Inhabit a world where you define the rules.

Cities: Skylines invites you to create the city of your dreams in a sprawling landscape dominated by cloud hugging structures and jaw dropping architectural marvels.

Create the cities of their dreams in Cities: Skylines, a massive city simulator from the creators of the Cities in Motion series. Vast backdrops and maps provide players with countless ways to improve and expand their cities, building from humble beginnings up to beautiful, cloud-hugging structures and unique architectural marvels. 

You’re only limited by your imagination, so take control and reach for the sky!

Paradox Interactive revealed Hotels & Retreats, the final expansion for Cities: Skylines. Paradox also revealed Industrial Evolution, Railroads of Japan, and Brooklyn & Queens content creator packs, marking the final stops on the ‘Cities: Skylines World Tour’ and offering players increased customization and depth.

The Hotels & Retreats expansion and Content Creator Packs will be available on May 23, 2023.

"Revealing the last Cities: Skylines expansion and content packs is a bittersweet moment. Cities: Skylines has always been about empowering players to build the cities of their dreams, and the expansion and Content Creator Packs will provide the final tools and options to do just that," said Mariina Hallikainen, CEO of Colossal Order. "Thank you to our dedicated community of players for their support and feedback throughout the years. As we watch the sun set on Cities: Skylines together and move to the next chapter of the franchise, we look forward to seeing and learning from the amazing creations players design, this last time and beyond."

Cities: Skylines - Hotels & Retreats is a mini-expansion that allows players to build luxury accommodations and tourist attractions to boost their city's economy. The expansion starts players with a small hotel chain before unlocking more specialized accommodations. 

Cities: Skylines - Hotels & Retreats Key Features: 

• Hotel Buildings: Hostels, cabins, hotels, luxurious resorts… you name it! Add a series of hotel buildings to your city on a range of budgets.
• Hotel Management: Start with one-star hotels and unlock new options as your business revenue and popularity booms.
• Tourism Buildings: New structures will support your hotels: parks, restaurants, playgrounds, and cafès.
• Location: Matching hotels with good locations will be paramount, as differing locations will attract different tourist groups. We added 5 new maps for your hotels (3 European-inspired maps, 1 tropical map, and 1 temperate map)

Players can also look forward to the following Content Creator Packs:

• Industrial Evolution: Walk the path of history with “Industrial Evolution”, from Community Creator Samantha “Avanya” Woods. This Content Creator Pack includes a new set of growable buildings that span different eras of industrial building styles, from red brick walls to modern, sleek industrial complexes.
  • Industrial Evolution includes a total of 70 new buildings inspired by both historic and contemporary industrial buildings.
• Railroads of Japan: Fun discoveries await with “Railroads of Japan” from Content Creator Ryuichi Kaminogi, adding authentic Japanese railroad scenery to Cities: Skylines with stations, trains, buses, and more!
  • Watch your citizens travel using the metro, bus, and railroad. Decorate your commutes with networks, props, and police stations.
• Brooklyn & Queens: This pack from Content Creator Prosper, is a set of medium-rise high-density residential buildings and props inspired by the neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens for decorating your city’s facade and rooftops.
  • Brooklyn & Queens includes 60+ growable buildings and props, such as rental signs, window air conditioners, exhaust fans, stairways, and more!

Paradox also announced two radio stations that will launch alongside the expansion and Content Creator Packs on May 23: 

• Piano Tunes Radio: “Piano Tunes” is the perfect Radio Station for those who love whimsical and elegant piano music. With 16 songs and approximately one hour of music, your city will rise flawlessly from your fingertips!
• 90’s Pop Radio: Return to some 20th century classics with “90’s Pop”! Enjoy 16 new tracks and almost one hour of music.

Though the sequel is on its way, Colossal Order intends to continue general support for Cities: Skylines through the rest of the year.

Key Features:

• City policies: Set policies to guide how the city and districts develop over the course of your playthrough.
• City districts: Personalize city districts with names of your choice for variety and personality.
• Road building and zoning
• Unlock buildings and services
• Taxation: Fine-tuning the city budget and services and setting tax rates to different residential, commercial and industrial levels and controlling what kind of areas are more likely to spawn in the zoned areas
• Public transportation: Build transport networks throughout the city with buses and metros
• Outside connections: Make industry and commercial districts flourish with new customers in the neighboring cities
• Wonders: the ultimate end-game content that the players strive towards
• Huge maps: Unlock new map tiles with unique possibilities to expand the city
• Water flow simulation: Add new challenges to water services.
• Polished visual style and core gameplay
• Modding tools: Built in feature designed to encourage creative pursuits.

Cities: Skylines is now available on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC for $29.99.