Cities in Motion
Skip · Strategy · 2011
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 24.8h
- Value
- $0.81/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam
What drives the score
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was February 2013. 113 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. 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.
On value it sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Transport Fever ($29.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Cities in Motion 2 ($19.99, scores 5).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 108 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 24.8 hours; clearing it takes 61, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
74% start to 1% 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
5 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
Cities in Motion is a focused and methodical transportation management simulation developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive that places the player squarely in the role of an urban transit planner rather than a traditional city builder. Instead of asking you to manage zoning, taxes, or population happiness in a broad sense, the game narrows its scope to one essential system: how people move...
its some eurojank for sure. but this game makes me so happy. it feels nothing like all the other city building games out there. this game just has this feel, this magic to it that i cant put my finger on.
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.
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 scores 49/100 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/73010/cities-in-motionThe 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 Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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