Wot I Think: Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines [official site] feels like the response to a question. That question is what, exactly, do people want? By contrast, 2013’s SimCity felt like the response to an order: make them do this. I don t wish to get caught up in criticising the controversial EA city-builder, especially in light of the all-but-closure of its longstanding developer Maxis this week, but the ethos of these two games is so very different, even though they re both in theory offering the same scenario: design a city from the ground up, keep it running, make it richer, make it grander.

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