They go to school, choose their education path, find a job, and eventually die of old age. Every inhabitant has a specific name, a family, a place to live, and (one hopes) a job. Then when it was time to go home they drove to the closest empty house.īut Cities: Skylines manages to deliver on the failed promises of SimCity. A sim would leave their house in the morning and drive until they reached the first building with an available job. But when players looked, they found the simulation was silly and shallow. SimCity bragged that every inhabitant was simulated. But since the simulation was programmed to mindlessly grow over time, the city would grow anyway until you had an entire city of unemployed people with no access to food or clothing, mysteriously living in massive high-rise buildings. It was possible to make a city that was entirely residential with no goods to buy, jobs to support people, or city services to sustain them. You might not have noticed if you gave up on the game early like so many people, but the rules that drove the game had more to do with the free-to-play mindset of “progression through participation” than with city simulation. When we’re talking about the “sim” part of SimCity, it basically wasn’t. For the purposes of this exercise, that’s plenty good enough. I’m just going by the overwhelming public consensus on this game and not personal experience. So I was content to “enjoy” the game vicariously through friends and angry op-eds. So let’s pit Cities: Skylines directly against the most recent SimCity game and pretend the outcome isn’t going to be obvious.ĭisclosure: At the time, I really didn’t see a need to pay $60 USD to play SimCity when everyone seemed to be saying the exact same things about it. But this isn’t a review and we can do what we like. If Shoot Guy V: Shoot More Bullets is a good game, it doesn’t seem fair to spend the entire review talking about (say) The Last of Us. Our own Jonathan Bolding gave the game a glowing review.įor reasons not worth talking about, it’s usually considered bad form to compare games in a review. It’s getting a really positive reception. It’s broken the publisher’s sales records. Cities: Skylines seems to be doing pretty well for itself.
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