/industries-expansion-review/ Parklife, Cities: Skylines’ sixth expansion, launched to much acclaim in summer of 2018. It freshened up the formula, added systems we hadn’t seen before and gave us expansive parks that can define, or redefine, whole parts of the city. The free patch Patch 1.10, which released alongside Parklife, was a... Sun, 21 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/parklife-review/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/parklife-review/ Biking arrived to Cities: Skylines in After Dark, the game’s first expansion. Suddenly, residents would hop onto a bike and ride the pavements and newly-added bike lanes. The pedestrian path got a bike-only counterpart, too - from which we can build huge networks of fast, direct cycle highways. Bikes add... Sat, 20 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/biking-superhighways-guide-cycling/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/biking-superhighways-guide-cycling/ It feels like it’s been hardly any time since Parklife - one of Cities: Skylines’ best DLC - was released to much fanfare in the summer, and Colossal Order have just announced that the game’s seventh expansion is just around the corner. Industries will launch alongside a free patch and... Sat, 13 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/industries-expansion-preview/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/industries-expansion-preview/ I love Cities: Skylines’ public transport. Especially how satisfying it is to link up different types. Good public transit is vital for the health of most cities. Use the right mix and you can make extremely efficient systems that keep most private cars off the roads. Here I’ll quickly look... Sat, 13 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/quick-guide-every-type-public-transport/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/quick-guide-every-type-public-transport/ Green Cities makes it easier to build cities people want to live in. As the fifth expansion, it launched in Autumn 2017 alongside the customary free patch. It also released alongside the Concerts and European Suburbia paid DLCs. I think Green Cities can be summed up as a DLC that’s... Sat, 06 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/green-cities-2018-review/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/green-cities-2018-review/ Getting your cargo on rails is one of the best ways of fixing your traffic problems. Combine a good rail cargo system with an efficient public transport network and your roads will flow smoothly and serenely. Rail freight works pretty similarly to passenger transport. If it shortens the journey, cargo... Fri, 05 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/guide-efficient-city-cargo-trains/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/guide-efficient-city-cargo-trains/ Mass Transit is the fourth expansion for Cities: Skylines and is often the one people recommend getting first. It’s pretty easy to see why. It’s one of the meatier expansions and launched with a major free update that overhauled traffic management including giving granular control over intersections and transit lines.... Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/mass-transit-review-2018/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/mass-transit-review-2018/ Snowfall was the second expansion for Cities: Skylines. It released in early 2016 and brought winter, new maps, new buildings and trams to the game. At the same time, Colossal Order released some important free updates to the game, which was added whether or not you buy Snowfall. I talk... Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/snowfall-2018-review-worth-it/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/snowfall-2018-review-worth-it/ After Dark was the first expansion for Cities: Skylines, and dropped in late 2015. So why write about it now? Well, I’m building what I hope will be a really useful resource for C:S, especially for people who, like me, are getting into the game late. I think it’s especially... Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/after-dark-review-tourism-expansion/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/after-dark-review-tourism-expansion/ ‘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.... Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/not-enough-workers-high-unemployment/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/not-enough-workers-high-unemployment/ Compatibility: This article talks about zoned industries in the game and doesn’t cover the supply chain added with the Industries DLC. In Cities: Skylines, there is a real supply chain. The game models the movement of goods from one place to another, rather than simulating it in an abstract way.... Sun, 09 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/supply-chain-specialised-industry/ https://www.lovecitiesskylines.com/supply-chain-specialised-industry/