Cities Skylines 2 revealed for a 2023 release: New visuals, more realistic than its predecessor?

You can count on Paradox Interactive when it comes to building games: The publisher announced Cities Skylines 2 at the Paradox Show - and it's already coming this year.

The building game Cities Skylines is so successful that even 8 years after its release, expansions are still coming regularly for the city builder. Behind the successful game (8.5/8.7 on Metacritic) there is also an active community that takes great pleasure in building cities. Most of them want to create the most beautiful and effective city out of the pixel ground - others do it with the aim of bringing about catastrophes. Like Tsunamis. Or flooding their city with shit.

In the future, even bigger construction projects are probably on the cards, because this year Paradox Interactive, together with developer Colossal Order, finally wants to release Cities Skylines 2. The announcement was made at yesterday's Paradox Show to much applause with a first Reveal trailer. Immediately noticeable: Cities Skylines 2 looks more realistic than its predecessor. This also fits in with the plan to offer the most realistic city-building simulation "ever" in 2023. Take a look for yourself.

Promising. Such pretty buildings - you wouldn't want to flood them, neither with water nor with sewage. But that'll probably be possible, after all, the city is your playground. Further information about the game? Not at all. As far as the release date of Cities Skylines 2 is concerned, it won't be more precise for a while. Modding will continue to be supported from the beginning, which was one of the main reasons for the success of Cities Skylines. And everything else remains the same: Not only do you build cities with functioning traffic and electricity networks, but you also always have an eye on the economy and your finances. In Cities Skylines 2, too, many details are important when building cities. For example, you have to make sure that sewage does not pollute your drinking water reserves.

"What you dream of, you can also build".

A cautious prediction: with Cities Skylines, Paradox and Colossal Order already have an excellent city builder in their programme that has been tweaked for eight years. Cities Skylines 2 will build on this established foundation - and overall probably deliver a more comfortable and graphically appealing building game that will be with us for many years. Paradox Interactive has a development studio with many experienced developers in Colossal Order that can be relied upon.

We are working closely with Paradox Interactive so that we will soon be able to offer Cities Skylines 2 in pre-order here on Gamesplanet, when it begins. For now we can just keep enjoying the reveal trailer until we get our hands on it :)