Cities in Motion 2
Skip · Strategy · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 32.2h
- Value
- $0.62/hr
- Reviews
- 58% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, nVIDIA GeForce 8800, 512 MB RAM or ATI Radeon HD 3850, 512 MB RAM, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was August 2013. It has been discounted 113 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cities in Motion ($19.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Cities: Skylines II ($49.99, scores 4).
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 72 against 58 percent.
Of the 210 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 25 percent of the 257 reviews written there were positive, against 58 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
56% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
11 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The game sucks. it freezes. kinda difficult to navigate than from Cities in motion 1
No comment on the game, except it is a PARADOX game. Paradox Interactive is a games publisher that has lost it's soul. Selling us beautifully promoted ideas which turn out to be illusions. With the same ethical standards as an Indian money scam.
This game makes you question "Why is my entire city stuck behind ONE bus?!" So you boot up Cities in Motion 2 thinking you're gonna casually draw some cute lines and boom-perfect transport empire. Nope. This game grabs your hand, slaps it, and goes: "Place. Every. Single. Stop. Individually. You lazy gremlin." You don't build a network here-you babysit it like it owes you money. Every stop, every line, every tweak…...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cities in Motion 2 scores 5/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/225420/cities-in-motion-2The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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