Paradox Interactive Making LEGO City Skylines Spinoff, Ratings Board Leak Suggests

Paradox Interactive is moving connected a Cities: Skylines LEGO spinoff, a newly-leaked ratings committee listing for the crippled suggests.

LEGO Skylines has been rated by the ever-leaky Korean ratings board, which listed the crippled up of its ceremonial announcement, arsenic archetypal spotted by Gematsu. IGN has contacted Paradox Interactive for more.

While details stay scarce, Cities: Skylines fans are digesting the thought of a LEGO-ified mentation of their favourite city-building simulation. Thematically, the thought of a LEGO metropolis builder makes cleanable consciousness — though fans people person concerns implicit the signifier it'll get in, pursuing the rocky reception to Cities: Skylines 2.

"How tf are they doing that erstwhile 2 is inactive successful the signifier it is in?" wrote 1 Cities: Skylines instrumentality successful a lengthy reddit thread discussing the leak. "Can't wait! See you 3 years aft merchandise erstwhile the crippled is somewhat playable!" quipped another.

While Paradox is listed arsenic the game's publisher, it remains unclear who is really processing the crippled — and whether immoderate of Paradox's ain studios are involved. The archetypal Cities: Skylines and its sequel were created by Finnish workplace Colossal Order, which parted ways with Paradox past year. Ongoing Cities: Skylines 2 improvement is present being handled by different Finnish outfit, Iceflake Studios, which is presently tasked with continuing improvements to the crippled — arsenic good arsenic readying its long-awaited console ports that were primitively owed successful 2024.

"A LEGO City gathering crippled would sound my socks off, if they did it right," different instrumentality wrote. "LEGO and the archetypal Sim City games were my childhood, truthful this announcement has straight-up grabbed my hype close successful the nostalgia," stated another.

While the archetypal Cities: Skylines was a deed for Paradox, its troubled sequel launched successful October 2023 to galore complaints implicit its uneven show and galore missing features. IGN's Cities: Skylines 2 reappraisal returned a 6/10, and labelled it arsenic "an ambitious sequel that mightiness person bitten disconnected much than it tin chew."

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