Cities: Skylines

Mod-first city building filled the vacuum left by SimCity's collapse.

Released 2015 Developer Colossal Order Publisher Paradox Interactive Platform PC Genre City Builder Era Live service & the long tail

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Cities: Skylines inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Day/Night Cycle ~~1983~~Open Data Formats and Mod SDK ~~1993~~User-Content Marketplace ~~2006~~Downloadable Content ~~2006~~

Descends from

SimCity ~~1989~~

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