Cities: Skylines II announced, launching later this year on PC and consoles

One thing to sit up for: Developer Colossal Order has introduced the long-awaited sequel to its standard city-building simulator. In Cities: Skylines II, gamers could have the chance to design and construct town of their desires. The 2-minute-and-change announcement trailer featured largely non-gameplay visuals with narration that makes it sound extra like a god simulator, however maybe Colossal Order is solely trying to spotlight the various parts that gamers will probably be chargeable for managing.

Certainly, a description on the sport’s touchdown web page notes Skylines II will problem your decision-making abilities with deep simulation and a dwelling economic system. The sequel additionally guarantees a fully-realized transportation system, loads of building choices and superior modding capabilities.

The primary Cities: Skylines landed in 2015 for PC and helped plug a gap left by EA’s disastrous reboot of SimCity a pair years earlier. The sim was successful with players, incomes a rating of 85 over on Metacritic and a person rating of 8.7 out of 10.

Colossal Order adopted up with a bevy of growth packs and DLC that collectively iterated on the bottom recreation, reworking it into one thing that was almost unrecognizable kind the unique (in a great way), and introduced the sport to extra platforms. As of final spring, Colossal Order had sold greater than 12 million copies of the sport throughout all platforms. Final 12 months alone, the sport welcomed greater than 5.5 million new gamers.

Final month, writer Paradox Interactive introduced a remastered model of Cities: Skylines for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence. The refurbished recreation dropped on February 15, delivering a bunch of upgrades optimized for present technology consoles together with extra buildable tiles to create bigger cities, improved graphical efficiency, a brand new environmental management panel to regulate climate and the time of day and a brand new fast choice software.

Cities: Skylines II is due out someday later this 12 months for PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence, Recreation Cross and PC by way of Steam. Pricing has not been revealed however you possibly can add the sport to your wish list over on Steam.