I love city builders. I loved the first release, and that’s the main reason this score is even this high.That said, the number of problems in the base game is ridiculous. After a long wait, we finally get an update—and it still doesn’t work properly.Just a few examples:Building a bridge over a ship canal has not been possible since launch—only underground crossings work. Want to build it properly? Buy a DLC for €**** get bus- and taxi-only roads, yet they are still full of regular traffic.Traffic simulation still doesn’t work. Cims take routes that are far longer than necessary.Trash disposal is directly tied to traffic, which becomes unmanageable because of point #**** same issue applies to handling dead **** biking mechanic is unrealistic, and the traffic it generates makes no **** economic simulation doesn’t work properly either.Severe CPU bottlenecks appear at around 20k cims.Graphics instability and crashes start at roughly 40k cims.Putting my love for the genre aside, this is mostly an unplayable game. I also don’t accept that fixes for core base-game problems are being sold back to us as DLC content.A score of 4 is already more than this game deserves.

Terrible release, then scrambled to fix bugs, then allot of nothing, then slowly got better, then the audacity to ask money for dlc (I would expect nothing less from Paradox). Now it's decent and does look great, I now play it over the OG. Then recently the studio left the publisher which does not instil trust and stability. This game has a shakey past and a shakey future. I feel competition is on the rise and I like it.

Cities Skylines II is nothing more than a downgrade from CSI, the A.I is the most unintelligent I've ever seen (they take random U-turns in the middle of a highway, I saw some NPCs walking in the side of a highway, apparently they "moving out"). The economy is virtually nonexistent, and the grid tool is clearly unfinished, with it clipping through terrain, the buildings are always placed in the strangest parts of the block, and the game's performance is horrible, alongside with the NPCs looking uncanny, and I bought it in 2023, and I never saw a single bug fixed or improvement in the span of that 2 years, and they also abandoned the workshop with the "Paradox Mods", and the "mods" fix what the developers can't. CSII is also way too expensive and placing roads is extremely sensitive (90 degree angles are very hard to make in this game). The only thing good is the radio, which probably blew the budget, leaving the rest of the game half-baked and unfinished.