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Cities: Skylines - Nintendo Switch Edition

Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation genre. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding…

77 13 September 2018

Cities: Skylines - Nintendo Switch Edition is an adventure developed by Tantalus Media, released 13 September 2018 on Nintendo Switch.

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What Cities: Skylines - Nintendo Switch Edition is

Cities: Skylines - Nintendo Switch Edition is an adventure game developed by Tantalus Media and released in 2018. It was published by Paradox Interactive. It is available on Nintendo Switch only. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

After Dark: Focused on leisure and tourist specialization, this expansion's central feature is to utilize the day and night cycle and alter the approach to managing your city. Will you construct a bustling city that lives and breathes at night, or succumb to the perils and misadventures of the dark hours? Snowfall: The difficulty heats up when the city cools down, thanks to this expansion's added challenges and assets, like snow maps, streetcars, and heating systems. There are in-game temperature readings, cosmetic weather enhancements, extra parks, and infrastructural demands to keep your citizens warm and safe from freezing conditions.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are business. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Cities: Skylines - Nintendo Switch Edition holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Cities: Skylines - Nintendo Switch Edition launched on 13 September 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition.

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When did Cities: Skylines - Nintendo Switch Edition come out?
Cities: Skylines - Nintendo Switch Edition was released on 13 September 2018 for Nintendo Switch.

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