

It looks like there's about to be some serious competition among the best city-building games. "Taking all the good elements from that and giving us the space to use them properly." "It's feeling like the game SimCity 2013 should have been," Matduka comments. This Content Creator Pack adds 10 maps that represent different biomes such as Boreal, Desert, Tropical, and Temperate. One shot in the trailer shows an info screen for a coal power plant, promising that you can upgraded it with features like "an additional turbine, enlarged coal storage, exhaust filter, and an advanced furnace," so you can funnel your resources into exactly the sort of upgrades you actually need. Get some new inspiration and build more diverse Cities with Map Pack 2 from the community modder Sidai. That's not the only cue Cities: Skylines 2 is taking from SimCity 2013, either, as it also appears to be picking up modular buildings too. While that game was widely maligned for a variety of reasons, genre fans are more than happy to see this particular feature make a comeback a decade later. Cities: Skylines 2 isn't the first city-building game to offer this exact convenience - it was exactly how the 2013 SimCity reboot handled utility delivery, too.
