Cities: Skylines II
Skip · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 3, under the fair line, at $49.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.77/hr
- Reviews▼
- 56% of 93,648
- Genre rank
- Top 95% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Recent reviews trending up: 69% over the last 30 days against 56% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 28.3h
- To 100%
- 101.9h 3.6x the story
- Achievements
- 44
Price and sales
- Sales
- 18 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $34.99 February 2026
- Sale every
- 50d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 5,603 now
- Recent reviews
- 69% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 4% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
73% 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 18 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 96 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Transport Fever ($29.99, scores 61) and Transport Fever 2 ($39.99, scores 80) both outscore it.
More about Cities: Skylines II
Players rate it 56 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 69 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. 16 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 464 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 8,046 reviews written there were positive, against 56 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 28.3 hours; clearing it takes 102, which is 3.6 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 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
What players say
As of this summer 2026, City Skylines 2 still feels like a work-in-progress. The community and devs are still willing to make this game better and better. The game doesn't crash and most of the city-building logic works. I want people to know this game isn't perfect and 'spend as they wish' considering it's still rough without mods.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
good game, need to still fix some problems with frame rates. When you have too many parks, you get really bad stutters every few seconds so yeah. Still a long way from perfect but it is getting better. Traffic AI needs to REALLY be improved. Build all your public transport above ground, it is so fun to watch them.
This is by far the worst second edition of a game I've ever tried. Skylines I was amazing because you could actually focus an building a nice city using mods, but with this second edition the game has changed into a "connect everything correctly or be prepared to spend hours trying to connect buildings to roads, electricity to your city and water supply etc etc". Fair enough if that's what you want from a game, but...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 (4 GB) | AMD Radeon RX 480 (8 GB), 60 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Cities: Skylines II scores 3/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/949230/cities-skylines-iiReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.