Inhabit a world where you define the rules.

Cities: Skylines invites you to create the city of your dreams in a sprawling landscape dominated by cloud hugging structures and jaw dropping architectural marvels.

Create the cities of their dreams in Cities: Skylines, a massive city simulator from the creators of the Cities in Motion series. Vast backdrops and maps provide players with countless ways to improve and expand their cities, building from humble beginnings up to beautiful, cloud-hugging structures and unique architectural marvels. 

You’re only limited by your imagination, so take control and reach for the sky!

The promised Cities: Skylines free content update is out today, and includes terraforming, canals, wharfs, quays, and a bunch more stuff.

1.4.0-f3

• Landscaping tools - Tools to edit terrain heights (Shift, Level, Smooth, Slopes), 3 brush sizes and 3 strengths are available in the option bar.
• Paths - Paths were moved from Decorations to Landscaping Paths
• Trees - Trees were moved from the Props Decorations group to Landscaping Trees
• Rocks - Added rocks objects
• Water Structures - contains Floodwalls, Quays and Canals

• Decoration service renamed to Parks&Plazas
• Parks - The Standard parks
• Plazas - The Plazas style parks
• Others parks - The parks which don't belong in the 2 categories above
• Tourism & Leisure - After Dark DLC only, contains all the park assets from After Dark
• Winter Parks - Snowfall DLC only, contains all the park assets from Snowfall and only shows if you are in a Winter map

• New categories for Unique Buildings
• The Environment panel of the Map editor now contains several terrain props such as ruined/abandoned buildings and rocks.
• The roads, paths, tunnels and tracks now have a new button in the Option panel where you can select snapping and straight or curve type. The button has 3 states and can be used to cycle through 3 preset heights for the elevation step when using page up and page down.
• New steam achievements implemented
• Default maps updated with new environment props
• Dam placement shows terrain topography

• Blurry cliff textures improved
• Fixed: Expansion 2: Text: SPA/FRE/RUS : In-Game: Line color will overlap the Line Name in the Public Transport - Lines detail window.
• Fixed: PDX Accounts creation lacks countries (Montenegro added).
• Fixed: Suggestion: Expansion 2: UI: The Lines Detail panel could be easier to access.
• Fixed: Suggestion: Expansion 2: UI: The total number of transport lines could be added in the Lines Detail panel.
• Fixed: Asset Editor: You can have two rows of Roads buttons at the same time
• Fixed: Main Menu: Tools: Mouse wheel scroll does not work in the "map theme" selection screen. (Fixed also in theme selections.)
• Fixed: Expansion 1: Design: The Prisoners and Cyclists statistics are displayed in the City Statistic even if the After Dark expansion has not been purchased.
• Fixed: Expansion 2: Public Transport Lines can only be sorted in one direction
• Fixed: Expansion: Design: Vehicles coming out of Cargo Hubs have incorrect path causing looping and traffic issues.
• Fixed: Theme Editor: Changing the water normal for a theme does not get saved
• Fixed: Faulty transition when connecting bicycle path to pavement path
• Fixed: Expansion 2: Theme Editor: Grass color offset values doesn't get updated on the map immediately
• Fixed: Expansion 2: It is difficult to understand the impact of Heating on the budget
• Fixed: Expansion 2: Pathfinding: Sometimes, snow plows and road maintenance vehicles do not complete their work shift and disappear.

• Fixed: Expansion 2: "Unsubscribe all" and "disable all" are missing a letter in 1600x900 resolution
• Fixed: Keybinding strings under the Theme Editor tab are unlocalized
• Fixed: Strings regarding themes in New Game and Load Game menus are unlocalized
• Fixed: Text in Asset Editor tab of the Keymapping menu is cut-off in several languages
• Fixed: Several entries in Keymapping \ Asset Editor are unlocalized
• Fixed: Expansion 2: Snowfall map names in the New Game menu are unlocalized in Korean
• Fixed: Expansion 2: Water & Sewage tooltip in Budget menu does not mention Heating.
• Fixed: "Last updated" text overlaps button in several languages in the Content Manager
• Fixed: The "Included in x styles" text does not get updated when switching language settings
• Fixed: LOC: POL: The "Households" text in a district's Info Panel is overlapping with the Population graph.
• Fixed: LOC: ALL: Map Editor: Import and Export Heightmap not localized.
• Fixed: Expansion 2: Some of the new Snowfall props aren't localised in the Asset Editor
• Fixed: Expansion 1: "2x3_Nightclub01" has wrong sort of names
• Fixed: German language - 'Reset Configuration' button is inconsistent (big letters) with other buttons
• Fixed: Gameplay option "dynamic weather" is translated wrong to German
• Fixed: LOC: FRE/POR/RUS/POL/GER: Text: The warning message when changing resolutions is cut-off.
• Fixed: Several non-winter maps in the New Games panel are not localised in any language except English

• Modding: Added few serializers for some data types to go into CRPs (DepotAI.SpawnPoint, PropInfo.Effect, BuildingInfo.SubInfo, PropInfo.ParkingSpace, PropInfo.SpecialPlace)
• Modding: Improved error handling for mods causing exceptions during the ILoading interface callbacks and consequently disabling other mods
• Modding: Added profiling ability for custom content loading (using the --enabled-dev-ui toggle, Show loading profile and Show custom content)

Key Features:

• City policies: Set policies to guide how the city and districts develop over the course of your playthrough.
• City districts: Personalize city districts with names of your choice for variety and personality.
• Road building and zoning
• Unlock buildings and services
• Taxation: Fine-tuning the city budget and services and setting tax rates to different residential, commercial and industrial levels and controlling what kind of areas are more likely to spawn in the zoned areas
• Public transportation: Build transport networks throughout the city with buses and metros
• Outside connections: Make industry and commercial districts flourish with new customers in the neighboring cities
• Wonders: the ultimate end-game content that the players strive towards
• Huge maps: Unlock new map tiles with unique possibilities to expand the city
• Water flow simulation: Add new challenges to water services.
• Polished visual style and core gameplay
• Modding tools: Built in feature designed to encourage creative pursuits.

Cities: Skylines is now available for purchase for $29.99, with a deluxe edition available for $39.99 that includes five in-game historical monuments