Paradox celebrate 10 years of Cities: Skylines with a roadmap of anniversary goodies

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One of my favourite things successful the full satellite is the brash poesy inherent successful the connection 'skyscraper', and the galore penning and connection lessons gleaned from considering however utterly mundane that connection really feels to use. This week, the Cities: Skylines assemblage articulation maine successful the "probably reasoning excessively overmuch astir skyscrapers" club. Paradox's metropolis builder has turned ten.

To celebrate, they've constructed a towering roadmap of freebies for it and Cities: Skylines 2, including caller vigor stations, caller content, and a free-to-play Steam lawsuit for the archetypal moving March 20-24.

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Some blogly musings:

“We founded Colossal Order with the imagination of creating a city-builder that would bring much state and creativity to the cities players tin build. With Cities: Skylines, that imagination not lone came true, but acknowledgment to the continued enactment of our astonishing fans, we had the accidental to support increasing and gathering this crippled and assemblage galore years aft its merchandise and instrumentality it adjacent further than anticipated. It's been an unthinkable travel that's taught america truthful overmuch - and inactive has much to thatch - and we are everlastingly grateful to everyone who made it imaginable and who joined america on the way.”

Cities: Skylines has continued to person updates passim the years, the astir caller being past October. Its sequel launched successful a unsmooth authorities a twelvemonth prior, though has seen immoderate improvements since. It's besides seen immoderate contention surrounding "rushed" DLC, and inactive looks a ways disconnected from overtaking the archetypal successful some popularity and reception.

Paradox person fessed up to misjudging the interaction of Skylines 2's motorboat method shortcomings. Players are present "less accepting that you volition hole things implicit time," Paradox CEO Mattias Lilja told Edwin past year, with CCO Henrik Fåhraeus commenting seperately that "we were alert that show was not great, but we underestimated however it volition beryllium perceived by players."