In Cities: Skylines II, players build detailed cities at an epic scale. Intricate economic systems present players with choices that have ripple effects across the city. Dynamic maps set in various biomes present both challenges and opportunities for city builders. High-fidelity visuals showcase the beauty of cities like never before, from a humble city block to an iconic city skyline. For the first time ever, each citizen has their own individual life, including occupation, household, relationships and more, making cities feel alive. Players can now follow how their choices affect citizens' lives, adding weight and immediate impact to every strategic decision. 

Players start by picking a map, with each environment presenting its own challenges, climate, and opportunities. From there, players manage a series of interconnected simulation systems as they build and grow their city. Build roads, lay out districts, set up infrastructure, and manage citizens' needs as the population grows from a small town to a sweeping metropolis. 

Paradox Interactive and Iceflake Studios announced that Park Adventures, the upcoming expansion for Cities: Skylines II, is set to park itself onto PC via Steam and Microsoft Store on December 2nd.

Marking Iceflake Studios’ first original expansion for the game, Park Adventures will let players bring life to their city with modular parks, zoos, nature reserves, and amusement parks, along with five new maps, biomes, and more than 100 hundred new assets. Park Adventures will retail for a suggested price of $19.99/£16.99/€19.99, and is also included as part of Cities: Skylines II: Expansion Pass II. 

In Park Adventures, players are invited to add, shape, and customize their city parks. Draw your modular area, fill it in however you like, and turn your natural reserve, city zoo, or colorful amusement park into a destination that your citizens will love. Unlock new attractions and features as your parks grow, but remember to keep your guests happy, your staff funded, and your ticket prices competitive, or you risk visitors leaving for a better experience elsewhere. 

Features of Park Adventures also include:

• A park for every vision: Build your own unique park, from a calm green space with tea houses, botanical conservatories, and garden mazes tucked between the skyscrapers to thrilling amusement parks with rollercoasters, gyro towers, and more. If you’re looking for even more space and greenery, nature reserves let you build hiking trails, park lodges, and observation platforms to escape the city entirely and get in touch with nature. And if you want to add a zoo corner to any of them, you can!
• Park Economy and Management: Parks are now part of your city's economy. A dedicated recreation tab gives you city-wide and per-park profit and loss statements, so you always know what's working and what isn't. Control ticket prices, manage staff budgets, maintenance costs, and set policies that shape the visitors' experience. Let things slip, and your parks will show it! Underfunded maintenance leads to unhappy guests, so make sure to stay on top of it all to avoid your ratings falling. 
• New maps, assets, and props: Park Adventures includes over 100 new assets spanning city park buildings, zoo enclosures and animals, nature reserve structures, and amusement park rides. It also includes new maps specifically designed for you to build the arid, tropical, boreal, alpine, or Mediterranean city of your dreams.

To celebrate the upcoming release, Cities: Skylines II will be free-to-play on Steam from November 12-16. Together with today’s announcement, Iceflake Studios also released the free ‘Seasonal Shift’ update, adding the improvements from the latest Open Beta alongside various bug fixes, updated upscaler support (DLSS 4.5, FSR 3, XeSS 3), improvements to Paradox Mods, and more.

Key Features:

• Deep Simulation: Make choices that have ripple effects across the city. Intricate AI and economic systems mean players will need to strategize, problem solve and react to changes, challenges and opportunities.
• Epic Scale, Endless Possibilities: Build a thriving metropolis without compromise. In Cities: Skylines II, players will be able to build sky-high and across the map to realize their dream city like never before.
• Cities That Come Alive: Follow the lives of individual citizens, from love and loss to wealth and well-being. Player decisions will shape the lives of their city's citizens.
• A Dynamic World: Pick a map to set the climate and biome of the city. These natural forces will shape the growth of players' cities as they contend with rising pollution, changeable weather and seasonal challenges.

Players will learn more about the intricate systems involved in managing their sprawling metropolis over the coming weeks via a series of deep dive videos from Colossal Order.

Currently available for PC, Cities: Skylines II is coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.