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Cities: Skylines II

Iceflake Studios · Paradox Interactive · 2023-10-24

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Simulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Oct 24, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), TBD (PlayStation 5), TBD (Xbox Series X|S)

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

Cities: Skylines II is a 2023 Simulation game priced at $49.99, with an estimated 2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (56% of 92751 reviews).

7,714
playing now
56%
positive of 92k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
11
twitch viewers (latest)
1.8
viewers/channel (concentration)
81/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
66/100
IGDB user rating (51 ratings)
121
Nexus mods (204k downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$49.99
steam price (US)

7,714 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Cities: Skylines II is a 2023 city-building game initially developed by Colossal Order, with Iceflake Studios taking over at the start of 2026, and published by Paradox Interactive. The game is a sequel to 2015's Cities: Skylines and expands upon many of its simulation factors such as simulated city and population sizes with improved traffic artificial intelligence and management schemes. It was released for Windows on 24 October 2023. A release for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S was previously planned to be released on the same day, but was later indefinitely delayed. The game received mixed reviews with praise going towards its gameplay but its harsh performance requirements and other technical flaws were criticised.

Trailer

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Health check

Healthy
  • · 7,714 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8,315 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1,039/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 16,650 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-16

Tier history: thriving→healthy (Sep 16), healthy→thriving (Sep 15)

Estimated sales: 1.8M–4.1M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 92,188 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $30.75 at GameBillet (2026-03-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $49.99 · on sale 62 of 88 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
11k11k20232026Week of 2023-10-01: 10,646 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 8,826 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 6,379 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3,161 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1,465 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1,035 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1,010 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 919 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 554 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1,146 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 691 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1,751 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 529 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1,194 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 439 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 639 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 491 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 551 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 774 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 530 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 517 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 388 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 437 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 381 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 424 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 393 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 545 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 505 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 807 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 856 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 577 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 571 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 407 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 518 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 683 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 680 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 436 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 381 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 437 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 414 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 461 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 496 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 486 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 387 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 407 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 311 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 342 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 310 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 539 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 458 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 682 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 563 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 591 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 469 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 531 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 294 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 618 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 295 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 792 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 294 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 608 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 239 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 668 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 268 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 679 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 250 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 685 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 221 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 609 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 220 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 648 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1,221 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 218 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 120 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

16k5.6k2026-09-15 11:00 — 8,185 players2026-09-15 23:00 — 5,912 players2026-09-16 01:00 — 6,161 players2026-09-16 03:00 — 6,131 players2026-09-16 05:00 — 5,784 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 5,742 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 6,926 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 9,391 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 11,250 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 10,152 players2026-09-16 19:00 — 9,618 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 8,051 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 6,347 players2026-09-17 11:00 — 9,211 players2026-09-18 19:00 — 10,921 players2026-09-20 02:00 — 9,198 players2026-09-21 10:00 — 9,248 players2026-09-22 17:00 — 11,548 players2026-09-24 01:00 — 7,020 players2026-09-25 08:00 — 9,035 players2026-09-26 16:00 — 14,620 players2026-09-27 23:00 — 7,686 players2026-09-29 07:00 — 6,586 players2026-09-30 14:00 — 11,372 players2026-10-01 22:00 — 6,726 players2026-10-03 05:00 — 8,497 players2026-10-04 14:00 — 15,950 players2026-10-05 21:00 — 8,131 players2026-10-07 05:00 — 6,857 players2026-10-08 12:00 — 10,296 players2026-10-09 20:00 — 10,270 players2026-10-11 03:00 — 9,258 players2026-10-12 11:00 — 9,258 players2026-10-13 18:00 — 9,653 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 7,714 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
47k4.5kOct 2023Aug 2026Oct 2023 — avg 47,399 · peak 76,549Nov 2023 — avg 21,049 · peak 53,250Dec 2023 — avg 10,838 · peak 20,964Jan 2024 — avg 7,782 · peak 14,575Feb 2024 — avg 5,653 · peak 11,306Mar 2024 — avg 4,938 · peak 9,453Apr 2024 — avg 5,234 · peak 9,639May 2024 — avg 4,542 · peak 7,767Jun 2024 — avg 5,335 · peak 11,950Jul 2024 — avg 7,961 · peak 15,061Aug 2024 — avg 6,859 · peak 12,140Sep 2024 — avg 6,175 · peak 11,549Oct 2024 — avg 5,982 · peak 10,999Nov 2024 — avg 6,814 · peak 12,149Dec 2024 — avg 8,725 · peak 17,788Jan 2025 — avg 7,190 · peak 12,661Feb 2025 — avg 6,780 · peak 11,431Mar 2025 — avg 7,541 · peak 14,854Apr 2025 — avg 7,049 · peak 12,711May 2025 — avg 6,750 · peak 11,744Jun 2025 — avg 6,629 · peak 11,397Jul 2025 — avg 6,655 · peak 11,442Aug 2025 — avg 6,763 · peak 11,653Sep 2025 — avg 6,180 · peak 11,098Oct 2025 — avg 7,221 · peak 14,804Nov 2025 — avg 11,250 · peak 24,356Dec 2025 — avg 9,512 · peak 15,909Jan 2026 — avg 8,975 · peak 14,955Feb 2026 — avg 9,186 · peak 17,651Mar 2026 — avg 10,378 · peak 19,976Apr 2026 — avg 9,709 · peak 17,986May 2026 — avg 10,456 · peak 19,095Jun 2026 — avg 9,702 · peak 17,269Jul 2026 — avg 9,837 · peak 17,669Aug 2026 — avg 9,468 · peak 15,897
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

#98#982026-09-152026-09-172026-09-15 — #982026-09-16 — #982026-09-17 — #98
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
1481482026-09-162026-09-282026-09-16: 44 new positive2026-09-16: 21 new negative2026-09-18: 26 new positive2026-09-18: 7 new negative2026-09-19: 32 new positive2026-09-19: 9 new negative2026-09-20: 44 new positive2026-09-20: 6 new negative2026-09-21: 34 new positive2026-09-21: 7 new negative2026-09-22: 16 new positive2026-09-22: 9 new negative2026-09-23: 31 new positive2026-09-23: 15 new negative2026-09-26: 15 new positive2026-09-26: 148 new negative2026-09-27: 11 new positive2026-09-27: 67 new negative2026-09-28: 30 new positive2026-09-28: 75 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$49.99$27.712023-06-112026-08-212023-06-11 — best price $49.992023-07-24 — best price $49.992023-09-27 — best price $42.952023-10-19 — best price $42.282023-11-02 — best price $42.192024-01-15 — best price $49.992024-03-26 — best price $37.892024-04-15 — best price $46.082024-05-02 — best price $49.992024-05-21 — best price $39.982024-06-11 — best price $46.082024-07-11 — best price $39.892024-07-31 — best price $39.982024-09-08 — best price $46.082024-09-24 — best price $44.992024-10-17 — best price $49.992024-11-21 — best price $35.992024-12-02 — best price $35.992024-12-24 — best price $44.592025-01-03 — best price $41.622025-01-25 — best price $35.492025-02-05 — best price $47.492025-03-27 — best price $49.992025-04-27 — best price $38.492025-05-19 — best price $35.992025-06-05 — best price $49.992025-09-30 — best price $35.932025-11-13 — best price $39.892025-12-26 — best price $36.192026-02-03 — best price $48.992026-02-16 — best price $39.082026-03-19 — best price $27.712026-04-27 — best price $34.992026-06-15 — best price $34.992026-07-27 — best price $42.992026-08-21 — best price $30.76
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2.1k2302026-06-01 — 348 pageviews2026-06-05 — 333 pageviews2026-06-09 — 369 pageviews2026-06-13 — 361 pageviews2026-06-17 — 340 pageviews2026-06-21 — 421 pageviews2026-06-25 — 408 pageviews2026-06-29 — 427 pageviews2026-07-03 — 348 pageviews2026-07-07 — 339 pageviews2026-07-11 — 306 pageviews2026-07-15 — 314 pageviews2026-07-19 — 366 pageviews2026-07-23 — 386 pageviews2026-07-27 — 361 pageviews2026-07-31 — 265 pageviews2026-08-04 — 317 pageviews2026-08-08 — 312 pageviews2026-08-12 — 265 pageviews2026-08-16 — 344 pageviews2026-08-20 — 261 pageviews2026-08-24 — 436 pageviews2026-08-28 — 597 pageviews2026-09-01 — 459 pageviews2026-09-05 — 352 pageviews2026-09-09 — 404 pageviews2026-09-13 — 441 pageviews2026-09-17 — 450 pageviews2026-09-21 — 362 pageviews2026-09-25 — 334 pageviews2026-09-29 — 298 pageviews2026-10-03 — 326 pageviews2026-10-07 — 325 pageviews2026-10-10 — 233 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

53302026-09-30 22:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-01 07:34 — 37 viewers2026-10-01 16:34 — 262 viewers2026-10-02 01:34 — 324 viewers2026-10-02 10:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-02 19:34 — 30 viewers2026-10-03 04:34 — 40 viewers2026-10-03 13:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-03 22:34 — 412 viewers2026-10-04 07:34 — 67 viewers2026-10-04 16:34 — 90 viewers2026-10-05 01:34 — 30 viewers2026-10-05 10:34 — 47 viewers2026-10-05 19:34 — 180 viewers2026-10-06 04:34 — 242 viewers2026-10-06 13:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-06 22:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-07 07:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-07 16:34 — 56 viewers2026-10-08 01:34 — 59 viewers2026-10-08 10:34 — 52 viewers2026-10-08 19:34 — 405 viewers2026-10-09 04:34 — 33 viewers2026-10-09 13:34 — 70 viewers2026-10-09 22:34 — 26 viewers2026-10-10 07:34 — 78 viewers2026-10-10 16:34 — 156 viewers2026-10-11 01:34 — 20 viewers2026-10-11 10:34 — 31 viewers2026-10-11 19:34 — 289 viewers2026-10-12 04:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-12 13:34 — 114 viewers2026-10-12 22:34 — 26 viewers2026-10-13 07:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-13 16:34 — 130 viewers2026-10-14 01:34 — 22 viewers2026-10-14 10:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-14 19:34 — 25 viewers2026-10-14 21:34 — 11 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

44
achievements tracked
73.4%
earned "My First City"
15.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing21 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Spain

Post-launch support: 21 DLC released, first 2023-10-24, latest 2026-03-18 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)15,7580%44
Windows (Xbox)10,3131%36
Xbox Series (Xbox)3100%40

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

CasualEconomySandboxBuildingModdableRelaxingStrategyRealisticManagementSimulation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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