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!

Paradox Interactive and Tantalus Media announced Cities: Skylines – Expanded Edition, a version of the city-building game from developer Colossal Order optimized for Nintendo Switch 2. Launching October 28 for a suggested retail price of $49/£41.49/€49, the Expanded Edition brings improved visuals, better performance, expanded building tools, and new ways to play. 

Optimized and expanded for Nintendo Switch 2, Cities: Skylines – Expanded Edition invites players to build, manage, and expand the city of their dreams. Start with a few roads and grow your city into a bustling metropolitan hub with neighborhoods, public services, civic policies, and the ever-changing needs of thousands of citizens. Whether you create a quiet coastal town, a busy industrial center, or a sprawling modern metropolis, your city is yours to design.

Features of Cities: Skylines – Expanded Edition includes: 

• 25 Buildable Tiles: Expand your city across a much larger area, increased from the original 9-tile limit.
• Map Editor: Create and customize your own landscapes and maps before you start building.
• UX Improvements: Use precision placement, a distance indicator, and updated snapping options for more refined construction.
• Environmental Controls Panel: Adjust atmospheric elements in real time, including time of day, rain, fog, and environmental coloring.
• Quick Selection Tool: Swap quickly between essential tools and assets for smoother city management.
• Graphics Options: Choose between a Performance Option targeting 60 FPS with upscaling and adjusted quality settings, or a Quality Option targeting 30 FPS and prioritizing visual fidelity.
• Keyboard and Mouse Support: Build with keyboard and mouse input alongside traditional controller configurations.
• 10 DLC Expansions and Content Packs Included: Expand your city with a collection of additional content included in the Expanded Edition, from the After Dark, Snowfall, Green Cities, and Sunset Harbor expansions to Map Pack 3, Country Road, Pearls from the East, Deep Focus Radio, Carols, Candles & Candy, and Match Day.

Players who already own Cities: Skylines on Nintendo Switch are eligible for a 70% loyalty discount on the Expanded Edition, valid from October 28, 2026 to April 28, 2027.

New Content for PC, PlayStation and Xbox
Two new Content Creator Packs and a Radio Station are also coming to Cities: Skylines on PC, PlayStation, and XBOX:

• Holiday Getaways: Vacation in your bit of paradise with ‘Holiday Getaways’ by ‘Tomas13TO’. Build luxury getaway destinations, vibrant vacation spots, and decorate with holiday parks to give your citizens the ultimate summer vacation!
• Mansions & Manors: Let ‘Mansions & Manors’ by ‘Feindbold’ bring prestige to your city. Add a new residential zone with “old money” estates, elegant service buildings, and watch your citizens drive a fleet of luxury residential vehicles.
• Blueprint Beats Radio: Find your perfect zoning flow with ‘Blueprint Beats Radio’. This 16-track blend of lo-fi hip-hop, jazzy chillhop, and down-tempo tracks transforms your mayoral desk into a late-night urban lounge, ideal for detailing luxury estates and holiday getaways.

The two packs and the radio station launch October 28, available separately for $5.99/£4.99/€5.99 and $3.99/£2.99/€3.99 respectively or as part of the Estates & Escapes Bundle for $12.99/£10.99/€12.99.

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 on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC for $29.99.