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The board game Monopoly was designed to mock landlords and call out the greed and cruelty inherent in the real estate market.
Has Cities Skylines inadvertently done the same?
Cities Skylines is the first domino on the new boom of people caring about city planning, walkability, public transit, micro-mobility, etc.
People build extremely dense cities then go "wait but traffic" dig into how to fix it and ultimately end up building far less car dependency into their cities as the easiest solution
SimCity was released in 1989. It’s essentially the same game as Cities Skylines.
Absolutely isn't the same.
SimCity: open-ended city building game.
Cities Skylines: open-ended city building game.
The big difference between any Sim City game and Cities Skylines is Cities Skylines has an extremely in-depth traffic simulation that actually punishes bad road design and encourages non-car modes of transit. Meanwhile Sim City always made nods to traffic, it never bothered with actual per person routing where you can focus on tweaking a single intersection for hours trying to get it to flow nicely
One thing SimCity (except 2013) has is much better city management system. In C:S it feels almost trivial compared to SimCity.
Honestly I kinda prefer that. I always found SimCity too difficult to progress in for my taste
Call of duty: first person shooter
Doom 1993: first person shooter
They are essentially the same game!