Cities: Skylines is one of the most successful simulation games to debut in quite some time, arriving to great fanfare on PC and slowly expanding from there to arrive on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. But those ports were 2017's news, and 2018's news is that the game is now also available on Nintendo Switch.
Called Cities: Skylines - Nintendo Switch Edition, the game lets players build and maintain a city while juggling transportation, economic and population-related issues. It's like SimCity, except it was created by Colossal Order and does things just enough differently that players were delighted.
On Nintendo Switch, the new version features a UI that was designed specifically for the hardware. It also includes two of the several expansions available for the title: After Dark and Snowfall. To round out the package, there's also Pro Controller support and some "advanced" tutorials to introduce the mechanics.
"Cities is the first Paradox title on any Nintendo platform, and we are very eager to get the game out to Switch players," said Sandra Neudinger, Product Manager at Paradox Interactive. "This is an exciting opportunity for the game--for us internally, for current players, and for new players to come. It's very cool to experience a portable version of Cities: Skylines, so players can now carry their city with them, finding inspiration wherever they go. Imagination is the only limit, we can't wait to see what players dream and build up."
Unlike the recent SimCity title, which let my massive city burn almost completely to the ground because its traffic simulation was so awful that fire trucks couldn't get anywhere to put out fires, Cities: Skylines features "extensive" local traffic simulation, thanks to the developer's experience working on the Cities in Motion series.
The included After Dark expansion focuses on leisure and tourism, with day and night cycles that give you more unique elements to manage. Snowfall introduces the various problems that winter weather poses, while adding extra parks and infrastructures.
Cities: Skylines is available as of yesterday on Nintendo Switch, one of the many titles Nintendo announced during its delayed Nintendo Direct presentation. You can buy it on the eShop now, where it has an MSRP of $39.99 USD.
