Cities: Skylines II joins the anniversary celebration today with brand-new content and a fresh free update.
Available now:
Office Evolution expands your high-density office zones with new signature buildings that blend heritage character and modern design, reshaping your business districts in bold new ways.
City Stations enhances your transport network with compact depots, detailed rail yards, alternate station designs, and new landmarks to elevate your infrastructure game.
Two new radio stations, Smooth Vibes FM and Skyrail Radio, are also ready to soundtrack your city’s growth.
In addition, a free patch from Iceflake Studios is now available to download, marking their second update for the game and bringing further improvements to your city-building experience.
First up is a new zoning toggle for roads. Inspired by popular community mods, this feature lets you remove zoning from either side of a road, or both, giving you more control when designing your streets.
The patch also adds the Iceflake Arena, a brand-new signature commercial building that gives your citizens a place to gather for concerts, ice hockey matches, and other events. Beyond the entertainment, the arena boosts attractiveness and well-being across the city within a two-kilometer radius.
A first version of the new in-game Encyclopedia is also included. It gathers useful information about game systems, tutorials, and features into one searchable place, making it easier to find answers while you build.
Our second patch is here! As mentioned in our City Corner #3, this patch will not be the biggest one of the bunch, but has new features and bug fixes nonetheless, as well as our new signature building, Iceflake Arena!
New free signature building: Iceflake Arena.
New Content Creator Pack: City Stations.
New Content Creator Pack: Office Evolution.
New radio station: Smooth Vibes FM Radio.
New radio station: Skyrail Radio.
New feature: Zone toggling, allows toggling zoning on or off on either side of the road.
Fixed an issue where loading an easy mode save through "continue game" changes the difficulty from easy to normal.
Fixed cases where citizens could get stuck while waiting for a new home.
Fixed cases where citizens could get stuck while trying to leave the city.
Fixed cases where citizens could get stuck while committing a crime.
Increase office demand as the first step of office demand rework.
New feature: Encyclopedia.
Advisor has been removed and is replaced by Encyclopedia
Progression feed pop-ups moved to appear above city demand.
Fixed artifacts in roundabout and cul-de-sac icons.
Fixed the icons of Bridges & Ports:
The icon of “Two-lane one-way port gate road” now has two lanes and two arrows.
The icon of “Two-lane port gate road” now has two lanes.
The icon of “Three-lane asymmetric port gate road” now has three lanes.
The icon of “Two-lane one-way port road” now has two lanes and two arrows.
The icon of “Four-lane one-way port gate road” now has four lanes and four arrows.
Custom color palettes “New palette” now fits its icon even with text scaling.
Tutorials welcome and ending messages now fit their pop-ups even with text scaling.
Tutorial task list now scales properly at 150% text scaling.
The option “Use Legacy Interface” is now localized.
Roads now properly unlock upon tutorial completion.
City demand can now be accessed with a controller.
Updated window textures to improve the visual look especially on skyscraper style buildings.
Fixed shadow atlas resolution from being forced to 8k on all setting levels. Improves performance especially on Low settings.
Fixed an issue where the camera was still invisibly moving even when the user had released the button to move it. This caused the shadows to flicker for some time after the camera was moved.
Updates to glass rendering to improve the visual look.
Trees on plots now grow again.
Economy's resource column headers now properly translated.
Spanish tutorial OK button no longer overlaps text in the sewage part.
Settings-file improved. Settings should no longer reset when rebooting the game.
Some round buildings are treated as having square footprints, making road connections difficult (Sunken Subway Park).
Citizens still sometimes try to leave the city via an unreachable outside connection.
Some cims and their dogs still get stuck at industrial locations.
Update your game and jump back into your city to try the new features. The team is continuing to work on improvements and will share more updates in the coming months.
All March 18 releases will be available individually, or together in the Office Evolution&City Stations Bundle for $21.99 / £18.49 / €21.99, saving 15% if you grab the bundle.