Cities XXL
Skip · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Reviews▼
- 41% of 2,370
- Critics
- 47 players 6 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 96% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews, Length unknown
Why
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Time and effort
- Achievements
- 27
Price and sales
- Sales
- 82 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 September 2022
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 15 now
- Cheaper than
- 29% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 1% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
65% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 82 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Cities: Skylines II ($49.99, scores 3) outscores it, and so does Transport Fever ($29.99, scores 61). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Cities XXL
None of the 405 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 14 percent of the 574 reviews written there were positive, against 41 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 14 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
About the game
Design, build, and manage the world’s largest and most diverse cities in Cities XXL. Bigger and better than ever before with a more powerful game engine and new interface, become the mayor of your very own sprawling metropolis.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat).
Cite this score
Cities XXL scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/313010/cities-xxlReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 18, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.