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Cities: Skylines II
Cities: Skylines II cover
Developers
Colossal Order
Publishers
Paradox Interactive
Engines
Unity 2022[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows October 24, 2023
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack, DLC
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Free-roaming camera
Controls Point and select
Genres Building, Simulation, Strategy
Art styles Stylized
Themes Contemporary
Series Cities in Motion
Cities: Skylines II on MobyGames
Cities: Skylines II on Wikipedia
Cities in Motion
Cities in Motion 2011
Cities in Motion 2 2013
Cities: Skylines 2015
Cities: Skylines II 2023

Cities: Skylines II is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and free-roaming camera building, simulation and strategy game in the Cities in Motion series.

The game launched with significant performance problems. An official guide to alleviate some of them is available here, while updates to optimize the game have been announced as well.[2]

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
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Ultimate Edition also available.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Ultimate Edition also available, region locked in Latin America.
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Windows
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
Ultimate Edition Edition also available.
Windows
Steam
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Ultimate Edition also available.
Windows

Version differences

The Ultimate Edition includes the base game, the Expansion Pass, and an instant unlock of the San Francisco Set.

Monetization

Type Notes
DLC Minor DLC includes small item packs.
Expansion pack An expansion pass is announced.
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions None

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Expansion Pass
Windows
Landmark Buildings Pre-order bonus
Windows
San Francisco Set Instantly unlocked with the Ultimate Edition.
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip Paradox Launcher

Run Cities2.exe with the %command% command-line argument
Note that the Steam client requires the path to the main executable to be set, i.e. it should look like so:
  • Windows (with quotation marks): "<path-to-game>\Cities2.exe" %command%

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Microsoft Store %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Colossal Order\Cities Skylines II
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/949230/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Microsoft Store %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Colossal Order\Cities Skylines II\Saves
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/949230/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Latin American Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i7-6700K
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 60 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
AMD Radeon RX 480
4 GB (Nvidia), 8 GB (AMD) of VRAM
A 64-bit operating system is required.

[3]


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 2022.3.7f1[1]
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/949230/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (949230) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:13524411069 on 2023-11-13
  2. Cities: Skylines II - Performance - Steam News - last accessed on 2023-10-25
  3. Colossal Order - 2:00 PM Sept 27, 2023 - last accessed on 2023-09-27
    "Cities: Skylines II is a next-generation title and therefore has certain hardware requirements. The recommended specs were set when the game was still in development. After having done extensive testing with different hardware we made the decision to update the minimum/recommended specs for a better player experience."