While Skylines doesn't officially provide city-busting disasters, there are a few things you can do to unleash hell on your populace. It's still in beta, but it's a promising tool for helping you understand and untangle troublesome traffic snarls. Click a building and it shows you the paths of all vehicles headed to or leaving it.Ĭlick an individual vehicle, and it'll show you its entire path, from start to destination. Click a road and it'll show you the path of every vehicle using it, or en route to it. It's easy to spot traffic problems, but harder to understand and solve them. It's not just for those who want to fill every square inch of map with buildings, but also for those who perhaps purchased a new tile and wound up only using a small fraction of it, or maybe decided further down the line to sprawl their city in an entirely different direction than they originally planned.Įither way, it's a must-have. Skylines lets you build on 9 of the map's 25 available tiles, but we wouldn't be PC gamers if we didn't want access to all of them. Why settle for hovering over your city like a cloud when you can soar across it like a plane? The Flight Cimulator gives you control of one of the airplanes circling your town, turning your city sim into a flight sim.
Skylines menus aren't particularly great or attractive, but now you can get a nice look at the assets you've subscribed to with the Improved Assets Panelwhich gives you a thumbnail view of your various buildings and parks. Keep a close eye on anyone you want with the Citizen Trackerwhich allows you to bookmark and tag your NPCs with icons so you can easily find them again later. Remember, you're not just a mayor, you're a Peeping Tom. Check on available electricity, water, sewage, crime, education, heathcare, employment, and just about everything else you might want to keep an eye on. Tired of clicking between all the different icons to monitor your growing city's needs? This mod gives you a configurable panel so you can get as much data as possible in a single view. Remember that Skylines' mods are global, so if you activate one, it'll be in effect for every game you play, until you turn it off. Let's get started with mods! Once subscribed, you need only activate them from the Content Manager menu. We've had a cruise through the Steam Workshop, and here's what we suggest for those looking to enhance their own cities. Players have been hard at work not just building their cities but making maps, mods, assets, and tools for others to enjoy. The Steam Workshop for mod-friendly city builder Cities: Skylines is stuffed with free goodies, and continues to grow by over a thousand new items per day. This feature was originally published on March 23, It's since been updated with new mods, assets, maps, and visual tools.