Before I start I just want to say: I bought SimCity 2013 on release and played over 50 hours of that game, I found every little ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I could, so this review may be a bit bias to like C:S.

Cities Skylines is not your ordinary citi builder, it has greater focus on traffic and it feels more as a city builder than games like SimCity 4 which feels like a management game.

City size is HUGE, you can buy additional tiles to your city. And by no means this is an easy game, people won't spend millions to move into your crappy town, you have to layer land value from center being the "rich zone" for example and the outer areas would be for medium class to low income.

It is true that I find layering pipes and electric wires bit annoying. Well pipes are OK. Electricity is not. The way it works is that an area has to be connected to the grid, so if you have 500 building next to each other you just have to connect one. The problem raises when few buildings get destroyed and electricty can no longer flow. Not ideal.

Roads. Roads are great, I love to build them, though there are some issues, like the ability NOT TO BE ABLE TO PLACE ROADS ABOVE ROADS !!!!!!! Or rails above roads.

You can quite literally plan your bus routes. Which is just so good. Same for metro (subway), you can plan them out.

Another great addition is the addition of districts, you can enact certain policies, like legalizing marijuana to raise happines or banning pets. And you can draw these disctricts yourselfs.

I could talk forver about how C:S is SOO GOOD and easily the best city builder right now.

Also...please ignore all those "reviewers" who played 3 hours, wrote a negative review and said that SimCity is better. They are cancer of Steam reviews.

Before I start I just want to say: I bought SimCity 2013 on release and played over 50 hours of that game, I found every little bullshit I could, so this review may be a bit bias to like C:S. Cities Skylines is not your ordinary citi builder, it has greater focus on traffic and it feels more as a city builder than games like SimCity 4 which feels like a management game. City size is HUGE, you can buy additional tiles to your city. And by no means this is an easy game, people won't spend millions to move into your crappy town, you have to layer land value from center being the "rich zone" for example and the outer areas would be for medium class to low income. It is true that I find layering pipes and electric wires bit annoying. Well pipes are OK. Electricity is not. The way it works is that an area has to be connected to the grid, so if you have 500 building next to each other you just have to connect one. The problem raises when few buildings get destroyed and electricty can no longer flow. Not ideal. Roads. Roads are great, I love to build them, though there are some issues, like the ability NOT TO BE ABLE TO PLACE ROADS ABOVE ROADS !!!!!!! Or rails above roads. You can quite literally plan your bus routes. Which is just so good. Same for metro (subway), you can plan them out. Another great addition is the addition of districts, you can enact certain policies, like legalizing marijuana to raise happines or banning pets. And you can draw these disctricts yourselfs. I could talk forver about how C:S is SOO GOOD and easily the best city builder right now. Also...please ignore all those "reviewers" who played 3 hours, wrote a negative review and said that SimCity is better. They are cancer of Steam reviews.