Cities: Skylines is a great game. Some might even call it the best game of 2015. It was pretty much everything fans wanted the SimCity reboot to be, and it has seen tremendous success as a result.
Now, one year after its initial release, the game has seen continued developer support, and now boasts over two million players. “The remarkable thing about our fans for Cities: Skylines isn’t just their number, but how active they are in keeping the game growing and changing,” said Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox Interactive. “Giving the modding community the keys to our cities has resulted in so much passion and creativity. As of this month there are over 76,000 pieces of mod content on Steam Workshop for Cities: Skylines, from custom buildings to new road designs and beyond. Together with Colossal Order we intend to keep supporting this game and our players with more updates and content of our own for a long time.”
On March 22, the game will be getting a landscape-focused update for mayors who want to break out the backhoes. The official press release says ”players should be formally informed that they can perform mild terraforming on their existing cities’ formations, to reform former landforms into malformed formats,” and I would like to openly address Paradox’s copywriter by saying that I both love and hate you. (Good job.) Players will also be dig canals and such in the course of their city-building.
In the video below, the Colossal Order discusses the crazy trip of releasing such a surprise hit.
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