This feature was originally published on March 23, 2015. It's since been updated with new mods, assets, maps, and visual tools. The Steam Workshop for mod-friendly city builder Cities: Skylines is stuffed with free goodies, and continues to grow by over a thousand new items per day. Players have been hard at work not just building their cities but making maps, mods, assets, and tools for others to enjoy. We've had a cruise through the Steam Workshop, and here's what we suggest for those looking to enhance their own cities. Let's get started with mods!
The Best Cities: Skylines Mods. Luke Plunkett. And while you can unlock nine city tiles to build. There are actually 25 there to open up. This mod opens. Expensive Expansion (25 tile version) This mod increaces the cost of nieuw tiles (x22) and unlocks all 25 tiles. This means that the first tile costs around 100.000.
Once subscribed, you need only activate them from the Content Manager menu. Remember that Skylines' mods are global, so if you activate one, it'll be in effect for every game you play, until you turn it off. City Vitals Watch Tired of clicking between all the different icons to monitor your growing city's needs? So you can get as much data as possible in a single view. Check on available electricity, water, sewage, crime, education, heathcare, employment, and just about everything else you might want to keep an eye on.
Citizen Tracker Remember, you're not just a mayor, you're a Peeping Tom. Keep a close eye on anyone you want with the, which allows you to bookmark and tag your NPCs with icons so you can easily find them again later. Improved Assets Panel Skylines menus aren't particularly great or attractive, but now you can get a nice look at the assets you've subscribed to with the, which gives you a thumbnail view of your various buildings and parks. Flight Cimulator Why settle for hovering over your city like a cloud when you can soar across it like a plane? The gives you control of one of the airplanes circling your town, turning your city sim into a flight sim. All Spaces Unlockable Skylines lets you build on 9 of the map's 25 available tiles, but we wouldn't be PC gamers if we didn't want access to all of them. Does just that.
It's not just for those who want to fill every square inch of map with buildings, but also for those who perhaps purchased a new tile and wound up only using a small fraction of it, or maybe decided further down the line to sprawl their city in an entirely different direction than they originally planned. Either way, it's a must-have. Traffic Report Tool It's easy to spot traffic problems, but harder to understand and solve them.
Click a road and it'll show you the path of every vehicle using it, or en route to it. Click a building and it shows you the paths of all vehicles headed to or leaving it. Click an individual vehicle, and it'll show you its entire path, from start to destination. It's still in beta, but it's a promising tool for helping you understand and untangle troublesome traffic snarls.
Fire Spread While Skylines doesn't officially provide city-busting disasters, there are a few things you can do to unleash hell on your populace. Dams, for example, can be used (or misused) to. If that's a little too gross, you can try the, which lets fires jump from building to building, perfect for putting your fire department to the test. Extended Public Transport UI As your city grows, keeping track of your public transportation network can be tricky. The makes it much, much easier, with better, toggled views of individual bus, metro, and train lines. A great tool. Extended Road Upgrade A recent update added the ability to upgrade between one-way and two-way roads without having to bulldoze, but the, which did it first, is still worth checking out. Patch For Heart Gold here.
It works a little differently than the unmodded game—and I think a little better—especially when it comes to changing the direction of your one-way roads. First-Person Camera Technically, unshackling you from a bird's-eye view and taking you all the way down to street level for a closer look at your city and its inhabitants. You may not be thrilled with what you see—Skylines wasn't meant to be viewed from quite this close up—but it's still fun to use. Chirpy Exterminator It's hard to be legitimately angry with Chirpy: he's just trying to communicate citizen's feelings to you, and he's so darn earnest about it! That said: die, Chirpy. A patch recently added a volume slider for Chirpy's incessant tweeting, but the lets you ice him for good. Rest in peace, with the emphasis on peace.