jerec's Cities: Skylines review

It sounds like I'm in for a treat when I finally play it! I have it on my computer, because it just recently went on a sale that was finally too good to resist. It had been on my wish list for a long while, because I loved the recent SimCity and wanted more along similar lines.

Also, I can definitely identify with your comment about losing a day to SimCity. I used to lose a lot of time to the old SNES version, which I now have on Virtual Console. And more recently, my wife got really mad at me because I forgot to go to bed due to being busy with SimCity on PC.

It's possible that I just shouldn't be trusted with sim titles. Europa Universalis III got me in a similar spot of trouble, a number of years back. I'm almost afraid to try Crusader Kings II...

Oh man, the original Sim City. Yeah I liked that one as well, but never as much because I'd played 2000 first. I have stuff like Civilization V on my PC that I just haven't been able to get into... even Skylines, I could see myself putting in hundreds of hours if I just had the time.

This game is so good. While there are a few ways that the "simulation" aspect of this game are broken compared to the 2013 SimCity, it's a fair trade-off for what you get in return.

For example, if you tag one of your citizens in Skylines and watch them for a while, you might notice that it takes over a month for them to complete a trip to the shopping mall and get back home. In SimCity if you do the same, you'll notice them going to work in the morning, staying at their workplace all day, making a short detour to do some shopping after work, then returning home at night, which makes a lot more sense. But I'd still take everything that Skylines has to offer over that kind of minutiae any day of the week, if only for the freedom to build a massive sprawling city that (mostly) makes sense from a simulation perspective.

Nice review, by the way! :)

Yeah, there is a bit of a time differential, but that is easily ignored. Thanks for the feedback :)